death

When her best friend, an old lady named Miss Lilly, passes away, Sara learns that the memory of a loved one never dies.

Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.

During her solitary convalescence from a crippling accident, twelve-year-old Charley finds a wild dog, and the arduous process of training him leads her to explore her feelings about her mother's death two years earlier.

When her dog Lulu dies, a girl grieves but then continues with her life.

After the death of his grandmother, ten-year-old Spoon observes the changes in his grandfather and tries to find the perfect artifact to preserve his memories of her.

After her mother dies, Marianne becomes a daydreamer and begins to fall behind in her schoolwork.

Seven-year-old Suzie is curious and fearful about what Grandma's funeral will be like.