TY - BOOK AU - Kernot,Sharon TI - The art of taxidermy SN - 9781925603743 U1 - A823.4 23 PY - 2018/// CY - Melbourne, Victoria PB - Text KW - Youth fiction KW - Taxidermy KW - fast KW - Grief KW - Families KW - Domestic fiction KW - Fathers and daughters KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Loss (Psychology) KW - Novels in verse KW - Motherless families KW - Young adult fiction KW - Australian fiction KW - Mothers KW - Death KW - Australian KW - lcsh KW - Teen fiction KW - lcgft KW - Fiction KW - Juvenile works KW - Young adult works N1 - Prepublication record (machine generated from publisher information); For 12-15 years old N2 - Lottie collects dead creatures and lovingly cares for them, hoping to preserve them, to save them from disintegration. Her father understands Lottie has a scientific mind, he thinks. Her aunt wants it to stop, and she goes to cruel lengths to make sure it does. And her mother? Lottie's mother died long ago. And Lottie is searching for a way to be close to her. The Art of Taxidermy is a heartbreaking verse novel exploring love and death, grief and beauty, and the ways we try to make sense of it all ER -