Dog Heaven: A Book of Hope for Children Who Have Lost Their Pet / A Visit to an Animal Paradise

A Horse Named Sky

Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

Emmaline and the Bunny

Secondhand Dogs

The One and Only Bob

Slog's Dad

Anna and the Cat Lady

We can't choose who we love - but can we choose to let go?

Stepsiblings Tressa and Luke have been close since they were little - and when they become teenagers, they slip from being best friends to being something more. Their relationship makes everyone around them uncomfortable, but they can't - won't - deny their connection. Nothing can keep them apart.

Not even death. Luke is killed in a horrible, tragic accident, and Tressa is suddenly and desperately alone. Unable to outrun the waves of grief and guilt and longing, she is haunted by thoughts of suicide. And then she is haunted by Luke himself.

He visits only at night. But when he's with her, it's almost like the accident never happened. Oh, there are reminders, from the way she can only feel him when he touches the scars on her wrist, to how she can't seem to tell him about life since he's been gone. As long as they're together, though, the rest - it fades away.

But during the day it is Tressa who can't grasp hold of the people around her. The same people who never wanted her and Luke together in the first place are determined to help her move on. Determined to help her heal. They just don't understand - one misstep, one inch forward, could leave Luke behind forever.

Nina de Gramont, author of Gossip of the Starlings and Every Little Thing in the World, writes of love that is beautiful and poetic, forbidden and radical - and utterly irresistible.

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Dog Heaven: A Book of Hope for Children Who Have Lost Their Pet / A Visit to an Animal Paradise

Agnesb Press, 2021

A Horse Named Sky

Kirbi Fagan, Rosanne Parry, 2023

Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, 2020

Emmaline and the Bunny

Katherine Hannigan, 2009

Secondhand Dogs

Carolyn Crimi, 2021

The One and Only Bob

Patricia Castelao, Applegate Katherine, 2020

Slog's Dad

David Almond, Dave McKean, 2010

Anna and the Cat Lady

Gretchen Will Mayo, Barbara M. Joosse, 1992