death

A seventeen-year-old boy trying to recover from the loss of his girlfriend meets an unusual girl.

When her close friend since childhood murders his adoptive parents and kills himself, 17-year-old Lynn is haunted by the tragedy.

When Jim's dog is killed, the other first graders experience with him his natural reactions to death.

While working as an intern on a popular television comedy show produced in Chicago, seventeen-year-old Bess tries to come to terms with the loss of her mother, who committed suicide six months earlier.

Discusses the various types of one-parent families and explores the problems and the advantages and disadvantages of being a child in a single-parent family.

Discusses the cycle of life and death, burial customs of the past and present day, and grief and mourning.

Betty Ann's childhood ends abruptly when her father abandons the family and her mother goes to work, leaving her responsible for her younger brother and sister.

Just when things are looking up for thirteen-year-old Ronnie, her father dies, creating a void she and her mother have trouble filling.

At first Jessica and Christina were only trying to contact ghosts for the fun of it, but when Christina died, Jessica learned that the dead can enrich the lives of the living in many ways.