Grief and Loss in Teen Fiction
After Eli by Rebecca Rupp
North of Happy by Adi Alsaid
Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer
- Pub Date: 2017
- High School Interest
- Genre: Romance
- See also: Pen Pals, Multiple Narrators
- Juliet leaves letters at her mother's grave, and Declan finds them.
Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner
- Pub Date: 2017
- High School interest
- See also: Guilt, Writers
- A teen loses his three best friends in an accident he may or may not have had a role in.
The Great American Whatever by Tim Federle
- Pub Date: 2016
- High School Interest
- See also: Guilt
- A teen grieves the death of his sister and comes to terms with his role in her death.
The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds
- Pub Date: 2015
- High school Interest
- See also: Set in NYC
- Diversity: African-American characters
Phantom Limbs by Paula Garner
- Pub Date: 2016
- High school interest
- See also: Writers, Coaches/Mentors
- Otis is still grieving the death of his younger brother three years later.
What I Leave Behind by Alison McGhee
- Pub Date: 2018
- High school interest
- See also: Guilt
- Will grieves his father's death by suicide and feels guilty over their final interaction.
The Taxonomy of Love by Rachael Allen
- Pub Date: 2018
- High school interest
- Hope's sister dies unexpectedly, and Hope has a difficult time with her grief.
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