
RESOURCE LIST
Books
Helping Children Cope:
Death and the Classroom: A Teacher's Guide to Assist Grieving Students - Cassini & Rogers
Helping Children Understand Death - Crase & Crase
Helping the Grieving Student: A Guide for Teachers - The Dougy Center
The Grieving Child; A Parent's Guide - Fitzgerald
Talking About Death: A Dialogue Between Parent and Child - Grollman
A Teenager's Book About Suicide - Grollman and Johnson
The Caring Circle: Facilitator's Guide to Support Groups - Hipp
On Children and Death - Kubler-Ross
Growing Through Grief: A K-12 Curriculum to Help Young People Through all Kinds of Loss - O'Toole
How Do We Tell The Children, A Parents Guide To Helping Children Understand And Cope - Schaefer & Lyons
What Will We Do? Preparing a School Community to Cope with a Crisis – Stevenson
Water Bugs and Dragonflies: Explaining Death to Young Children - Stickney
Helping Children Cope With Grief - Wolfelt
Healing a Teen's Grieving Heart – Wolfelt
Books for Children:
Nadia the Willful - Alexander
If Nathan Were Here - Bahr
The Class In Room Forty-Four: When A Classmate Dies - Blackburn
Timothy Duck: The Story of A Death Of A Friend - Blackburn
I Know I Made it Happen: Children & Guilt - Blackburn
What is Death? - Boritzer
Something to Remember Me By -Bosak
Saying Goodbye: Bereavement Activity Book - Boulden
Grandpa - Burningham
The Fall of Freddie the Leaf - Buscaglia
Dusty Was My Friend - Clardy
I Had a Friend Named Peter - Cohn
Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs - DePaola
Thumpy's Story; A Story of Love and Grief Shared - Dodge
My Grandpa Died Today - Fassler
Where's Jess? - Goldstein
A New Mother for Martha - Green
No New Baby - Gryte
The Next Place - Hanson
Why Did Grandpa Die? - Hazen
When Someone Very Special Dies: Children Can Learn to Cope with Grief - Heegaard
When Something Terrible Happens - Heegaard
A Taste of Blackberries - Smith
I Miss You - Thomas
A Quilt for Elizabeth - Tiffault
The Tenth Good Thing About Barney - Viorst
The Velveteen Rabbit - Williams
Sarah's Journey - Wolfelt
For Teenagers:
Fox in the Winter - Branfield
The Grieving Teen - Fitzgerald
When A Friend Dies - Goolman
Teenagers Face to Face with Bereavement – Gravelle & Haskins
A.Straight Talk About Death For Teenagers - Grollman
Living When a Young Friend Commits Suicide – Or Even Starts Taking About It – Grollman
Help for the Hard Times: Getting Through Grief and Loss – Hipp
How It Feels When a Parent Dies - Krementz, J. and Knopf, A.
Janet and Me – Mack
Donna. Facing Change – O’Toole
The Bridge to Terabithia – Paterson
When Death Walks In - Scrivani
For Adults, General:
Grief's Courageous Journey: A Workbook - Caplan & Lang
Life after Loss: A Practical Guide - Deits
Chicken Soup for the Grieving Soul - Canfield & Hanson
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life - Kabat-Zinn
Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart - Levine
Surviving Grief and Learning to Live Again - Saunders
The Mourning Handbook - Fitzgerald
Healing Your Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas - Wolfelt
Life Lessons - Kubler-Ross & Kessler
How to Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies - Rand
Companion Through the Darkness: Inner Dialogues on Grief - Ericsson
A Time to Grieve: Meditations for Healing - Staudacher
Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss - Kumar
Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Working through Grief - Hickman
A Journey Through Grief: Gentle, Specific Help - Bozarth
The Grief Recovery Handbook - James & Friedman
Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief - Boss
The Precious Present - Johnson
Writing to Heal the Soul: Transforming Grief and Loss Through Writing - Zimmerman
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying - Rinpoche
I'm Grieving As Fast As I Can – Sones-Feinberg
Good Grief: Healing Through the Shadow of Loss - Morris-Coryell
A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss - Sittser
Finding Your Way through Grief: A Guide for the First Year - Tousley
Love Never Ends - Martin & Dundas
Healing Through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of Grief, Fear and Despair - Greenspan
Loving from the Outside In, Mourning from the Inside Out - Wolfelt
Stunned by Grief: Remapping Your Life When Loss Changes Everything - Brizendine
Hope and Healing for Transcending Loss: Daily Meditations for Those Who Are Grieving - Davis-Bush
Passed and Present: Keeping Memories of Loved Ones Alive - Gilbert
Grief Is A Journey: Finding Your Path Through Loss - Doka
Grief One Day At A Time: 365 Meditations to Help You Heal After Loss - Wolfelt
Sibling Grief: Healing after the Death of a Sister or Brother - White
Never Long Enough - Krakoff & Sider
A Grief Observed - Lewis
Bearing The Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief - Cacciator
It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand - Devine
One Mindful Day at a Time: 365 Daily Meditations for Living in the Now - Wolfelt
Mindfulness & Grief - Stang
For Adults, Grieving A Spouse:
Surviving the Death of Your Spouse: A Step-by-Step Workbook – Levinson
When your Spouse Dies - Curry
Gay Widowers: Life After the Death of a Partner - Shernoff
The Healing Power of Love: Transcending the Loss of a Spouse to a New Love - Lintermans & Stoltzman
Lost and Found: How We Survived the Loss of a Young Spouse – Young & Young
Widow to Widow - Davis-Ginsburg
A Widow's Story: A Memoir - Oates
Happily Even After: A Guide to Getting Through (and Beyond) The Grief of Widowhood – Brody-Fleet
Gaining Traction - Starting Over After the Death of Your Life Partner - Panagotacos
The Tender Scar: Life After the Death of a Spouse - Mabry
A Gift of Love: A Widow's Memoir – Della-Donna
Healing A Spouse’s Grieving Heart - Wolfelt
For Adults, Grieving A Parent:
Grieving the Death of a Mother – Smith
When Parents Die - Abrams
Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss - Edelman
Healing the Adult Child's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Parent Dies - Wolfelt
For Adults, Grieving A Child:
Facing the Ultimate Loss: Confronting the Death of a Child - Marx & Wengerhoff-Davidson
The Ultimate Loss: Coping with the Death of a Child - Bordow
Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss and Love – Logelin
Healing a Parent’s Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Child Dies - Wolfelt
For Adults, Traumatic or Sudden Death:
No Time For Goodbyes: Coping with Sorrow, Anger, and Injustice After a Tragic Death - Harris-Lord
I Wasn't Ready To Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing after the Sudden Death of a Loved One - Noel & Blair
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide – Redfield-Jamieson
The Gift of Second: Healing from the Impact of Suicide - Lidbeck
A to Z Healing Toolbox: A Practical Guide for Navigating Grief and Trauma with Intention - Hannifin-MacNab
Online Resources:
https://www.frederickhealthhospice.org : information of grief support services in Frederick, MD, Camp Jamie, and larger list of books for talking with children and teens about death
https://www.dougy.org : Dougy Center: The National Center for Grieving Children and Families
https://whatsyourgrief.com/: supportive articles, activities
https://childrengrieve.org : National Alliance for Grieving Children
https://www.hellogrief.com : Blog for kids
https://www.achildingrief.org : Full-color books
A part of me- an interactive App related to loss & grief that provides young people with a safe space to grieve, where they can hear from others who know how it feels.
GriefSteps- a free app for parents, easily accessible mobile and web-based resource with useful information and activities for bereaved families.