After Eli

This book deals with a really complicated subject for children: death. In After Eli, Daniel's brother has just been killed in Iraq and as sort of a treatment, Danny has made a book of the dead about different people who have died in various ways. Each chapter begins with the name of a person and the cause of death and Danny begins each chapter by explaining why he put that person in his book and how they relate to Eli. Through the course of the book, he tells us his memories with Eli and during the summer, he uses his two friends, Isabelle and Walter to help him not overcome, but eventually accept his brother's death. This is a very well-written book and I enjoyed it very much.