Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline

Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium all her life, close to her mother's grave. With her sixteenth birthday only days away, Winifred has settled into a lazy summer schedule, lugging her obese Chihuahua around the grounds in a squeaky red wagon to visit the neglected gravesides and nursing a serious crush on her best friend, Jack.

Her habit of wandering the graveyard at all hours has started a rumour that Winterson Cemetery might be haunted. It's welcome news since the crematorium is on the verge of closure and her father's job being outsourced. Now that the ghost tours have started, Winifred just might be able to save her father's job and the only home she's ever known, not to mention being able to stay close to where her mother is buried.

All she has to do is get help from her con-artist cousin to keep up the rouse and somehow manage to stop her father from believing his wife has returned from the grave. But when Phil, an actual ghost of a teen girl who lived and died in the ravine next to the cemetery, starts showing up, Winifred begins to question everything she believes about life, love and death. Especially love.(From Tundra Books)

Funeral Songs for Dying Girlsis for ages 14and up.

Cherie Dimalineis a bestselling Mtis author best known for her YA novelThe Marrow Thieves.The Marrow Thieves,was named one ofTime magazine's top 100 YA novels of all timeand was championed byJully BlackonCanada Reads2018. Her other books includeVenCo,Red Rooms,The Girl Who Grew a Galaxy,A Gentle HabitandEmpire of Wild.