Grief Resources

Websites

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

The Compassionate Friends

What’s Your Grief

Always Andy's Mom

Books

What’s Your Grief by Eleanor Haley and Litsa Williams

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold Kushner

Sunshine After the Storm by Alexa Bigwarfe

The Grieving Brain by Mary-Frances O’Connor

It’s OK That You’re Not OK by Megan Devine

Permission to Mourn: A New Way to Do Grief  by Tom Zuba

Always a Sibling: The Forgotten Mourner's Guide to Grief by Annie Sklaver Orenstein

Rare Bird by Anna Whiston-Donaldson

Grief Book lists

What’s Your Grief book list

Compassionate Friends book list

Middle grade books on death and grief

Middle grade books on divorce and blended families

Adoption Resources

BOOKS

Beneath the Mask: Understanding Adopted Teens by Debbie Riley

Beneath the Mask: For Teen Adoptees: Teens and Young Adults Share Their Stories

The Whole Me Ellen K Baron

Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge

The Primal Wound Nancy Newton Verrier

All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung (transracial adoptee)

Adoption Unfiltered: Revelations from Adoptees, Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Allies Sara Easterl, Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard, Lori Holden

Pieces of Me: Who do I Want to Be by Robert L. Ballard