death

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death

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2005
After her boyfriend is killed in a hunting accident, Alaska high-school-senior Marty, with help from her mother and two younger sisters, tries to get over her grief and begin a new life.

Wrecked

2005
After a car accident seriously injures her best friend and kills her brother's girlfriend, sixteen-year-old Anna tries to cope with her guilt and grief, while learning some truths about her family and herself.

Mother, come home

2003
A graphic novel in which a father and son struggle to come to terms with the death of the family's mother.

Coping with death

2003
Contains twenty-five essays in which the authors discuss the nature of death, death preparations, how to deal with loss and grief, and ethical issues related to the end of life.

Sonny's war

2002
In the late 1960s, fourteen-year-old Cori's life is greatly changed by the sudden death of her father, and her brother's tour of duty in Vietnam.

Tiger eyes

1987
Resettled in the "Bomb City" with her mother and brother, Davey Wexler recovers from the shock of her father's death during a holdup of his 7-Eleven store in Atlantic City.

A time for dancing

1995
Seventeen-year-old best friends Samantha and Juliana tell their stories in alternating chapters after Juliana is diagnosed with cancer.

3 NBs of Julian Drew

1994
The journals of a troubled fifteen-year-old boy who lives with his father and emotionally and physically abusive stepmother and her children after the death of his own mother years ago.

Phoenix rising, or, How to survive your life

1989
Helen's death at eighteen from cancer shatters the lives of her parents and siblings, especially younger sister Jessie who tries to cope with her feelings of pain and confusion by reading pages from Helen's diary.

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