Books To Help In Dealing With Grief And Loss

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Here are several books for children and adults to help in dealing with grief and loss.

For middle-grade and older readers
Fig Pudding - By Ralph Fletcher
Twelve-year-old Cliff, the oldest of six children, recalls the past year and the death of one brother.

Angel of Mercy - By Lurlene McDaniel
When Heather Barlow decides to board a hospital mercy ship to Africa after high school, she is filled with idealism. She's unprepared for what she discovers in Uganda-the disease, the famine, the misery. She meets Ian McCollum, a boy from Scotland, and the two fall in love. When Ian decides to take a dangerous excursion into a Sudanese refugee camp to rescue a dying baby, readers will know there's tear-jerking tragedy in store.

Angel of Hope - By Lurlene McDaniel
When Heather Barlow returns from Africa, she must deal with the death of a loved one and feels directionless.

The Girl Death Left Behind - By Lurlene McDaniel
Beth's world is torn apart when a car accident claims the lives of her entire family, and she is the only survivor. Deals with feelings of survivor guilt.

Voices of Silence - By Bel Mooney
Tells the story of Flora who lives in Communist Romania.

Forbidden City - By William Bell
The fictional diary of a Canadian teenager and his television cameraman father living through the Chinese student revolution of 1989 and its tragic climax in Tiananmen Square.

One Thousand Paper Cranes - By Takayuki Ishii
Takayuki Ishii's book takes us into the real world of Sadako Sasaki who died of leukemia years after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

Captain's Command - By Anna Myers
Gail knows that everything has changed when the telegram arrives stating that her father is missing in action.

Soldier Mom - By Alice Mead
When Jasmyn's mother, an army reservist, is called for active duty in the Persian Gulf crisis, the family has little time to prepare.

Adem's Cross - By Alice Mead
Kosovo, once a part of Yugoslavia, is populated mostly by Albanians like Adem and his family, who have been tortured and imprisoned (with some people being killed) by Serbian soldiers.

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town - By Kimberly Willis Holt
Thirteen-year-old Toby Wilson's heart gets broken twice. But when Zachary Beaver, "The World's Fattest Boy," comes to town as part of a traveling sideshow, Toby begins to realize that there might just be people who have it worse than him.

Carolina Autumn - By Carol Lynch Williams
For 14-year-old Carolina, change isn't easy. She cannot comprehend the deaths of her father and sister; her mother has grown distant; and her best friend seems determined to steal Carolina's boyfriend.

The Watson's Go To Birmingham - 1963 - By Christopher Paul Curtis
The year is 1963, and Byron Watson, a juvenile deliquent, is preparing to move to his grandmother's for the summer in the south, right into one of the coldest moments in America's history: the burning of the Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church with four little girls inside.

Books of comfort for younger children
Children's Book of Faith - By William Bennett
Timeless biblical stories are lovingly brought to a child's level in this read-aloud treasury.

I'll Always Love You - By Hans Wilhelm
In this gentle, moving story, Elfie, a dachshund, and her special boy progress happily through life together. Deals with the death of a pet.

After the Rain - By Norma Fox Mazer
At 15, Rachel is a worrier. But it takes a dying old man - her grandfather - who has never been easy for anyone to handle, to show Rachel she has very special abilities. With love and compassion, she reaches the heart of an old tyrant who has always been unreachable. And in so doing, she comes to a better understanding of her family, her friends and herself.

What Have You Lost? - by Naomi Shihab Nye
From 140 contemporary poets, many of whom have never been published, Nye gathers observations, ruminations and informal prose comments on the theme of loss.

Bluebird Summer - by Deborah Hopkinson
For Mags and Cody, summer has always meant long golden days with Gramps and Grandma at the farm on the ridge, where the wheat fields stretch to the horizon and bluebirds sing from the old wood fence. But now Grandma has died and Gramps is selling off his fields one by one, and the bluebirds - no longer at home in Grandma's abandoned garden of tangled weeds - are gone. How can Mags and Cody bring them back, bring everything back?