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"The death of a friend is a wrenching event for anyone at any age and can spark feelings that range from sadness to guilt to anxiety. Teenagers especially need help coping with grief and loss. This sensitive book answers questions grieving teens often have, like "How should I be acting?" "How long will this last?" and "What if I can't handle my grief on my own?" The book also addresses the complicated emotions that can accompany the death of an acquaintance,...
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Dottir Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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""She's in a better place now, " adults say again and again. But mortality doesn't seem better, it seems stupid. This forthright exploration of grief and mourning recognizes the anger, confusion, and fear that we feel about death. Necessary, beautiful, and ultimately reassuring, Death Is Stupid is an invaluable tool for discussing death, but also the possibilities for celebrating life and love. The Ordinary Terrible Things Series shows children who...
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Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Caterpillar crawls from leaf to leaf, eating and waiting, all alone in a big, green world. Then Orange appears--Orange floats, and flits, and flies, graceful and beautiful. In this sweet, moving story of intergenerational friendship, a small caterpillar is befriended by a glorious monarch butterfly, and together they learn to see the world through each other's eyes.
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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When we lose someone, we wish we could still see, feel, and hear them. Billy misses his mummy very much. He likes to imagine she is always around him, up in the clouds.
"Billy misses his mommy very much. She lives in the clouds. Some days when he and Daddy play in the garden, he knows that Mommy is letting the sun shine for them. But not all days are like that. Sometimes Mommy's clouds are dark, and Billy feels sad and alone. Written in collaboration...
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Thomson Gale
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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Presents full-text literary criticism on writers and illustrators for children and young adults. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, monographs, reviews, and scholarly papers.
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Anne Arundel County Public Library
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Grieving and Trauma
Social & Emotional Learning (ADULTS)
Social & Emotional Learning (KIDS)
Social & Emotional Learning (TEENS)
Social & Emotional Learning (ADULTS)
Social & Emotional Learning (KIDS)
Social & Emotional Learning (TEENS)
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Big Picture Press, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"We are all on Earth but for a fleeting moment, yet no two lives are the same. From the delicate mayfly, which lives for just a few precious hours, to the death-defying immortal jellyfish, this book about animal life cycles is a celebration of creatures big and small." --
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BrightPoint Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"COVID-19 is not the first pandemic to spread around the world. More than 500 million people became sick with the flu in 1918. The Black Death killed nearly one-third of Europe's population. Past Pandemics and COVID-19 examines how COVID-19 compares to widespread diseases of history"--
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Magination Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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A "tool for parents, caregivers, therapists, and teachers to help young children understand the concept of death and begin the process of coping with the loss"--Amazon.com.
Intended to be read to two- and three-year-old children to help them understand death and process the loss of a loved one. The 22-page text has a simple, reassuring text that can be personalized by the adult reader. Zucker includes an introduction of "How to use this book", and...
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"When someone you love dies, the grief rock shows up. Sometimes grief can feel like a heavy weight you are carrying around. It can be difficult to explain how you feel or know how you will cope carrying the grief rock around. This gentle story explores how grief is filled with all the love we have for someone who was important in our lives. Perfect to open up the conversation on difficult feelings, the book also includes a short guide for adults with...
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Amicus Illustrated
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Meet Peyton! She likes art and science. She also lost her brother to cancer. Peyton is real and so are her experiences. Learn about her life in this illustrated narrative nonfiction picture book for elementary students. Peyton sheds light on how she lived with her brother's sickness and then death, with the help of experienced children's author Mari Schuh. Peyton is not defined by her sadness grief, but she misses her sibling every day. Her story...
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1983]
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English
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"Lets us explain life and death in a sensitive, caring, beautiful way. Tells us about beginnings. And about endings. And about living in between. With large, wonderful illustrations, it tells about plants. About animals. About people. It tells that dying is as much a part of living as being born. It helps us to remember. It helps us to understand"--Publisher.
19) Golem
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Clarion Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
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A saintly rabbi miraculously brings to life a clay giant who helps him watch over the Jews of sixteenth-century Prague.
20) A last goodbye
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Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
Description
"This book explores the death of a loved one through the parallel experiences of other species of animals, similar to Elin's treatment of nature in You Are Stardust and problem-solving in Wild Ideas. As with Elin's previous picture books, A Last Goodbye will combine simple, poetic text with a "big idea"--in this case, the idea that death is a natural part of our lives and that many species experience sadness and mourning when their loved ones are...
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