Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Social Themes - Death, Grief, Bereavement

In the zombie-infested world Benny has grown up in, teens must work once they turn fifteen. Benny isn't interested in the family business, but he reluctantly agrees to train as a zombie killer with his big brother Tom. He expects a dull job, whacking zoms for cash. What he discovers is a vocation that will teach him what it really means to be human.

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The Star family is overjoyed when their newest Little Star is born. Everyone in the rock pool celebrates, but their excitement is soon taken away when the Little Star becomes very ill and dies. How will the Star family cope with this tragic loss? How will the other animals in the rock pool deal with the news and support the family? Will the rock pool ever be the same again?

The Little Star tells the true story of the Mortimer family and how they coped with the death of their precious baby boy, Charlie, and supported their two boys, Harry and Adam. It includes their brave decision to...

A young girl and her Nana hold a special bond that blooms in the surroundings of Nana's magical garden.

Then one day, the girl finds many weeds in the garden. She soon discovers that her beloved Nana has Alzheimer's Disease; an illness that affects an adult brain with tangles that get in the way of thoughts, kind of like how weeds get in the way of flowers. As time passes, the weeds grow thicker and her Nana declines, but the girl accepts the difficult changes with love, and learns to take-over as the magical garden's caregiver.

Extending from the experience of caring for her...

Synthia (Syn) Wade is a teenage girl who struggles with cystic fibrosis, an incurable life-threatening disease. One day she is pushed into a pond by an unseen figure and wakes up in a new world - a mysterious garden where illness and death don't exist.

Welcomed by the garden's residents and now free of her symptoms, Syn decides to stay. But, before long, she realizes that this apparent utopia holds many dangers and dark secrets.

Surrounding the garden is a fog that Syn is warned never to enter. She encounters bizarre creatures that defy reason. And always lurking...

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Arthur T. Owens grabbed a brick and hurled it at the trash picker. Arthur had his reasons, and the brick hit the Junk Man in the arm, not the head. But none of that matters to the judge--he is ready to send Arthur to juvie forever. Amazingly, it's the Junk Man himself who...

New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice

"Kids won't just love this book. They need it." --Soman Chainani, New York Times bestselling author of The School for Good and Evil

"Each page crackles as we embark on the greatest adventure of all." --Gary D. Schmidt, Newbery Honor winner and author of Okay for Now

Everyone knows there are different kinds of teachers. The boring ones, the mean ones, the ones who try too hard, the ones who stopped trying long ago. The ones you'll never remember, and the ones you want to...

My Superhero Grandpa is a sweet story about a grandfather who watches over his young grandson from Heaven. The story is told by the young narrator and explains how his grandpa is able to be with him anytime he needs someone because, after all, a superhero has super powers. My Superhero Grandpa likens angels to superheroes and is a sweet way to help young children cope with the passing of a grandparent or to help acquaint a young child with a grandparent that passed away before he or she was born.

My Superhero Grandpa uses simple text and ideas with brilliantly colored illustrations...

Once upon a lifetime, in two kingdoms lived Prince Grier and Princess Lexi, who both suffered from the same terminal illness. And although they were apart and lived two very different lives, they discovered they were joined together in a special way. It was through this connection that they set sail on many adventures together and learned how to use their gifts and talents to spread their love and light to all.

Sunshine Forest is Isabel's favorite place to go, especially when she is feeling sad.

While lost in the memories of someone she loves, Isabel finds herself also lost deep within the forest. She becomes frightened until a brilliant blue dragonfly appears. The blue dragonfly carefully guides her through the forest, listening intently as Isabel shares her feelings of loss and grief.

She emerges from both the forest and her sadness with a lighter heart...and a new, life-long friend.

This story is beautifully written and illustrated to help children of all ages understand...