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TOPIC: Death, Grief and Loss

Books for Adults:

• What Happened
• to the World: Helping Children Cope in Turbulent Times, J. Greenman
• Up From Grief, Bernadine Kreis and Alice Pattie
• The Bereaved Parent, Harriet Sarnoff Schiff
• Good Grief, Sandra Fox
• Gentle Closings: How to Say Goodbye to Someone You Love, Ted Menton
• Learning to Say Goodbye when a Parent Dies, Eda Le Shan
• On Children and Death, Kubler-Ross
• Talking with Children About Death, Hedda Sharagan
• Necessary Losses, Judith Viorist

Books for Children:

• How Do I Feel When People Die? Sarah Levete
• You Hold Me and I’ll Hold You, Jo Carson
• The Saddest Time. Norman Simon
• Last Week My Brother Anthony Died, Martha Hickman
• Everett Anderson’s Goodbye , Lucille Clifton
• Grandpa’s Slide Show, Deborah Goul
• The Fall of Freddie The Leaf, Leo Buscalgia
• I Will Remember You, Laura Dower
• Terrible Thing Happened, Margaret Holmes
• Grandad Bill’s Song, Jane Yolen
• Fox Song, Joseph Bruchac
• The Way I Feel, Janan Cain

For both parents and children:

• Tear Soup ( a recipe for healing after loss) by Pat Schwiebert and Chuck DeKlyen

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Topic: Moving

Books for Children:

• The Leaving Morning, Angela Johnson
• What You Knew First , Patricia MacLachlen
  

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