Presents opposing viewpoints on euthanasia, abortion, suicide, and funeral homes through essays by a variety of authors. Includes discussion activities.
Discusses the biological meaning of death, attitudes of the dying, survivors, and society toward it, and such related topics as euthanasia, abortion, murder, suicide, and immortality.
The year after Grandpa's death, Ben's family spends Christmas in Puerto Rico, where Grandma makes sure the holiday still has some familiar elements while being a little different.
After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.
The world of sled dog racing in northern Montana forms the background for a twelve-year-old boy's adjustment to his father's death, his mother's remarriage, and the integration of two families into one.
When Madison Avery, seventeen, spunky, and technically dead, takes on the role of Dark Timekeeper, she struggles to figure out her place in the war between light and dark reapers.
Fifteen-year-old Virginia's world begins to fall apart when her dog is hit by a car, her father is hospitalized with a mysterious illness, and her best friend begins to ignore her.
