loss (psychology)

Photographer Abby Mason's happy anticipation of a life as a wife and stepmother comes to an abrupt end when Emma, the six-year-old daughter of her fiance Jake, disappears at the beach while in her care.

Bright, precocious but socially awkward Lydia Pasternak reports on the aftermath of her older brother's disappearance. Danny was everything Lydia wasn't: at ease with their parents, popular in school, physically imposing, beloved by the opposite sex. Danny went from being Lydia's playmate in their youth to her tormentor in high school, so his disappearance leaves Lydia with some very mixed feelings, one of which is relief. As time goes on and the weekend search parties prove more and more fruitless, Lydia struggles with the fact that her geeky best friend, David, has feelings for her; she also obsesses over the private investigator hired by the family and allows herself to be sucked into the social world Danny once dominated.

Blaming herself for the car accident on the Tappan Zee Bridge that killed her mother, fifteen-year-old Jenna undergoes a difficult physical and emotional recovery.

American poet Naomi Shihab Nye collects poems on all kinds of loss by 140 writers--some well-known and some never-before-published--including William Stafford and Lucille Clifton, and provides biographical information on each contributor.

A guide to understanding loss for young people, providing information about the process of getting through loss; discussing the normal feelings, thoughts, and behaviors associated with grief and healing; and including comments from others who have suffered losses.

Neighborhood children imaginatively stage funerals for dead bugs, but they experience real sadness following the death of a pet.

Discusses the process and stages of grieving and the losses that may cause grief. Offers advice that can help teens understand and tolerate these normal but difficult feelings.

A collection of poems about death, loss, and mourning written by poets from all over the world including Janet Frame, Alice Walker, and Seamus Heaney.