Grief and Loss in Teen Fiction

After Eli by Rebecca Rupp

• Pub Date: 2012
• Middle school interest
• See also in Children's: Summer Vacation, Military 

North of Happy by Adi Alsaid

• Pub date: 2017
• High School Interest
• Diversity: Mexican teen
• See also: Finding Yourself through Travel, Food/Cooking, Mentors/Coaches, Forbidden Romance
• A teen takes a sudden trip after his brother dies and finds himself working at a restaurant and loving it. 

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.