grief

As twelve-year-old Brooklyn goes head-to-head against her rival to win her school's cookie-selling competition, her friends help her cope with the death of her mother and help her try to clinch the Cookie Queen title.

Tiger, sixteen, has been pushing away from her overprotective mother, but when her mother dies suddenly Tiger must learn to live when it feels she is surrounded by darkness.

The founder of Preszler Woodshop discusses his long-time estrangement from his father and how he overcame the grief and loss of his father's death through a carpentry project completed with inherited tools. When his cancer-stricken father died, after years of estrangement, Preszler's only inheritance was a beat-up wooden toolbox that had belonged to his father, who was a cattle rancher, rodeo champion, and Vietnam War Bronze Star Medal recipient. Preszler did not work with his hands, but in his grief came an epiphany: he would make something with his inheritance. He decided to build a wooden canoe that he aimed to paddle on the first anniversary of his father's death. As he confronted unexpected revelations about his father's secret history-- and his own struggle for self-respect-- the canoe became his sole consolation and the means to change his life.

"When a Battle of the Bands competition is announced, Flora and her friends are thrilled. Flora wants her string quartet to play a classical song like they always do, but her friends want to play something new. Then, Simon, a talented drummer, who is struggling with a recent loss, invites Flora to join his rock trio. For Flora, finding harmony with her friends, music, and family just became more complicated."-- Provided by publisher.

When Adam MoynihanEU(tm)s oldest brother died, his life fell apart around him. Now his mom cries constantly, he and his remaining brother canEU(tm)t talk without fighting, and the father he always admired moved out when they needed him most. Jolene Timber is used to being a pawn in her divorced parentsEU(tm) war. But when she develops an unlikely friendship with a boy who spends every other weekend in the same apartment building that she does, suddenly the future seems less bleak. Can the boy who thinks forgiveness makes him weak and the girl who thinks love is for fools find something real together? TheyEU(tm)ll find out... every other weekend.

"After moving cross-country with her sister, Eva Sylvan begins having dreams with devasting real-life effects on the already hostile town people; to stop these dreams and save the town, Eva must investigate her family's magic-filled history and confront her guilt over her father's death"--OCLC.

Seventeen-year-old Julie fell in love with Sam the day she met him, and planned to attend college with him; but then Sam died. Getting rid of his things and trying to erase him from her life is not working, so, desperate to hear his voice one more time, Julie calls his cell phone. She expects to hear his voicemail--but then Sam answers, and suddenly their phones become the living connection between them, a connection Julie finds impossible to let go.

"Kate Spencer lost her mom to cancer when she was 27. In The Dead Moms Club, she walks readers through her experienceof stumbling through grief and loss, and helps them to get through it, too. This isn't a weepy, sentimental story, but rather a frank, up-front look at what it means to go through gruesome grief and come out on the other side. Covers how losing her mother changed nearly everything in her life: both men and women readers who have lost parents or experienced grief of this magnitude will be comforted and consoled"--Provided by publisher.

Tips, stories, and advice help teenagers cope with the grief they feel when a peer, loved one, pet, or celebrity dies.