bereavement

An ordinary suburban family is shattered by the unanticipated, violent consequences of seemingly casual decisions.

In 1974 Manhattan, a radical young Irish monk struggles with personal demons while making his home among Bronx prostitutes, a group of mothers shares grief over their lost Vietnam soldier sons, and a young grandmother attempts to prove her worth.

Explores the feelings of frustration, sadness, and loneliness that a youngster may feel when a pet dies.

Derek Stone thought that his father and brother were killed in a train accident, but then his brother returns, strangely changed, and Derek begins to suspect that dead people are coming back to prey on the living.

Bee faces friction at home and at school when her widowed father begins seriously dating Jazzi, who seems to take over the house and their lives, but as shared secrets and common interests finally begin to draw them together, Jazzi accidentally makes a terrible mistake.

Discusses the questions, fears, and fantasies many children experience when a parent or someone close to them dies.

Ever since Walker's older brother Noah died, his mother has not been able to stop crying. Walker has questions for God, angry questions, wondering why if God really wanted to help him that he let Noah die in the first place. Walker is shocked when his prayer for help is answered with the arrival of Jesus himself, who seems a bit less reverent than Walker was expecting.

Since her older brother died Scarlett has felt emotionally cut off from everyone on Catalina Island except for her horse, and she has become anorexic--but when she meets a strange boy named Will Cohen she begins to rediscover herself.

Sixteen-year-old Guy Langman, his best friend Anoop, and other members of the school Forensics Club investigate a break-in and a possible murder, which could be connected to the mysterious past of Guy's recently-deceased father.