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Sadness & Grief
2,144 books about sadness & grief
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Med Head My Knock-down, Drag-out, Drugged-up Battle with My Brain
James Patterson, Hal Friedman
Ages 12–18
The Tragic Trip of the Donner Party
John Micklos Jr.
Ages 4–11
See You in the Cosmos
Jack Cheng
Ages 10–14
Wild Wings
Gill Lewis
Ages 8–12
Feathers
Jacqueline Woodson
Ages 6–9
Honeybee: Poems & Short Prose
Naomi Shihab Nye
Ages 4–11
The Dolls #1
The Dolls' House
Rumer Godden
Ages 4–11
Rachel, Meet Your Angel!
Fran Manushkin
Ages 4–11
Death Camp Uprising: The Escape from Sobibor Concentration Camp
Nel Yomtov
Ages 9–14
Freak the Mighty #2
Max the Mighty
Rodman Philbrick
Ages 8–12
Secrets of the Mummies
Harriet Griffey
Ages 4–11
Silent Thunder
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Ages 8–12
Fallen World #3
The Worlds We Make
Megan Crewe
Ages 4–11
Golden Boy #1
Golden Boy: A compelling, brave novel about coming to terms with being intersex
Abigail Tarttelin
Ages 14–18
Violet Diamond #1
The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond
Brenda A. Woods
Ages 4–11
Keeley and the Mountain
Deborah Ellis
Ages 4–11
The Shadow Hero #4
The Shadow Hero: Fights You Cannot Win
Gene Luen Yang
Ages 12–18
Stealing Our Way Home
Cecilia Galante
Ages 8–12
Alice #16
Almost Alice
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Ages 12–18
One for Sorrow: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
Ages 9–12
The Witch Haven
Sasha Peyton Smith
Ages 14–18
Kiss the Dust
Elizabeth Laird
Ages 9–14
The Jungle Book #1
The Jungle Book Mowgli's Story
Rudyard Kipling
Ages 4–11
African Town
Charles Waters, Irene Latham
Ages 12–18
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