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Pru Burbidge and her brother Jesse are forced to take desperate measures to keep their family together when their father takes off shortly after their move to an old farmhouse in a secluded Nova Scotia town, and their mother dies not long afterwards, leaving Pru and Jesse to care for themselves and their younger siblings.
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"In, A Friend Would Say Goodbye, Nova's neighbor dies unexpectedly, and Nova is angry and feels betrayed because he did not tell her goodbye. She is confused and struggles with her feelings about losing her friendly neighbor. However, her mother encourages her to express her feelings and not keep her emotions bottled inside. Nova learns the importance of managing her feelings to cope with losing a loved one and remembering their good times together....
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"Declan O'Brien always had a gentle word to share, odd phrases he liked to repeat, and songs to sing while he played basketball. His favorite song was Dona Nobis Pacem, 'Grant Us Peace.' His family loved him deeply and always knew they were loved in return. but a terrible accident one day changes their lives forever, and Fiona and Finn O'Brien are left without a father. Their mother is at a loss. What words are there to guide them through such overwhelming...
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"A heartfelt new picture book from bestselling children's author Eric Walters (From the Heart of Africa) and Halifax-based artist Carloe Liu. In this poignant story, we follow young Emily who has recently lost her grandfather. As she grows, she discovers a series of letters he left behind for her, offering grandfatherly advice at life's most pivotal moments: first day of high school, graduation day, wedding, and ending with the birth of her own child....
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After her grandfather's death, a young girl explores her Baba Bazorg's house. As the girl wanders through the house, almost idly, her Baba Bazorg's house stands in for the man himself, with each object she describes standing as a touchstone to a memory, and each memory serving as a window into the relationship between the child and her grandfather. As she looks through its rooms, the things she sees and the object she touches bring to life memories...
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"This Newbery Medal-winning novel by bestselling-author Katherine Paterson has been a modern classic about friendship and loss for forty years. Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him. The two become fast friends and spend most days in the woods behind Leslie's house, where they invent an enchanted land called Terabithia....
13) The goodbye boat
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Presents the phenomena of grief and loss and the concept that death is not the end.
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A philosophical conversation about death from the author of I Give You My Heart. "Are you going to die, Grandpa?" "Someday, sweetheart. But I hope not too soon." Their simple exchange covers a lot of philosophical ground. Grandpa allows that "no one really knows" what happens after death, but he tells Christopher that some people think of heaven ("a place without sadness or war"), others of rebirth ("each time, you get wiser"), and others of "nothing"...
17) The shared room
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"When someone you love dies, you know what doesn't die? Love. On the hot beach, among colorful umbrellas blooming beneath a bright sun, no one saw a little girl walk into the water. Now, many months later, her bedroom remains empty, her drawers hold her clothes, her pillows and sheets still have her scent, and her mother and father, brothers and sister carry her in their hearts, along with their grief, which takes up so much space. Then one snowy...
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"Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa. Amazing Africa. Anna is worried: her twin brothers, Double and Trouble, have boundless energy and won't stop climbing. Meanwhile Grandfather is tired and can't stay awake. In this final book, Anna proves just how amazing she truly is."--Page 4 of cover.
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