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I Miss You Most
by Charlotte Cheng
Remembering her beloved grandpa and all the special moments they shared, a young girl realizes that even though he's gone, he will always be there for her, in this heartwarming, comforting picture book about coping with loss.
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Mama's Year With Cancer
by Nancy Churnin
This moving true story explores the impact of a parent's cancer diagnosis on a child's daily life as a young girl watches her mother go through the pain and distress of hospital stays, surgery and chemotherapy, and comes up with ways to help her on her recovery journey.
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Walking Grandma Home: A Story of Grief, Hope, and Healing
by Bo Flood
A child psychologist and counselor presents this touching and relatable story about a young boy's grief over losing his beloved grandma to help children better understand the emotions, language and concepts around losing a loved one.
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Loose Threads: A Story About Me, Mom, and Dad
by Airien Ludin
"Mom, Dad, and I have the happiest days together, full of delicious meals, arts and crafts, and goodnight hugs. One day, though, Mom gets sick. She will never get better. Like a ball of yarn, I unravel and get tangled up in my emotions. But when Dad and I talk about our sadness, the knots slowly loosen a bit. And in time, sharing our grief frees up some room for beautiful memories, old and new"
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Abuelo's Flower Shop
by Jackie Morera
Celebrating the beauty of intergenerational love while inspiring readers to find their own way of remembering loved ones no longer with us, this moving story follows Elena who learns how special her abuelo's flower shop is through the eyes of those who visit it.
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Drawn Onward
by Daniel Nayeri
This extraordinary and emotional palindrome picture book, in which a grieving young boy braves the dark forest to ask,“Mom, were you glad you were mom,” gently guides readers through the depth of grief and illuminates what remains when our loved ones are gone.
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Still Mine
by Jayne Pillemer
This comforting and reassuring picture book for anyone who has experienced the loss of a loved one shows how even though your heart hurts and you miss them, they are still there and yours to love, just in a different way.
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Zora, The Story Keeper
by Ebony Wilkins
"Creating a lifetime of memories with her Aunt Bea, a former actor who's the best storyteller she knows, Zora discovers she's to continue their family's legacy as the next story keeper when her aunt gets tired more quickly and needs Zora to tell the stories instead.
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Olive
by Edwina Wyatt
"Lilah's beloved cat dies and all she's left with is an olive tree to remember her by. Seasons pass and the tree grows but Lilah is too grief stricken to see its beauty and connection to Olive. Until, one day, in the safety of the tree's branches, and with the help of a stray cat, Lilah is ready to remember. When we open our hearts, love finds us"
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I'll Say Goodbye
by Pam Zollman
With the help of a pet hermit crab, a child finds a way to say goodbye to Uncle Mike after his death from cancer, in a gentle, evocatively illustrated story which addresses illness and loss from a child's perspective.
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Walking Backward
by Catherine Austen
Twelve-year-old Josh, his four-and-a-half-year-old brother Sammy, and his Dad struggle to find their own way to grieve his mother's death after she dies suddenly in an automobile accident but find that sharing memories and being close as a family is whatworks best
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Eb & Flow
by Kelly J. Baptist
In this emotional novel-in-verse, tweens De'Kari and Ebony are suspended after a fight for ten days, during which they learn to see the world with a fresh perspective.
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Call Me Adnan
by Reem Faruqi
Twelve-year-old Adnan dreams of making it to the Ultimate Table Tennis championship, but when tragedy strikes his family, Adnan loses his passion for table tennis and must learn to channel his grief and heal
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Glitter Gets Everywhere
by Yvette Clark
Relocating from London to New York City with her family in the aftermath of her mother's death, Kitty struggles to adjust to a different culture, before an unlikely friendship inspires alternate perspectives on how to keep her mother's memory alive
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Coyote Lost and Found
by Dan Gemeinhart
Embarking on an epic cross-country road trip to scatter her mom's ashes at her chosen resting place, Coyote and her dad have an unforgettable adventure, picking up some old friends and discovering some new ones along the way.
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The Alchemy Of Letting Go
by Amber Morrell
Two years after losing her sister, twelve-year-old Juniper wakes up from an accident with newfound abilities that allow her to blur the line between science and magic as she continues to cope with her grief
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Seven Clues To Home
by Gae Polisner
Dreading the arrival of her 13th birthday and the one-year anniversary of her best friend's senseless death, Joy opens a first clue to what used to be a shared annual birthday scavenger hunt and begins a grief-marked search for what might be the last message her friend ever wrote.
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The Trouble with Sunshineby Yamile Saied MâendezDorani's mom taught her to be bold, but after her mom dies, Dori loses her voice and moves to Wyoming where she befriends a horse, Sunshine, and is reminded that the best parts of her mother live on through her.
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Deep Water
by Jamie Sumner
"In this powerful middle-grade novel in verse, Tully Birch is determined to break the record for the youngest person to ever complete the famous 12-mile “Godfather swim” across Lake Tahoe in the hope that maybe her mom will come back.
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When Impossible Happens
by Jane de Suza
Not believing that her beloved grandmother, Pitter Paati, died of COVID, Swara searches for the answers with India in lockdown and stumbles upon a neighborhood mystery that helps her come to terms with the truth.
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The Shape Of Thunder
by Jasmine Warga
Estranged from the best friend whose brother killed her sister in a school shooting, a grieving Cora receives a message on her 12th birthday from her friend, asking for her help with creating a time portal to prevent the tragedy.
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Mid Air!
by Alicia Williams
"After their friend is killed in a hit-and-run, Isaiah and Drew find their friendship fading and Isaiah, desperate to keep them together, comes up with a plan, but when it backfires and something unspeakable happens, he wonders how much he can keep inside before he explodes.
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