Everything you need to understand or teach The Good Children by Kate Wilhelm.
With four young protagonists and a firstperson narrator, The Good Children marks a departure from Wilhelm's usual writing; it also combines elements of the horror and the mystery genres, and shows her expertise at telling a story that is both believable and fantastic. Four children have to cope with the death of their father and a public funeral. Then their mother dies and they honor her wishes and bury her body in their...