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Join Dante Medema in a lively discussion over Message Not Found. Connect with others to read, discuss, and explore. Designed for teens and adults.
In this program Dante Medema will be discussing her 2024 High School Sequoyah Award winning novel, Message Not Found. Download our PLS Connect app for quick and easy access to physical and digital copies of the book.
About Message Not Found:
Bailey and Vanessa shared everything together: laughter, secrets, and packets of Pop Rocks to ward off bad days. But that all changed the night Vanessa left Bailey’s, headed for home, and ended up swerving off a cliff nowhere near her house. Now Bailey, who thought she knew Vanessa better than anyone in the world, is left with a million unanswered questions, and the only person with answers is gone.
To help grieve her loss, Bailey creates a chat bot in Vanessa’s likeness using years’ worth of their shared text messages and emails. The more data she uploads to the bot, the more it feels like she’s really talking to her best friend. That is, until the bot starts dropping hints that there was more going on with Vanessa than Bailey realized…A secret so big, it may have contributed to Vanessa’s death.
