Macmillan :: Children & Teens Books: Social Issues Death & Loss Books

Books
- Awards Coming Soon New at Macmillan Top Sellers Awards New at Macmillan Top Sellers Awards New at Macmillan Top Sellers Books for First-Year Reading Course Favorites Featured
  
  Arts and Photography Biography and Memoirs Business and Investing Comics and Graphic Novels Cooking, Food and Wine Crafts Entertainment Health, Mind & Body
  
  History Home and Garden Literature and Fiction Mystery and Thrillers Nonfiction Outdoors Parenting and Families Poetry
  
  Reference Religion and Spirituality Romance Science Science Fiction and Fantasy Sports Travel
  Children and Teens Palgrave Scholarly and Reference
  
  All Categories
  
  Academic Subject Areas Books History, Politics, Sociology, Literature Holocaust Remembrance Day Intergenerational Children Books for Junior High and Up Jewish Interest for the Junior High and Up Rosa Park's Birthday The Fourth of July
  All Collections
Authors
- Tours & Events All Authors
Publishers
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux FSG Hardcovers FSG Paperbacks Hill & Wang Faber & Faber First Second Henry Holt & Co. Henry Holt Hardcovers Henry Holt Paperbacks Metropolitan Books Times Books Macmillan Audio Behind the Wheel Nature Publishing Group Palgrave Macmillan
  
  Picador Quick and Dirty Tips Scientific American St. Martin's Press Minotaur Books Thomas Dunne Books Tor/Forge Tor Books Forge Books Orb Books Tor/Seven Seas Distributed Publishers
  Macmillan Higher Education Bedford/St. Martin’s W.H. Freeman
  
  Worth Publishers BFW High School i>clicker Hayden-McNeil Palgrave Macmillan Trade Books For Courses
  FSG Books for Young Readers Feiwel & Friends Holt Books for Young Readers Kingfisher Roaring Brook Priddy Books Starscape/Tor Teen Square Fish Young Listeners Macmillan Kids
Services
- About Macmillan Publishers Booksellers Academic Library Catalogs Macmillan Speakers

Advanced Search

All Categories>Social Issues>Death & Loss

Death & Loss

Sort by

Title Author

Top Sellers

Displaying 1-24 of 84

1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Hardcover : $17.95 Buy	Purple Death The Mysterious Flu of 1918 David Getz; Illustrations by Peter McCarty Henry Holt and Co. It was the worst epidemic in this country's history, and the search for its cause is still one of science's most urgent quests. It was 1918, the last year...

Hardcover :
$24.99 Buy

Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts

A History of Burial

Written by Penny Colman Henry Holt and Co.

Drawing on extensive historical and anthropological research, personal accounts, and interviews with people who work in the funeral industry, Penny Colman...

More Formats: eBook

American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults
Orbis Pictus
Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library

Booklist
Horn Book
Publishers Weekly
School Library Journal
Washington Post Book World

Bonus

Awards

Hardcover :
$17.95 Buy

After the Death of Anna Gonzales

Terri Fields Henry Holt and Co.

A powerful look at the effects of one girl’s suicide on her high school "I can feel The whispering of the hallway walls Growing louder as the groups...

NCSS-CBC Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies
Texas TAYSHAS High School Reading List

Booklist
Kirkus Reviews
Publishers Weekly
School Library Journal
VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates)

Bonus

Awards

Hardcover : $16.95 Buy	The Music Thief Peni R. Griffin Henry Holt and Co. In a harsh and noisy time, a young girl's key to her dreams -- music -- may be closer than she thinks. There was a new song playing in the back of Alma's...

Hardcover :
$16.00 Buy

Walk Softly, Rachel

Kate Banks Frances Foster Books

Fourteen-year-old Rachel remembers little about her brother, Jake, except that he died in a car accident when she was seven and he was seventeen. Her parents...

Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library
School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers

Booklist
Bulletin-Center for Children's Books
Kirkus Reviews
Publishers Weekly
School Library Journal
VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates)

Bonus

Awards

Trade Paperback :
$6.99 Buy

Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star

Randy Powell Sunburst Paperbacks

Grady is skateboarding toward a major decision No longer able to live with his grandmother, fifteen-year-old Grady Grennan has to find a new address. one...

American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults

Bonus

Hardcover :
$16.00 Buy

When Ratboy Lived Next Door

Chris Woodworth Farrar, Straus and Giroux

From the spring day in 1962 when Willis Merrill and his pet raccoon arrive in Maywood, Indiana, they are nothing but trouble for Lydia Carson. Lydia...

IRA Children's Book Award Notable Book
Georgia Children’s Book Award Master List (University of GA)
Missouri Mark Twain Award Master List
South Carolina Children's Book Award Master List

Booklist
Bulletin-Center for Children's Books
Kirkus Reviews
School Library Journal

Bonus

Awards

Hardcover : $14.95 Buy	Jellybeans Sylvia Van Ommen, illustrated by the author Roaring Brook Press George, a young rabbit, gets a message from his pal Oscar, a cat. "How about going to the park to eat jellybeans?" And so the two friends meet up and have a...

Hardcover :
$16.99 Buy

Julia's Kitchen

Brenda A. Ferber Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Cara Segal is a born worrier. She figures her worrying works like a whisper in God’s ear – if Cara’s concerned about car crashes, kidnappings, or murders, she...

Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
Children’s Crown Collection (National Christian Schools Association)
Sydney Taylor Award
VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers
Alabama Children's Choice Book Award Master List
Indiana Young Hoosier Award Master List
Iowa Children's Choice Award Master List
Kansas William Allen White Award Master List

Booklist
Bulletin-Center for Children's Books
Chicago Tribune
Kirkus Reviews
Publishers Weekly
School Library Journal

Bonus

Hardcover :
$16.00 Buy

Friends of the Heart / Amici del Cuore

Kate Banks Frances Foster Books

A friendship transcends distance and time Ollie is a great whistler, while Lucrezia can’t whistle at all. Ollie has traveled the world, but Lucrezia is afraid...

Excerpt: Read

Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year

Booklist
Bulletin-Center for Children's Books
Horn Book
Kirkus Reviews
VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates)

Bonus

Awards

Hardcover : $16.95 Buy	Drawing the Ocean Carolyn MacCullough Roaring Brook Press A gifted painter, Sadie comes from California to Connecticut determined to fit in at her new school. Yet her first attempt at making friends in the new town...

Hardcover :
$16.95 Buy

Hummingbird

Kimberly Greene Angle Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Twelve-year-old March Anne Tanner’s life is tied to the simple rhythms and cycles of the watermelon farm in Jubilee, Georgia, that she has grown up on. Thanks...

More Formats: eBook

Georgia Children’s Book Award Master List (University of GA)

Booklist
Kirkus Reviews
VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates)

Bonus

Hardcover :
$16.95 Buy

Jimmy's Stars

Mary Ann Rodman Farrar, Straus and Giroux

It’s September 1943, and eleven-year-old Ellie McKelvey’s older brother, Jimmy, has just been drafted. Jimmy has a joyful heart and a kind word for everyone,...

More Formats: eBook

Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
CCBC Choice (Univ. of WI)
NCSS-CBC Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies
Hawaii Nene Book Award Master List

Booklist
Booklist
Bulletin-Center for Children's Books
Kirkus Reviews
School Library Journal

Bonus

Awards

Hardcover :
$16.95 Buy

Head Case

Sarah Aronson A Deborah Brodie Book

ONE MISTAKE. ONE BAD NIGHT. ONE TOO MANY DRINKS. A powerful and heartbreaking debut novel about a guy who had it all...until he drank that fifth beer and...

American Library Association Quick Picks for Young Adults

Bonus

Awards

Hardcover :
$16.99 Buy

Little Audrey

Ruth White Farrar, Straus and Giroux

“What else would you wish for?” Daddy says. “If you could have anything in the world, what would you wish for?” I shrug. “Oh, I don’t know. Maybe . . .”...

More Formats: eBook

Excerpt: Read

IRA Notable Books for a Global Society
Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
CCBC Choice (Univ. of WI)
Booklinks Lasting Connection
Booklist Editors' Choice
Arizona Grand Canyon Young Readers Master List

Booklist
Bulletin-Center for Children's Books
Kirkus Reviews
Publishers Weekly
School Library Journal
VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates)

Bonus

Awards

Hardcover :
$17.99 Buy

The Beginner's Guide to Living

Lia Hills Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Seven days after his mother dies in a sudden, senseless accident, seventeen-year-old Will embarks on a search for meaning that leads him to the great...

Excerpt: Read

Trade Paperback :
$8.99 Buy

Give Up the Ghost

Megan Crewe Square Fish

Cass McKenna prefers the friendship of ghosts because they’re uncomplicated and dependable, and they know the dirt on everybody....

More Formats: eBook

Bulletin-Center for Children's Books
Kirkus Reviews
Publishers Weekly
School Library Journal

Bonus

Discussion Guides

Hardcover : $16.95 Buy	The Road to Home MJ Auch Henry Holt and Co. Following Journey to Nowhere and Frozen Summer, this is the third novel in a powerful American pioneer trilogy. "I knew I couldn't count on Papa any more,...

Hardcover : $17.95 Buy	The Doll with the Yellow Star Yona Zeldis McDonough; Illustrated by Kimberly Bulcken Root Henry Holt and Co. A tender story about the power of love in the face of loss Nine-year-old Claudine doesn’t want to leave her much-loved home in France to go live in...

Hardcover : $17.95 Buy	The Bug Cemetery Frances Hill; Illustrated by Vera Rosenberry Henry Holt and Co. A reassuring look at the cycles of life. "When I found a dead ladybug one day, my sister, Wilma, buried it for me. She painted a rock to use as a...

Hardcover : $15.95 Buy	A Hundred Days from Home Randall Wright Henry Holt and Co. An adolescent boy struggles with the loss of one friendship and the flowering of a new one. The mouth of the basin had washed away so that the pool had...

Trade Paperback :
$7.99 Buy

Everett Anderson's Goodbye

Lucille Clifton; Illustrated by Ann Grifalconi Henry Holt and Co.

Everett Anderson's Goodbye is a touching portrait of a little boy who is trying to come to grips with his father's death. Lucille Clifton captures Everett's...

Coretta Scott King Medal, Author
Reading Rainbow Featured Book
NCSS-CBC Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies

Assoc. for Childhood Educ. International
Booklist
Bulletin-Center for Children's Books
Elementary School Library Collection
NCTE
Publishers Weekly
School Library Journal

Bonus

Awards

Hardcover :
$16.00 Buy

Behind the Mask

Yangsook Choi Frances Foster Books

Halloween is coming. “What are you going to be?” the children ask one another. Kimin says he will be his grandfather. “Going as an old man is not very scary,”...

Excerpt: Read

Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
NCSS-CBC Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies

Booklist
Kirkus Reviews
New York Times
Publishers Weekly
School Library Journal

Bonus

Awards

Hardcover : $16.00 Buy	Going Under Kathe Koja Frances Foster Books Because all my life had been a chrysalis, with you, Ada and Marshall and our house; even though we did other things and saw other people, the summers at the...

Displaying 1-24 of 84

1 | 2 | 3 | 4