She isn't just your typical teenage girl. She doesn't wear polish or gloss. She doesn't read magazines or become an obsessed fan girl over the "hottie with a body" actors that seem to dominate Hollywood. She doesn't have a typical teenage girl family either: a supermodel mom, a movie director dad, and a treatment-writing little brother. She loves taking pictures of anything that interests her, and her crush next door is finally noticing her. Her world is perfect until the day her mother dies. Despite being only thirteen years old, Luna Clover takes the news of her mother's passing extremely well. A year later, however, she's still recovering. Father and daughter try to cope with the absence of the most amazing woman in their lives, each trying their best to lift the other up after the devastating blow. When Luna comes home from school one day, she has the urge to go to her mother's studio. She finds her mother's phone, fully charged with seven voicemail messages. Not knowing what else to do, she listens to the first message, and her whole world turns upside down.
Follow Luna on her quest to find out what really happened on the night of her mother's death, discovering a little more about that fateful night with every second. You Have Seven Messages by Stewart Lewis depicts a side of life that many authors often overlook. We have all felt some form of the sorrow and heartbreak that follows the death of a loved one. Not many people like to talk about what happens after all of the tears have dried up and all of the cries have gone silent. This young-adults novel is sure to captivate you and your heart as you zoom in on the life of a distraught teenage girl trying to make sense of the world and understand why things happen the way they do. Luna will surely draw tears to your eyes as you experience what happens to those left behind after death from her point of view.
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