Me, the Missing, and the Dead
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · April 6, 2010
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- Who it’s for
- A teenage voice turns a missing father and a dead girl into an intimate, uncanny mystery.
- Themes
- Missing father, Communication with the dead, Family secrets
- Genres
- YA Mysteries, Death & Grief for Teens, YA Ghost Stories
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Me: Lucas Swain—I'm nearly sixteen years old and live in London. I was fairly normal until the night I found Violet. Then everything changed. The missing: Dad. He disappeared five years ago. Nobody knows what happened to him, and nobody cares except me. It's enough to drive you crazy. The dead: That's Violet . . . in the urn. Speaking of crazy—I know she's trying to tell me something, and I think it's about my father. . . . I may have met Violet after she died.
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But it didn't stop me from getting to know her. . . .
Where Questions Linger
A teenage voice turns a missing father and a dead girl into an intimate, uncanny mystery.
Come here for
- A missing-person mystery with an eerie edge
- A story where grief and curiosity meet
Expect
- Lucas Swain’s direct first-person voice
- An unsettling question tied to Violet and his father
Where it sits
| YA Ghost Stories | 76% |
|---|---|
| YA Mysteries | 61% |
| Death & Grief for Teens | 53% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA Mysteries
- Social Themes for Teens
- Finding Your Footing
- Authors
- Jenny Valentine
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- April 6, 2010
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Missing father · Communication with the dead · Family secrets
- Reading lane
- YA Mysteries