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

Then one night, Jaspers returns...but he's not alone. Someone has followed him home. Someone who hides in the space behind the...

For 13-year-old Isabelle Lee, whose father has recently died, everything's normal on the outside. Isabelle describes the scene at school with bemused accuracy--the self-important (but really not bad) English teacher, the boy that is constantly fixated on Ashley Barnum, the prettiest girl in class, and the dynamics of the lunchroom, where tables are turf in a all-eyes-open awareness of everybody's relative social...

Charley knows a lot about pain. She endures it when she walks on her newly shattered leg, she sees it when her father buries himself in an eighty-hour work week, and she runs from it when she sees photographs her mother took before her death. Then one day, Charley meets a wild, abused dog that knows as much about pain as she does, and, despite herself, she feels an immediate connection and vows to help him. But how will one heartbroken girl help mend the battered spirit of an untamable dog?

On that first golden day in the spirit world, Jamie meets four new friends near her own age and learns that in Summerland there are no limits to what is possible. You can fly, eat anything you want (and it will always be good for you) and create, do and be anything you can imagine.

In Mrs. Tipperwillow's care, the children discover friendship, fun, comfort...

On that first golden day in the spirit world, Jamie meets four new friends near her own age and learns that in Summerland there are no limits to what is possible. You can fly, eat anything you want (and it will always be good for you) and create, do and be anything you can imagine.

In Mrs. Tipperwillow's care, the children discover friendship, fun, comfort...

In books, when you read something like, "everything is great," you just know that something terrible is about to happen. But in real life, you can miss the warnings. And then, wham, slam, sneak attack. Everything skids out of control.

Before the first day of seventh grade is over, Kat Randall's year is nearly ruined. When her beloved dog, Cheddar, is run over by a woman with Alzheimer's disease, Kat reacts impulsively, leaving school on a "borrowed" bike to get to the vet. Then the bike gets stolen. Kat often does the wrong thing for the right reason, but now she...

Davey Wexler has never felt so alone. Her father has just been killed--shot in a holdup at the 7-Eleven near their home. And now her mother has transplanted her and her little brother, Jason, to Los Alamos, New Mexico, to stay with family and recover.

But Davey is withdrawn, full of rage and fear and loneliness. Then one day, while exploring a canyon, she meets an older boy who calls himself Wolf. Wolf is the only one who understands her--the only one who can read her sad eyes. And he is...

With full-page color illustrations, The Butterfly Catcher is a heart-warming tale that ponders the question "where do our loved ones go when they die?" Through playful verse and a fanciful story, the book communicates to children of all ages how we carry those we love with us always. After a young boy is told by his mother that his lost brother "flies with the butterflies," The Butterfly Catcher follows the boy as he goes in search of his lost brother. Along his journey, the boy encounters a creative cast of characters as he catches one butterfly after another, from the...