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Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 2004 Middle Grade Fiction Award from the Association for Mormon Letters. It's bad enough that Kevin's mother is about to graduate from mortuary college, but when his parents tell him they're moving to a small town in the Arkansas delta to run the Paramount Funeral Home, Kevin is certain it's his life that's over. After all, normal people don't live in houses with dead bodies downstairs! Once in Armadillo, Arkansas, Kevin tries to adapt...
Author
Publisher
Sterling Teen
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Six Feet Under meets Edward Scissorhands in Mortal Remains , a tight, smartly written romance with an occult twist. Though her classmates call her Morticia and Ghoul Girl, Lily actually likes her work -- the dead are good listeners, and they don't judge. Lily learns their stories, shares her worries with them as she makes up their faces, and embroiders pillows for their final rest. "The way I figure it," says Lily, "a person's arrival into this world...
Author
Series
Kevin Kirk chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 2005 Young Adult Fiction Award from the Association for Mormon Letters. As Kevin helps his parents with the family mortuary, his dream of working for National Geographic seems a million years away-until he and his friends are picked for a special science class at Armadillo Middle School. The class is taught by Dr. Alfred Leopold Wallace, the pompous proprietor of the local Arkansas Marsupial Museum and Discount Souvenir Outlet. Kevin's...
Author
Series
Kevin Kirk chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
All Kevin wants is to be like any other high school student and learn how to drive and hang out with his friends. But when your parents run a funeral home, it's tough to have a normal life. And when you're a Mormon living in the South, well, that just about triples your weirdness quotient. Especially when an elderly woman from church drafts you into the Granite Girls, a group that records the names on all the tombstones in Armadillo, Arkansas. Try...
Author
Series
Kevin Kirk chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Kevin's senior year of high school isn't going as he'd planned. So much has changed, and choices he once thought would be easy to make have become increasingly difficult. His best friend has moved away, his girlfriend has dumped him for the school football hero, and life after graduation looms ahead like a chasm without a bridge. Kevin's got a hot scholarship offer in his hands, but even though it's hard for him to talk about his Mormon faith with...
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