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Age Range
12 - 18
Genre
fiction
Copyright Year
2015-01-01
Page Count
352
Publisher
Square Fish
Grade Level
7th - 12th
ISBN
9781250062963
Lexile
790
Themes
emotions and feelings
death and dying

Love Letters to the Dead

Written by Ava Dellaira
It begins as an assignment for English class, write a letter to a dead person any dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain. He died young and so did Laurel's sister May, so maybe he'll understand a bit of what Laurel is going through. Soon Laurel is writing letters to lots of dead people: Janis Joplin, Heath Ledger, River Phoenix, Amelia Earhart. It's like she can't stop. And she'd certainly never dream of handing them in to her teacher.
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Age Range
12 - 18
Genre
fiction
Copyright Year
2015-01-01
Page Count
352
Publisher
Square Fish
Grade Level
7th - 12th
ISBN
9781250062963
Lexile
790
Themes
emotions and feelings
death and dying
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