Ann Dee Ellis – författare

For fans of Sara Zarr and Stephen Chbosky, an achingly raw and surprisingly funny novel about coping with lossEmmy’s best friend Kim had promised to visit from the afterlife after she died. But so far Kim hasn’t shown up even once. Emmy blames herself for not believing hard enough. Finally, as the one-year anniversary of Kim''s death approaches, Emmy is visited by a ghost—but it’s not Kim. It’s Emmy’s awful dead science teacher.Emmy can’t help but think that she''s failed at being a true friend. But as more ghosts appear, she starts to realize that she''s not alone in her pain. Kim would have wanted her to move forward—and to do that, Emmy needs to start letting go.

For fans of Ali Benjamin’s The Thing About Jellyfish and Katherine Applegate’s Crenshaw comes the humorous and heart aching story of one girl’s struggle to keep hope alive for her and her younger sister in Sunny Pines Trailer Park. Twelve-year-old Olivia Hales has a foolproof plan for winning a million dollars so that she and her little sister, Berkeley, can leave behind Sunny Pines Trailer Park. But first she has to: ·  Fix the swamp cooler and make dinner and put Berkeley to bed because her mom is too busy to do all that ·  Write another letter to her dad even though he hasn’t written back yet ·  Teach Berk the important stuff, like how to make chalk drawings, because they can’t afford day care and Olivia has to stay home from school to watch her ·  Petition her oddball neighbors for a circus spectacular, because there needs to be something to look forward to at dumb-bum Sunny Pines ·  Become a super-secret spy to impress her new friend Bart ·  Enter a minimum of fourteen sweepstakes a day. Who knows? She may already be a winner!Olivia has thought of everything . . . except herself. Who will take care of her when she needs it? Luckily, somewhere deep down between her small intestine and stomach is a tiny voice reminding her that sometimes people can surprise you—and sometimes your family is right next door.From the Hardcover edition.