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Books > Children's & Educational > Life skills & personal awareness, general studies > Personal awareness: family, relationship & social issues > Suicide, death & bereavement
Zen and Xander are sisters--truly, madly, deeply sisters--and this
is their last summer together. They are surviving fine since their
mother's death. Except Zen keeps getting into fights and Xander is
spiraling into a vortex of dangerous parties. In the midst of the
chaos, Zen and Xander discover a mystery about their mother's past.
Sharing its secrets will be the bond that holds them together.
Horse Dreams is a coming-of-age novel about an eleven year old
lonely, latch-key girl, Izzy Carlucci, who dreams of horses and
riding lessons forbidden by her mother. Izzy does small odd jobs
for neighbors in her city apartment building, earning money for
lessons kept secret from her demanding mother. Running errands,
Izzy makes friends, in particular a mysterious old woman. From an
aging stallion and this elderly friend, Izzy learns horse skills,
people savvy and self reliance. When the stallion develops
pneumonia, Izzy cares for him day after day. Her dedication heals
the stallion and earns her mother's respect. As Izzy turns twelve,
her horse dreams help her find strength to appreciate her mother,
find new dreams and face the death of her wise old friend.
Cyan was named after a shade of blue, her artist mother's
favorite color. The color of the sea. Since her father's death last
year, she's felt just as mercurial and dark as her namesake, and
the distance between Cyan and her mother has grown as wide as an
ocean. Now they're returning to the island of Curacao in the
Caribbean, where her father's mysterious accident occurred, and
joining them will be Kammi--who may soon become a stepsister.
Haunted by the secrets of the past, Cyan will explore all the
depths of her blueness this summer, discovering the light, the
darkness, and the many shades in between that are within her--and
within us all.
From Lurlene McDaniel, the bestselling author of young adult
inspirational fiction, comes "Heart to Heart." This emotionally
charged novel explores loss, love, renewal, and the ways in which
these complex bonds within families and between friends are tested
at life's most challenging moments.
Elowyn Eden and Kassey Messechek are best friends. They share every
aspect of their lives. But one thing Elowyn has not yet shared with
Kassey is that she checked the organ donor box on her newly
acquired driver's license. Kassey only learns of this in a
startling and devastating way--when Elowyn's life-giving donor
wishes are about to be honored.
Arabeth St. Clair has not had the luck to have a best friend. Due
to her diseased heart, she's led a sheltered life. When Arabeth is
sixteen, she and her mother receive the call that will change their
lives--but they don't know to whom they should be forever grateful.
When the worlds of these three girls and their families intersect,
lives are changed in ways never imagined. Most especially, it is
Kassey who sees things differently, for she can keep alive the
memory of her dear friend by sharing the renewed life of another
teenage girl, while helping to ease the pain of the two families
involved and coming to terms with her own.
"From the Hardcover edition."
" When you piss off a bridge into a snowstorm, it feels like
you're connecting with eternal things. Paying homage to something
or someone. But who? The Druids? Walt Whitman? No, I pay homage to
one person only, my brother, my twin.
In life. In death.
Telemachus."
Since the death of his brother, Jonathan's been losing his grip
on reality. Last year's Best Young Poet and gifted guitarist is now
Taft High School's resident tortured artist, when he bothers to
show up. He's on track to repeat eleventh grade, but his English
teacher, his principal, and his crew of Thicks (who refuse to be
seniors without him) won't sit back and let him fail.
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Wil is desperate for his older brother to come back from the dead.
But the thing about zombies is . . they don't exactly make the best
siblings. Thirteen-year-old Wil Lowenstein copes with his brother's
death by focusing on Zombie Tag, a mafia/
capture the flag hybrid game where he and his friends fight off
brain-eating zombies with their mothers' spatulas. What Wil doesn't
tell anybody is that if he could bring his dead brother back as a
zombie, he would in a heartbeat. But when Wil finds a way to summon
all the dead within five miles, he's surprised to discover that his
back-from-the-dead brother is emotionless and distant. In her first
novel for younger readers, Moskowitz offers a funny and heartfelt
look at how one boy deals with change, loss, and the complicated
relationship between brothers.
Ever since his dad died in a shock accident, thirteen-year-old
Gabe's world has been turned upside-down and back to front.
Literally: Gabe has discovered the ability to tell stories which
take him into the past, or imagine an impossible version of the
present or future that seems as real as real. Gabe has no clue what
is going on. But the answers may lie with his mysterious uncle
Jesse, an online game called Small Town Hero which seems to mirror
Gabe's own life, a long-lost grandmother, and the very fabric of
time and the universe.
Amanda is an eight year old girl. Her Dad died a little while ago.
She misses him so much. A new girl comes to her school and tells
her about Angels and says everyone has their own special Angel who
looks out for them. Amanda wants so much to believe in Angels and
tries to find out about them. She believes if she had an Angel she
would not miss her Dad so much. She finds her answer in a
surprising way.
In a high-tech, high-security world where bioterrorism threatens to
cripple the ecosystem, magic is the last thing on anyone's mind.
Something bad is happening to the world. Trees are dying. Cancer is
on the rise and becoming more aggressive. When Kelsa's father dies
of the disease, science offers no answers. Then, fifteen-year-old
Kelsa meets the most beautiful boy she's ever seen. But he's also
very strange. Claiming to be a mythological Raven, he goes on about
magic, impending ecological disaster, and his need for Kelsa's help
to save the world.
Maybe he's crazy. But what if he's telling the truth?
Isabel's mother died peacefully. At least that's what Isabel likes
to think since no one in her family will talk about the truth. But
in spite of their avoidance, in spite of their brave faces, the
truth has a way of revealing itself at night, in her family's
behavior. Her father sleeps curled up on the floor right where
Mama's body was found. Olivia wets her bed and wakes repeatedly
from nightmares, and Frank has started carving his anger into his
bedroom wall. It's up to Isabel to help her family get beyond the
pain and loss--to be the keeper of the night. But who will help
Isabel?
"Suicide: Global Suicide Trends; Policies to Address Suicide;
Political, Social, and Economic Factors Contributing to Suicide;
Suicide As an Act of Terrorism"--
When a baby dies one of the first concerns a parent has is the
impact this loss has on their young living children. It is
difficult to know what to say or how to talk about the death of a
long-awaited sibling. Ethan's Butterflies provides a way for
parents and professionals to connect with young children who
experience the loss of a sibling. This story is written from a
young child's perspective and told by a pink elephant named Emma.
Emma describes her deep sadness, anger and fears and poses many
questions that children often raise. Emma shows how she and her
family learn to live with the loss her baby brother Ethan and how
they continue to connect with him in many ways, one of which is a
butterfly and another is love.
Net proceeds from the sale of this book will go to bereavement
charities, research and education.
SPECIAL OFFER -- Hospitals, Charities and Non-Profit
Organizations will receive a 36% Discount on "Ethan's Butterflies"
when ten or more books are ordered. Please indicate what
organization you are from and request the discount when you place
your order.
The stories for this book originated when her children began asking
her what happened when people left this life and passed on to
another one. Christine realised that many children did not
understand death, or how life could continue after the death of the
physical body. This book is written for the purpose of removing any
fear that may arise, and showing children that their loved ones
continue to live in the after-life, in the spiritual world.
Calder is a Fetch, a death escort, the first of his kind to step
from Heaven back to Earth. The first to fall in love with a mortal
girl. But when he climbs backwards out of that Death Scene, into
the chaos of the Russian Revolution, he tears a wound in the ghost
realm, where the spirits begin a revolution of their own.
The first in a trilogy. Get out your tape recorders, crystals,
and extra batteries-- you're about to go where our world meets the
spirit world.
Psychic Kids, Paranormal State, Haunting Evidence--these and
countless other television shows are making believers out of
millions of people: Ghosts exist, and they're living right beside
us. For centuries, individuals have been trying to prove the
existence of ghosts. But without hard evidence, it's been difficult
to make the case. But now as science and technology have
progressed, ghost hunters have been able to use scientific means,
along with more traditional psychic tools, to make their case.
Photographs, video recordings, and sound recordings are all
producing some amazing results.
In this new series, Ghost Huntress, meet Kendall Moorehead, a
seemingly typical teen. When her family moves from Chicago to the
small historical town of Radisson, Georgia, her psychic abilities
awaken. She's hearing, feeling, and seeing things that seem
unbelievable at first, but with the help of the town psychic,
Kendall is able to come to terms with her newly emerging gift. So,
together with her new BFF, Celia, Kendall forms a ghost hunting
team. They've got all the latest technology. They've got Kendall
for their psychic. Now they're going to clean up Radisson of its
less savory spirits.
The story is fiction. The science is real. Welcome to a new
reality.
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