loss (psychology)

In 1911 New York, sixteen-year-old Essie Rosenfeld must stop taking care of her irrepressible six-year-old sister when she goes to work at the Triangle Waist Company, where she befriends a missing heiress who is in hiding from her family and who seems to understand the feelings of heartache and grief that Essie is trying desperately to escape.

Annaleah has always accepted that she and Brian must keep their relationship a secret, but when Brian dies, Annaleah finds herself lost and along as she silently grieves and is unable to share her pain with her family, friends, and classmates.

Four years after her mother walked out, Natalie Gordon travels to Florida in the hopes of finding her mother, herself, and the truth about what love really is.

Chelsea, whose promising basketball career has been cut short by an accident on the court, and Clint, an ex-hockey player, meet at a Minnesota lake resort and find themselves drawn together by the losses they have suffered.

After her husband's unexpected death, Rocky leaves her old life behind, taking a job as Animal Control Warden on Peak's Island, where she begins the painful healing process and realizes that life is still worth living, despite her grief.

On an isolated English island, fifteen-year-old Caitlin McCann makes the painful journey from adolescence to adulthood through her experiences with a mysterious boy, whose presence has an unsettling effect on the island's inhabitants.

Miranda Tennant, hiding a tragic secret, hopes to lose herself in York, England, and avoid the ghosts said to haunt the quaint city, and meeting Nick, a mysterious and intense boy, proves a welcome distraction until her interest is captured by another, even more handsome boy, in a house across from hers, who seems to be trying to give her a message.

John Sanders, Jr. reunites with his sister Julia to plan the funeral of their estranged father, and although Junior believed himself to be unaffected by his father's death, his return to his childhood home sparks a quest for vengeance that soon has him raging out of control against even the people who love him the most.

Amy Kuebelbeck shares how she and her husband made the decision to forgo extreme measures to save her son Gabriel after learning at five months pregnant he suffered from hypoplastic left heart syndrome and discusses how they prepared for his inevitable death after being born.

Describes a boy's reactions of anger, grief, and eventual acceptance when his dog dies. Includes suggestions to parents for helping a child deal with loss.