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The Crying Tree
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Naseem Rakha |
Irene and Nate Stanley are living a quiet and contented life with their two children, Bliss and Shep, on their family farm in southern Illinois when Nate suddenly announces he's been offered a job as… |
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Letting go of Lisa
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Lurlene McDaniel |
Home-schooled for most of his education, Nathan enters the public high school as a senior where he meets a beautiful girl with a secret and together they learn about loving, living, and dying. |
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Trance
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Linda C. Gerber |
Ashlyn was unable to use her visions of the future to save her mother's life, but as she begins to understand and control them somewhat, she realizes that love interest Jake is the subject of her mos… |
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One of the survivors
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Susan Shaw |
When his classmates die in a school fire, fourteen-year-old Joey is haunted by their deaths and struggles to survive amidst suspicion and anger from the town. |
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Hunting Grandma's treasures
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Gina Willner-Pardo |
A boy's dying grandmother helps him say good-bye and accept life's changes. |
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North River
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Pete Hamill |
It is 1934, and New York City is in the icy grip of the Great Depression. With enormous compassion, Dr. James Delaney tends to his hurt, sick, and poor neighbors, who include gangsters, day laborers,… |
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A Name on the Quilt
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Jeannine Atkins |
A family reminisces while gathered together to make a panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt in memory of a beloved uncle. |
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My big sister is so bossy
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Mary Hershey |
Ten-year-old Effie is dealing with a lot of problems, including some missing money, losing her best friend, the death of her grandfather and more, and her mean older sister Maxey is making things eve… |
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A hundred days from home
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Randall Wright |
After the death of his best friend, Elam reluctantly moves with his family to the desert, where he wrestles with homesickness, loneliness, grief, and the search for new friendship. |
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Ghost cat
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Mark Abley |
When her beloved cat, Tommy Douglas, dies after many years of companionship, Miss Wilkinson is inconsolable until his spirit returns to give her comfort. |
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The Leap
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Jonathan Stroud |
After her best friend, Max, drowns, grief-stricken Charlie discovers that she can enter a mysterious afterlife when she is dreaming, and as she tries desperately to find Max, she puts herself in grav… |
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Everything for a dog
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David Pittu,Ann M. Martin |
In parallel stories, Bone, an orphaned dog, finds and loses a series of homes, Molly, a family pet, helps Charlie through the grief and other after-effects of his brother's death, and lonely Henry pl… |
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