Love Letters to the Dead

By Ava Dellaira

Subjects: Grief, Death, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse, Letters, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Sexual Abuse, Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage), Sisters, Juvenile fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Siblings

Description: *Sometimes the best letters go unanswered.* It begins as an assignment for English; write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain - he died young, and so did Laurel's sister May - so maybe he'll understand what Laurel is going through. Soon Laurel is writing letters to lots of dead people - Janis Jolip, Heath Ledger, River Phoenix, Amelia Earheart, Amy Winehouse... It's like she can't stop. She writes about her new high school, her new friends, her first love - and her shattered life. But the ghosts of Laurel's past can't be contained between the lines of a page forever. She must face up to them - before that consume her.