Famous Last Words

In Famous Last Words by Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, sixteen-year-old Samantha D'Angelo has death on the brain. Her summer internship at the local newspaper has her writing obituaries instead of soaking up the sun at the beach. Between Shelby, Sam's boy-crazy best friend; her boss Harry, a true-blue newspaper man; and AJ, her fellow intern scum (aka the cute drummer for a band called Love Gas), Sam has her hands full. But once she figures out whator whois the best part of her summer, will she mess it all up? As Sam learns her way around both the news room and the real world, she starts to make some momentous realizations about politics, ethics, her family, romance, and most importantherself. During a summer internship as an obituary writer for her local northern New Jersey newspaper, sixteen-year-old Samantha D'Angelo makes some momentous realizations about politics, ethics, her family, romance, and most importantly--herself. During a summer internship as an obituary writer for her local newspaper, 16-year-old Samantha learns about politics, ethics, her family, romance, and most importantly, herself. The plot contains profanity and sexual references.