24 hours by Margaret Mahy(2000)During his first twenty-four hours after finishing high school, seventeen-year-old Ellis unexpectedly becomes part of an inner-city world far different from his comfortable life, which helps deal with his best friend's recent suicide.
After by Francis Chalifour(2005)Fifteen-year-old Francis struggles to come to terms with his father's suicide.
Impulse by Ellen Hopkins(2007)Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevada's Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their lives.
Many stones by Carolyn Coman(2000)After her sister Laura is murdered in South Africa, Berry and her estranged father travel there to participate in the dedication of a memorial in her name.
No right turn by Terry Trueman(2005)After three years of wanting only to be invisible, sixteen-year-old Jordan begins to recover from his father's suicide and start living again when a neighbor's vintage Corvette Stingray opens up new possibilities for him.
A rose for Melinda by Lurlene McDaniel(2002)Letters, journal entries, e-mails, doctors' reports, and instant messages weave this heartbreaking story of an aspiring ballet dancer battling leukemia and the effect it has on her family and friends.
Saying it out loud : a novel by Joan Abelove(1999)With the help of her best friend, sixteen-year-old Mindy sorts through her relationships with her solicitous mother and her detached father as she tries to come to terms with the fact that her mother is dying from a brain tumor.
Stay with me by Garret Freymann-Weyr(2006)When her sister kills herself, sixteen-year-old Leila goes looking for a reason and, instead, discovers great love, her family's true history, and what her own place in it is.
Trigger by Susan Vaught(2006)Teenager Jersey Hatch must work through his extensive brain damage to figure out why he decided to shoot himself.
The truth about forever by Sarah Dessen(2004)The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief.
Under the wolf, under the dog by Adam Rapp(2004)Sixteen-year-old Steve struggles to make sense of his mother's terminal breast cancer and his brother's suicide.
