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Finding Violet Park
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
in 2008, followed by versions in Dutch, French, German, Slovenian, Spanish, and Norwegian.
Her critically acclaimed second novel, "Broken Soup", published in January 2008, was shortlisted for the 2008 Waterstone's Children's Book Prize and the 2008 Costa Book Children's Book Award, and longlisted for the 2008 Booktrust Teenage Prize. By 2010 it had also been published in Dutch and German-language translations.
"Ten Stations", a short-story prequel to "Finding Violet Park",