"There are friends, I think, we can't imagine living without. People who are sisters to us, or brothers. Jimmy was one of those. I never thought I might have to go through life without him. I never thought he might be killed by a drunken driver or anything else. Who thinks about things like that when you're seventeen"" Thus begins Say Goodnight, Gracie, the debut novel of Julie Reece Deaver. The story of two best friends and how one must survive the grief of loss of the other, Say Goodnight, Gracie has become a standard text in grief therapy, as relevant to the lives and concerns of teens in 2000 as it was when first published in 1988. Writer and illustrator Deaver has gone on to author four more novels for young adults, most of them, as Deaver told Authors and Artists for Young Adults (AAYA), "dealing with everyday characters...