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Author
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In confronting bereavement head-on, Trickey and Ferrari have created a supportive and encouraging handbook that explains grief theories to children in an accessible way. Based on research and lived experience, it acknowledges the unique circumstances of every child, so that all can find advice that is meaningful and helpful"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Rise X Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2023]
Lexile measure
AD 620L
Language
English
Description
"This book aims to normalize the topic of death by discussing what it means and how it feels to experience loss. It centers around several questions that arise about grief and [offers] honest, simple ways to answer them"--
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Avenue
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A novel of coming out, surviving grief, and embracing myth in a Maine lobstering town purportedly founded when a sea captain fell in love with a mermaid 300 years ago. For readers of Madeline Miller, Alix E. Harrow, and Erin Morgenstern"--
Author
Series
Cimarron Creek trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When a Texas Ranger comes to town on a mission to capture his brother's killers, he finds more than he expected--including a young midwife who may hold the key to the justice he seeks.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Calli finds herself alone after the loss of her father--until a bruised and broken girl shows up on her property, forcing her to face the present, rethink her future, and unearth the skeletons of her own past.
11) Mouseboat
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A young girl feels lost after the death of her mother, but when she and her father visit their lake house, she takes out the small boat she and her mom built together and somehow, in the wind and rain, reconnects with her mother's love.
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
As he attempts to fulfil a list left behind by his deceased best friend, nineteen-year-old Case meets eighteen-year-old Winnie, a hardworking ranch hand with aspirations of her own, and together they embark on an unexpected journey as they chase down their rodeo dreams.
13) Western Lane
Author
Publisher
Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After the death of her mother, eleven-year-old Gopi, who has been playing squash since she was a small child, is enlisted in a quietly brutal training regimen by her father, and soon the game becomes her world as she slowly distances herself from her sisters in hopes of becoming the best.
14) The thing at 52
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A girl befriends a monster and learns about loneliness, friendship, community, and coping with loss.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An environmental journalist in Washington, DC, Rachel has shunned her New England working-class family for years. Divorced and childless in her middle age, she's a true independent spirit with the pain and experience to prove it. Coping with challenges large and small, she thinks her life is in free fall--until she's summoned home to deal with the aftermath of her mother's death. Then things really fall apart. Surrounded by a cast of sometimes comic,...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In democracies, citizens must accept loss; we can't always be on the winning side. But in the United States, the fundamental civic capacity of being able to lose is not distributed equally. Propped up by white supremacy, whites (as a group) are accustomed to winning; they have generally been able to exercise political rule without having to accept sharing it. Black citizens, on the other hand, are expected to be political heroes whose civic suffering...
17) Cookie monsters
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
As twelve-year-old Brooklyn goes head-to-head against her rival to win her school's cookie-selling competition, her friends help her cope with the death of her mother and help her try to clinch the Cookie Queen title.
Author
Series
Coyote sunrise volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Almost a year after settling down in Oregon, Coyote embarks on a cross-country road trip with her dad to scatter her mom's ashes, but the journey takes an unexpected turn when she realizes the secret to the chosen resting place lies in a lost book.
19) The good mother
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Starring Academy Awardʼ-winner Hilary Swank, the film follows a journalist grieving the murder of her son who forms an unlikely alliance with his pregnant girlfriend to track down the killers in the seedy world of drugs and corruption.
20) Racing hearts
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
HL 420L
Language
English
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Description
"In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Sienna trains for a triathlon in honor of her dead best friend, while falling for a mysterious jock."--
"Five months ago, Sienna Shoring lost her best friend, Stacey, to suicide. Now Sienna's back at school, struggling-- and failing-- to find her place without Stacey by her side. When a package arrives for the "Try it triathlon," which Stacey signed them up for as a joke, it's like receiving...