Mindy learns to accept her mother’s death with the help of her best friend.

Lainey’s husband, Jay, lingers near death and she must draw on the resources of friends to help her cope with the possibility that he may die.

Ann recounts the final days of her friend’s life. Ruth, who is dying of breast cancer, is attended to by her friends, who put their lives on hold to make Ruth’s last days of life comfortable and filled with happy memories and joy.

Davie Wexler recovers from the shock of her father’s death during a hold-up of his 7-11 store.

A young man deals with his role in the death of a friend.

Jesse Harmon searches for the hit-and-run driver who killed his younger brother, Bry.

Overcome with guilt when he accidentally kills his best friend, Peter, an alcoholic teen, hides the body and then fantasizes that his friend is still alive, going so far as to impersonate him.

Clark, Robert. In the Deep Midwinter.

Richard MacEwan’s brother dies, leaving behind a letter that hints that he may have had an affair with Richard’s wife, and the lives of four people are forever altered.

Teens cope with their guilt after a prank results in the death of a young mother.

After her mother leaves home suddenly, Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother’s route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend, Phoebe, whose mother also left.

Morgan must find a way to cope after her best friend, Jimmy, dies in a car wreck.

The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington has an enormous affect on the life of his close friend, Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.

When Franklin’s girlfriend dies in a car wreck, he has trouble letting her go…so much so that he sees her appear to him regularly, and indulges in detailed memories of the time they spent together. Only when Rosemary’s grandmother is near death does he begin to realize how much Rosey is needed somewhere else.

Nye learns about relationships and death when fifteen year old Ezra, who was exposed to radiation during a leak at a nearby nucelar plant, comes to stay at her grandmother’s Vermont farmhouse.

Troubled by her sister’s death and her parents’ separation, Alfie makes friends with a college student named Kurt who helps her decide what she really believes about life, death, religion, and reason.

Samantha and Juliana tell their stories in alternating chapters after Juliana is diagnosed with cancer.

Joel spends the summer at the fair trying to deal with memories of Ashley, , the friend he loved and expected to have in his life always.

A boy trying to recover from his girlfriend’s death meets an unusual girl.

After graduating from a private high school, Annie comes to terms with the loss of her sister, who had been murdered two years earlier.

After the death of her beloved aunt who raised her, Summer and her uncle leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.

Twelve-year-old Nathan narrates a coming-of-age tale that juxtaposes his relationship with his father and the family farm with that of his rebellious older brother, Eric. The confrontational violence that undergirds the relationship between Pa and Eric has led to Mama's disappearance and eventual death, a tragedy that begins to dissipate only after Pa's niece Kitty comes to live on the farm. (Booklist).

Kathryn’s grief over her husband’s death in an airplane crash is complicated by increasing evidence that he led a mysterious double life.

When Nana is diagnosed with cancer, her friendship with Cady is challenged; Cady is unsure of who needs strength more—herself or her sick friend.