loss (psychology)

Coming-of-age novel set in the early days of the AIDS epidemic tells of the friendship between fourteen-year-old June, whose beloved uncle Finn, a famous painter, has died of a mysterious illness, and Finn's partner, Toby, the only other person who misses Finn as much as she does.

In absence of their father, a brother and sister adopt four dogs and a cat in an attempt to save their family.

Adam Moynihan's life used to be awesome. Straight As, close friends and a home life so perfect that it could have been a TV show straight out of the 50s. Then his oldest brother died. Now his fun-loving mom cries constantly, he and his remaining brother can't talk without fighting, and the father he always admired proved himself a coward by moving out when they needed him most. Jolene Timber's life is nothing like the movies she loves--not the happy ones anyway. As an aspiring director, she should know, because she's been reimagining her life as a film ever since she was a kid. With her divorced parents at each other's throats and using her as a pawn, no amount of mental reediting will give her the love she's starving for. Forced to spend every other weekend in the same apartment building, the boy who thinks forgiveness makes him weak and the girl who thinks love is for fools begin an unlikely friendship.

"Seventeen-year-old Stevie is trapped. In her life. In her body. And now in an eating-disorder treatment center on the dusty outskirts of the New Mexico desert. ... Her dad has signed her up for sixty days of treatment. But what no one knows is that Stevie doesn't plan to stay that long. There are only twenty-seven days until the anniversary of her brother Josh's death--the death she caused. And if Stevie gets her way, there are only twenty-seven days until she, too, will end her life"--Back cover.

Illustrations and brief text relate how a person might feel when they lose someone they love.

Former addict Rain Thomas can't shake her remorse for giving up her baby when she was 16, after learning that the baby's father had died in Iraq. On her way to a job interview, she borrows a pair of reading glasses, and through a small crack in one lens sees a boy running down the aisle of a subway car, screaming. Without the glasses, she sees no boy. She begins hearing voices and her day gets even stranger. Worried that she might be going insane, Rain begins questioning what is real and what is a nightmare.

"Ethan just wants to escape from painful memories of the accident that cost him everything. When he and his family move from Boston to the small seaside town of Palm Knot, Georgia, he doesn't know what he'll find there. The last thing he expects is to make a new friend. That is, until he meets Coralee, a girl with a big personality and even bigger stories, a girl who may just give Ethan the second chance he needs. But Ethan isn't the only one with secrets, and Coralee's are catching up with her. Can Ethan really trust Coralee, or could what she's hiding be putting both their lives at risk?"--Provided by publisher.

After her father's landscaping business fails and the family loses their house, sixth-grader Griselda Zaragoza follows her sister's example and begins selling Alma cosmetics while hiding her changed circumstances from friends.

Overwhelmed by a series of losses, including an accident that left his brother in a wheelchair, his father's abuse, and his mother's departure, sixteen-year-old Tosh escapes into a video game but soon, the game becomes much more real than his life.

"Imagine if we treated broken hearts with the same respect and concern we have for broken arms. [The author] urges us to rethink the way we deal with emotional pain, offering warm, wise and witty advice for the brokenhearted. Our hearts might be broken, but we do not have to break with them. We can take control of our lives and our minds and put ourselves on the path to healing. [This book] offers a toolkit for how to handle and cope with a broken heart and how to, eventually, move on."--Dust jacket flap.