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2) The scar
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
When his mother dies, a little boy is angry at his loss but does everything he can to hold onto the memory of her scent, her voice, and the special things she did for him, even as he tries to help his father and grandmother cope.
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (colour) ; 27 cm
Description
This book follows a child's hilarious, wildly inventive train of thought following the death of his grandfather and the discovery of his journal, in which his grandfather had jotted his thoughts about life after death and the ideal heaven.
4) Bear Island
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 x 25 cm
Description
Louise and her family are sad over the loss of their beloved dog, Charlie. "Life will not be the same," Louise says, as she visits a little island that Charlie loved. But on a visit to the island after Charlie's death, something strange happens: She meets a bear. At first, she's afraid, but soon she realizes that the bear is sad, too. As Louise visits more often, she realizes that getting over loss takes time. And just when she starts to feel better,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
In this reworking of the Buddhist parable, Stillwater, a giant panda, teaches Addy that the grief she feels for the loss of her kitten, is part of life and is shared by everybody.
8) Wintergirls
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
Author
Series
Aurora County trilogy volume 2
Description
Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.
Author
Series
All of us villains volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Every generation, seven families select a champion to compete in a tournament to the death for control of high magick--the most powerful resource in the world--but this year, a salacious tell-all book draws reporters, tourists, and government agents to Ilvernath to watch the bloody curse unfold and some of the champions are determined to thwart their destinies and rewrite their stories.
11) Fracture
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
After falling through the ice of a frozen lake and being resuscitated by her best friend Decker, seventeen-year-old Delaney begins experiencing a strange affinity for the dead and wonders whether she is predicting death or causing it.
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
After her grandfather's death, a young girl explores her Baba Bazorg's house. As the girl wanders through the house, almost idly, her Baba Bazorg's house stands in for the man himself, with each object she describes standing as a touchstone to a memory, and each memory serving as a window into the relationship between the child and her grandfather. As she looks through its rooms, the things she sees and the object she touches bring to life memories...
13) Little universes
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
480 pages
Description
Two sisters struggle with the secrets brought to light in the aftermath of their parents' sudden death.
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
4 sound discs (5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Resettled in the "Bomb City" with her mother and brother, Davey Wexler recovers from the shock of her father's death during a holdup of his 7-Eleven store in Atlantic City.
15) Grandma's gloves
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
When her grandmother, a devoted gardener, dies, a little girl inherits her gardening gloves and feels closer to her memory.
17) The good sister
Author
Formats
Description
When teenaged Sarah dies in a sudden and puzzling accident, sending her two sisters into a tailspin of grief and confusion, Sarah wakes up in the afterlife and must piece together how she got there.
Author
Series
If I stay volume 1
Formats
Description
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
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