Children and Teenagers
This section deals with addressing the death of someone you love in terms that children and teenagers can relate to. They provide guidelines and some common sense suggestions.
 | Healing Your Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas For Kids A guide of practical ways to aide children through the grieving process and explore their feelings in relation to loss of a loved one. |
 | Straight Talk About Death For Teenagers If you are a teenager whose friend or relative has died, this book was written for you. Earl A. Grollman, the award-winning author of Living When a Loved One Has Died, explains what to expect when you lose someone you love. |
 | Remember Rafferty A book about the death of a pet for children of all ages. |
 | Where The Balloons Go This story shares love, dreams, death, and grief as Grandma dies and Corey deals with grief. |
 | I Heard Your Daddy Died A helpful tool for family members and caregivers to read to a child who has lost a parent. |
 | Living When A Young Friend Commits Suicide A book for young adults dealing with the loss of a friend or relative who has committed suicide, or has been talking about it. The book discusses everything from feelings attached to the incident, popular misconceptions, and other topics explained compassionately. |
 | Helping Children Cope With Grief A book written for parents, teachers, and counselors on assisting children with grief issues. This book gives helpful guidance in answering questions to giving ideas for activities to help children express their grief related emotions. |
 | What About The Kids? Understanding childrens' needs in funeral planning and services. |
 | Answers to a Child's questions about death This booklet is meant to help younger children cope in healthy, intelligent ways with the shock of a loved one's death. This book is available to keep at no charge. |
 | How to Explain Death to a Child This booklet is designed to provide guidance to parents, caregivers, teachers, counselors, or others who find themselves faced with the difficult and often painful task of telling a child about a death. |
 | Life & Loss: Guide To Help Grieving Children The reader learns to recognize and understand different types of childhood losses while also becoming aware of the myths that hinder the grief process. The book covers the four psychological tasks of grief and explains methods of grief work. |
 | Kolie and the Funeral This coloring book is a good guide and conversation starter for you children. In this booklet you are lead through a funeral through the eyes of Kolie. He has lost his grandfather and now has to attend his grandfather’s funeral. This book is available to keep at no charge. |
 | Water Bugs & Dragonflies: Explaining Death to Young Children After a water bug suddenly leaves her pond and is transformed into a dragonfly, her friends' questions about such departures are like those children ask when someone dies. |
 | Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs Originally published in 1973, this autobiographical picture book was one of the first to introduce very young children to the concept of death. |
 | Grieving Teen A Guide For Parents, Counselors & Teenagers. |
 | How to Explain Death to a Teenager This booklet is intended to provide guidance to parents, as well as teachers, counselors, or others who find themselves faced with the difficult task of telling an adolescent about a death. |
 | Common Threads of Teenage Grief Teens talk about their experiences with loss, depression, and grief. Inspirational and down to earth discussions about how to deal with and come out of grief. |
 | Torn by Grief - Helping teenagers cope with sudden or violent death Research has shown that teenagers do think about death and are interested in learning about death, grief, and mourning. Sudden or violent deaths cause devastating emotional trauma to close friends and family. |
 | Ask the Undertaker Questions from high school students that everyone wants to know. |
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