Personal & Social Issues: Death & Bereavement (Children's/Teenage)

Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal Winner of the American Library Association Morris Award for best debut YA A Buzzfeed Best of 2016 book Goodread...

A bittersweet story of friendship, first love and heartache, all rolled into one spellbinding tale. For fans of John Green, Rainbow Rowell and E. L...

A girl, a dog, a boy, a journey'When my death came, it was swift. Swift as a racing horse.'Twelve-year-old Daisy has just died in a car crash. But ...

Petula has avoided friendship and happiness ever since tragedy struck her family and took her beloved younger sister Maxine. Worse, Petula blames h...

Miriam is an ordinary schoolgirl with a carefree bunch of friends, and shes just embarked on her first relationship with her sweet and loving boyfr...

I always get away with it when I try stuff like this. Partly it comes down to sort of assuming that I'm going to. I've got loads of confidence. And...

Thirteen-year-old wrestling fanatic Henry used to have a normal life. Now, his therapist wants him to keep a journal so he can express his feelings...

A touching story of unlikely friendship and the redemptive power of love. The last thing either Jana (13) or Louise (17) is looking for on this ho...

If you receive a letter telling you your father has died, what do you do? Anna's father left when she was very young and Anna, now 16, is living wi...

Àdùké lives with her grandparents in Ibidan and Grandma is her favourite person in the world. She loves when Grandma sings to her, and gives her tr...

Aduke lives with her grandparents in Ibadan and Grandma is her favourite person in the world. She loves when Grandma sings to her, and gives her tr...

This beautifully illustrated and sensitively written storybook has been created to be used therapeutically with children experiencing loss. Telling...

  The Times Children's Book of the Week 9th April 2023 Shortlisted for the Historical Association's Young Quills 2023 A...

The first book in the hotly anticipated new fantasy adventure series for readers age 9+, from A. F. Steadman. If you like Harry Potter, Percy Jacks...

Madinas family have fled war to seek asylum in Europe and begin a hopeful new life. An ordinary world of fitting in at school, learning the languag...

The Times' Best Books for Children 2021 How quickly teenagers fall apart and how fast they can heal. This is the hopeful message from Sita Brahma...

In Cyparissus there is a little dog who gets lost in a park, a sleeping rabbit, a horse up in the clouds, and a bird setting off on a long, long jo...

There's no telling who might write back . . . It's been a year since Tom Pellow's dad was lost at sea. He was a sailor and Tom also finds himself ...

A poignant story about dealing with grief through the magic of reading and friendship.Calypso's mum died a few years ago and her emotionally incomp...

A heart-warming story of kindness, courage and love in all its forms from the award-winning author of Me, My Dad and the End of the Rainbow. Perfec...

The multi-award-winning story about the incredible friendship between a young boy and a silverback gorilla in the Second World War, inspired by a t...

WINNER OF AN ABA AWARD. Innocent by day, killer by night: a dark, twisting thriller about a teen assassins attempt to live a normal life. Don't mis...

Saoirse (18) cant wait to leave school but just before the Leaving Cert her ex-boyfriend dies by suicide. Everyone blames Saoirse even Saoirse he...

  A beautifully illustrated story celebrating the poppy's history. Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman have teamed up w...

Katie Woo's dog, Goldie, was very old. Goldie became sick and died. Katie will miss her friend. She is glad that she has lots of happy memories of ...

The real world is a hostile place for twelve-year-old Bren, his schooldays stalked by vicious bully, Shaun, and his family life fractured at home. ...

Winner of the ALAN Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal I've always loved when the light finds the broken spots in the ...

  Part road-trip drama, part comedy and part romance, This is Not the End packs a huge pop-culture punch with a twist - perfect...

Patricia MacLachlan, beloved author of the Newbery Medal-winning Sarah, Plain and Tall, has crafted another lyrical and touching novel for young re...

Jill MacSweeny just wishes everything could go back to normal. But ever since her dad died, she''s been isolating herself from her boyfriend, her b...

In Milwaukee, Isabelle Day had a house. And she had a father. This year, on Halloween, she has half of a house in Minneapolis, a mother at least as...