JANET ALLEN is an international consultant recognized for her literacy work with at-risk students. She is the author of It's Never Too Late: Leading Adolescents to Lifelong Literacy, There's Room for Me Here: Literacy Workshop in the Middle School, Words, Words, Words: Teaching Vocabulary in Grades 4-12, and Yellow Brick Roads: Shared and Guided Paths to Independent Reading 4-12.

• Introduction Helping Teens Cope through Sharing Their Stories about Death Discovering Life in Death: Confronting AIDS-related End-of-Life Giving Words to the Grief: Using Two Moons in August, Saying It Out Loud, and Tiger Eyes to Explore the Death of a Parent Making Sense of Sibling Loss: Using A Summer to Die as a Guide through the Grief Journey Legacies of Our Lives: Exploring the Loss of a Grandparent with A Ring of Endless Light Pencils, Books and Guns: Violence Goes to School The Year Without Michael: Unresolved End-of-Life Issues Remembering the Good Times: Making a Life Memorable After Suicide Index

JANET ALLEN is an international consultant recognized for her literacy work with at-risk students. She is the author of It's Never Too Late: Leading Adolescents to Lifelong Literacy, There's Room for Me Here: Literacy Workshop in the Middle School, Words, Words, Words: Teaching Vocabulary in Grades 4-12, and Yellow Brick Roads: Shared and Guided Paths to Independent Reading 4-12.

• Introduction Helping Teens Cope through Sharing Their Stories about Death Discovering Life in Death: Confronting AIDS-related End-of-Life Giving Words to the Grief: Using Two Moons in August, Saying It Out Loud, and Tiger Eyes to Explore the Death of a Parent Making Sense of Sibling Loss: Using A Summer to Die as a Guide through the Grief Journey Legacies of Our Lives: Exploring the Loss of a Grandparent with A Ring of Endless Light Pencils, Books and Guns: Violence Goes to School The Year Without Michael: Unresolved End-of-Life Issues Remembering the Good Times: Making a Life Memorable After Suicide Index