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