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Author
Publisher
Random House
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Annie Brown, a fun-loving woman, suddenly dies, her husband, best friend, and her children all struggle to find ways to go on after the loss of the woman who was the center of their lives, and who made life happy, fun, and secure. Her husband is overwhelmed with four children to raise, and turns to his teenage daughter for help, and to an old girlfriend for solace. Annie's best friend struggles again with opioid addiction, having depended on...
Author
Publisher
Free Spirit Publishing, an imprint of Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When someone we love dies, we feel grief. You can feel grief in your body. It can feel like a color. Grief can be BIG or small. LOUD or quiet. And so many other things. What does your grief feel like?
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
199 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Dottie learns to navigate the odd spaces between grieving and everyday living when her newly widowed grandfather comes to stay with her family.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story In Melissa Broder's astounding new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California desert to escape a cloud of sorrow-both for her father in the ICU and a disabled husband whose illness is worsening. What the motel provides,...
Author
Series
The Tea Dragon Society volume 3
Publisher
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition,
Physical Desc
135 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
Over a year since being entrusted with Ginseng's care, Greta still can't chase away the cloud of mourning that hangs over the timid Tea Dragon. As she struggles to create something spectacular enough to impress a master blacksmith in search of an apprentice, she questions the true meaning of crafting, and the true meaning of caring for someone in grief. Meanwhile, Minette receives a surprise package from the monastery where she was once training to...
Author
Publisher
Harper Horizon
Physical Desc
ix, 262 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eight years after his news legend father died unexpectedly, the Emmy Award-winning journalist embarked on a three-plus-year odyssey across six continents to discover the world and, ultimately, find himself, providing a narrative of that journey and the emotional story of a young man taking charge of his life and finally grieving his larger-than-life father.
7) Cape
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press, a divsion of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A child dons a cape like a superhero on one of the hardest days of his life. It's the day of the funeral of someone he loved, someone he can't think about without hurting. So he uses his cape to block out the pictures and stories people share, turning away the memories that keep bubbling up. He won't think about them. He doesn't want to.
He takes his memories and blasts them to space. He buries them deep in the ocean. But even he, a superhero, cannot...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition, First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Paul Auster's brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner--phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor--has just forgotten on the stove. Baumgartner's life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals...
9) Dear Mothman
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After the death of his best friend and the only other trans boy at school, Noah starts writing letters expressing his feelings to the humanoid creature Mothman and risks everything when he treks into the woods to prove Mothman's existence.
Halfway through sixth grade, Noah's best friend and the only other trans boy in his school, Lewis, passes away in a car accident. Feeling lost and alone, Noah starts writing letters to Mothman, Lewis' favorite...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Confused and distraught after the death of his father, a boy opens an envelope his dad left behind and is surprised to find a map of the woods beyond their house, with one spot marked in bright red. The woods had been something they shared together. Why would his father want him to go alone?
The treasure trove he finds reveals something more for them to share, and some peace amid the grief. His dad knew what he really needed was a walk in the woods....
12) Maybe a Whale
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, an imprint of House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her grandpa dies, a girl and her mother take a kayak trip along the Pacific west coast to see the whales he loved. They paddle through white-tipped waves a calm coves, and catch glimpses of glowing moon jellies, fluttering anemones and slippery seals. All the while, the girl watches for whales. Could one be swimming beneath their kayak or along the shore of their camp? Are the whales even there?
When they set up camp for the night, the girl...
13) The Next Place
Author
Publisher
Waldman House Press, an imprint of TRISTAN Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Next Place is an inspirational journey of light and hope to a place where earthly hurts are left behind. An uncomplicated journey of awe and wonder to a destination without barriers.
Lose yourself in the uplifting sense of comfort and serenity. Embrace the joyful spirit of oneness. Then pour yourself into the lives of those you love.
The Next Place is, above all, a celebration of life. Hear the music. Feel the warmth. And be carried away along...
Author
Series
Mindy Kim volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover/paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
82 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mindy Kim wants to fit in at her new school, but her favorite lunch leads to scorn, then a thriving business, and finally big trouble.
15) Lolo's Light
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
220 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is a truth about growing up.
Once in your life, sometime after your first memory but before you can drive a car, something is going to happen to you that doesn't happen to anyone else you know. It might be something good. It might be something bad, or special, or funny, or shocking.
For Millie, it's something really sad. Lolo, her neighbors' infant daughter, dies--unexpectedly, suddenly, inexplicably--on the night Millie babysits.
There's...
16) Grandpa's Window
Author
Publisher
Flyaway Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Every window at the hospital faces dull, gray buildings--except the one in Grandpa's room. Grandpa can see the ocean every day! When Daria visits, she and Grandpa look out at the beach, hoping they will build sandcastles and fly kites together again.
This touching exploration of a child's experience of loss offers an unexpected ending, encouraging creativity and self-expression in the midst of grief.
17) Wake the bones
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The sleepy little farm that Laurel Early grew up on has awakened. The woods are shifting, the soil is dead under her hands, and her bone pile just stood up and walked away.
After dropping out of college, all she wanted was to resume her life as a tobacco hand and taxidermist and try not to think about the boy she can’t help but love. Instead, a devil from her past has returned to court her, as he did her late mother years earlier. Now, Laurel must...
18) No two persons
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"One book. Nine readers. Ten changed lives. New York Times bestselling author Erica Bauermeister's No Two Persons is "a gloriously original celebration of fiction, and the ways it deepens our lives." That was the beauty of books, wasn't it? They took you places you didn't know you needed to go... Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached, until a devastating event breaks her heart open,...
19) Spare
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow--and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling--and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is a landmark publication full...
20) Family meal
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, unexpected, and explosive. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he crashes back into the orbit of his former best friend, TJ, and TJ's family bakery. TJ's not sure how to navigate this changed Cam, impenetrably cool and self-destructing, or their charged estrangement. Can they find a way...