death

While researching a rumored-to-be-haunted grave for a local history project, twelve-year-old Lincoln Crenshaw unearths some startling truths about his own family.

A fictionalized biography of eighteen-year-old John Kipling, son of writer Rudyard Kipling, who remembers his boyhood and the events leading up to World War I, as he lies dying on a battlefield in France.

When a sick boy dies, his friends and classmates remember him by building a schoolyard pond in his memory.

Eleven-year-old Toby wants a normal vacation, so he keeps secret a new lump he discovers to avoid additional treatments for his cancer. He learns about the important things in life from Pearl, an older woman on a nearby farm, and her cow named Blossom.

Summer and uncle Ob miss aunt may who has died. Now they set off on a search for some sign of their beloved aunt and wife.

Gripping and powerful original stories of dystopian worlds from New York Times bestselling authors.

The author, an alumnus of Brandeis University, tells of his meetings with a former professor suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease and of the lessons he learned about life and death from his college mentor.

The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief.

When a little boy spends Christmas with his dying cousin, they discover that Santa really does exist.

After he is killed in a tornado, Gabe does not realize at first that he is dead, but when he finds himself still with ties to the living, he realizes that his mission in the afterlife is to help others before they cross over into the light.