After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live.".
The journals of a troubled fifteen-year-old boy who lives with his father and emotionally and physically abusive stepmother and her children after the death of his own mother years ago.
Retells, in prose and poetry, the legends by diverse cultures which have come to terms with the reality of death and their hopes for life beyond the grave.
When her parents die in an accident in 1913, eleven-year-old Tanya decides to live alone, refusing charity from the people in her village, and supporting herself by selling muffins.
Eleven-year-old Leah has a summer of outrageous adventures in her small Florida community, some involving her free-thinking grandfather but all shared with her younger sister Kelly, until an unexpected loss changes their lives.
When ten-year-old Little Man meets his eccentric neighbor Lucy Johnson, he discovers how her sanctuary of junk sculpture and photographs of dead people is a place where the spirits of the dead can rest in peace.
