Dark Times
Publisher: Ronsdale Press
Published: September 28, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781553800286
Subjects: Fiction anthologies & collections; Fiction dealing with specific issues; Juvenile Fiction; Fiction - General; Children: Grades 4-6; Anthologies (multiple authors); Short Stories; Social Issues - Adolescence; Children's stories, Canadian (English); Loss (Psychology); Teenagers and death
Description: The stories develop highly contemporary a First Nations boy mourns the death of his mother; a girl copes with the loss of her grandmother to Alzheimer’s disease; a boyfriend’s death takes a girl through the five stages of grief; a destitute family loses their home; a daughter loses a parent when her mother leaves; a fetal alcohol syndrome child is lost to his family when he is sent to prison; a boy loses the brother he loves to mental illness; the death of a small child challenges a girl’s belief in God; and a young girl discovers her father in an affair and confronts him—with devastating results.