Juvenile / Social Situations / Death & Dying

The Dead and The Gone: Life As We Knew It Series, Book 2

von Susan Beth Pfeffer

"You will read it in one sitting, fighting back tears as you bite your nails." --teenreads.com on Life As We Knew It

Please Ignore Vera Dietz

von A.S. King

Vera’s spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she’s kept a lot of his secrets. Even after he betrayed her. Even after he ruined everything.

So when...

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

von Annabel Pitcher

My sister Rose lives on the mantelpiece. Well, some of her does. A collarbone, two ribs, a bit of skull, and a little toe.

To ten-year-old Jamie, his family has fallen apart because of the loss of someone he...

A Certain October

von Angela Johnson

Three-time Coretta Scott King Award–winner Angela Johnson writes a wrenching, honest book about surviving the unimaginable and finding a way to go on.

Scotty compares herself to tofu: no flavor unless you add...

A Dog Called Homeless

von Sarah Lean

When Cally Fisher says she sees her dead mother, no one believes her. The only other living soul who sees Cally's mom is a mysterious wolfhound who always seems to be there when her mom appears. And when Cally...

After Eli

von Rebecca Rupp

Some people die heroically, others accidentally. When Daniel Anderson's older brother dies, he wonders which category Eli's death falls into. In an attempt to understand, Danny creates a Book of the Dead - an...

Survive

von Alex Morel

Hatchet meets Lost in this modern-day adventure tale of one girl's reawakening

Jane is on a plane on her way home to Montclair, New Jersey, from a mental hospital. She is about to kill herself. Just before she...

In Honor

von Jessi Kirby

A devastating loss leads to an unexpected road trip in what Sarah Ockler calls a “beautiful, engaging journey with heart, humor, and just a pinch of Texas sass.”

Three days after learning of her brother Finn’s...

Lucy Rose: Working Myself to Pieces and Bits

von Katy Kelly & Peter Ferguson

I'M LUCY ROSE and here's the thing about friends: I am lucky in them. And here's the thing about that: sometimes they are in need, indeed, especially when one of them buys a plumbing store and needs to diva...

Lexi

von L.S. Matthews

THE FIRST THING I remember is waking up in the woods. I didn’t know where I was, or how I got there. I didn’t know my own name. All I knew was that the little silver key hung round my neck had always been...

The Anatomy of Wings

von Karen Foxlee

Ten-year-old Jennifer Day lives in a small mining town full of secrets. Trying to make sense of the sudden death of her teenage sister, Beth, she looks to the adult world around her for answers.

As she recounts...

Blind Faith

von Ellen Wittlinger

What do you say to someone whose mother is dying?

Nathan and his adorable little sister just moved in across the street from Liz Scattergood, and both of them could use a friend. Liz just isn't sure she's the...

The Purple Balloon

von Chris Raschka

When a child becomes aware of his pending death (children tend to know long before the rest of us even want to consider it), and is given the opportunity to draw his feelings, he will often draw a blue or purple...

Intensely Alice

von Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Wouldn’t it be great to go back to the time before Pam got pregnant, before Patrick left for the University of Chicago, before anyone was making any big decisions about sex or college or life in general? Wouldn’t...

Bumduggle Davis Beats the Boobrats: or The Inauguration of the Motherless Club

von Gail Luck

Synopsis:

Aussie teenager Bumduggle (Barry) Davis just can't seem to get it together after his mum dies suddenly in a tragic accident. Before the young teen has time to grieve, he's flung in at the deep end,...

London Calling

von Edward Bloor

Martin Conway comes from a family filled with heroes and disgraces. His grandfather was a statesman who worked at the US Embassy in London during WWII. His father is an alcoholic who left his family. His sister...

Little Cloud Lamb

von Ana A. A. de de Eulate & Monica Carretero

A touching story that helps young and old alike cope with the loss of a loved one, this beautifully illustrated and gentle narrative explains the difficult concept of death to children. Lambkin is a different...

Gemini Summer

von Iain Lawrence

In the quiet of Hog's Hollow, each member of the River family pursues a dream. Old Man River sets out to build a fallout shelter in case the war in Vietnam "brings the end of everything;" his wife Flo, who collects...

Shadow Boxing

von Sheri Posesorski

Sixteen year old Alice is living in the shadows: the shadow of her mother's death, continued rejection by her father and her aunt's coldness. Will she ever know happiness again?

When You Were Mine

von Rebecca Serle

An intensely romantic, modern recounting of the greatest love story ever told—narrated by the girl Romeo was supposed to love.

Rosaline knows that she and Rob are destined to be together. Rose has been waiting...