Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Death and grief
Random House USA Inc Kathleen Glasgow ThreeBook Boxed Set
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£29.72
Random House USA Inc See You on Venus
Book SynopsisThe runaway romance soon to be a major motion picture starring Virginia Gardner and Alex Aiono! Two star-crossed teens embark on a journey to Spain to discover the meaning of love, death and everything in between. Mia has had a heart condition her whole life. She's not afraid of dying but something has always stopped her from her biggest fear: tracking down her biological mother in Spain...until now. Before her next surgery, Mia wants to meet the woman who gave her away once and for all. Kyle has always been the life of the party...that was until the car accident that killed his best friend. Since then he's been reeling with guilt and willing to do just about anything to escape his reality. After a twist of fate, Mia and Kyle meet and make the decision to travel to Spain together in search of answers they both desperately need to mend their broken hearts...but did the universe bind them together to change how th
£10.44
Random House USA Inc See You on Venus
Book SynopsisThe runaway romance soon to be a major motion picture starring Virginia Gardner and Alex Aiono! Two star-crossed teens embark on a journey to Spain to discover the meaning of love, death and everything in between. Mia has had a heart condition her whole life. She's not afraid of dying but something has always stopped her from her biggest fear: tracking down her biological mother in Spain...until now. Before her next surgery, Mia wants to meet the woman who gave her away once and for all. Kyle has always been the life of the party...that was until the car accident that killed his best friend. Since then he's been reeling with guilt and willing to do just about anything to escape his reality. After a twist of fate, Mia and Kyle meet and make the decision to travel to Spain together in search of answers they both desperately need to mend their broken hearts...but did the universe bind them together to change how th
£15.99
Random House USA Inc Her Dark Wings
Book SynopsisIn this powerful, passionate reimagining of the Persephone myth for fans of Lore Olympus and Melissa Albert, two former best friends--split apart by betrayal--find themselves reunited in the Underworld. But will either one make it out, or will the darkness that's growing in each of them consume them whole?For all of Corey’s life, it’s been Bree and Corey, Corey and Bree. Best friends, the girls are inseparable—until a devastating betrayal leaves Corey shattered and alone. Corey is sure nothing could hurt more, until Bree suddenly dies. Now Corey is heartbroken and furious. How can she mourn her one-time friend when she is still so angry at her? Yet Corey and Bree’s tale is far from finished. When Corey accidentally catches a glimpse of Bree’s spirit passing into the afterlife, she finds herself face to face with a god pulled from the darkest myths of her girlhood: Hades, lord of the dead.Turns out, the legends are
£11.69
Random House USA Inc Together We Remember
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£13.59
Turtleback Books All the Bright Places
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£20.33
Turtleback Books Thing about Jellyfish
£18.15
Turtleback Books When Dinosaurs Die A Guide to Understanding Death
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£18.16
Mountain Stars Press Love Is Forever
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£14.36
Inmotion Productions Pty Ltd Ahea au kite ano ai i taku Koro
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£18.36
HarperCollins Badgers Parting Gifts
Book SynopsisThe gentle message holds particular validity for children and is conveyed in a tenderhearted manner. —Booklist“Warm and sensitive.” —Publishers WeeklyAll the woodland creatures—Mole, Frog, Fox, and Rabbit—love old Badger, who is their confidante, advisor, and friend. When he dies, they are overwhelmed by their loss. Then they begin to remember and treasure the memories he left them.Told simply, directly, and honestly, this uplifting story will be of tremendous value to both children and their parents. A gentle classic that can help foster communication, care, and understanding.
£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Badgers Parting Gifts
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£7.99
Simon & Schuster Tears of a Tiger 1 Hazelwood High Trilogy
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£12.95
Simon & Schuster River Boy
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£8.54
Aladdin Paperbacks The One Left Behind
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£8.09
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers A Certain October
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£13.59
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers A Certain October
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£9.89
Simon & Schuster Goodbye Mousie
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPublishers Weekly, starred review Immensely reassuring.Kirkus Reviews Not since The Truth About Barney has there been such an affecting and satisfying story about the death of a pet.New York Times Book Review Harris writes clearly and matter-of-factly about death.School Library Journal An excellent choice to help young readers deal with loss.
£10.19
Putnam Publishing Group,U.S. Last Summer with Maizon
Book SynopsisMargaret loves her parents and hanging out with her best friend, Maizon. Then it happens, like a one-two punch, during the summer she turns eleven: first, Margaret's father dies of a heart attack, and then Maizon is accepted at an expensive boarding school, far away from the city they call home. For the first time in her life, Margaret has to turn to someone who isn't Maizon, who doesn't know her heart and her dreams. . . . Ms. Woodson writes with a sure understanding of the thoughts of young people, offering a poetic, eloquent narrative that is not simply a story of nearly adolescent children, but a mature exploration of grown-up issues: death, racism, independence, the nurturing of the gifted black child and, most important, self-discovery.(The New York Times)
£7.59
Scholastic Finn Jones Was Here
Book SynopsisAt Finn's funeral, grieving best friend Eric receives a message frombeyond the grave - and it must be because this is Finn's biggestprank ever, faking his own death! As Eric follows Finn's crypticinstructions for various challenges, he goes down memory laneand through a scavenger hunt that will change him for ever.
£7.59
Scholastic My Tree PB
Book SynopsisBeautifully told and stunningly illustrated, My Tree is a story aboutthe joy and adventure of life, the dark clouds that sometimeshang over us, and how endings can also be new beginnings. An uplifting and reassuring picture book filled with hope.
£7.59
Frances Lincoln Children's Books Adnan
Book SynopsisAdnan is the heartwarming story of a refugee boy’s attempts to heal his mother’s mental health issues with the power of his creativity as they rebuild their lives in their new home. Sometimes, when something sad happens, people can push it so far down because it hurts too much. That’s why Mummy doesn’t remember. This touching and sensitively told children's book is a story about a boy and his mother, about trauma and recovery, and how to deal with the challenges of mental health. It tells the story of an imaginative ten-year-old Syrian refugee boy who flees his home country with his mother. Now settled in the UK, he must use all his creativity to break through his mother’s PTSD or risk losing her forever. The book is based on a short film of the same name, which has collected multiple awards and made Official Selection at its first Oscar q
£7.59
Quarto Publishing PLC The HareShaped Hole
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£14.24
Frances Lincoln Ltd Antoine de SaintExupéry
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£12.67
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Anatomía de Una Inadaptada
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£8.99
Lutterworth Press Johns Book
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£19.80
Tundra Books Funeral Songs for Dying Girls
Book SynopsisAfter inadvertently starting rumors of a haunted cemetery, a teen befriends a ghost in this brand-new young adult novel exploring grief and belonging by the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of The Marrow Thieves series.Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium, all her life, close to her mother's grave. With her sixteenth birthday only days away, Winifred has settled into a lazy summer schedule, lugging her obese Chihuahua around the grounds in a squeaky red wagon to visit the neglected gravesides and nursing a serious crush on her best friend, Jack.Her habit of wandering the graveyard at all hours has started a rumor that Winterson Cemetery might be haunted. It’s welcome news since the crematorium is on the verge of closure and her father’s job is being outsourced. Now that the ghost tours have started, Winifred just might be able to save her father’s job and the only home she’s ever known, not to mention being able to stay close to where her mother is buried. All she has to do is get help from her con-artist cousin to keep up the rouse and somehow manage to stop her father from believing his wife has returned from the grave. But when Phil, an actual ghost of a teen girl who lived and died in the ravine next to the cemetery, starts showing up, Winifred begins to question everything she believes about life, love and death. Especially love.
£15.29
Puffin Books Red Fox Road
Book SynopsisA thirteen-year-old girl on a family vacation becomes stranded alone in the wilderness when the family's GPS leads them astray. A compelling survival story for ages 10 to 14, for fans of Hatchet and The Skeleton Tree.Francie and her parents are on a spring road trip: driving from British Columbia, Canada, to hike in the Grand Canyon. When a shortcut leads them down an old logging road, disaster strikes. Their truck hits a rock and wipes out the oil pan. They are stuck in the middle of nowhere. Francie can't help feeling a little excited -- she'd often imagined how she'd survive if she got stranded in the bush, and now here they are. But will her survival skills -- building fires, gathering dandelion leaves and fir needles for tea -- be enough when hours stretch into days?
£14.44
Puffin Books Red Fox Road
Book SynopsisA thirteen-year-old girl on a family vacation becomes stranded alone in the wilderness when the family''s GPS leads them astray. A compelling survival story for ages 10 to 14, for fans of Hatchet and The Skeleton Tree.Francie and her parents are on a spring road trip: driving from British Columbia, Canada, to hike in the Grand Canyon. When a shortcut leads them down an old logging road, disaster strikes. Their truck hits a rock and wipes out the oil pan. They are stuck in the middle of nowhere. Francie can''t help feeling a little excited -- she''d often imagined how she''d survive if she got stranded in the bush, and now here they are. But will her survival skills -- building fires, gathering dandelion leaves and fir needles for tea -- be enough when hours stretch into days?
£8.54
Tundra Books Green Mountain Academy
Book SynopsisA daring rescue in the middle of a snowstorm in this compelling Red Fox Road companion survival story for ages 10 to 14, for fans of Hatchet and The Skeleton Tree.After a family trip turned disastrous when their truck broke down in the middle of an old logging road in Oregon, Francie is now back in British Columbia. People try to make things as normal as possible for her, but they don't understand that trying to be normal in your old life that's exploded is the worst feeling in the world. Luckily for Francie, the wilderness is still soothing, and an opportunity to attend the Green Mountain Academy, a tiny boarding school perched on the side of a mountain, seems perfect. It's a new start, with new friends and a chance at a new family. But when a winter storm hits, knocking out all the power, news that a small plane has gone missing unsettles Francie. Knowing that the chance of survival in the middle of a wild nighttime snowstorm diminishes over time,
£8.54
Tundra Books A Garden of Creatures
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£16.14
Tundra Books A Green Velvet Secret
Book SynopsisLetters from beyond the grave and a green velvet dress reveal a secret about Yardley''s beloved grandmother; for fans of The Parker Inheritance and The List of Things That Will Not Change and ages 10 and up.It''s always hard to lose a friend, but for Yardley O''Hanlon it''s devastating. Her best friend is her wild and wonderful grandmother Gidge. They''re two fashionable peas in a quirky little pod. They spend all their time together sewing and crafting and creating beautiful things — until Gidge dies, and Yardley loses her for good.Or does she?Yardley isn''t convinced. Gidge was a big believer in reincarnation. She promised she''d never leave Yardley, and Gidge always kept her promises. So when a stylish older woman walks into the Over Easy Vintage Emporium where Yardley is helping out, Yardley is sure it''s her grandmother, back from the dead. But her happiness doesn''t last long, as the woman runs away in terror and no one else beli
£15.29
DK Lost in the Clouds
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An aid for grieving families." – Booklist
£14.44
DK Te Echaré de Menos Lost in the Clouds
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£14.44
SPCK Publishing Are You Sad Little Bear
Book SynopsisLittle Bear sees the patterns of living and dying in the natural world and learns to accept themTrade Review"Utterly disarming, and handsomely produced" -- Kevin Crossley-Holland"Gently philosophical and full of autumn colour... lyrical in both text and illustration" -- Books for Keeps
£7.59
Little, Brown & Company The Lost Things Club
Book SynopsisFans of Rebecca Stead and Lynda Mullaly Hunt will embrace this heartwarming story about the effects of grief, the power of friendship, and learning that sometimes not all lost things are meant to be found.When twelve-year-old Leah goes to spend the summer in Chicago with her little cousin TJ, she''s shocked to discover that he''s gone mute after surviving a school shooting. She knows there isn''t a right way to deal with his pain, but when she learns that he''s sneaking out to visit a laundromat at night, it seems all wrong.Determined to discover why the laundromat brings her cousin to life, Leah and her new friend Violet follow him, unwittingly falling into an imaginary world called The Land of Lost Things, home to the socks and coins and buttons that disappear in the dryer. And when TJ hears about the wonders beyond the portal in the back of the dryer, he actually speaks!Eager to keep him talking, Leah and her new friends populate the world with characters, performing elaborate puppe
£6.99
Amazon Publishing Goodbye Sheepie
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£12.34
Candlewick Press,U.S. All Rivers Flow to the Sea
Book SynopsisWhen a car accident leaves a teenage girl in a coma, her surviving sister struggles with grief and guilt as she faces the inevitability of moving on — and letting go.To seventeen-year-old Rose, it seems it keeps happening — that car crash on a mountain road, her older sister, Ivy, behind the wheel, the same Ivy who is now in a coma with only the WISHHH of a respirator keeping her alive. Mom refuses to believe that Ivy is gone and won't even visit, spending her days at the brewing factory and her nights in the mindless weaving of potholders or folding of paper cranes. It's up to Rose and family friend William T. to make the daily vigil to Ivy's bedside, where Rose reads aloud from a book on the sudden destruction of ancient Pompeii. More and more, she has the frightening sense that there are rivers inside her threatening to overflow their banks. In an effort to feel something — anything — else, she takes to meeting a series of boys at the gorge whi
£13.59
Candlewick Press,U.S. Following Grandfather
Book SynopsisInvisible to humans exists a parallel world of mice, where young Jenny misses her cherished grandfather so much that she begins to see him everywhere.Jenny is as close to her grandfather as a small mouse can be. Grandfather shows Jenny how to button her buttons and how to write her name. He passes along to her the secrets of making the best lasagna in all of Boston. And during long, shared days at Revere Beach, Grandfather teaches Jenny the names of the seashells they find washed up on shore. When Grandfather is all of a sudden gone one day, the hole he leaves behind is too great for Jenny to fathom. Isn’t that him turning a corner, sitting on a bench, heading for the pier, walking along their beloved beach? Jenny runs after the familiar silver whiskers, hoping. . . . Rosemary Wells peels back the layers of grief to reveal, at its core, something as exquisite and achingly beautiful as the rare and storied queen’s teacup seashell. Christopher Denise illustrate
£11.24
Candlewick Press,U.S. Mimi
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£13.59
Candlewick Press,U.S. A Monster Calls
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£19.54
Candlewick Press,U.S. Toppling
Book SynopsisNow that John’s best friend is sick, hanging out with his pals isn’t the same. But what can they do? A kid-friendly story of silliness, sadness, and solidarity.John lives for that satisfying clink of dominoes as they topple in a perfectly timed rhythm of his own design. His sister thinks he’s a dork, but all he cares about is setting the world record for knocking down dominoes — that and hanging out with his best friends at school. But when his closest friend, Dom, gets sick and ends up in the hospital, John and the gang are left behind, wondering what to do for him. Author Sally Murphy shows what a group of friends, together with an unlikely ally, will do to keep the world of one of their own from toppling.
£13.59
Candlewick Press,U.S. A Monster Calls
Book SynopsisPatrick Ness’s Carnegie Medal–winning masterwork is poised to attract a discerning crossover audience.The monster in Conor’s backyard is not the one he’s been expecting — the one from the nightmare he’s had every night since his mother started her treatments. This monster is ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and dangerous. It wants the truth. From the final idea of award-winning author Siobhan Dowd — whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself — Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly funny novel of mischief, loss, and monsters both real and imagined.
£11.40
Candlewick Press,U.S. The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep Voices from the
Book SynopsisIn powerful, vivid verse, the master behind The Watch That Ends the Night recounts one of history’s most harrowing—and chilling—tales of survival.In 1846, a group of emigrants bound for California face a choice: continue on their planned route or take a shortcut into the wilderness. Eighty-nine of them opt for the untested trail, a decision that plunges them into danger and desperation and, finally, the unthinkable. From extraordinary poet and novelist Allan Wolf comes a riveting retelling of the ill-fated journey of the Donner party across the Sierra Nevadas during the winter of 1846-1847. Brilliantly narrated by multiple voices, including world-weary, taunting, and all-knowing Hunger itself, this novel-in-verse examines a notorious chapter in history from various perspectives, among them caravan leaders George Donner and James Reed, Donner’s scholarly wife, two Miwok Indian guides, the Reed children, a sixteen-year-old orpha
£19.54
Candlewick Press,U.S. See You at Harrys
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£9.49
Candlewick Press,U.S. The Dog Ray
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£13.59
Candlewick Press,U.S. Matylda Bright and Tender
Book SynopsisIn a courageous debut novel, Holly M. McGhee explores the loss that shakes one girl’s world — and the unexpected consequences of the things we do for love.Sussy and Guy are best friends, fourth-graders who share their silliest thoughts and deepest hopes. One afternoon, the two of them decide they must have something of their very own to love. After a trip to the pet store, they bring home a spotted lizard, the one with the ancient face and starfish toes, and they name her Matylda (with a y so it’s all her own). With Guy leading the way, they feed her and give her an origin story fit for a warrior lizard. A few weeks later, on a simple bike ride, there is a terrible accident. As hard as it is, Sussy is sure she can hold on to Guy if she can find a way to love Matylda enough. But in a startling turn of events, Sussy reconsiders what it means to grieve and heal and hope and go on, for her own sake and Matylda’s. By turns both devastating and b
£15.29
Candlewick Press,U.S. The Dollar Kids
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£15.29
