Saving Zoe by Alyson Noel

Year Published: 2007
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 978031235516
Pages: 230
Classification: Fiction
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Interest Level: 9-12
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Subjects: Grief, Death, Sisters, Interpersonal relations, High schools, schools, Fiction

Reader's Annotation: Instead of a fresh start, high school provides more grief and isolation to Echo, whose older sister died a year earlier, but insights gained from Zoe's diary--a fifteenth birthday gift from Zoe's boyfriend--about her sister's life and death change Echo in ways she could have never expected.

Summary: Fifteen-year-old Echo is coping with the death of her sister, Zoe. Echo also begins her freshman year in a high school, where her sister is well –known. She meets her sister’s former boyfriend, Marc and he gives her Zoe’s diary. Echo learns more about her sister,which helps her to rebuild her life over and learns to love her even more even when she is long gone.

Author Website: www.alysonnoel.com