Books to help parents support their grieving children:
A Child’s View of Grief by Alan Wolfelt - can be purchased at www.centerforloss.com
35 Ways to Help A Grieving Child by Dougy Center- can be purchased at www.dougy.org
Healing a Child’s Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas by Alan Wolfelt - can be purchased at www.centerforloss.com
Healing a Teen’s Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas by Alan Wolfelt - can be purchased at www.centerforloss.com
When A Child You Love Is Grieving by Harold Ivan Smith
Non-fiction Books for teens:
Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens: 100 Practical Ideas by Alan Wolfelt - can be purchased at www.centerforloss.com
When Death Walks In by Mark Scrivani - can be purchased at www.centering.org
(This has basic grief information for teens)
Fire In My Heart, Ice In My Veins by Enid Samuel-Traisman - can be purchased at www.centering.org
(This is a guided journal for teens)
When A Friend Dies by Marilyn E. Gootman - can be purchased at 612-338-2068 (phone)
Fiction Books for teens:
A Time for Dancing by Davida Wills Hurwin
Wrecked by E. R. Frank
Going for the Record by Julie A. Swanson
All Rivers Flow to the Sea by Alison McGhee
The Truth about Forever by Sarah Dessen
Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson
After the Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
Books for children:
Healing Your Grieving Heart for Kids: 100 Practical Ideas by Alan Wolfelt - can be purchased at www.centerforloss.com
Angel Catcher for Kids by Amy Eldon - can be purchased at www.chroniclebooks.com
(This is a guided journal/memory book)
I Miss You: A First Look at Death by Pat Thomas - can be purchased at www.baronseduc.com
(Good for kids preschool-elementary)
Lost and Found by Ellen Yeomans - can be purchased at www.centering.org
The Memory Box by Kirsten McLaughlin- can be purchased at www.centering.org
Someone I Love Died By Suicide by Doreen Cammarata - can be purchased at www.griefguidance.com
After A Suicide by Dougy Center - can be purchased at www.dougy.com
Geranium Morning by E. Sandy Powell
Books for adult grief:
Grief: A Natural Reaction to Loss by Marge Eaton Heegaard - can be purchased at www.fairviewpress.org
Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones by Alan Wolfelt - can be purchased at www.centerforloss.com
Books for practitioners:
Never Too Young to Know by Phyllis Rolfe Silverman - can be purchased at www.oup-usa.org
Children and Grief: When a Parent Dies by William Worden