A fourteen-year-old living with his grandparents learns his father is to be released from prison after killing his mother and feels apprehensive about renewing the relationship. Based on true events.
Sixteen-year-old Linnea examines the year following the death of her best friend, Pia, as she struggles to understand why and how it happened and deal with the pain and confusion in her life.
A story of two young artists who become the best friends with one is sick of pneumonia. She is convinced that when the last leaf has fallen from the ivy outside her window, that she will die.
During a stay of several months in Hawaii with her family, Sara reports her experiences by tape back to her sixthgrade class in Boston, detailing her "adoption" of a wild cat, a friendship with a troubled Hawaiian boy, and the death of a beloved grandmother.
The story of an old man, professor of sociology, Morrie Schwartz, who is dying from ALS. He tells a former student, Mitch Albom, about dying, living and what's important in life.
As she begins high school, fourteen-year-old Carolina tries to come to terms with the death of her father and older sister, while dealing with difficult relationships with her mother and best friend and a budding romance with the boy next door.
