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Love Letters to the Dead

Ava Dellaira

Start date: June 1, 2014

Finish date: June 30, 2014

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Why we're reading this: It won the poll for the stand alone book
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Jun 17, 2014 alana rated it liked it

Shelves: young-adult, teachers-and-pupils, addicted-to-ya-2014-books, romance, depression

Love Letters to the Dead was an Addicted to YA Book of the Month for June 2014. I was pleasantly surprised by this book. The story unfolds through a series of letters written by the narrator as an English class assignment. The letters are addressed to several people who are now deceased (many died young). The girl is struggling with the death of her sister while also trying to deny her own personal trauma and fit in at a new school. (view spoiler) ...more

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Nov 06, 2015 Caro rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

"Sometimes when we say things, we hear silence. Or only echoes. Like screaming from inside. And that's really lonely. But that only happens when we weren't really listening..." ...more

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