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Dealing with Loss
The books in this collection explore challenging concepts like death, grieving and sadness, and are suitable for all ages.
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Have we forgotten that we were once teens ourselves, feeling powerless to change our lives, confused about who we were and what we wanted, and quick to make a move without a thought for the consequences?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey Text Features\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eillustrations\u003cbr\u003ephotographs\u003cbr\u003efurther reading\u003cbr\u003eglossary\u003cbr\u003eresources\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.2\u003cbr\u003eDetermine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.6\u003cbr\u003eDetermine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.8\u003cbr\u003eTrace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:01:12-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:01:12-04:00","vendor":"Groundwood Books Ltd","type":"","tags":["age range 12 - 0","By (author) Ellis Deborah","Childrens Accessible ebooks","Dealing with Loss","Groundwood Books","Lexile measure 800L","Mental Health","Middle Grade","Nonfiction","pub date: 2019-09-01"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1895,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39403365498939,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781773061214","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"My Story Starts Here - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":380,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781773061214","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39411746766907,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781773061344","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"My Story Starts Here - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781773061344","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39411747061819,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781773061351","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"My Story Starts Here - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781773061351","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4309d6cf-9a46-459a-991a-d9ccc10388fd.jpg?v=1622346753"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4309d6cf-9a46-459a-991a-d9ccc10388fd.jpg?v=1622346753","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":20510348804155,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.71,"height":2254,"width":1600,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4309d6cf-9a46-459a-991a-d9ccc10388fd.jpg?v=1622346753"},"aspect_ratio":0.71,"height":2254,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4309d6cf-9a46-459a-991a-d9ccc10388fd.jpg?v=1622346753","width":1600}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeborah Ellis, activist and award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Breadwinner \u003c\/i\u003einterviews young people involved in the criminal justice system and lets them tell their own stories.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJamar found refuge in a gang after leaving an abusive home where his mother stole from him. Fred was arrested for assault with a weapon, public intoxication and attacking his mother while on drugs. Jeremy first went to court at age fourteen (“Court gives you the feeling that you can never make up for what you did, that you’re just bad forever”) but now wears a Native Rights hat to remind him of his strong Métis heritage. Kate, charged with petty theft and assault, finally found a counselor who treated her like a person for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany readers will recognize themselves, or someone they know, somewhere in these stories. Being lucky or unlucky after making a mistake. The encounter with a mean cop or a good one. Couch-surfing, or being shunted from one foster home to another. The kids in this book represent a range of socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations and ethnicities. Every story is different, but there are common threads — loss of parenting, dislocation, poverty, truancy, addiction, discrimination. The book also includes the points of view of family members as well as “voices of experience” — adults looking back at their own experiences as young offenders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost of all, this book leaves readers asking the most pressing questions of all. Does it make sense to put kids in jail? Can’t we do better? 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Unflinching and informative, this volume will appeal to a broad range of readers, and it offers plenty of opportunities for incorporation of diverse viewpoints into curricula …” — \u003cem\u003eBulletin of the Center for Children’s Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It’s heartening that so many of these young people are positive about their lives, no matter how troubled, and about their futures … Ellis’ book is an excellent opportunity for classroom discussion and individual, empathy-inducing reading.” — \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Deborah Ellis and \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKids of Kabul:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“These speakers are not characters, functioning in a plot, but teens’ actual contemporaries, whose voices linger long after the reading.” — \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eIan, 17\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy trouble with the law started in grade four. 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People knew us, got to wondering what we were doing, put two and two together and called the police…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI got into more serious trouble in grade nine. I didn’t like school and skipped it all the time. This one day we skipped classes the whole day then came back into the school at the end of the day to catch the school bus home. We were walking through the halls, goofing around, and we walked right into the principal. We were high. The principal searched us, found our joints and rolling papers.…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat principal never liked me. The police didn’t charge us but the principal suspended us — two months! — for just that little bit of drugs. After the suspension was over, he said he didn’t want us back in his school.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e My parents split up when I was young. It was not a good break-up. Lots of yelling and fighting. It was bad. I went with Mom but she had a breakdown so I couldn’t stay with her. Dad couldn’t take me. 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My foster mom, the one I have now, says I can stay with her even after I turn eighteen. I have a job now at a place that replaces car windshields and I like doing that. Maybe they’ll keep me on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have this thing in my head that tells me that as soon as something good happens, it’s all going to get ruined. It’s hard not to give up on myself. 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ages 12
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My Story Starts Here
Deborah Ellis, activist and award-winning author of The Breadwinner, interviews young people involved in the criminal justice system.
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ages 9
to 12
/ grades 4
to 7
No Ordinary Day
Deborah Ellis, author of The Breadwinner, brings us another feisty young heroine, Valli — an orphan with leprosy who lives on the streets of Kolkata.
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ages 4
to 7
/ grades K
to 2
On the Other Side of the Garden
A loving, empowering story about a girl who finds a way to cope with change.
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ages 10
to 14
/ grades 5
to 9
Parvana’s Journey
This gripping novel and sequel to the international bestseller The Breadwinner tells the story of Parvana's quest to find her family in Afghanistan.
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to 2
Shi-shi-etko
A gently moving and poetic account of a child who finds solace all around her even though she is on the verge of great loss.
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ages 9
to 12
/ grades 4
to 7
The Bird in Me Flies
A prize-winning, illustrated novel in verse about a young girl who dreams of being an artist, inspired by the life of Swedish artist Berta Hansson.
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ages 10
to 14
/ grades 5
to 9
The Breadwinner
"All girls [should read] The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis." — Malala Yousafzai, New York Times
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ages 10
to 14
/ grades 5
to 9
The Breadwinner Trilogy
Bestselling novels The Breadwinner, Parvana's Journey and Mud City have been a phenomenal success, touching the hearts of readers the world over.
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The Cat at the Wall
A remarkable and thought-provoking new novel set on Israel's West Bank, by the author of The Breadwinner.
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Croza’s spare text captures the narrator’s feelings of displacement with poetic immediacy.” — \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eNorthwest Passage\u003c\/em\u003e as seen by Matt James:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“This stunning portrayal of early efforts to explore Canada’s Northwest Passage presents Rogers’ 1981 song in combination with glorious illustrations … Both realistic and allusive, these images are as haunting as the song. 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The Funeral
A child's first experience of death involves love, laughter and some big questions about life.
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Lovely.\" — Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\"With delicate insight and humor, Fleming cleverly unites people — and goats — from vastly different walks of life in an offbeat celebration of courage and individuality.\" — Booklist, STARRED REVIEW\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\"A quirky, riotous story that uses a preposterous conceit to deftly veil much deeper issues and themes.\" — Quill \u0026 Quire, STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Quote_from_review_0":"With delicate insight and humor, Fleming cleverly unites people — and goats — from vastly different walks of life in an offbeat celebration of courage and individuality.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_1":"A quirky, riotous story that uses a preposterous conceit to deftly veil much deeper issues and themes.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_2":"The Goat takes a concept easiest told as zany and madcap, but isntead wisely presents it as perfectly ordinary. 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ages 9
to 11
/ grades 4
to 6
The Goat
A mountain goat living on the roof of a downtown apartment building? It’s too strange, even for Manhattan…
