Dead Girls Don't Write Letters

Written by Gail Giles

A girl's sister dies in a fire, then a letter arrives saying she's coming home.

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126 pages· 24,941 words· Est. 3 hour read· 550L· AR 4 · 3 AR pts

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Bookroo's summary

Sunny always lived in the shadow of her perfect older sister, Jazz. When Jazz is presumed dead in a New York apartment fire, Sunny's already broken family falls apart: her father drinks and her mother sinks into depression. Then a letter arrives from Jazz saying she is coming home. When a girl claiming to be Jazz turns up, Sunny has to work out who she really is, and what the family has been hiding.

From the publisher

Things had been getting a little better until I got a letter from my dead sister. That more or less ruined my day. When Sunny's older sister, Jazz, ran away to New York, Sunny was secretly relieved. Everyone loved Jazz, talked about Jazz, wished they were friends with Jazz. Jazz was perfect and Sunny was...well, not Jazz. Then Jazz's apartment building burns to the ground and she is presumed dead. Sunny's family, already broken by divorce, unravels. Dad's drinking skyrockets, and Mom's depression hits an all-time nonfunctioning low. Sunny is left to cope. Then they get a letter from Jazz saying she is coming home. But how? Jazz is dead, right?

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