Title: Dark Times
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.
Subjects: Children's fiction, Death, fiction, Loss (Psychology), Juvenile fiction, Teenagers and death, Children's stories, Canadian, Children's stories, Canadian (English), Perte (Psychologie), Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Adolescents et mort, Histoires pour enfants canadiennes-anglaises