death

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Annie and the Old One

1971
A Navajo girl unravels a day's weaving on a rug whose completion, she believes, will mean the death of her grandmother.

A taste of blackberries

1973
A young boy recounts his efforts to adjust to the accidental death of his best friend.

Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs

1973
A small boy enjoys his relationship with his grandmother and his great-grandmother, but he learns to face their inevitable death.

Sadako and the thousand paper cranes

1977
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

Ways to live forever

2008
Eleven-year-old Sam McQueen, who has leukemia, writes a book during the last three months of his life, in which he tells about what he would like to accomplish, how he feels, and things that have happened to him.

Looking for Atlantis

1993
After his grandfather's death, a young boy learns to see the wonders of the world through the old man's eyes.

Goodbye, Mitch

1995
A young boy describes how he feels when the family cat dies.

Molly's rosebush

1994
When the new baby they've been expecting isn't strong enough to be born, Molly and her family find different ways to express their feelings and comfort each other.

I had a friend named Peter

talking to children about the death of a friend
1987
When Betsy learns about the death of a friend, her parents and kindergarten teacher answer questions about dying, funerals, and the burial process.

Everett Anderson's goodbye

1983
Everett Anderson has a difficult time coming to terms with his grief after his father dies.

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