Lost for Words (15 page)

Life on the Refrigerator Door

Copyright © 1976 by George James Firmage, from
Complete Poems
: 1904–1962
by E. E. Cummings
, edited by George J. Firmage. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.

LOST FOR WORDS
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Kuipers, Alice.

Lost for words / Alice Kuipers.—1st ed.

p.    cm.

Summary: Sixteen-year-old Sophie struggles to find normalcy after an incident she chooses not to remember took her sister’s life, and by keeping a journal, making a new friend, and seeing a therapist she finally begins to recover.

ISBN 978-0-06-142922-4

[1. Grief—Fiction. 2. Sisters—Fiction. 3. Mothers and daughters—Fiction. 4. High schools—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction. 6. Terrorism—Fiction. 7. London (England)—Fiction. 8. Diaries.] I. Title.

PZ7.K9490146Los 2010        2009039673

[Fic]—dc22         CIP

AC

EPub Edition © March 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-200149-8

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