Declan O'Brien always had a gentle word to share, odd phrases he liked to repeat, and songs to sing while he played basketball. His favorite song was Dona Nobis Pacem, "Grant Us Peace." His family loved him deeply and always knew they were loved in return. But a terrible accident one day changes their lives forever, and Fiona and Finn O'Brien are left without a father. Their mother is at a loss. What words are there to guide them through such overwhelming...

A delinquent sixteen-year-old girl is sent to live with her uncle for the summer, only to learn that he is a Grim Reaper who wants to teach her the family business.

"A boy hears the voice of his sister calling him one day, a sister he's never met because she died before he was born. She's just a faded photograph on the wall. When little boy asks his mother what death is like, she tells him, "It's like dreaming, only bigger." But it's too hard to tell him more, even about the sister he never knew. Yet the boy, like most children, still has questions. And one night, in a wonderful dream, his sister comes to visit...

"When the strange new girl at her high school takes her to a place underneath the subways of New York, where people like them can go and find a home, Harriet Adu, who is riddled with guilt over her brother's death, gets a second chance at being a better person"--

Brie tries to cope with her grief over her older sister Faith's sudden death by trying to learn more about the religious "home group" Faith secretly joined and never talked about with Brie or her parents.

"Dealing with the death of her brother, teenager Scarlett Stiles joins a rock band and falls hard for the band's lead singer and local 'bad boy'"--

Overcome with guilt over her brother's death, a teenaged girl shifts between multiple universes in an attempt to find one in which he is alive.

"'Prominent Environmentalist and Oceanographer Die in Boating Accident' This is the headline that changes Henry and Eva's lives. Their parents, environmentalist William Billings and his oceanographer wife Margo, disappear mysteriously at sea. But for Henry and Eva, things are about to go from bad to worse. Their jerk-face uncle (nicknamed Claude the Clod) and his awful girlfriend (Terri the Terrible) have moved into their big house on the cliff to...