death

When Luz's beloved grandfather dies, she places luminaria around his grave on Christmas Eve as a way of remembering him.

Inexplicable things have been happening to Manhattan socialite Mary since she awoke on her seventeenth birthday, and by the end of the day she has been killed, inhabited the bodies of seven people close to her, and faced some ugly truths about herself.

Seventeen-year-old Cleo, feeling guilty that her choices played a role in her mother's murder, seeks refuge in prescription medication until her Aunt Kellie helps her to tell the truth and find some perspective.

Examines the social, cultural, and religious history of the ceremonies associated with birth, marriage, and death in early modern England.

Presents a novel about a friendship that develops between two boys during a summer vacation at the Devon school during World War II.

A collection of articles describing personal accounts of experienced educators and the ways they have creatively discussed death and dying with their students.

The life of a ten-year-old boy in a rural community expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.

A lonely old man who waits each year to see the orcas swim past his house imparts his love of the whales to his granddaughter.