What Do We Think About Death
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Published: July 1998
Price: Not known
Age Range: 10-12
ISBN: 0 7502 2208 5
Publisher: Wayland
In Print:
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No
Due for publication July 1998. Simple text and specially commissioned photographs help young readers to understand complicated and sensitive subjects. Notes for parents, teachers, helpful list of organisations.

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I Must Tell You Something
- Arno Bo

Published: 1996
Price: £3.99
Age Range: 5-Teenage
ISBN: 0 7475 2514 5
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
Based on a true story of a strong and thoughtful nine year old Rosemyn. Her happy home life is changed in an instant when tragedy strikes as her parents drive home from a birthday party.

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Death - What's Happening Series
- Karen Bryant-Mole

Published: 1994
Price: £4.50
Age Range: 5-Teenage
ISBN: 0 7502 1379 5
Publisher: Wayland
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
Death answers many of the questions children ask when someone they love dies or when they hear about death. It helps to make sense of the feelings of loneliness, fear and grief that surround what can be a painful experience. Most of all the book is a message to all those children who are wondering what is happening - you are not alone.

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I Never Told Her I Loved Her
- Sandra Chick

Published: 1997
Price: £3.99
Age Range: Teenage
ISBN: 0 7043 4947 7
Publisher: Livewire/Women's Press
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
Francie's mother is dead and she feels lost and guilty. A painfully intense novel about the complexities of grief. Winner of the 1987 Other Award for Progressive Children's Literature.

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Genie of the Lamppost
- Rachel Dixon

Published: 1994
Price: £2.99
Age Range: 5-10
ISBN: 0440863147
Publisher: Yearling
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No

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Death - Dealing with Series
- Emma Haughton

Published: 1995
Price: £9.99
Age Range: 5-Teenage
ISBN: 0 7502 1641 7
Publisher: Wayland
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
Losing someone you love is like losing a part of yourself. It can be even more painful if those around you avoid sharing their grief or assume you will get over it quickly because you are young. Bereavement is not an experience you recover from, but in time you will find a way to live with your loss.

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The Shaman's Stone
- Scott Hugh

Published: 1989
Price: Not known
Age Range: 10-12
ISBN: 0 571 14111 0
Publisher: Faber
In Print: No
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No
Martha's father dies suddenly while investigating the Rollright Stones and strange events disturb the lonely house where she lives with her mother. More than a simple ghost story it goes to the heart of a compelling emotional and spiritual crisis.

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Topher and the Time Travelling Cat
- Julia Jarman

Published:
Price: £8.99
Age Range: 0-12
ISBN: 0 86264 409 7
Publisher: Andersen Press
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
Christopher, aged 8 years finds unusual stray cat, which communicates with him by computer. His quest to find her when she disappears, leads him through time and space - and danger.

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The Goodbye Boat
- Mary Joslin

Published: 1998
Price: £8.99
Age Range: 0-10
ISBN: 0 7459 3693 8
Publisher: Lion
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
Saying goodbye to someone you love is always hard. Saying goodbye for ever, when a dear friend dies, is perhaps the hardest thing of all. Here is a book that explores the pain and grief of saying goodbye. It provides a message of hope that sadness will ease, and opens up the possibility that death is not the end.

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When the Snow Falls
- Michael Lawrence

Published:
Price: £9.99
Age Range: 10-12
ISBN: 0 86264 600 6
Publisher: Andersen Press
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes

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The Charlie Barber Treatment
- Carole Lloyd

Published: 1997
Price: £3.99
Age Range: 10-Teenage
ISBN: 0-7445-5457-8
Publisher: Walker
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
How do you cope with the death of someone you love? Some people break down; others, like Simon Walters, clam up. Friends, family, neighbours - all are given the same cold shoulder. Somehow, though, shaking off a complete stranger proves much more difficult. But then Charlie Barber really is someone rather special! Highly commended for the Carnegie Medal. Shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Novel.

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Remembering My Brother
- Ginny Perkins

Published: 1996
Price: £7.99
Age Range: 5-10
ISBN: 0713645415
Publisher: Black
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
This book tells the story of Greg and how he and his family have come to terms with the death of Greg's brother Chris. Greg tells how he and his family remember Chris and all the good times they had, like going to the zoo and playing football in the park. This book outlines the importance of discussing and the pain of coming to terms with bereavement.

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Remembering Mum
- Ginny & Leon Perkins and Morris

Published: 1996
Price: £3.99
Age Range: 5-10
ISBN: 0 7136 4432
Publisher: A & C Black
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No
Sam and Eddy's mum died a year ago. With their dad, they helped to make a special book for her. They talk about how they've made a garden of her favourite flowers, and how they remember Mandy at home, at school and at her grave.

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A Death in the Family
- Jean Richardson

Published: 1979
Price: £0.75
Age Range: 10-Teenage
ISBN: 0 85648 1149
Publisher: Lion Publishing
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
Jean Richardson writes out of her own experience as a widow left to bring up a young family.

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A Daughter Like Me
- Jacqueline Roy

Published: 1996
Price: £10.99
Age Range: 10-12
ISBN: 0670866288
Publisher: Viking
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
Bessie gets into trouble speaking her own mind, not like her two sisters who keep their heads down when things go wrong. When dad disappears, the three girls suddenly alone in a strange city, must draw strength and courage from each other.

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A Long Way Home
- Ann Turnbull

Published: 1997
Price: £8.99
Age Range: 10-12
ISBN: 0 7445 4167 0
Publisher: Walker Books
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
"I won't go to the orphanage, she thought. I'll never go there, they can't make me". Since the age of 5, Helen has lived at the Bradleys' with her mother. She's never known her father, who went missing, presumed dead, in the Great War. Now mum is dead. Set in 1930. A moving and dramatic story of a young girl's valiant search for a place she can truly call home.

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Badger's Parting Gifts
- Susan Varley

Published: 1984
Price: £9.99
Age Range: 0-10
ISBN: 0 86264 062 8
Publisher: Anderson Press
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
Badger's friends learn to come to terms with his death in this moving story.

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Frog and the Birdsong
- Max Velthuijs

Published: 1991
Price: £8.99
Age Range: 0-10
ISBN: 0 86264 321 X
Publisher: Anderson Press
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
One autumn day Frog discovers a blackbird lying motionless in the grass. Worried, he asks his friends what can be the matter. Very gently and simply the animals begin to understand the meaning of death and the beauty of life, in this moving story.