2016-06-30
Links:

  • What You Can Do
    From the National Funeral Director's Association--advice for relatives and friends of teens on what to do and how to listen. By minister and grief educator, Victor Parachin.
  • Chris's Web Page
    Personal webpage created by a woman who lost her mom to cancer when she was 16. Now 32, married, and a mother herself, Chris shares her story and invites grieving adolescents to offer their own experiences.
  • My Mother's Death
    One teen's account of her mother's death to breast cancer, from Death&Dying.com.
  • Books:

  • Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird
    by Jean Little
    Teenage boy whose father is dying is helped through his grief by a friend. Currently out of print - consult local libraries.
  • Saying it Out Loud
    by Joan Abelove
    A realistic and moving story of a 16-year-old girl's struggle with her mother's impending death from a brain tumor.
  • Straight Talk About Death for Teenagers: How to Cope With Losing Someone You Love
    by Earl A. Grollman
    Insightful book on all types of teen grief, by theologian and grief expert.
  • Tiger Eyes
    by Judy Bloom
    A 15-year-old girl must come to terms with the murder of her father and her family's subsequent move.
  • Two Moons in August
    by Martha Brooks
    Poignant novel of a teenage girl whose family is still struggling to adjust a year after her mother's death.
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