Behind you by Woodson, Jacqueline 

Publisher Edition - Large Print Hardcover(Thorndike Press, 2021)

BTSB #: 964702 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.1 UG Lexile: 720

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Death - Fiction Bereavement - Fiction Interpersonal relations - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Large print books New York (N.Y.) - Fiction

Summary: After fifteen-year-old Jeremiah is mistakenly shot by police, the people who love him struggle to cope with their loss as they recall his life and death, unaware that 'Miah is watching over them. Large print hardcover format.

Clayton Byrd goes underground by Williams-Garcia, Rita 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2017)

BTSB #: P03755 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Family Life

Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Blues musicians - Fiction Runaways - Fiction Grandfathers - Death - Fiction Bereavement - Fiction Family problems - Fiction

Summary: When his blues musician grandfather dies and his mother forbids him from playing the blues, Clayton runs away to New York City and its subway system to find his late grandfather's blues band. But on his underground journey through New York's subways, Clayton has a few things to learn.

Funeral by James, Matt 

BTSB Prebound(Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2018)

BTSB #: 487278 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-7   
AR: 3.6 LG F&P: N

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Death - Fiction Bereavement - Fiction Uncles - Fiction Funeral rites and ceremonies - Fiction

Summary: Norma and her parents are going to her great-uncle Frank's funeral, and Norma is more excited than sad. She is looking forward to playing with her favorite cousin, Ray, but when she arrives at the church, she is confronted with rituals and ideas that have never occurred to her before. While not all questions can be answered, when the day is over Norma is certain of one thing: Uncle Frank would have enjoyed his funeral. This sensitive and life-affirming story will lead young readers to ask their own questions about life, death and how we remember those who have gone before us.

Grief is an elephant by Smith, Tamara Ellis 

BTSB Prebound(Chronicle Books, 2023)

BTSB #: 827064 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
F&P: M

Genres: Animals

Subjects: Bereavement - Fiction Loss (Psychology) - Fiction

Summary: When it first comes, grief is as large as an elephant, but with time it becomes smaller, and easier to deal with until finally you can let it go and just remember.

Plan by Paul, Alison 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015)

BTSB #: 704208 Available

Dewey: EAges: 3-6   


Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Father-daughter relationship - Fiction Imagination - Fiction Bereavement - Fiction

Summary: As a father and daughter cope with a loss, they rediscover an important piece of family history and begin building a new life.