Young Adult Fiction - Social Themes - Death, Grief, Bereavement

NOW A NETFLIX FILM, STARRING ELLE FANNING AND JUSTICE SMITH! The New York Times bestselling love story about two teens who find each other while standing on the edge. Theodore Finch is fascinated by death. Every day he thinks of ways he might kill...

A "powerful, deftly told story of love and loss" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about a Korean American teen who agrees to accept money from her estranged father in exchange for letting him get to know her--for fans of Nina LaCour, Kathleen Glasgow, and All...

Self-styled "beautiful boy" Toby Ryerson dreams in stardust but lives in the dirt. Haunted by the specter of his mom's overdose, he itches for a life of fun and fabulosity far from his backwoods, Adirondack town. Toby knows his older brother Jimmy didn't sacrifice...

She has always known the rules: Never resurrect anything larger than the palm of her hand. But that was before her sister died. . . .The stunning hardcover of And the River Drags Her Down features gorgeous stenciled edges and a matching case stamp!...

The trade paperback edition of the highly buzzed about YA debut from Mark Oshiro, Anger Is a Gift follows a boy from Oakland as he falls in love amidst the chaos of modern America. *31st Annual Lammy Finalist for LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult category**2019 ALA...

Hay historias de amor que terminan... solo para quedarse grabadas para siempre.June Scott tiene diecisiete años y siempre ha soñado con escribir la más grande historia de amor jamás contada. Sin embargo, nunca ha estado enamorada y, cuando recibe una noticia devastadora, sabe que...

STARRED REVIEWS from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, SLJ, and The Horn Book!Franny and Sam are each other's entire world. So what do you do when your world ends? Frozen's Jennifer Lee and Lunar New Year Love Story's LeUyen Pham deliver a tour de force young...

STARRED REVIEWS from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, SLJ, and The Horn Book!Franny and Sam are each other's entire world. So what do you do when your world ends? Frozen's Jennifer Lee and Lunar New Year Love Story's LeUyen Pham deliver a tour de force young...

Iris, Gum, and Aidan are vacationing in Bad Creek, just like every summer. Except Iris's older sister, Glory, drowned in the lake last year, and Iris can't seem to move on; Gum is hiding his sexuality from his family while being viciously haunted by...

As violence continues in his community, a 13-year-old boy must make some difficult choices to set his life on another course. Bang! Guns really sound like that, you know. Bang! And people bleed from everywhere, and blood is redder than you think. And little...

Like Adam Silvera's They Both Die at the End and Colleen Hoover's It Ends with Us, Before I Fall raises thought-provoking questions about love, death, and how one person's life can affect so many others. With this stunning debut novel, New York Times bestselling...

After her mother's death, seventeen-year-old Willow Lane is left with questions no one in Blackwood Grove wants answered. The town insists the past should stay buried-but a coded note hidden among her mother's belongings says otherwise.Each message Willow deciphers leads her deeper into the...

A blizzard. An oath. A war outside and within. By the winter of 1916, World War I has ravaged the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Eighteen-year-old Renata Zamoyska, Polish countess and doctor-in-training, has lost everything to the Russian occupation: her family, her home, her fiancé. But with...

The Appalachian mountains are some of the oldest in the world. They say ancient magic runs through these rivers and valleys.Author: Olivia NealPublisher: RizePublished: 09/22/2025Pages: 329Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69dISBN: 9781963869323Audience: Young AdultReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2025About the AuthorOlivia Neal...

This moving and charged novel by Lurlene McDaniel, the bestselling author of inspirational fiction for young adults, presents ethical as well as moral dilemmas and explores the harsh reality of making a choice that, once made, can never be undone. Travis Morrison knows how...

Vilda takes life as it comes, talking for hours about everything and nothing with her best friend, Alma. It's never been a big deal to Vilda that her mother's side of the family is Sámi and her father's is Swedish, but as summer vacation...

"Wherever you are . . . I'm coming to get you. I'm going to bring you home."Chanda has been dreaming of civil war, lost children, and rivers of blood. Suddenly the dream is real. Rebel soldiers brutally attack her family's village and kidnap her...

"A fresh new voice, Abby White delivers the perfect dose of humor and heartbreak with her debut D.J. Rosenblum Becomes the G.O.A.T. Readers will root for D.J. as she navigates a new home, friends, even a crush, with such insight and truth. A standout...

Regresa Gilraen Eärfalas con un libro inédito, lacerante, en el que cada verso tiene el poder de convertirse en una sutura para quien ha sido herido. Entre sus páginas, podrás disfrutar de más de cincuenta ilustraciones anatómicas ideales para colorear mientras dejas ir todas...

**The Snapchat Original series, Denton's Deathdate, is here--check it out!** Get ready to die laughing: this is an outrageously funny ride through the last hours of a teenager's life as he searches for love, meaning, answers, and (just maybe) a way to live on....