death

Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend Phineas were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school. Their friendship is marred by Finny's crippling fall, an event for which Gene is responsible and one that eventually leads to tragedy.

Working with rebels to bring down The Program, a suicide prevention treatment in which painful memories are erased, Sloane and James consider taking The Treatment to unlock their memories.

Seventeen-year-old Quinn provides closure to grieving families by taking on the short-term role of a deceased loved one, until huge secrets come to the surface about Quinn's own past.

When fifteen-year-old Frannie's father dies, only a mysterious jigsaw puzzle that he leaves behind can help her come to terms with his death.

"... about a young boy and his family overcoming the loss of his father. This ... book is filled with natural imagery, centering on a small pond in the garden, and will teach children not only about death and loss, but the importance of the natural world"--Back cover.

A frivolous, wealthy family's garden party continues uninterrupted by the death of a working-class neighbor. Includes an analysis of the story and a biography of the author.

Seventeen-year-old Maddie O'Neill Levine was looking forward to spending her summer before college with her best friends. But everything changes when her grandmother, who also happens to be her closest confidante, announces that she is terminally ill and has booked a "death with dignity" cruise to spend her finals days with her family. Maddie finds herself on an eight-week cruise with her loveable yet dysfunctional family, learning about loss and unexpectedly falling in love.

Lon Chaney Rodriguez is a typical thirteen-year-old until his mother, a security guard, is shot and killed and he becomes haunted by the feeling that he is letting her down by getting bad grades, skipping church, lying, and goofing off while worrying that he and his alcoholic, unemployed father will wind up homeless.

After her brother and mother die, Cecelia Dahl travels to the Land of Yesterday in order to reunite her family.

"Mitsuki is trapped by the Lord of the Underworld and is imprisoned within his barrier. She pleads for Izumi to come help her, but the Shinigami is immobilized by his fear of releasing his last memory, the moment before his death, and will not rescue her. Is there anyone who can protect Mitsuki from the Death Master's scythe?"--p. [4] of cover.