Child Grief

The award-winning memoir When All That's Left of Me Is Love is poignant and powerful. Linda Campanella provides an intimate look inside her family and her heart as she relives the joy-filled year and long good-bye leading to her terminally ill mother's death. In the process, she comes to terms with the permanence of her loss and finds comfort in profound gratitude for many unexpected gifts.

If you are listening to this, you have just experienced every parent’s worst nightmare, the loss of your beloved child. And while you are completely numb, yet feel like you’re suffocating, you intrinsically know you can and will survive this insufferable loss. Despite the pain, you want to thrive again with an open heart and make a difference in your life and in the lives of those you will continue to walk by your side and look to you for strength.

Losing a pet feels like losing a part of yourself. They weren’t just animals—they were companions, confidants, and family. Their absence creates an empty space, leaving behind quiet moments and loneliness that can be hard to explain. Grieving a pet is deeply personal, layered with emotions like sadness, guilt, and anger. You may feel regretful over the things left undone. Memories bring both tears and smiles as the pain of their absence clashes with the joy they brought.

The death of a child is that unimaginable loss no parent ever expects to face. In Beyond Tears, nine mothers share their individual stories of how to survive in the darkest hour. They candidly share with other bereaved parents what to expect in the first year and long beyond.

In "The Secret of the Whispering Wind," young readers will embark again on a thrilling adventure as they follow Alex and Lila on their quest to uncover the mysteries of their family's past. The ancient Whispering Compass has unlocked a world of secrets, powers, and dangers beyond their wildest imaginations. As they discover more of the compass's powers, they must outsmart a dark presence determined on seizing it for evil purposes. Filled with suspenseful twists and heart-pounding moments, "The Secret of the Whispering Wind" takes readers through challenges with villains, relationships, and ...

Jimmy Gauntt—personable, brilliant Jimmy—died at age twenty-four, struck by an automobile. The promising young man’s death shattered his father Casey’s heart. And yet, in the coming months, Casey and his family would experience something amazing. Through seeming coincidence and moments of magical synchronicity, Jimmy makes himself known to his family, sparking an amazing healing process that leads Casey—a conservative businessman—into the mystical world of mediums, shamans, coffee readers, and spirit guides. Suffering Is the Only Honest Work reveals the strength and love that ...

Lamentations of the Heart soulfully combines contemporary free verse poetry and nonfictional prose to tell the story of one mother’s grief following the death of her only child. The author interweaves scriptural passages with the inevitable struggles to accept and make sense of her new reality. All of it reveals the unending love for family that remains. Written to reach out to others who have experienced similar pain, it moves upon the uneven, wavering pattern of great emotion, along a tumultuous path blessed with signs and wonders — an unwanted journey a tapestry of life healing ...

Maximum Ride and her faithful friends stand ready to face the two greatest threats that humankind has ever known, now combining forces in an unbeatable plot to destroy life as we know it once and for all. And this time, the enemy truly can't be stopped. The danger mounts just as Dylan has worked his way into Max's heart—but then Fang unexpectedly returns to the flock. An explosive confrontation between the two boys grows into a battle to win Max's heart, and the entire world hangs in the balance.

Twelve-year-old Ruth has craved attention ever since she moved from the U.S.A. to Zimbabwe three years ago. Her parents are too busy running their business. Grandpa Nyoni, her new friend and neighbor, provides the love and affection she longs for. When she discovers that he is estranged from his family, she sets out to find them and help them reunite. Shortly after Ruth learns that Grandpa Nyoni has heart disease, he dies, turning her world upside down again. She finds out that he left her a key to a trunk, and inside, she discovers letters addressed to his granddaughter. Ruth is determined...

Kazim loves when his grandparents visit from Egypt. But when his grandfather dies, his grandmother helps him come to terms with his grief.

A Story of Unwavering Love, Unthinkable Loss, and Unshakable Faith For 25 years, Pastor John E. Miller and his wife, Carla, devoted their lives to caring for their son, Peter Flint Miller—a child with special needs who depended on them for everything. Every four hours, every single day, their love took the form of feeding, bathing, dressing, and comforting their son. But on March 8, 2025, Peter took his final breath, and their world changed forever. In Grace in the Hard Places, John and Carla share their raw, personal journey through caregiving, grief, and the faith that sustained them. ...

WARNING: The children of Oakhaven are not dreaming. They are rehearsing. Jack Tierney is a ghost haunting his own life, shattered by his wife’s murder two years prior. He seeks refuge in the suffocating silence of decaying Oakhaven. But the silence is about to scream. It starts with Alex, a neighborhood boy plagued by nightmares of "Mr. Murk," a whispering entity that tells terrible secrets. Then the bodies start falling—staged accidents, broken dolls left behind. Jack, a former detective, sees the pattern the police refuse to acknowledge. He sees the symbol—an eye stitched shut—...

Experience the transformative journey from anguish to solace with Sheila's grief recovery handbook. Drawing from her own story of loss, Sheila guides you through the challenges, sharing tools to bring peace and comfort. Sheila, having faced the shattering loss of her sister to cancer, understands the overwhelming grief, guilt, and anger. This book on grief and loss stems from her mission to help those in pain.

When your child is diagnosed with autism, it can feel like the ground beneath you has shifted. Suddenly, you’re overwhelmed by questions, fear, and a deep sense of loss for the life you thought your child—and your family—would have. In My Child Has Autism, parenting coach and behavior specialist Grace Marie Brown shares her personal story of walking through the emotional aftermath of her first child’s autism diagnosis, followed closely by the diagnosis of her twin sons. In this reflection gui, Grace guides parents through the five stages of grief—denial, anger, bargaining, ...

Seen through the eyes of 13-year-old Lafayette, this is the story of three brothers, each locked in their own grief and guilt after the sudden death of their mother. Deep feelings and family secrets are revealed as, despite the odds against them, the brothers learn to pull together.

Gratitude In Grief chronicles a mother's journey into the unimaginable—the death of her son. This is a personal journal of reflection in the days following the death, and the unexpected approach she took in dealing with her grief that changed her forever. To the surprise of many, this mother made a choice to look for "one little thing" to be thankful for each day while coping with her loss. She survived by cataloguing every small blessing she saw—from feeling grateful for her relationship with God to being thankful that she had a few hours alone to fall apart and grieve. Each blessing ...

Twelve-year-old Kwame Powell isn't ready to deal with losing his grandmother, even as he and his family head to Ghana for her celebration of life. He's definitely not ready when he's sucked into a magical whirlpool that leads straight to Asamando, the Ghanaian underworld. There, he comes face to face with his grandmother, who is very much alive, and somehow still...a kid? Together with his best friend, Autumn, and a talkative aboatia named Woo, Kwame must battle angry nature gods, and stop the underworld from destroying the land of the living.

Sage's thirteenth birthday was supposed to be about movies and treats, staying up late with her best friend and watching the sunrise together. Instead, it was the day her best friend died. Without the person she had to hold her secrets and dream with, Sage is lost. In a counseling group with other girls who have lost someone close to them, she learns that not all losses are the same, and healing isn't predictable. There is sadness, loneliness, anxiety, guilt, pain, love. And even as Sage grieves, new, good things enter her life—and she just may find a way to know that she can feel it all.

He heard his daughter’s murder, powerless to help. Will God show him the way out of his grief? Pastor Stanley Moore was confident in his faith. After three decades of raising congregations up to Heaven, the devout man thought it would be another magnificent Sunday of service to the Lord. But as he sat in his office before worship, he received a call from his youngest child… and listened in horror as she was brutally shot to death. Stunned into silence, he heard the gentle voice of his Creator: “Can I trust you with trouble?” Over the subsequent years, this awful event was one of ...

It seems like Sage’s whole world is on fire the summer before she starts seventh grade. As house after house burns down, her Bushwick neighborhood gets referred to as “The Matchbox” in the local newspaper. And while Sage prefers to spend her time shooting hoops with the guys, she’s also still trying to figure out her place inside the circle of girls she’s known since childhood. A group that each day, feels further and further away from her. But it’s also the summer of Freddy, a new kid who truly gets Sage.