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Sometimes the right words help us understand what we’re feeling, connect with others, or simply feel less alone. Explore books selected by Ele’s Place for children, teens, and adults navigating grief.
Resource Hub · Book Library
Sometimes the right words help us understand what we’re feeling, connect with others, or simply feel less alone. Explore books selected by Ele’s Place for children, teens, and adults navigating grief.
Search by title or author, or choose a grief topic. Some books appear under more than one topic.
Practical suggestions for life after a spouse's death.
Practical ideas for teens to express grief.
Practical support for widows and widowers.
A family story involving grief and connection.
A girl copes with the accidental death of her twin brother.
First-person accounts from children after a parent's death.
Picture book on coping with difficult experiences.
Information for young people on intentional self-injury and getting help.
Shows crying as a normal reaction.
Helps younger children understand they did not cause difficult events.
Explains death and grief to children.
Explores grief and guilt after a mother's death.
A classroom responds to the death of its teacher.
Guide to coping with unexpected death.
A story of friendship and grief told through two polar bears.
Offers a profound new approach to both the experience of grief and the way we try to help others who have endured tragedy.
Memoir about grief, honesty and humor.
Family memories and photographs help preserve a grandmother's story.
Diary of a teen coping with his father's homicide.
Guides and engages the healing and comforting imagination while reassuring the heart.
These selections come from Ele’s Place book lists for children, teens, and adults. Each person grieves differently, and a book that helps one person may not feel right for another. Caregivers can preview a book before sharing it with a child. Purchase links lead to outside websites; Ele’s Place does not sell these books.
For questions about supporting a grieving child or teen, contact Ele’s Place.
Has a book helped you or someone you care about feel understood, connected, or less alone? Or are you an author who would like to share your book with Ele’s Place? We welcome your suggestion for the Pages of Hope library.
Suggestions are reviewed by Ele’s Place before being added to the library. Please do not include sensitive personal details. Contact information is optional and will only be used if we need to follow up about your recommendation.
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