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Sylvia has been nearly paralyzed with grief and anxiety since the tragic death of her husband, father, and brother in a traffic accident. She tries to help in the familys greenhouse while caring for her two young children, but she prefers not to have to deal with customers. Her mothers own grief causes her to hover over her children and grandchildren, and Sylvia seeks a diversion. She takes up birdwatching and soon meets an Amish man who teaches her...
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c2002
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Children are bewildered and full of questions when someone they love dies. We want to help, and yet the needs of a five-year-old are very different from those of an older child. This book shows how children at various ages understand death and offers positive ways for parents and other caring adults to help them grieve.
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IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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A boy lives next door to a retired opera singer and his pet dog, Giovanni. The three are friends, but when the old man dies, friendship renews and continues between the boy and the dog as they strive to overcome the loss of the friend who brought them together in the first place.
64) Benched
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IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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When Cody and his friends accept a challenge from a local gang to steal a park bench, their main concern is keeping themselves on the gang's good side. But Cody quickly learns that the theft is no harmless prank.
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Bella Vista volume 3
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There is a book for everything. Somewhere in the vast Library of the Universe, as Natalie thought of it, there was a book that embodied exactly the things she was worried about. In the wake of a shocking tragedy, Natalie Harper inherits her mother's charming but financially strapped bookshop in San Francisco. She also becomes a caretaker for her ailing grandfather Andrew, her only living relative, not counting her scoundrel father. But the gruff,...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
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Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous 1,100-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.
68) Last kiss
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Hubbard's Point, Connecticutt. Nearly a year after the death of eighteen-year-old Charlie, singer-songwriter Sheridan Rosslare still hasn't played a note of the music that was once her life's passion. Tucked away in the beach house where she raised her only child, she lives with her memories of him and a grief too big to share even with her beloved sisters or her dear friend Stevie Moore. Nor can Stevie comfort Charlie's heartbroken girlfriend, Nell...
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 26
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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"Claudia has a sad goodbye to make. Her grandmother, Mimi, has just died. Claudia understands that Mimi was sick for a long time, but she's still mad at her grandmother for leaving her. Who will help Claudia with her homework . . . and share "special tea" with her? To keep from thinking about Mimi, Claudia spends all her free time painting and baby-sitting. She's even teaching an art class for some of the kids in the neighborhood. Claudia knows she...
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IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
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When Davey Wexler's father is killed in a holdup in Atlantic City, her mother moves Davey and her brother to Los Alamos to get away from the memories--but Davey is a girl frozen in fear and anger, until she meets an older boy called Wolf who can read her tiger eyes.
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"Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a court-reporting business, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving his family home after his daughter’s lacrosse game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them, on a dark stretch of road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. A horrific flash of violence changes his life forever. Later that awful night, Jason and his family receive a visit...
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2023.
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Damien, a grief-stricken young man, lands in a fishing village where he falls under the spell of Ana Maria, rumored to have had something to do with her daughter's death, and forms a strange kinship with one of her surviving daughters, who is driven by a fierce need for revenge.
"When the river swallowed Kai, Damiens little brother didnt die so much as vanish. As the unbearable loss settles deeper into his bones, Damien, a small-town line cook, walks...
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2021.
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IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
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Seventeen-year-old Julie fell in love with Sam the day she met him, and planned to attend college with him; but Sam died, and getting rid of his things, trying to erase him from her life is not working, so desperate to hear his voice one more time, Julie calls his cellphone expecting to hear his voicemail--but then Sam answers, and suddenly their cellphones become the living connection between them, a connection Julie finds impossible to let go.
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2022
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In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life-and his family's-as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in our nation's Capitol, and led the impeachment effort to hold President Trump accountable for inciting the political violence.
On December 31, 2020, Tommy Raskin, the only son of Maryland Congressman...
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"Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances--in their house, on the roadway, in the market. Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron has spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, a plain, outspoken, independent young woman, she is like a breath...
76) The line tender
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[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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"Following a tragedy that further alters the course of her life, twelve-year-old Lucy Everhart decides to continue the shark research her marine biologist mother left unfinished when she died years earlier"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
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Starting middle school brings all the usual challenges — until the unthinkable happens, and Fern and her family must find a way to heal.
Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible. It seems as though everyone in her family has better things to do than pay attention to her: Mom (when she's not meditating) helps Dad run the family restaurant; Sarah is taking a gap year after high school; and Holden pretends that Mom and Dad and everyone
78) When a pet dies
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Explores the feelings of frustration, sadness, and loneliness that a youngster may feel when a pet dies.
79) A Rip in Heaven
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2020
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This program is read by the author.
The acclaimed author of American Dirt reveals the devastating effects of a shocking tragedy in this landmark true crime book.
A Rip in Heaven is Jeanine Cummins's story of a night in April 1991 when her two cousins Julie and Robin Kerry, and her brother, Tom, were assaulted on the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, which spans the Mississippi River just outside of St. Louis.
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80) I wasn't ready to say goodbye: surviving, coping, and healing after the sudden death of a loved one
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Explores unexpected death and its role in the cycle of life.
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