death

After the death of her twin sister Maddy, Ella decides to take on Maddy's identity in an effort to give her sister a kind of second chance at life. But while posing as Maddy, Ella realizes that her sister has been keeping some very dangerous secrets, and soon Ella is faced with the decision to reveal who she really is, or risk ending up just like Maddy.

Growing up in privileged Manhattan social circles, Caggie's life appears to be near perfect, but blaming herself for her younger sister's death and being called a hero for supposedly saving a classmate from suicide cause her to withdraw from friends and family until new kid Astor arrives at school, hiding a past at least as dark as her own.

Fifteen-year-old Kyle believes he does not deserve to live after accidentally shooting and killing his best friend.

Seventeen-year-old Aiden has been living like a ghost since his mother tried to stop a family curse by causing him to forget his psychic experiences but when Jarrod, a childhood friend, returns, so do the memories and Aiden is compelled to seek the truth and release them all from the story that has trapped them.

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

After learning that he will die in two days, on the night of senior prom, seventeen-year-old Denton Little decides to pack as much living into the time he has left as possible. But when he meets a mysterious man at his funeral who offers him the chance at a later death date, he decides to do whatever it takes to get an extension on life.

Thirteen-year-old Emmy, grieving over her mother who died of AIDS, resentful of having to live with her father and pregnant stepmother, and despairing about her future, finds hope at a summer camp for HIV-positive girls like herself. Includes facts about Elizabeth Glaser, one of the founders of the Pediatric AIDS Foundation.

When a boy named Seth drowns and awakens in an unknown location, he has no idea where he is or how he got there. As he searches for answers, he tries to uncover the truth behind his supposed death and whether he now exists in the land of the living or the dead.

Holding fast to her friends after the death of her mother, Tessa accompanies her grieving father on an impromptu road trip that lands them in a small coastal town where she seeks healing through a bond with a secretive boy.

A moving book for children, it explains life and death in a sensitive way, telling about beginnings and endings, and life in between.