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

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

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

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
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