Children & Young Adults Fiction - Social Issues - Death & Dying

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I Want to Live (Dawn Rochelle Novels)...

Lurlene McDaniel

Dawn Rochelle has just turned fourteen, and her cancer has been in remission for almost a year. This summer, as she helps prepare for her brother's wedding and goes to camp, her life seems almost normal again.But when Dawn returns ho...

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Published: Sep 2003

Why Did She Have To Die?

Lurlene McDaniel

For thirteen years, Elly has been in Kathy's shadow, always second best. Even so, the two of them understand each other as only sisters can. Jealousy, anger, and resentment give way to guilt when Kathy dies suddenly and Elly is left t...

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Published: Jan 2001

Mick Harte Was Here

Barbara Park

How could someone like Mick die? He was the kid who freaked out hismom by putting a ceramic eye in a defrosted chicken, the kid who did a wilddance in front of the whole school--and the kid who, if only he had worn hisbicycle helmet, ...

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Published: Jan 1995

Six Months to Live (Mcdaniels, Lurlen...

Lurlene McDaniel

After being diagnosed with leukemia, thirteen-year-old Dawn is delighted to find a friend to battle alongside with her, until her friend, Sandy, slips back from remission. Reprint.

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Published: Sep 2003

Burn for Burn

Jenny Han

Payback is paradise in this start to a trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian.Postcard-perfect Jar Island is home to charming tourist shops, pristine beaches, amazing oceanfront homes—and three g...

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Published: Aug 2013

Queen of the Dead (A Ghost and the Go...

Stacey Kade

After being sent back from the light, Alona Dare - former homecoming queen, current Queen of the Dead - finds herself doing something she never expected: working. Instead of spending days perfecting her tan by the pool (her typical s...

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Published: May 2012

Please Ignore Vera Dietz

A. S. King

Vera's spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she's kept a lot of his secrets. Even after he betrayed her. Even after he ruined everything. So when Charlie dies in dark circumstan...

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Published: Apr 2012

A House Like a Lotus

Madeleine L'Engle

Sixteen-year-old Polly is on her way to the island of Cyprus, where she will work as a gofer. The trip was arranged by Maximiliana Horne, a rich, brilliant artist who, with her longtime companion, Dr. Ursula Heschel, recently became t...

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Published: Feb 2012

So Much to Live for (Dawn Rochelle No...

Lurlene McDaniel

Dawn Rochelle is fifteen, and the leukemia she's been fighting for the past two years is in remission again, after a successful bone marrow transplant from her brother. This summer Dawn has agreed to work as a camp counselor for youn...

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Published: Sep 2003

If I Should Die Before I Wake (Young ...

Lurlene McDaniel

Ages 12 and up. This novel is about coping with cancer, both as the victim and the friend of the victim. Emotionally compelling scenes pull the reader into the drama of Deanne and Matt--and a romance that doesn't have quite enou...

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Published: Jan 2004

I'll Give You the Sun

Jandy Nelson

The brilliant, multi-award-winning story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, David Levithan, and Rainbow Rowell Jude and her brother, Noah, are incredibly close twins. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws con...

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Published: Sep 2015

Before I Die

Jenny Downham

This intensely moving story is now available in paperback.Tessa has just months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, and drugs with excruciating side effects, Tessa compiles a list. It's her To Do Before I Di...

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Published: May 2009

Green Angel

Alice Hoffman

Left on her own when her family dies in a terrible disaster, fifteen-year-old Green is haunted by loss and by the past. Struggling to survive physically and emotionally in a place where nothing seems to grow and ashes are everywhere, ...

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Published: Feb 2010

Fever

Lauren DeStefano

BThe INew York Times /Ibestselling sequel to IWither/I reveals a world as captivating—and as treacherous—as the one Rhine left behind./BPRhine and Gabriel have escaped the mansion, but they’re still in danger. Outside, they find...

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Published: Feb 2013

Wither (The Chemical Garden Trilogy)

Lauren DeStefano

By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males born with a lifespan of 25 years, and females a lifespan of 20 years--leaving the world in a state of panic. Geneti...

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Published: Feb 2012

My Father's Words

Patricia MacLachlan

Patricia MacLachlan, beloved author of the Newbery Medal-winning Sarah, Plain and Tall, has crafted another lyrical and touching novel for young readers about finding hope after the loss of a loved one. Now in paperback, this short, m...

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Published: Feb 2020

Fracture

Megan Miranda

Eleven minutes passed before Delaney Maxwell was pulled from the icy waters of a Maine lake by her best friend Decker Phillips. By then her heart had stopped beating. Her brain had stopped working. She was dead. And yet she somehow de...

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Published: Jan 2013

Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell ...

Joyce Carol Oates

Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You is renowned author Joyce Carol Oates's newest novel for teens. Laurie Halse Anderson, bestselling author of Wintergirls and Speak, said that "the painful honesty of this book will crack op...

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Published: Oct 2013

Chasing Brooklyn

Lisa Schroeder

Restless souls and empty hearts Brooklyn can't sleep. Her boyfriend, Lucca, died only a year ago, and now her friend Gabe has just died of an overdose. Every time she closes her eyes, Gabe's ghost is there waiting for her. She has no ...

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Published: Apr 2011

Tears Of A Tiger

Sharon Mills Draper

In one horrifying night,Andy's life changed forever...Andy Jackson was driving the car that crashed one night after a game, killing Robert Washington, his best friend and the captain of the Hazelwood High Tigers. It was late, and they...

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Published: Feb 1996

A Time for Dancing

Davida Wills Hurwin

Sam and Jules - everyone knows that when you see one, the other can't be far behind. Best friends for more than half their lives, the two are practically inseparable. And in the summer before their last year of high school, Sam and Ju...

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Published: Apr 2009

A Face in Every Window

Han Nolan

After Grandma Mary dies, sixteen-year-old JP's safe, secure world quickly unravels. He finds himself living in complete chaos when his mother wins a farmhouse in an essay contest and insists on sharing her good fortune with other nei...

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Published: Sep 2008

A Sudden Silence

Eve Bunting

Jesse Harmon is tortured by guilt because he survived the hit-and-run accident that killed his brother, Bry. His guilt is compounded when he finds he is attracted to Bry's girlfriend, Chloe. Together Jesse and Chloe try to track down...

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Published: Apr 2007

Wenny Has Wings

Janet Lee Carey

In the fight with the truck barreling toward them, Wenny and Will lost big. Wenny lost her life. Will lost a sister -- and lost faith in himself. But then Will starts writing letters to Wenny. He tells her all about the secret of hi...

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Published: Jun 2004

Pleasing the Ghost

Sharon Creech

Ever since his father died, Dennis has been seeing ghosts.Lots of ghosts. They blow in on the breeze, visit for a while, and fly off again. But one night the ghost of his Uncle Arvie floats in the window. And Arvie wants to do more...

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Published: Sep 1997

Goodbye Mousie

Robie H. Harris

One morning a boy finds that his pet, Mousie, won't wake up. The truth is Mousie has died. At first the boy doesn't believe it. He gets very mad at Mousie for dying, and then he feels very sad. But talking about Mousie, burying Mousie...

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Published: Nov 2004

Badger's Parting Gifts

Susan Varley

Badger's friends are sad when he dies but treasure the memories he left them. 'The gentle message holds particular validity for children and is conveyed in a tenderhearted. ..manner.'-- Book1ist.

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Published: Jul 1992

Love, Ruby Lavender

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 makes a new fri...

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Published: Mar 2005

I'll Always Love You

Hans Wilhelm

Illus. in full color. 'In this gentle, moving story, Elfie, a dachshund, andher special boy progress happily through life together. One morning Elfie doesnot wake up. The family grieves and buries her. The watercolor illustrations,ten...

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Published: Dec 1988

Rudi's Pond

Eve Bunting

The young narrator's best friend, Rudi, is very sick, and it's hard for her to understand. When Rudi dies, the narrator and the other children in school help to build a pond by the big knobby oak to remember him by. A hummingbird feed...

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Published: Oct 2004
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