Finding Violet Park
Jenny Valentine
 Lucas Swain is a sixteen year old whose father left five years ago under mysterious circumstances. Lucas is now living with his mother Nicky, his brother Jed, and sister Mercy. In the beginning of the novel Lucas is going to the Apollo cars cab shop to get a cab so he can get home. Then he sees an urn inside the cab shop and a mysterious name runs through his head, Violet. He then starts having an obsession with Violet because he is sure that she has something to tell him about his missing father. Lucas then starts fantasising about what it would be like to be old. How he wants to act, where he wants to be buried, and whether his father is dead. Then he thinks of his grandmother Pansy, or the family medium, who he asks to get Violet from the cab shop. Later the person known to Lucas as Tony Soprano or the cab shop owner came by to give Violet “back” to Pansy. Norman, Pansy’s husband, almost ruining the plan by shouting out the random things he does because of the small strokes that he has. Later Lucas goes home to a worried/frustrated mother and a caring family friend and more whose name is Bob. Bob later tells Lucas that he and Pete were writing a book about violet and where she used to live. Shocked, Lucas decides to investigate more into violet. Later Norman, Jed, and Lucas are walking their dog Jack, Norman has a brilliant moment and tells Lucas as much as he can about pete and violet before the next stroke kicks in. Later Nicky decides that to get rid of Pete’s memory, they should get rid of his things. That is when Lucas finds Petes pocket watch and knows something isn’t right. Lucas and Nicky get into a fight about abandoning Pete’s memory but Lucas finds the crucial piece of evidence to show somethings wrong even though Nicky doesn't want to hear it. After more searching Lucas finally finds something that shocks him. His father is still alive, living under a completely different alias.