What do you tell children when a parent has been diagnosed with a serious illness? What should you do? What should you talk about? When do you ell them? What words do you use? This book provides parents and other caregivers with...
Parents--Death
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Auteur:Gruen, SaraSommaire:Nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski reflects back on his wild and wondrous days with a circus. It's the Depression Era and Jacob, finding himself parentless and penniless, joins the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. There he...
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Auteur:Daher, AnitaSommaire:More than anything, Nikki wants to be free – of the grief and rage that have engulfed her since her parent’s death. But as long as her brother continues to destroy himself, she will be trapped in an endless cycle of blame and pain. In...
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Auteur:Heneghan, JamesSommaire:Thirteen-year-old Declan lives only for revenge. His mother, father and sister were all killed on the streets of Belfast, and Declan will stop at nothing to settle the score. When he is torn away from his native soil and sent to live...
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Auteur:Boney, BradSommaire:Ben Walsh is well on his way to becoming one of Manhattan’s top litigators, with a gorgeous boyfriend and friends on the A-list. His life is perfect until he gets a phone call that brings it all crashing down: a car accident takes his...
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Auteur:Wynne-Jones, TimSommaire:Two years after his father mysteriously disappeared, Jim Hawkins is coping -- barely. Underneath he's frozen in uncertainty and grief. Then Ruth Rose crashes into his life. A sixteen-year-old misfit whose manic moods have to be managed...
- Auteur:Chang, VictoriaSommaire:
After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of poetic obituaries for all she lost in the world. InObit, Chang writes of "the way...
- Auteur:Morrissette, GuillaumeSommaire:
La petite Mélodie Cormier, 10 ans, a disparu. Elle s’est volatilisée, un jeudi matin ordinaire. Ses parents l’ont vue monter dans l’autobus scolaire, mais elle ne s’est jamais rendue jusqu’à la cour d’école. Le mystère est total....
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Auteur:Major, KevinSommaire:Hold Fast is the widely acclaimed story of a young boy's struggle to survive in a new environment and his fight against those who stand as threats to his pride in himself and his way of life. Michael turned fourteen in May. By June,...
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Auteur:Yee, Paul, Chan, Harvey, Johnson, MollySommaire:This enhanced e-book, in celebration of Groundwood's 35th anniversary, includes a read-aloud feature of the story narrated by Molly Johnson. Winner of the Governor General's Award, the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award,...
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Auteur:Heneghan, JamesSommaire:When a flood kills eleven-year-old Andy Flynn's mother and stepfather, the only world he has ever known is gone and he is alone. Aunt Mona, whom he has never met, takes him to live with her in Halifax, on the opposite side of the...
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Auteur:Hrdlitschka, ShelleySommaire:In this novel for teens, sixteen-year-old Brenna tries to make sense of her life after her beloved adoptive mother dies.
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Auteur:Saffire, BlueSommaire:Alicia Rhodes has had a tough year. Now she is ready to move on from her troubled past and find happiness in the present. But when handsome Quinn Blackhart walks into her driving school-and her heart-her troubles might just be starting...
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Auteur:Brooks, MarthaSommaire:Alexandra's beloved grandfather was fond of saying, Life is full of surprises, and sometimes the good and the bad get all bunched up together. However, he could not have prepared her for the death of her father, a man she never knew,...
- Auteur:Smiley, JaneSommaire:
The story of a man, whose wife and daughters refuse to accept the fact that he is dying.
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Auteur:Holubitsky, KatherineSommaire:Fourteen year old Pamela Collins is struggling to come to terms with her mother's death. Somewhat shy, Pamela is thoughtful, full of passion, often funny and sometimes tearful as she learns to cope with the emotional overload the...
