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?

 

 

11/04

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