Finding Violet Park
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Finding Violet Park | |
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Author | Jenny Valentine |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | Yound adult novel |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Publication date | 3 January 2007 |
Media type | Print (Paperback) |
Pages | 208 pp |
ISBN | ISBN 978-0007214457 |
Finding Violet Park is a young adult novel by Jenny Valentine, first published in 2007. It is about a teenage boy, Lucas Swain, who finds an urn containing the ashes of the titular Violet Park abandoned in a minicab office and determines to lay her to rest. When it is released in America in April 2008, it will be retitled as Me, the Missing, and the Dead.
It won the 2007 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize,[1] and has been longlisted for the 2008 Manchester Book Award[2] and nominated for the 2008 Carnegie Medal.[3]