Funeral songs for dying girls
Author:
Publisher:
Tundra
Publication Date:
[2023]
Language:
English
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 800L
Description
"Funeral Songs For Dying Girls is a young adult novel about an Indigenous girl who lives on the grounds of a cemetery with her widowed father."--
"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 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 an actual ghost of a teen girl, Phil, 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--and, most importantly, love."--
"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 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 an actual ghost of a teen girl, Phil, 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--and, most importantly, love."--
Subjects
Subjects
Cemeteries
Cemeteries -- Juvenile fiction
Domestic fiction
Fathers and daughters
Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction
Fiction
Ghost stories
Ghost tours
Ghost tours -- Juvenile fiction
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Juvenile fiction
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Juvenile fiction
Novels
Cemeteries -- Juvenile fiction
Domestic fiction
Fathers and daughters
Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction
Fiction
Ghost stories
Ghost tours
Ghost tours -- Juvenile fiction
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Juvenile fiction
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Juvenile fiction
Novels
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Contributors:
ISBN:
9780735265639
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 5.4, 12 Points
Level 5.4, 12 Points
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 800L
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Grouping Title | funeral songs for dying girls |
Grouping Author | cherie dimaline |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2025-09-08 18:09:34PM |
Last Indexed | 2025-09-15 02:03:49AM |
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"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 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 an actual ghost of a teen girl, Phil, 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--and, most importantly, love."--
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Cemeteries -- Juvenile fiction
Domestic fiction
Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction
Fiction
Ghost stories
Ghost tours -- Juvenile fiction
Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Juvenile fiction
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Juvenile fiction
Novels
Domestic fiction
Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction
Fiction
Ghost stories
Ghost tours -- Juvenile fiction
Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Juvenile fiction
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Juvenile fiction
Novels
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Funeral songs for dying girls
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Funeral songs for dying girls / Cherie Dimaline
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Funeral songs for dying girls
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Cemeteries
Fathers and daughters
Ghost stories
Ghost tours
Indigenous peoples
Fathers and daughters
Ghost stories
Ghost tours
Indigenous peoples
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