death

Mike and his dog Corky plan to be best friends forever, so when Corky becomes sick and dies, Mike is angry about the broken promise.

All the animals in the forest must deal with the death of their old friend, the bear, when he goes to sleep and never wakes up.

Little Carmela is close to her elderly neighbor and saddened by her illness and death, but she finds a way to express her love when T?ia Rosa's grandchild is born.

Zoe's favorite uncle Leonard takes her to a planetarium and explains that if he dies he will be like the stars, too far away to touch, close enough to see.

A child describes all the things she did with her grandmother and how she felt when her grandmother died.

The death of a little girl's father causes her to draw all her hearts upside down, but as she grows she finds joy in her father's memory and begins to draw her hearts right side up.

Seventeen-year-old Cassie, now working in a funeral home on the outskirts of Chicago, continues to try to learn about death and her ability to identify people who will soon die, but her efforts to get help from others like herself only prove that she is on her own.

As she acts out the role of "Mean Girl"--at school, with her father and brother, and even with her new boyfriend--sixteen-year-old Isabel comes to a dead end and finally confronts issues related to her mother's death.

In 1937, when LaMarr's glamorous mother is lost in a plane crash and she goes to live with her aunt and uncle, it takes the thirteen-year-old some time to reconcile herself to the idea that her mother has not gone to Hollywood to become a movie star.

Sadako Sasaki is the victim of the Hiroshima bomb. Hospitalized for leukemia, she is reminded of a Japanese legend which says if you create a thousand paper cranes the gods will make you well.