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Evie Walman is not obsessed with death. She does think about it a lot, though, but only because her family runs a Jewish funeral home. At twelve, Evie already knows she’s going to be a funeral director when she grows up. So what if the kids at school call her “corpse girl” and say she smells like death? They’re just mean and don’t get how important it is to have someone take care of things when your world is falling apart. Evie loves dusting caskets, polishing pews, and vacuuming the chapel—and on funeral days, she dresses up and hands out tissues and offers her condolences to mourners. She doesn’t normally help her parents with the grieving families directly, until one day when they ask her to help with Oren, a boy who was in a horrific car accident that killed both his parents. Oren refuses to speak and Evie, who is nursing her own private grief, is determined to find a way to help him deal with his loss.

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What comes after the hardest thing in the world? Joanne Levy answers this question the way a ten-year-old needs it to be answered. Sorry For Your Loss is funny, moving, deeply researched, deeply felt and, above all, hopeful. Deceptively simple and simply marvelous. --Adam Gidwitz, author of the Newbery Honoree The Inquisitor's Tale Joanne Levy is a Canadian gem whose writing makes you laugh one moment and cry the next. --Susin Nielsen, author of Tremendous Things and We Are All Made of Molecules Joanne Levy writes of death, grief, and friendship through the eyes of the delightful Evie Walman as she negotiates both the rather small and very big stuff in her life. A heartfelt glimpse into Jewish family and mourning rituals written with empathy and, of course, humor. --Lisa Brown, bestselling author/illustrator of The Phantom Twin and The Airport Book

There is a potent emotional openness throughout...An enlightening, delicately hopeful, and beautifully rendered story. -- Quill & Quire A heartfelt and expertly written tale of loss, family, and friendship that will have readers blinking back their tears...Beautiful and sincere. -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review What comes after the hardest thing in the world? Joanne Levy answers this question the way a ten-year-old needs it to be answered. Sorry For Your Loss is funny, moving, deeply researched, deeply felt and, above all, hopeful. Deceptively simple and simply marvelous. --Adam Gidwitz, author of the Newbery Honoree The Inquisitor's Tale Joanne Levy is a Canadian gem whose writing makes you laugh one moment and cry the next. --Susin Nielsen, author of Tremendous Things and We Are All Made of Molecules Joanne Levy writes of death, grief, and friendship through the eyes of the delightful Evie Walman as she negotiates both the rather small and very big stuff in her life. A heartfelt glimpse into Jewish family and mourning rituals written with empathy and, of course, humor. --Lisa Brown, bestselling author/illustrator of The Phantom Twin and The Airport Book

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Joanne Levy is the author of a number of books for young people, including Double Trouble and Fish Out of Water in the Orca Currents line, the middle-grade novels Crushing It and the Red Maple Award-nominated Small Medium At Large. She lives in Clinton, Ontario.

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