love letters to the dead chapters 1 5 ava dellaira

Finally, after she is informed that he is another transfer student named Sky-a junior-they meet, and a friendship blossoms from there.

Since Laurel started at the school, she has kept her eye on a mysterious boy who always finds himself on the edge of her social perimeter. She finds a friend in a fellow English classmate, Natalie, who introduces her to numerable other people, and together, they find themselves diving into many adult situations. She begins as an outcast, just trying to find someone to talk to. In her works, she details the various occurrences in her everyday life, and eventually, her past and the accident. She takes the assignment further, and starts writing letters to numerable celebrities, including Janis Joplin, River Phoenix, and Amelia Earhart. She writes her first letter to Kurt Cobain, member of the band Nirvana, and finds out that the assignment is just what she needed to survive her new life. It could be to a once-famous celebrity, an ancient philosopher, anyone, and it could be about anything. Then, she receives her first English assignment: write a letter to a dead person. She begins sitting alone during lunch in the quad, watching everyone else talk in groups as she struggles to catch up on the school’s trends. Or tries to, anyway.Īs anyone who has ever moved schools can attest, it is hard starting out. So, as she makes the transition from middle school to high school, from Sandia to West Mesa, she moves on from her old life.

She believes that the best way to move on is to start over in a place where no one knows anything about her.

Laurel switches schools after an unfortunate accident leaves her mother across the country and her sister May buried in the ground and the past.

Love letters to the dead chapters 1 5 ava dellaira