guilt

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guilt

Lessons from a dead girl

2009
After her former friend Leah dies in an accident, Laine remembers their troubled relationship, dating back to elementary school when Leah convinced Laine to "practice" in the closet with her, and controlled Laine's every thought.

A diamond in the desert

2013
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, thirteen-year-old Tetsu and his family are sent to the Gila River Relocation Center in Arizona where a fellow prisoner starts a baseball team, but when Tetsu's sister becomes ill and he feels responsible, he stops playing.

Chime

2012
Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about.

Paranoid Park

2008
A sixteen-year-old Portland, Oregon skateboarder, whose parents are going through a difficult divorce, is engulfed by guilt and confusion when he accidentally kills a security guard at a train yard.

The killer's cousin

2008
After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange young cousin Lily.

All-Star fever

2010
Bus Mercer, shortstop for the Peach Street Mudders, wants desperately to be picked for the county All-Star team, but he breaks his parents' rules for riding his new bike, and feelings of guilt affect his game.

Tangles

1993
When she takes money from her neighbor's wallet in order to buy a kitten, Sophie finds that she cannot live with the guilt.

Gone from these woods

2009
Feeling like a monstrous villain in one of his comic books, eleven-year-old Daniel tries to cope with the guilt after accidentally killing his beloved uncle while hunting in the woods of North Georgia.

Amy & Roger's epic detour

2011
After the death of her father, Amy, a high school student and Roger, a college freshman, set out on a carefully planned road trip from California to Connecticut, but wind up taking many detours, forcing Amy to face her worst fears and come to terms with her grief and guilt.

The killer's cousin

2009
After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange young cousin Lily.

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