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Author: Orca Soundings

I'm not dead. I'm still me. I still have a body and everything.
You are still you but you don't have a body. What you're seeing is a thought form. He points to a tall gold urn up by the minister. Your body is in the ...

Author: Jacqueline Woodson

You are so light you move with the wind and the snow.... And it lifts you up--over a world of sadness and anger and fear. Over a world of first kisses and hands touching and someone you're falling in love with. She's the ...

Author: Willo Davis Roberts

Mandy awoke in darkness. For a moment she didn't remember that Angel was gone, that she would not be coming back, and then the pain hit her like a physical blow.

For the first time in her eleven years, Mandy is alone. ...

Author: Jaime Adoff


After the sudden and violent death of his father, there remains only one certainty in Keith James's life: everything is going to be different now. Barely a month has passed, and Keith is being forced to move from big ...

Author: Ellen Wittlinger

I might as well tell you before you hear it someplace else...

My mother is dying. She has leukemia and she came here to die.

Nathan and his adorable little sister just moved in across the street from Liz Scattergood, ...

Author: Gabrielle Zevin

Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. It's quiet and peaceful. You can't get sick or any older. Curious to see new paintings by Picasso? Swing by one of Elsewhere's museums. Need ...

Author: Judith Kerr

This title is a new cover reissue of this story about everyone's favourite family cat, Mog.

Author: Lisa Schroeder

Girl meets boy.

Girl loses boy.

Girl gets boy back...

...sort of.

Ava can't see him or touch him, unless she's dreaming. She can't hear hisvoice, except for the faint whispers in her mind. Most would think she'sc ...

Author: Gillie Schattner & Marc Schattner

Harry loves his life - he likes to ride his bicycle, and fly with the birds, and splash the fishes. But one day he finds out that he will someday die. Every day he worries, 'Will this be the day I die?' Suddenly his life ...

Author: Sally Morgan

Dan's Grandpa tells the story of an Aboriginal boy coming to terms with the death of his grandfather. Young Dan recalls the companionship and instructive experiences he shared with his grandfatherfishing in the mangroves ...

Author: David Philip Reiter

Confronts the topical issues of gun control and the effects of war - past and present - on returning soldiers and their families. Jon, like many young boys, is fascinated by guns. He finds a loaded pistol under his paren ...

Author: Lurlene McDaniel

Nathan Malone has been homeschooled his whole life. He's never spent much time with kids his own age and he's never dated. His mother is now busy with his new twin sisters, so Nathan must enroll at the local high school ...

Author: Udo Weigelt & Christina Kadmon

Old Bear is very sick. With his animal friends gathered around him, Bear tells them that he must say good-bye, for he is going on a special journey. But ... but ... you're not dying? asks Rabbit, and Bear admits that he ...

Author: Maribeth Boelts

A story to help children ages 4-8 better understand and deal with death Sarah is sad when her grandma dies of cancer. She doesn't understand where Grandma has gone. Sarah's mother lets her choose if she wants to attend t ...

Author: Deborah Wiles

When Ruby's grandmother, Miss Eula goes to visit her new grandbaby in Hawaii, Ruby is sure that she will have a lonely, empty, horrible summer without her in boring old Halleluia, Mississippi. What happens instead? She m ...

Author: Margo Rabb

IF SHE DIES, I'll die, are the words 15-year-old Mia Perlman writes in her journal the night her mother is diagnosed with cancer. Nine days later, Mia's mother is dead, and Mia, her older sister, and her father must find ...

Author: Margo Rabb

IF SHE DIES, I'll die, are the words 15-year-old Mia Perlman writes in her journal the night her mother is diagnosed with cancer. Nine days later, Mia's mother is dead, and Mia, her older sister, and her father must find ...

Author: Melanie Joy Pastor

This work is intended for ages 5 to 7 years. A grandfather's death inspires his grandchildren to create a book of wishes in this sensitive portrayal of dealing with the loss of a loved one. When Anna and her little broth ...

Author: Michelle Edwards

For Selma and her little sister Dora, this is their first Chanukkah without Mama. When Papa comes home with everything they need for latkes, Selma is worried. Mama always made the Chanukkah latkes. Can they make them wit ...

Author: Miriam Stone

Through raw journal entries and poems, Miriam Stone - now a college student - has created a stirring tribute to her late mother and a memorial to an extraordinary year of grief and self-discovery.
I turn back toward ...