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Sadness & Grief
2,144 books about sadness & grief
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John Henry: An American Legend
Ezra Jack Keats
Ages 4–8
Popular Illustrated Classics #1
Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Ages 8–12
Find Me Alone
Lisa Graff
Ages 9–12
House Held Up by Trees
Ted Kooser, Jon Klassen
Ages 4–11
The Secret Garden: (Illustrated and Annotated)
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Ages 8–14
The Fountains of Silence
Ruta Sepetys
Ages 12–18
Book of Night #1
Book of Night
Holly Black
In My Heart A Book of Feelings
Jo Witek
Ages 3–7
Memory Jars
Vera Brosgol
Ages 4–8
Charlotte's Web
E.B. White
Ages 6–10
Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli
Ages 9–14
Katherine Forrester Vigneras #2
A Severed Wasp
Madeleine L'Engle
Ages 14–18
Boston Jane #1
Boston Jane An Adventure
Jennifer L. Holm
Ages 10–14
When Mack Came Back
Brad Strickland
Ages 7–11
The Great American Elephant Chase
Gillian Cross
Ages 8–12
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen
Ages 4–11
The Little Lame Prince
Rosemary Wells
Ages 3–7
Blackwood Academy #1
Immortal Consequences
I. V. Marie
Ages 12–18
What Was? #1
What Was the Vietnam War?
Jim O'Connor, Who HQ
Ages 6–9
Young Adult Fiction: Ghost Stories #1
Specters of the Midnight Hour
Lila Hawthorne
Ages 12–18
Lucy Variations #1
The Lucy Variations
Sara Zarr
Ages 12–18
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Landscape with Invisible Hand
M.T. Anderson
Ages 12–18
Cinderella Stories #1
Adelita: A Mexican Cinderella Story
Tomie DePaola
Ages 3–7
My First Comics #1
I'm Sunny!
Jennifer L. Holm
Ages 3–7
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