loss (psychology)

Memoir of Brad Listi, who after his pregnant ex-girlfriend committed suicide embarked on a journey along the East Coast and through the American West, ultimately ending up in the Black Rock Desert at the Costco Soulmate Trading Outlet with a lot of meditations on modern life and philosophy.

Nella Castelluca, daughter of Italian immigrants, lives on a farm outside Roseto, Pennsylvania, and dreams of living in town away from the hard life of her parents. Nella falls in love with the handsome poet Renato Lanzara, who suddenly leaves town and breaks Nella's heart. When he reappears four years later the night before Nella's wedding to another, Nella's life is forever changed.

Ex-slave Sadie Watson reveals to her granddaughter her experiences while in bondage and the love she had for her husband, Jim, who escaped down the Mississippi with Huck Finn when he learned he was to be sold.

Describes different kinds of losses, including the death of a loved one, the end of a love affair, and the loss of virginity, and suggests such coping mechanisms as the natural grieving process, the finding of a creative outlet, and getting help from others.

An angry thirteen-year-old girl and her hated English teacher spend a summer school class together, learning surprising things about each other.

Evelyn Harbinger uses her skills as a witch to transform herself from an old woman into the beautiful girl she once was, and when she meets Justin, she believes she has been reunited with her soul mate from World War II but must prove it is really him before her coven will accept Evelyn's love for a mortal, and her quest for the truth is threatened when her sister is accused of killing her husband sixty years earlier.

A ten-year-old English boy decides to run away after the sadness at home becomes unbearable following the death of his twin brother.

A novel about a thirteen-year-old girl who finds herself living with her father, across the country from her native Brooklyn, coping with her mother's violent death in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

A Puerto Rican girl coming of age in the 1950s struggles to negotiate her own terms of survival within the confines of her culture.

Coping with loss offers caring and sensible advice to young readers facing another's passing, a parent's divorce, moving away, and other challenging life changes.