In Search of Us

P.S. I Miss You

You Have a Match

Fighting Words

Dear Sweet Pea

Sundae Girl

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

Love Is the Higher Law

It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May did. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to people like Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Amelia Earhart, Heath Ledger, and more -- though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. She writes about starting high school, navigating new friendships, falling in love for the first time, learning to live with her splintering family. And, finally, about the abuse she suffered while May was supposed to be looking out for her. Only then, once Laurel has written down the truth about what happened to herself, can she truly begin to accept what happened to May. And only when Laurel has begun to see her sister as the person she was -- lovely and amazing and deeply flawed -- can she begin to discover her own path in this stunning debut from Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

In Search of Us

Ava Dellaira, 2018

P.S. I Miss You

Jen Petro-Roy, 2018

You Have a Match

Emma Lord, 2021

Fighting Words

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, 2020

Dear Sweet Pea

Julie Murphy, 2019

Sundae Girl

Cathy Cassidy, 2007

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

Annabel Pitcher, David Tennant, 2011

Love Is the Higher Law

David Levithan, 2009