Finding Violet Park

Finding Violet Park

First edition cover
Author Jenny Valentine
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre Young adult novel
Publisher HarperCollins
Publication date
3 January 2007
Media type Print (paperback)
Pages 208 pp
ISBN 978-0-00-721445-7
OCLC 71346653

Finding Violet Park, or Me, the Missing, and the Dead in the U.S., is a young adult novel by Jenny Valentine, published by HarperCollins in 2007. It is about a fatherless 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. HarperCollins published the first US edition April 2008, entitled Me, the Missing, and the Dead.

Valentine won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers.[1][2] The novel was also highly commended for the Branford Boase Award,[3] and was longlisted for the 2008 Manchester Book Award.[4]

Jenny Valentine is also the author of Broken Soup, The Ant Colony, and The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight.

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Finding Violet Park in libraries (WorldCat catalog) —immediately, first US edition

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