Death and Dying: Siblings
Easy Books
A Birthday Present For Daniel : A Child’s Story Of Loss by Juliet Cassuto Rothman, (E) Prometheus Books,1996. ISBN:1573920541. A young girl whose brother has died describes how she feels and tells about some of the things her family does to help them accept the death.
Little Bit of Rob by Barbara Turner (E) After Rob’s death, his parents and younger sister finally take their boat out crabbing again in an effort to get their lives back to normal.
Stacy Had Little Sister by Wende C. Old ( Albert Whitman, 1995) (About
SIDS) (E)
Juvenile Fiction
Blue Eyes Better by Ruth Wallace-Brodeur (JF). 1st ed. New York : Dutton Children’s Books, c2002. 106 p. When her older brother is killed in an accident, ten-year-old Tessa and her parents find it difficult to overcome their grief and return to living normally.
Drive-by by Lynne Ewing. (JF) 1st ed. New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1996. 85 p. Twelve-year-old Tito, while helping to care for his little sister, struggles to find his way during the aftermath of his brother’s death in a gang-related shooting.
Edward’s Eyes by Patricia MacLachlan. (JF) New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2007. Physical descrip: 116 p. ; 20 cm. Summary: Edward is one of a large and close family that loves baseball, music, books, and each other, and when he unexpectedly dies and his parents donate his organs, his wonderful eyes go to a perfect recipient.
Fig Pudding by Ralph Fletcher (JF) Publication info: New York : Clarion Books, c1995. Summary: Cliff describes the excitement, conflict, and sudden tragedy experienced by his large and boisterous family during his eleventh year.
Kelly And Me by Carol Lynch Williams (JF). New York : Delacorte Press, 1993.
123 p. Eleven-year-old Leah has a summer of outrageous adventures in her small Florida community, some involving her free-thinking grandfather but all shared with her younger sister Kelly, until an unexpected loss changes their lives.
Lone Wolf Kristine L. Franklin. (JF) 1st ed. Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 1997. 220 p. When a large family moves into the house near where he and his father live in the woods, Perry’s friendship with the oldest girl helps him come to terms with his sister’s death and his parents’ divorce
Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park. (JF) New York : Knopf, 1995. 87 p.
Thirteen-year-old Phoebe recalls her younger brother Mick and his death in a bicycle accident.
Rainy Season by Adele Griffin. (JF) Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1996. 200 p. While living on an army base on the Panama Canal Zone in 1977, twelve-year-old Lane tries to cope with the aftermath of a fatal car crash.
That Summer by Tony Johnston (JF) ; illustrated by Barry Moser. San Diego : Harcourt, 2002. A family, including a child who is dying, sews together a quilt of its memories and love.
Young Adult
Choices by Deborah Lynn Jacobs. (YA) New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2007. 189 p. Overcome with guilt over her brother’s death, a teenaged girl shifts between multiple universes in an attempt to find one in which he is alive.
A Summer To Die by Lois Lowry (YA); illustrated by Jenni Oliver. New York : Laurel Leaf Books, 1993, c1977. 120 p. Thirteen-year-old Meg envys her sister’s beauty and popularity. Her feelings don’t make it any easier to cope with Molly’s strange illness and eventual death.
Juvenile Non-fiction
No New Baby : For Boys And Girls Whose Expected Sibling Dies by Marilyn Gryte, (JUV 155.9 GRY) Omaha, NE : Centering Corp., 1988. 24 p. A little girl’s Grandmother helps her to understand that sometimes babies are born too early and die, that it is okay to feel sad, and that the baby’s death was nobody’s fault.
When Dinosaurs Die : A Guide To Understanding Death by Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown. (JUV 155.9 BRO) Boston : Little, Brown, 1996. 32 p. Explains in simple language the feelings people may have regarding the death of a loved one and the ways to honor the memory of someone who has died.
Adult Non-fiction
Recovering From The Loss Of A Sibling by Katherine Fair Donnelly. (155.937 DON) New York : Dodd, Mead & Co., c1988.