death

After her brother Jared dies, ten-year-old Annie worries about the hidden dangers of everything, from bug bites to bicycle riding, until she is befriended by a new neighbor who is grieving her own loss.

After a long life of chasing squirrels, licking ice cream cones, and loving his adoptive family, an old dog comes to the end of his days.

When her quirky grandmother goes to Hawaii for the summer, nine-year-old Ruby learns to survive on her own in Mississippi by writing letters, befriending chickens as well as the new girl in town, and finally coping with her grandfather's death.

When a boy and girl are drowned in the Blackwater River, thirteen-year-old Brodie must decide whether to confess that he may have caused the accident.

Briefly describes the beginning and end of life for plants, animals, insects, and people.

Provides an explanation of death for children, discussing why people die, the funeral, and how they might feel after a loved one dies.

After her great-grandmother's death, a young girl learns about heaven by asking her mother all kinds of questions.

Sixth-grader Grace, her mother dead and her only sister ill with diabetes, learns to be brave like the pirate queen Grace O'Malley, whom her Irish cousin says she resembles.

Sam and his brother Robert fear their new neighbor is a zombie and plans to bring their dead pet gerbil back to life.

While adjusting to new friends and new activities at summer camp, eleven-year-old Mary remembers her infant sister Felicity, who died suddenly in her sleep several months earlier.