 | A Time Apart
Publication Date: September 1999| Age Level: 10 and up Without warning, Houston teenager Ginny Dorris is packed off to England to join her father in a university experiment--a re-creation of an Iron Age community--while her mother recovers from a serious illness. Ginny copes with unimaginably primitive living conditions and longs to go home, but gradually she is drawn into the community's life and discovers resources that neither she nor her father knew she had. This fast-paced yet thoughtfulcoming-of-age story is based on a real-life Iron Age experiment.2000 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA...
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 | Annie and the Old One
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 | Saying Good-bye to Uncle Joe; What to Expect When Someone You Love Dies (Life's Challenges)
Publication Date: August 1, 2011| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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 | Abuela de arriba, abuela de abajo/ Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs (El Barco De Vapor: Los Piratas/ the Steamboat: the Pirates) (Spanish Edition)
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 | Benjamin's Big Lesson
Publication Date: August 16, 2011Children need to understand that all creatures go through the cycle of life; however, they must be told in a soft and gentle manner. ...
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 | Peekaboo, Pearly Moon
Publication Date: May 25, 2004This gentle story of a child who shares a special song with her grandma helps children not only to bond with their grandparents but to understand and appropriately respond to the death of a loved one. (20040603) ...
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 | Windfall (Orca Currents)
Release Date: April 1, 2011| Grade Level: 5 and up...
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 | Stuck
Publication Date: March 1, 2011A paranormal novel in which an eleven-year-old girl-stuck in grief over her mother's death-helps a ghost who's stuck on earth until she finds her daughter. ...
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 | The Return of Rex and Ethel
Publication Date: April 1, 2000| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Pepper and Belle have grown up in two houses, side by side-neighbor girls. Their dogs, Rex and Ethel, have grown up in two doghouses, side by side-neighbor dogs. But Rex and Ethel are old, and when they reach the end of their dog lives, they leave behind their beloved girls. In the hearts of Pepper and Belle, however, the dogs never stray far, inspiring the girls to find a unique way to commemorate their much-loved and forever-missed pets. •From a recipient of the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Child...
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 | The Other Shepards
Publication Date: September 15, 1999| Age Level: 10 and up Teenage Holland and her younger sister Geneva, having always lived under the shadow of siblings who died before they were born, struggle to establish separate identities and escape from the oppressive weight of their parents' continuing grief. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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 | Sooner
Publication Date: May 1, 1998In her best-selling novel Bigger, Patricia Calvert followed young Tyler Bohanon on his moving and courageous trek to Texas in search of a father who never returned from the Civil War. Now, in this powerful sequel, we see Tyler and his new pup, Sooner, at home. Barely an adult himself, Tyler is forced to take on the duties of the man of the house. And in the postwar era, even the basic needs of farm life are in short supply. He and his family struggle to maintain their balance, building a new life without Papa, who, they learn from a surprise visitor, has died and...
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 | Assisted Suicide (Hot Topics)
Publication Date: August 1, 2011| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
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 | Seeing Zach
Publication Date: August 25, 1999It can be hard to lose a family pet. When Timmy's Golden Retriever, Zach, dies, his grandmother helps himto understand the continunity of love and godness -- and finding healing by putting this knowledge into practice.What he learns may help readers of any age address the challenge of losing a loved one. ...
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 | Saying Goodbye: A Special Farewell to Mama Nkwelle
Publication Date: April 1, 2001| Age Level: 5 and up Seen through the eyes of a small boy named Ikenna, here is a very special account of how a small Igbo community in Nigeria traditionally honours the dead. Ifeoma Onyefulu's thoughtful photographs and text offer not only a glimpse into Africa village life, but also a positive introduction to a difficult subject. Ikenna starts to feel different as soon as he puts on his new white clothes. His grown-up relatives keep an all-night wake, dancing and singing for Mama Nkwelle. On the big day a 21 gun salute is fired to begin the celebration. In M...
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 | Starry Nights
Publication Date: March 2003| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up Jess was happy when her family lived by the bay, but something is wrong with their new house. Since her family moved, her sister Vida has become wild and furious and believes in all kinds of strange magic. The children begin to suspect there's a ghost in the house. Jess's brother Clem says that he can see her. Too preoccupied and jumpy, he hasn't even unpacked. Their mother is lying sick in her bedroom upstairs and refuses to talk or come out, which is getting on Jess's nerves. The ghost is definitely starting to appe...
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 | Purple Love
Publication Date: August 1, 2001Purple Love is a beautifully written and illustrated bookabout life and love. Join Sarah and her mother as their walk through amagnificent meadow leads to a warm and inspiring conversation aboutlife, death and the power of love. Sarah is a child who embraces allthat life has to offer. She runs through the meadow to soar with theeagles. She discovers a family of bunnies and cries out indelight. When they realize that the bunnies' mother has died, Sarahand her mother have a loving and enlightening conversation about lifeand death. Sarah asks about her grandmothe...
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 | Stolen Words (American Girl)
Publication Date: September 2001| Age Level: 9 and up In her diary, eleven-year-old Robyn describes her family's visit to Austria, from the disastrous theft of their luggage to adventures in the countryside, while she tries to recover from the death of her Aunt Beth. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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 | Across the Grain (Aerial Fiction)
Publication Date: April 1, 1993| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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 | Wheels (Degrassi Junior High)
Publication Date: January 1, 1990| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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 | What If He Crawls Away?
Publication Date: April 20, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Enter the concealed world of a child's grief revealed through the curious, honest questions of a young girl who lost her baby brother to cancer.Find healing dialogue for processing illness, death and grief. ...
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