grief

When ten-year-old Emily learns that her mother has cancer, the two of them begin a ritual that will help Emily remember her mother after she is dead.

Emily shoots a roll of film one summer day. When she develops the negatives in her late father's darkroom, she finds an extra photograph that seems to picture the future.

Shortly after moving to a dreary coastal town in Newfoundland with his father, Travis Keating finds a colony of abandoned cats and decides to care for them himself. Travis soon realizes what a big job caring for the cats is, and hopes someone will help him in his task.

In 1948, nine-year-old Katy Sue's mother dies suddenly, and she and her family spend the next year trying to recover from their loss, assisted by her Aunt Katherine, who quits her teaching job to help out on their Iowa farm.

Ming's wishes at the tree on Lunar New Year with his grandmother always seemed to come true, but one year the tree does not help, and he alone must make peace with the loss of his grandmother and the spirit of the tree.

A little boy experiences his first painful loss when his pet mouse dies.

Ben blames his parents for the death of his dog, Max, and does not want the new puppy they brought home.

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

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.

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.