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Social Issues: Death / Suicide

TITLE & AUTHOR

SYNOPSIS

Blue Rapture*

BENNETT, J

A friend's suicide leads TJ to rethink both his motives and his actions in helping his learning-disabled but athletically gifted friend Tyrone through the college recruitment process.

Chinese Handcuffs

CRUTCHER, C

Dillion Hemingway must pick up the pieces of his own life after his brother's suicide, plus deal with girlfriend problems and peer pressure.

Everytime A Rainbow Dies

GARCIA, C

After witnessing a rape and interceding on the victim's behalf, 16-year-old Jamaican Thulani begins to move beyond his grief over his mother's death as he builds a relationship with the Haitian girl he helped.

Face At The Edge Of The World

BUNTING, E

Haunted by the suicide of his best friend, Charlie, Jed attempts to re-create his friend's last weeks and discover why Charlie took his own life.

Face In Every Window*

NOLAN, H

JP's safe and secure world unravels when his grandmother, his family's guiding hand, dies, leaving him with a mentally challenged father and a mother who retreats into adolescence.

Losing Absalom

PATE, A

Absalom Goodman worked all his life to build a home for his family. Now the neighborhood has changed for the worse, lifelong dreams have turned into bitter realities, and Absalom is dying of cancer.

Ordinary People

GUEST, J

An incisive, unsparing look at family politics among a father, a mother and a son in the wake of a family tragedy.

Phoenix Rising

GRANT, C

Helen's death at 18 from cancer shatters the lives of her parents and siblings, especially younger sister Jessie who tries to cope with her feelings of pain and confusion by reading pages from Helen's diary.

Place To Call Home

KOLLER, J

15-year-old biracial Anna tries to care for her 5-year-old sister and infant brother when her alcoholic mother disappears yet again. Anna discovers her mother's car in a nearby lake - evidence of her suicide.

Say Goodnight, Gracie*

DEAVER, J

Jimmy and Morgan, both 17, have been best friends since birth. Jimmy is killed by a drunken driver, and Morgan is left to deal with the grief accompanying a senseless tragedy.

Sudden Silence

BUNTING, E

Jesse Harmon knows he will never forget the night his brother, Bry, was killed by a hit-and-run driver. Striving to ease his grief, Jesse and Bry's girlfriend, Chloe, begin a search for the driver - and uncover other truths just as difficult and disturbing.

Tiger Eyes

BLUME, J

After Davey's father is killed in a hold-up, she and her mother and younger brother visit relatives in New Mexico. Here Davey is befriended by a young man who helps her find the strength to carry on and conquer her fears.

Timon's Tide*

BUTLER, C

Haunted by the thought that he may have been responsible for his older brother Timon's death six years earlier, 16-year-old Daniel struggles to come to terms with his own self-doubts, his new stepfamily, and the sudden reappearance of Timon in his life.

When Happily Ever After Ends*

MCDANIEL, L

Shannon knew her father had been troubled since he served in the Vietnam War, but his violent suicide still shocks her. Why wasn't her love enough to make him want to live? As Shannon and her mother try to make sense of his death, they courageously renew their commitment to living in the face of their loss.