Grief - Middle Grade Books

Twelve-year-old Adnan dreams of making it to the Ultimate Table Tennis championship, but when tragedy strikes his family, Adnan loses his passion for table tennis and must learn to channel his grief and heal.

Forced to spend the summer at Nai-Nai's senior center, Ruby Chu works to help save a historic Chinatown bakery while revisiting her late Ye-Ye's favorite spots to find a way to deal with her grief--and maybe even find herself.

Iris opens her eyes to hard truths and the power of her voice when her father dies of AIDS in 1987.

For two years, twelve-year-old Hazel has coped with her Mum's accidental death by overprotecting her sister and Mama, but when Mama reconnects with her first love, roles begin to shift.

Katie was Jude's favorite person in the world. And not many brothers say that about their sister and mean it. But to Jude, Katie was everything. The person who made him learn how to say "I love you" in every language. The person who called him "Jude Banks, Superhero," because to her, Jude was the best. She was also the person who died. Jude believes he was the one who killed her. With Mom checked out, and Dad just trying to do his best, Jude enters...

Told in their alternating voices, twelve-year-old neighbors and former best friends Cora Hamed and Quinn McCauley begin working together to open a wormhole so they can travel through time to prevent the school shooting that resulted in the deaths of Cora's sister and Quinn's brother.

"Ever since their free-spirited mama died ten months ago, twelve-year-old Jack and her gender creative nine-year-old brother, Birdie, have been living with their fun-loving Uncle Carl, but now their conservative Uncle Patrick insists on being their guardian which forces all four of them to confront grief, prejudice, and loss, all while exploring what 'home' really means"--

While her grandmother was alive, Emma's world was filled with enchantment. But now Gram is gone, and suddenly strange spots are appearing on Emma's skin. Soon she's diagnosed with vitiligo, a condition that makes patches of her skin lose their color, and the magic in her world is suddenly replaced with school bullies and doctor appointments. But when Emma writes one last story in the journal she shared with Gram, something strange happens. Someone...

After losing her mom, Willa is grieving and having a hard time living with her dad and his new family on an island off the coast of Washington State. Her dad tries to cheer her up by taking her whale watching, something Willa's mom used to do. Willa encounters a humpback whale and feels so lonely that she starts to talk to the whale and the whale talks back! The whale, named Meg, quickly becomes a trusted friend and confidante. Meg offers sound advice...

Coyote lost her mom and two sisters in a car crash 5 years ago. Since then, Coyote and her dad, Rodeo, have lived on the road in an old school bus, criss-crossing the nation. But when she learns that the park in her old neighborhood where she, her mom, and her sisters buried a treasured memory box is being demolished, she devises an elaborate plan to get her dad to drive 3,600 miles back to Washington state in four days without him realizing it.