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A Separate Peace

Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend Phineas were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school.

Bildungsromane, Boys, Death, fiction, Friendship

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Rooftop

Paul Volponi

Still reeling from seeing police shoot his unarmed cousin to death on the roof of a New York City housing project, seventeen-year-old Clay is dragged into the whirlwind of political manipulation that

African Americans, Death, Drug abuse, Family, Family life

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When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true l

Death, fiction, Grandmothers, Interpersonal relations, Love

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Hard Hit

Ann Warren Turner

A rising high school baseball star faces his most difficult challenge when his father is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Baseball, Cancer, Death, Fathers and sons, fiction

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Defining Dulcie

Paul Acampora

When sixteen-year-old Dulcie's father dies, her mother makes a decision to move them to California, where Dulcie makes an equally radical decision to steal her dad's old truck and head back home.

California, Death, Family, Family life, fiction

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Upstate

Kalisha Buckhanon

The story of a young couple in love and their struggle to maintain a relationship while the young man is incarcerated for a horrendous crime.

African American prisoners, African American women, Bildungsromans, Death, Epistolary fiction

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The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man the

1933-1945, Books and reading, Death, fiction, Germany

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Elsewhere

Gabrielle Zevin

After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live.".

Death, fiction, Future life

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Johnny Angel

Danielle Steel

Tragedy strikes the Peterson family when their seventeen-year-old son Johnny dies in a car accident, but in the days that follow the accident, Johnny appears to his mother and younger brother to offer

Death, fiction, Ghost stories, Mothers and sons, Psychological fiction

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All Rivers Flow to the Sea

Alison McGhee

After a car accident in the Adirondacks leaves her older sister Ivy brain-dead, seventeen-year-old Rose struggles with her grief and guilt as she slowly learns to let her sister go.

Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.), Death, fiction, Grief, Juvenile fiction

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