Juvenile & Young Adult / Social Situations / Death & Dying

Night Terrors

by Sean Rodman

Dylan struggles with the memories of the death of his younger brother while fighting for survival in a snow-bound resort.

Whatever Doesn't Kill You

by Elizabeth Wennick

When the man who murdered Jenna's father is released from prison, Jenna decides to confront him.

Record Breaker

by Robin Stevenson

In 1963, cataclysmic world events threaten to overwhelm Jack as his family tries to deal with the death of his baby sister.

The 39 Deaths of Adam Strand

by Gregory Galloway

Adam Strand isn’t depressed. He’s just bored. Disaffected. So he kills himself—39 times. No matter the method, Adam can’t seem to stay dead; he awakes after each suicide alive and physically unharmed,...

Mistle Child

by Ari Berk

Silas visits the ancestral home of the Umber family in this suspenseful and surreal contemporary ghost story, the second in the Undertaken trilogy.

Silas Umber has finally come into his own as the Undertaker...

A Hole in the Hedge

by Grace Casselman

An expert at fierce scowls, 12-year-old Kaitlin presents a tough face to the world. Still dealing with the loss of her mother to cancer, Kaitlin is less than kindly disposed to her stepmother and bratty half-sister....

Lovely, Dark and Deep

by Amy McNamara

A resonant debut novel about retreating from the world after losing everything—and the connections that force you to rejoin it.

Since the night of the crash, Wren Wells has been running away. Though she lived...

Lost on Brier Island

by Jo Ann Yhard

Fourteen-year-old Alex's life is in ruins. Her family ripped apart by unspeakable tragedy, she is stuck on Brier Island for the summer with her aunt. At first, Alex is desperate to escape this place where everyone's...

Lost on Brier Island

by Jo Ann Yhard

Fourteen-year-old Alex's life is in ruins. Her family ripped apart by unspeakable tragedy, she is stuck on Brier Island for the summer with her aunt. At first, Alex is desperate to escape this place where everyone's...

Fourmile

by Watt Key

Twelve-year-old Foster knows in his gut that Dax Ganey, the man dating his widowed mother, is a bad seed. Then a mysterious stranger arrives at their Alabama farm, a former Army Ranger in Iraq rambling across...

Lindsey Lost

by Suzanne Phillips

The Bourne Identity meets I Am the Cheese in this taut thriller

Even though Micah's a star pitcher, his older sister Lindsey is the real deal--a runner so good, she has a shot at the Olympics. The two of them...

Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone

by Jonathan Maberry

In the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where Benny Imura lives, every teenager must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations cut in half. Benny doesn’t want to apprentice as...

Personal Effects

by E.M. Kokie

Ever since his brother, T.J., was killed in Iraq, Matt feels like he's been sleepwalking through life - failing classes, getting into fights, and avoiding his dad's lectures about following in his brother's...

A Dog Called Homeless

by Sarah Lean

When Cally Fisher says she sees her dead mother, no one believes her. The only other living soul who sees Cally's mom is a mysterious wolfhound who always seems to be there when her mom appears. And when Cally...

Devine Intervention

by Martha Brockenbrough

There is a great legend of the guardian angel who traveled across time and space for the human girl he loved, slaying those who would threaten her with a gleaming sword made of heavenly light. This is not that...

A Certain October

by Angela Johnson

Three-time Coretta Scott King Award–winner Angela Johnson writes a wrenching, honest book about surviving the unimaginable and finding a way to go on.

Scotty compares herself to tofu: no flavor unless you add...

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

by Annabel Pitcher

My sister Rose lives on the mantelpiece. Well, some of her does. A collarbone, two ribs, a bit of skull, and a little toe.

To ten-year-old Jamie, his family has fallen apart because of the loss of someone he...

After Eli

by Rebecca Rupp

Some people die heroically, others accidentally. When Daniel Anderson's older brother dies, he wonders which category Eli's death falls into. In an attempt to understand, Danny creates a Book of the Dead - an...

Survive

by Alex Morel

Hatchet meets Lost in this modern-day adventure tale of one girl's reawakening

Jane is on a plane on her way home to Montclair, New Jersey, from a mental hospital. She is about to kill herself. Just before she...

If Only

by Carole Geithner

A stunning debut about one girl's journey through loss and grief. Corinna's world is crushed after her mother dies of cancer. How does she get through the funeral, trays of ziti, a father who can't communicate,...