bereavement

After dropping out of college, nineteen-year-old Laurel Early returns to her uncle's tobacco farm, where she encounters a monster as well as her mother's ghost, and soon Laurel realizes that she must tap into her own innate magic to save everyone she loves.

"Iris opens her eyes to hard truths and the power of her voice when her father dies of AIDS in 1987"--Provided by the publisher.

Provides support and practical guidance for teenagers grieving the death of a friend, discussing the variety of feelings the experience can produce and how to handle them, whether it is wrong to have fun, what to do if friends start acting strangely, and how to find a counselor or therapist, and includes comments from teens and a directory of further resources.

"As a dog and his little girl go on their final walk together, he gets to experience the sights, smells, and wonders of this world one last time before peacefully passing on. But for such a good boy and his foreverfriend, that doesn't mean it's the end"--Provided by publisher.

In the summer Charlie and her grandmother dance in the light of the moon, and when Charlie returns to the city her grandmother assures her that when they are apart Charlie just needs to look at the moon, and they will be united together in its light, forever.

"While twelve-year-old Andi has suffered from anxiety attacks ever since her mother died ten months ago, Zora starting hurting herself whenever she feels out of control; they are both at Camp Harmony, an elite summer music camp, trying to deal with their problems and also the stress of competition--but as the summer passes they find themselves increasingly drawn to each other, and maybe not just as friends"--OCLC.

Three months after her mother's death, twelve-year-old Kela is still grieving and feels haunted by the last argument she had with her mother. But when Kela and her friend Lissy stumble across an ancient-looking comb in a coral cave, Kela finds herself coming face-to-face with the mermaid Ophidia. Ophidia's magic requires that she make a bargain with whoever finds her comb in exchange for a wish. Kela's greatest wish is for her mother to be alive again, but she soon learns this wish may come at much too high a cost.

The magic tree house is back with a message from Morgan le Fay telling Jack and Annie to seek out "The Gray Ghost" and listen to her story, and immediately they are whisked away to Nepal where they meet Tenzin, a climber who has recently lost his family, and who takes them up the mountain to meet a snow leopard and renew himself.

Set during WWII and told in alternating voices, Nellie, a young Oregonian and survivor of a balloon bomb sent over by the Japanese, strives to understand how the war has torn her community apart and created prejudice against Japanese-Americans, while across the ocean, as part of her nationalist duty, Tamiko helps create the balloon bombs, but in her struggle to survive hunger and starvation, Tamiko muddles her way through her anger against the United States for the war.

Erin hasn?t been able to set a single boundary with her charismatic but reckless college ex-boyfriend, Silas. When he asks her to bail him out of rehab?again?she knows she needs to cut him off. But days after he gets out, Silas turns up dead of an overdose in their hometown of Richmond, Virginia, and Erin?s world falls apart. Then a friend tells her about Ghost, a new drug that allows users to see the dead. Wanna get haunted? he asks. Grieving and desperate for closure with Silas, Erin agrees to a pill-popping ?s?ance.? But the drug has unfathomable side effects?and once you take it, you can never go back.