grief

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grief

What I came to tell you

A boy finds solace in his art and community after his mother dies and his father retreats into himself.

Mister Death's blue-eyed girls

2012
During a party on the last day of her junior year, Nora heads into the woods with her friends to celebrate. Before long, however, they realize they have all become the target of a killer who has begun to hunt them down.

Small acts of amazing courage

2011
In 1919, independent-minded fifteen-year-old Rosalind lives in India with her English parents, and when they fear she has fallen in with some rebellious types who believe in Indian self-government, she is sent "home" to London, where she has never been before and where her older brother died, to stay with her two aunts. Her courage influences one of her aunts who longs for her own kind of independence.

Flightsend

2010
When Charlie's mother decides to make a fresh start, she moves the two of them to remote Flightsend. Charlie thinks the move is a bad idea, but their first summer at Flightsend is life-changing for them both.

Season of secrets

2011
Sent by their father to live in the country with their grandparents after the sudden death of their mother, Molly's older sister Hannah expresses her grief in a raging rebellion while imaginative Molly finds herself increasingly distracted by visions, that seemingly only she can see, of a strange hunt in the nearby forest.

Henrietta Hornbuckle's circus of life

2010
Twelve-year-old Henrietta Hornbuckle and her parents perform as clowns in a tiny, ramshackle traveling circus until a family tragedy jeopardizes Henrietta's whole offbeat world.

Leo and the Lesser Lion

2009
In Depression-era Alabama, twelve-year-old Mary Bayliss Pettigrew struggles to understand why her beloved older brother, Leo, died and whether she, miraculously, survived for some special purpose.

Kissing Annabel

2009
Sixteen-year-old Jack woos beautiful Annabel, and, through their relationship, he copes with his mother's death.

Wrecked

2007
After a car accident seriously injures her best friend and kills her brother's girlfriend, sixteen-year-old Anna tries to cope with her guilt and grief, while learning some truths about her family and herself.

Choices

2007
Overcome with guilt over her brother's death, a teenaged girl shifts between multiple universes in an attempt to find one in which he is alive.

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