Benji Davies (Simon & Schuster Children’s Books) Syd and his grandad have always been very close but one day when Syd goes to his house after school, he finds Grandad getting ready for a big adventure. Off they go together, to a beautiful island. But once there, Grandad decides he wants to stay … There is no …
death
Missing Mummy
Rebecca Cobb(Macmillan Children’s Books) Some time ago we said goodbye to Mummy.I am not sure where she has gone. So begins the story in Missing Mummy, a powerful story with a little boy’s journey through grief, understanding and finally acceptance of his mother’s passing at its heart. This heart wrenching story presents the loss of a parent from a child’s …
The Scar
Charlotte Moundlic (text) & Olivier Tallec (illustrations)translated from the French(Walker Books) When his mother dies of what appears to have been a long illness, a little boy is left alone with his grief-stricken father, and struggling to make sense of the void that his mother’s passing has left behind. He closes the windows so the …
Torn
Cat Clarke(Quercus) When Alice is dragged to Scotland with the rest of her classmates for an activity-packed school trip, she is not expecting to have any fun. In fact, she is expecting it to be quite awful, especially when she and best friend Cass finds themselves stuck in a cabin with outcast Polly, quiet emo-girl Rae …
Sky Hawk
Gill Lewis(Oxford University Press) When Callum discovers village outcast Iona on his remote Scottish farmland, he is not to know that his life is going to be turned upside down. Not only because of the friendship he strikes with the little girl, but more so because of the secret she soon shares with him: there …
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
Annabel Pitcher(Orion) Five years ago, Jamie’s sister Rose was killed during a series of simultaneous terrorist attacks in London. Overcome by grief, the family has fallen apart: his mum has left the family for a man whom she has met at a victims’ support group, his dad does nothing but drink all day and Rose’s twin …
Between
Jessica Warman(Egmont) On the dawn of her eighteenth birthday, Elizabeth Valchar wakes on her father’s yacht after a night of partying and walks onto the deck to investigate a noise. She finds herself staring at a dead body in the water. Her own body. Liz is forced to witness her family and friends coming to …