Finding Violet Park, or Me, the Missing, and the Dead in the U.S., is a young adult novel by Jenny Valentine, published by HarperCollins in 2007. It is about a fatherless teenage boy, Lucas Swain, who finds an urn containing the ashes of the titular Violet Park abandoned in a minicab office and determines to lay her to rest. HarperCollins published the first US edition April 2008, entitled Me, the Missing, and the Dead. Valentine won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers. The novel was also highly commended for the Branford Boase Award, and was longlisted for the 2008 Manchester Book Award. Jenny Valentine is also the author of Broken Soup, The Ant Colony, and The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight.

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This book is about a 16-year-old Boy who found an urn in a cab office. It contained the ashes of an old lady. Despite only knowing her name and when she lived, he felt a connection to her, her name was Violet Park. He took her to his home and was dedicated to give her a better place to rest and finding out who she was. During the research he finds out she had a connection to his missing dad and finally confronts questions he never thought about asking.

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