loss
— When her parents announce their divorce, twelve-year-old Kate runs away to the beach but realizes she needs her family—even if it's changing.
— A girl plants magical colorful flowers in her gray town that's been mourning a hurricane, transforming it from grief to hope despite the mayor's opposition.
— A 10-year-old recounts the day she had to put down Cody, her elderly pet rat, six months after losing his brother Spencer.
— A girl who knows every corner of her beloved childhood home must move across the country, discovering that home is defined by the people you love, not the house itself.
— A girl struggles for three years to answer her teacher's question about her future dreams, only finding an answer after the teacher's death.
— A girl's excitement about becoming a big sister turns to grief when her mother miscarries, teaching her about loss and the fragility of hope.
— A girl waits in a sweltering car while her mother fights with broken gas pumps, her stream-of-consciousness revealing the death of her brother Joel and her parents' bitter divorce.
— A foster child who lost her voice after trauma struggles to speak again, remembering the woman who silenced her years ago.
— A tree narrates its life from seed to death, surviving fire, drought, and bears, only to be felled when humans build too close to its trunk.
— A meditation on impermanence that moves from photographs and fireflies to wedding cake and stone statues, arguing that nothing can truly be preserved.