Me, the Missing, and the Dead, (Paperback)

from The_Hibernator

Me, the Missing, and the Dead was a cute and funny tale of a teenaged boy who, in his soul-search for his absentee father accidentally stumbles upon an urn with the ashes of a mysterious old lady. He is haunted by the old lady and begins to delve into her past. In doing so, he finds out more abou...

from electrascaife

A London teen whose father left years ago decides to rescue an urn (with the ashes of an old lady) from a cab company shelf. The more he learns about who she was, then more he learns that his missing father maybe isn't worthy of the hero worship he's been giving him. The plot is fun and interesti...

from julietearjerky

This was really good. I thought at first that it's a ghost story, being there's the word 'dead' in the title. But it turns out to be a family story, of coping up with the loss of a family member. Lucas's father may not be dead, but he may as well be for the ones he left behind. I don't think Luca...

from stephxsu

One night, 15-year-old Lucas Swain enters a taxicab company office and is immediately attracted to a strange urn sitting on the shelf. He learns that it contains the ashes of one Violet Park, a well-known pianist who lived in the neighborhood, and that the urn was left in the backseat of a taxi y...

from ohioyalibrarian

Digging into his father's past via an urn containing a stranger's ashes leads sixteen year old Lucas to discover and face the truth about his father's disappearance. It's a nifty idea and the plot holds together well. Lucas's growth as he begins to face what he has long denied rings true for a ch...