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The garden of Eve

Eve gave up her belief in stories and magic after her mother's death, but a mysterious seed given her as an eleventh-birthday gift by someone she has never met takes her and a boy who claims to be a ghost on a strange journey, to where their supposedly cursed town of Beaumont, New York, flourishes.
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When a loved one dies

walking through grief as a teenager
Because teens are most receptive to their peers, this video features interviews with bereaved teens who speak from the heart. They share candidly about their pain and healing, covering topics such as surviving the first days.
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Bridge to Terabithia

The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.
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Perder a un ser querido

Looks at the grief process, and discusses how kids can cope with loss.
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Loss and grief

Young readers will learn what grief is and how it is different for each person, encourages accepting ones feelings and talking them out with the people in their support system.
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Walk two moons

2013
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route, while Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
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Life belts

The relationships between two girls and a boy living in a small beach town on Long Island change during their thirteenth summer, when one girl's mother is dying of cancer and the boy witnesses a child's drowning.

The blue roses

A Native American girl gardens with her grandfather, who helps to raise her, and learns about life and loss when he dies, and then speaks to her from a dream where he is surrounded by blue roses.

Buscando a Alaska

Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

Not as crazy as I seem

As fifteen-year-old Devon begins mid-year at a new prestigious prep school, he is plagued by compulsions such as the need to sort things into groups of four.

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