In Search of Us

Love, Life, and the List

Kissing in America

The Rest of the Story

P.S. I Miss You

You Have a Match

But Then I Came Back

Fighting Words

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

Love, Life, and the List

Kasie West, 2017

Kissing in America

Margo Rabb, 2015

The Rest of the Story

Sarah Dessen, 2019

P.S. I Miss You

Jen Petro-Roy, 2018

You Have a Match

Emma Lord, 2021

But Then I Came Back

Estelle Laure, 2017

Fighting Words

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, 2020