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Still troubled by his older brother's violent suicide, eighteen-year-old Dillon becomes deeply involved in the terrible secret of his friend Jennifer, who feels she can tell no one what her stepfather is doing to her.

When Davey Wexler's father is killed in a holdup in Atlantic City, her mother moves Davey and her brother to Los Alamos to get away from the memories--but Davey is a girl frozen in fear and anger, until she meets an older boy called Wolf who can read her tiger eyes.

Suggests ways to deal with the grief and other emotions felt after the death of a loved one and to discover how to go on living.

"Austin, Texas, high school junior and talented runner Thea Soloman is still grieving after the murder of her cousin and best friend, Natalie. When Thea is invited to join a secret group called the Black Coats, she finds new meaning. Thea and her teammates are trained to take vengeance on men who have wronged women and gotten away with it, with the promise of exacting revenge of their own. Thea becomes consumed by the Black Coats and also finds love...

The author outlines strategic approaches to managing the physical aspects of grief and loss, explaining how painful emotions affect the body and how to develop beneficial coping and healing skills.

"Suffering loss and going through grief is a part of the human experience. There's not one of us who will skate through life without having to cope with losing someone close to us. But sometimes that loss is sudden and horrifying. How can someone possibly climb back out of that pit of grief? That's the question addressed in a new documentary called "Transforming Loss." In it, we meet six Michigan families who have managed to triumph, transform, and...

Defines loss and the many ways in which it affects teens and provides ideas to deal with loss.

Defines death as a part of life, looks at the grief process, and offers suggestions to teens on how to help friends deal with loss.

This text is a research-based text and emphasizes cultural factors that often significantly affect the adolescent coping with death. It provides considerable focus in each chapter on peer-reviewed research dealing with various topics.

Discusses death and fear of death, explains the emotions experienced when someone you know is killed, and gives strategies to cope with them.