COPING WITH DEATH
| Call Number | Author | Title(Grade Level) |
| E | Aliki | The Two of Them (grandparent) (pre-2) |
| E | Bahr | If Nathan Were Here (friend) (K–5 ) |
| E | Barron | Where is Grandpa?(grandpa) (pre-3) |
| E | Breebaart | When I Die, Will I Get Better? (sibling)(K – 3) |
| E | Brown | The Dead Bird (general) (pre-3) |
| E | Bunting | Rudi’s Pond (friend) |
| E | Burrows | Grandma’s Purple Flowers (grandma) (pre-2) |
| E | Carson | You Hold Me and I'll Hold You (pre-2) |
| E | Clifton | Everett Anderson's Goodbye (dad) (K-3) |
| E | Cohen | Jim's Dog Muffins (pet) (pre-2) |
| E | Cooke | Grandad Tree (grandpa) (pre-3) |
| E | Coville | My Grandfather’s House (grandpa) (pre-3) |
| E | Demas | Saying Goodbye to Lulu (pet) (pre-3) |
| E | DePaola | Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs (grandma) (pre-3) |
| E | DiSalvo-Ryan | A Dog Like Jack (pet dog) (pre-3) |
| E | Durrant | Always & Forever (friend; animal) (pre-3) |
| E | Egger | Marianne's Grandmother (pre-2) |
| E | Engel | Eleanor, Arthur and Claire (grandparent) (pre-2) |
| E | Fox | Tough Boris (pet) (pre-3) |
| E | Fraustino | The Hickory Chair (grandma) (1-5) |
| E | Gerstein | Mountains of Tibet (life cycle) (2-5) |
| E | Goble | Beyond the Ridge (Native American tribal woman) (2-6) |
| E | Gould | Grandpa's Slide Show (pre-3) |
| E | Grifalconi | Kinda Blue (dad) (pre-2) |
| E | Harris | Goodbye Mousie (pet) (pre-3) |
| E | Henley | Gram’s Song (grandma) (pre –3) |
| E | Hickman | Last Week My Brother Anthony Died (brother) (pre-2) |
| E | Hogan | My Grandmother Died, But I Won’t Forget Her (pre-2) |
| E | Joose | Better with Two (pet) (pre-2) |
| E | Jordan | Losing Uncle Tim (AIDS) (K-3) |
| E | Keller | Goodbye Max (pet) (pre-1) |
| E | Kroll | Fireflies, Peach Pies & Lullabies (grandma) (pre-2) |
| E | Kroll |
Helen the Fish (pet) (pre-1) |
| E | Lyon | Ada’s Pal (pet dog) (pre-3) |
| E | Madenski | Some of the Pieces (dad) (K-3) |
| E | Rylant | Cat Heaven (cat pet) (pre-2) |
| E | Rylant | Dog Heaven (dog pet) (pre-2) |
| E | Scheller | My Grandfather's Hat (grandpa) (pre-3) |
| E | Schick | Mama (mom dying) |
| E | Shriver | What’s Heaven (great-grandma) (K-4) |
| E | Simon | The Saddest Time (relatives and classmate) (pre-3) |
| E | Smith | Janna & the Kings (grandpa) (pre-2) |
| E | Steiner | Whale Brother (Native American) (pre-3) |
| E | Turner | A Little Bit of Rob (older brother) (K-4) |
| E | Varley | Badger's Parting Gifts (friend) (K-3) |
| E | Vigna | Saying Goodbye to Daddy (pre-2) |
| E | Wahl | Grandfather's Laika (pet) (pre-3) |
| E | Wallace-Brodeur | Goodbye, Mitch (cat) (pre-4) |
| E | Wild | Old Pig (pre–2) |
| E | Wild | Toby (pet/put to sleep) |
| E | Wilhelm | I'll Always Love You (pet) (pre-2) |
| E | Woodson | Sweet, Sweet Memory (grandpa) (K-3) |
| E | Wright | Cat Next Door (grandma) (K-3) |
| E | Yolen | Grandad Bill's Song (grandpa) (K-3) |
| ER | Porte | Harry's Mom (K-3) |
| JB | Grollman | Shira: A Legacy of Courage (cancer) (3+) |
| JB | Adler | Daddy's Climbing Tree (5-7) |
| JB | Bunting | The Happy Funeral (grandpa) (K-3) |
| JB | Buscaglia | A Memory for Tino (elderly friend) (2+) |
| JB | Carrick | The Accident (pet) (K-3) |
| JB | Clardy | Dusty was my Friend (friend) (2-4) |
| JB | Coutant | First Snow (grandma) (K-3) |
| JB | Dragonwagon | Winter Holding Spring (mom) (2-5) |
| JB | Hazen | Why did Grandpa Die? (pre-2) |
| JB | Hermes | Nobody's Fault (sibling) (3-6) |
| JB | Jukes | Blackberries in the Dark (grandparent) (3-4) |
| JB | Kantrowitz | When Violet Died (pet) (K-2) |
| JB | Kubler-Ross | Remember the Secret (friend) (K-3) |
| JB | Marino | Eighty-eight Steps to September (sibling) (3-6) |
| JB | Miles | Annie and the Old One (grandma) (K-3) |
| JB | Newman | That Dog! (pet) (1-3) |
| JB | Park | Mick Harte Was Here (brother) (3-6) |
| JB | Paterson | Bridge to Terabithia (friend) (4-6) |
| JB | Polikoff | Life's a Funny Proposition, Horatio (father/pet) (4-6) |
| JB | Russell | Last Left Standing (older brother) (5-8) |
| JB | Rylant | Missing May (foster parent) (5th and up) |
| JB | Smith | A Taste of Blackberries (friend) (3-6) |
| JB | Stevens | Stories from a Snowy Meadow (animals) (2-5) |
| JB | Stilz | Kirsty's Kite (mom) (K-2) |
| JB | Thesman | Nothing Grows Here (father) (5-7) |
| JB | Updike | The Sounds of Summer (pet) |
| JB | Viorst | Tenth Good Thing about Barney (pet) (pre-3) |
| JB | Yumoto | The Friends (old man) |
| J 128.5 | Berry | Good Answers to Tough Questions about Death (pre-3) |
| J 128.5 | Buscaglia | Fall of Freddie the Leaf (pre-3) |
| J 155.9 | Mundy | Sad isn’t bad: a good grief guidebook for kids dealing with loss (3-5) |
| J 155.937 | Death | Death is Hard to Live With Teenagers talk about how they cope with loss |
| J 155.937 | Bernstein | Loss and How to Cope with It (5+) |
| J 155.937 | Brown | When Dinosaurs Die (pre-3) |
| J 155.937 | Cohn | I Had a Friend Named Peter (K-3) |
| J 155.937 | Fry | Part of Me Died Too (5th and up) |
| J 155.937 | Greenberg | Sunny: The Death of a Pet (pre-3) |
| J 155.937 | Hanson | The Next Place (3-5) |
| J 155.937 | Heegaard | Coping with Death and Grief (3-6) |
| J 155.937 | Johnson | Morgan’s Baby Sister (newborn death) (K-3) |
| J 155.937 | Knox | Death and Dying (5+) |
| J 155.937 | Krementz | How it Feels when a Parent Dies (4+) |
| J 155.937 | Rogers | When a Pet Dies (pre-1) |
| J 155.937 | Sanford | It Must Hurt a Lot (pet) (pre-3) |
| J 808.81 | Stopping For Death (poems) | |
| JR 028.52 | Dreyer | Bookfinder (4 volumes):A Guide to Children's Literature about the needs and problems of youth aged 2 and upSeparation and Loss is in volume 3 |
| YA Fic | Mahy | 24 Hours (suicide of friend) |
| YA Fic | Johnson | Looking for Red (death of brother) |
| NF155.937 (adult NF) | Schaefer | How do we tell the children? |
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