Description
Chelsey was dealth the unthinkable.
When Her Only Surviving Parent, her beloved father, was violently murdered days before her fourteenth birthday, Chelsey’s life was forever changed. As she was forced to come to terms with a new home life, a new school . . . a new identity as an orphan, Chelsey struggled to make sense of her personal tragedy. Yet she found a way to flourish despite all the odds. “I thought of myself in a new light: a girl, newly fourteen, standing in her dead father’s study, all in black, a single tear streaming down her cheek. I was alone. My family told me again and again I was not, but without him, I was. I was no longer anyone’s child.” Because Truth Is More Fascinating Than FictionHaving already lost her mother to cancer as a young girl, Chelsey Shannon’s life was turned upside when her father was tragically murdered when she was only thirteen years old. Through a mixture of captivating prose and poetry, Chelsey tells the story of how one girl experienced the unthinkable and found a way to grow and flourish despite the odds.
HCI Teens
Juvenile Nonfiction
Social Topics
Edition: Death, Grief, Bereavement, Juvenile Nonfiction
Keywords: Social Topics
