death

When his mother is killed in a car accident, a thirteen-year-old boy tries to cope with his grief and sense of loss.

During the most dreadful summer of her life, 11-year-old Sarah is obessed with dying.

The life of a ten-year old boy expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death. From his sorrow he learns the meaning of friendship.

A child goes through the difficult process of adjusting to the sudden illness and death of a brother.

When her father dies, seventeen-year-old Dallas must cope not only with her grief, but also with her mother's sudden and total dependence upon her.

A young horse's curiosity leads him into mortal peril and a new existence.

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.

Authors present conflicting opinions on how the physical and emotional pain of terminal illness should be addressed, whether physicians should be permitted to hasten the deaths of terminally ill patients, and whether the terminally ill should be given more control over their deaths.

Since the death of his older brother, thirteen-year-old Billy Baggs has had a distant relationship with his father, but life on their farm in northern Minnesota begins to change when he starts to play baseball.