Funeral Songs for Dying Girls (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780735265639)

After inadvertently starting rumors of a haunted cemetery, a teen befriends a ghost in this brand-new young adult novel exploring grief and belonging by the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of The Marrow Thieves series.

Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium, all her life, close to her mother's grave. With her sixteenth birthday only days away, Winifred has settled into a lazy summer schedule, lugging her obese Chihuahua around the grounds in a squeaky red wagon to visit the neglected gravesides and nursing a serious crush on her best friend, Jack.

Her habit of wandering the graveyard at all hours has started a rumor that Winterson Cemetery might be haunted. It's welcome news since the crematorium is on the verge of closure and her father's job is being outsourced. Now that the ghost tours have started, Winifred just might be able to save her father's job and the only home she's ever known, not to mention being able to stay close to where her mother is buried. All she has to do is get help from her con-artist cousin to keep up the rouse and somehow manage to stop her father from believing his wife has returned from the grave. But when Phil, an actual ghost of a teen girl who lived and died in the ravine next to the cemetery, starts showing up, Winifred begins to question everything she believes about life, love and death. Especially love.

Author: Cherie Dimaline
ISBN-10: 0735265631
ISBN-13: 9780735265639
Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
Language: English
Published: 04/04/2023
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.70h x 6.00w x 1.00d
Award: American Indian Youth Literature Award - Honor Book

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2023
Publishers Weekly 02/06/2023
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2023 - Book Of Special Distinction
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2023 pg. 67
BookPage 04/01/2023
School Library Journal 10/20/2023 pg. 1
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2023 - Superior,Well Above Average