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Dear Zoe
Contributor(s): Beard, Philip (Author)

ISBN: 0452287405 ISBN-13: 9780452287402
Publisher: Plume Books

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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2006
Annotation: Beard's debut is an epistolary novel written from 15-year-old Tess DeNunzio to her little sister Zoe. After Zoe's death on September 11, 2001, Tess's family is numbed by their personal tragedy. Not Since "The Lovely Bones" has there been a study of grief, adolescence, and healing that rings as true.

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Sagas

Dewey: FIC

Age Level: 18-UP

Grade Level: 13-UP

Lexile Measure: 1000(Not Available)

Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.05" W x 7.8" L (0.37 lbs) 208 pages

Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age
- Topical - Death/Dying
- Topical - Family

Features: Ikids, Price on Product

Review Citations: Kliatt 09/01/2006 pg. 20

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 86817
Reading Level: 5.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 8.0

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:
Philip Beard's stunning debut novel is fifteen-year-old Tess DeNunzio's letter to her sister, Zoe, lost to a hit-and-run driver on a day when it seemed that nothing mattered but the tragedies playing out in New York and Washington. Dear Zoe is a remarkable study of grief, adolescence, and healing with a pitch-perfect narrator who is at once sharp and na ve, world- worried and self-centered, funny and heartbreakingly honest. Tess begins her letter to Zoe as a means of figuring out her own life, her place in the world, but the result is a novel of rare power and grace that tells us much about ours. BACKCOVER: "Like The Lovely Bones, Dear Zoe] is a piercing look at how family recovers from a devastating loss. Everything about this moving, powerful debut rings true."
--Booklist (starred review)

"Beard peels away the layers of his protagonist's anguish simply and sensitively. . . and creates real, multidimensional and affecting characters."
--The Washington Post

"The whole novel . . . rings with truth."
--The Buffalo News

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