When Will I Stop Hurting?

When Will I Stop Hurting?
Author: Edward Myers
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2004
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780810849211

Self-help guide for teenagers struggling with bereavement. Provides an overview of grief as a painful but normal process. Offers insights from bereavement experts and practical suggestions for coping. Includes stories of personal experience from other teenagers.

Children and Grief

Children and Grief
Author: J. William Worden
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1996
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781572307469

Drawing upon extensive interviews and assessments of school-age children who have lost a parent to death, this book offers a richly textured portrait of the mourning process in children. The volume presents major findings from the Harvard Child Bereavement Study and places them in the context of previous research, providing insights on both the wide range of normal variation in children's experience of grief and the factors that put bereaved children at risk. The book also compares parentally bereaved children with those who have suffered loss of a sibling to death, or of a parent through divorce, exploring similarities and differences in these experiences of loss. A concluding section explores the clinical implications of the findings and includes a review of intervention models and activities, as well as a screening instrument designed to help identify high-risk bereaved children.

Sad Isn't Bad

Sad Isn't Bad
Author: Michaelene Mundy
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2014-09-02
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1497683033

Here is the book that Elf-help fans everywhere were asking for . . . a book to help children grieve in healthy ways. This friendly and loving guide is loaded with positive, life-affirming help to coping with loss as a child.

You Are Not Alone

You Are Not Alone
Author: Lynne B. Hughes
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780439585910

Offers teenagers an informative discussion on the pain of losing one's parent, providing techniques and guidance for learning to deal with the loss through the various stages of one's young life.

Sorry For Your Loss

Sorry For Your Loss
Author: Joanne Levy
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1459827090

Key Selling Points A young girl befriends a boy who hasn’t spoken since his parents were killed in a car accident. Sorry For Your Loss examines themes of grieving, friendship and the nature of family. This book shows a behind-the-scenes view of what happens after someone dies. The author's father runs a Jewish funeral home, which served as inspiration for the setting of the novel. The author has written several other middle-grade novels and has been nominated for the Red Maple Award and the Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Awards. This book has all the elements of an excellent middle-grade story: an unusual setting; diverse, relatable characters; and the perfect blend of humor and pathos. Free Discussion Guide available for download at orcabook.com.

The Miraculous

The Miraculous
Author: Jess Redman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2019-07-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0374309744

An Amazon Best Children's Book of 2019 In the tradition of heartwrenching and hopeful middle grade novels such as Bridge to Terabithia comes Jess Redman's stunning debut about a young boy who must regain his faith in miracles after a tragedy changes his world. Eleven-year-old Wunder Ellis is a miracologist. In a journal he calls The Miraculous, he records stories of the inexplicable and the extraordinary. And he believes every single one. But then his newborn sister dies, at only eight days old. If that can happen, then miracles can’t exist. So Wunder gets rid of The Miraculous. He stops believing. Then he meets Faye—a cape-wearing, outspoken girl with losses of her own. Together, they find an abandoned house by the cemetery and a mysterious old woman who just might be a witch. The old woman asks them for their help. She asks them to believe. And they go on a journey that leads to friendship, to adventure, to healing—and to miracles. The Miraculous is Jess Redman’s sparkling debut novel about facing grief, trusting the unknown, and finding brightness in the darkest moments. “A stunning story expressing the complexities and mysteries of love and death in all of its light and darkness. A beautifully rendered and meaningful read for young readers asking deep questions.” —Veera Hiranandani, Newbery Honor–winning author of The Night Diary “Exquisitely crafted, serious, yet woven through with wry humor, this story’s miracles are its fierce and tender characters. I loved this extraordinary debut.” —Leslie Connor, National Book Award Finalist author of The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle This title has common core connections

All Our Losses, All Our Griefs

All Our Losses, All Our Griefs
Author: Kenneth R. Mitchell
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1983-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664244934

Grief as a lifelong human experience is the scope of this absorbing book. Kenneth R. Mitchell and Herbert Anderson explore the multiple dimensions of the problem, including orgins of grief, loss throughout life, dynamics of grief, care for those who grieve, and the theology of grieving. This examination of the process of grief is enriched by vivid illustrations and case histories of individuals whose experiences the authors have shared.

Monkey Mind

Monkey Mind
Author: Daniel Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2013-06-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1439177317

Shares the author's personal experiences with anxiety, describing its painful coherence and absurdities while sharing the stories of other sufferers to illustrate anxiety's intellectual history and influence.

How It Feels When a Parent Dies

How It Feels When a Parent Dies
Author: Jill Krementz
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2012-05-23
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0307820300

INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS • For any child grieving a parent—eighteen children from ages 7-17 share their experiences and feelings about losing a parent.

Healing a Child's Grieving Heart

Healing a Child's Grieving Heart
Author: Alan D. Wolfelt
Publisher: Companion Press
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2001-04-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1617220426

A compassionate resource for friends, parents, relatives, teachers, volunteers, and caregivers, this series offers suggestions to help the grieving cope with the loss of a loved one. Often people do not know what to say—or what not to say—to someone they know who is mourning; this series teaches that the most important thing a person can do is listen, have compassion, be there for support, and do something helpful. This volume addresses what to expect from grieving young people, and how to provide safe outlets for children to express emotion. Included in each book are tested, sensitive ideas for “carpe diem” actions that people can take right this minute—while still remaining supportive and honoring the mourner’s loss.