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1) Death Is Stupid by Anastasia Higginbotham

This is a book talks about how would you feel, what would people do, what should you do to make yourself feel better when someone important to you died. The author made this book by hand.

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Death Is Stupid has 205 ratings and 67 reviews. Dana said: A lovely, realistic book about death for children that isn't full of platitudes and fluffy clo...

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1) The Night Dad Went To Jail by Melissa Higgins

Balley's dad went to jail because he have broken a law. Balley felt embarrassed in school and felt everything was all messed up. After the school counselor, the social worker, and the mentor's help, he started to feel better and working on forgiving his dad

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The Night Dad Went to Jail: What to Expect When Someone You Love Goes to Jail (Life's Challenges)

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The Night Dad Went to Jail: What to Expect When Someone You Love Goes to Jail (Life's Challenges) [Higgins, Melissa, Wednesday Kirwan] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Night Dad Went to Jail: What to Expect When Someone You Love Goes to Jail (Life's Challenges)

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1) I Love You Like Crazy Cakes by Rose Lewis

This story starts with a baby girl, who lived in a big room with many other babies in China, was missing a mother. Far away across the ocean, in America, was a woman who has everything but still feels like missing something- a baby. The woman decided to adopt a baby. Soon, she flied all the way to China and brought the baby back. No matter why the baby's birth mother could not keep her, the woman would always love her.

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children's / teenage fiction: short stories

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early learning / early learning concepts

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juvenile fiction / action & adventure / general

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juvenile fiction / people & places / united states / asian american

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juvenile fiction/people & places - united states - asian american

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I Love You Like Crazy Cakes [Rose A. Lewis, Jane Dyer] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. This story of a woman who travels to China to adopt a baby girl, based on the author's own experiences

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1) On the Day His Daddy Left by Eric J. Adams and Kathleen Adams

On the day Danny's daddy left, he wrote down a secret question with his favorite purple maker then fold it carefully and slipped it in his pocket. The question was "Is it my fault?" After assured from his teacher, friend, and both of his parents, he finally believed the answer "NO!"

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on the day his daddy left (albert whitman prairie books)

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juvenile fiction / family / marriage & divorce

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On the Day His Daddy Left (Albert Whitman Prairie Books)

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Like many children, Danny is afraid his parents' divorce is his fault. So on the day his daddy leaves, Danny writes a secret question on a slip of paper: Is it my fault? He shows the question to his teacher, his friend, and his dad and mom.

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2) What's Heaven? by Maria Shriver

Kate, a little girl, whose great-grandma has died and gone to heaven. She doesn't know what is heaven. She figure out this question by asking all kinds of questions to her mom. This book taught children how to feel closer to one another and peace.

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Maria Shriver, Author, Sandra Speidel, Illustrator St. Martin's Press $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-307-44043-3

More By and About This Author

According to Shriver, the death of her famous grandmother, Rose Kennedy, and its effect on Shriver's daughters, then five and six, occasioned this book, a series of conversations between a girl named Kate and her mother about the death and funeral of Kate's great-grandmother. The storytelling framework can be bumpy (""[Kate] was the kind of girl whose beautiful eyes sparkled when she talked""), and Speidel's (Songs for the Seasons) idealized pastels of mother, child, fluffy clouds and prim angels, while pretty in a conventional way, don't advance the text or open it more widely to children. However, the exchange between fictional mother and daughter is unusually honest and attentive to children's concerns. Kate wants to know just where heaven is (""If heaven's in the sky, then how come I can't see it?"") and just how Great-grandma got there (""Do the angels just take you through the ceiling and through the sky?""). Kate's reactions to the funeral are the common ones (""Why are we going to [bury Great-grandma in a box]?... What if she wants to get out?"" and ""Why did Great-grandma look so different?""), and they are met with sympathetic, reasonably clear explanations about the difference between souls and bodies. Shriver describes heaven in nondenominational terms, with more emphasis on angels than on God, and she leaves plenty of room for other schools of thought (""Some people believe in different kinds of heaven and have different names for it""). If its structure and overlong text make this book awkward for sharing directly with a child, its content serves as an excellent model for parents. All ages. (Mar.)

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Children's Book Review: What's Heaven? by Maria Shriver, Author, Sandra Speidel, Illustrator St. Martin's Press $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-307-44043-3

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Maria Shriver, Author, Sandra Speidel, Illustrator St. Martin's Press $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-307-44043-3 More By and About This Author According to Shriver, the death of her famous grandmother, Rose Kennedy, and its effect on Shriver's daughters, then five and six, occasioned this book, a series of conversations between a girl named Kate and her mother about the death and funeral of Kate's great-grandmother.

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3) The saddest Time by Norma Simon

This book contains three short stories about death in three situations: illness, accident and old and weakness. These stories provide different ways help children to feel better. Talking and crying may be good ways to made people feel better

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The Saddest Time has 13 ratings and 3 reviews. Christy said: Explains death as the inevitable end of life and provides three situations in which children...

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2) Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart by Vera B. Wiiliams

This book told the story of Amber and Essie in poems and pictures. Amber and Essie are sisters. Their father has been sent to jail and their mom is often working hard. While their parents can't take care of them, they have each other and they support each other.

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essie was smart - the story of amber and essie told here in poems and pictures by vera b. williams - paperback

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Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart - The Story of Amber and Essie Told Here in Poems and Pictures By Vera B. Williams - Paperback, First Scholastic Edition, 1st Printing 2002

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Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart - The Story of Amber and Essie Told Here in Poems and Pictures By Vera B. Williams - Paperback, First Scholastic Edition, 1st Printing 2002 on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.

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4) I Miss You by Pat Thomas

This book provides children a first look at death. It tells children that people die for different reasons. They may miss them and feel as if their heart has been torn in two. It may took time some time to get over the bad feelings. People may have different beliefs about what happens after the person died. But no matter what, your life still goes on.

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I Miss You has 192 ratings and 29 reviews. When a close friend or family member dies, it can be difficult for children to express their feelings. This bo...

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2) Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born by Jamie Lee Curtis

By asking "Tell me again..." about everything happened on the first day the little girl was born, she can feel the love from the adoptive parents. Even if her birth mother who was too young to keep her and gave her to the adoptive parents, she would not get less love than children who lived with their birth mother. This story contains the whole process about the adoption of the little girl.

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Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born

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Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell, the New York Times bestselling team behind Today I Feel Silly and I'm Gonna Like Me, bring us a tender and funny picture book for every parent and child. Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born is a special celebration of the love and joy an ad...

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5) The Invisible String by Patrice Karst

Liza and Jeremy are twins. They were worried about how would they and their mom be always together when their mom was not next to them. Their mom told them that there will always be the invisible string, which made with love, connecting them with the people they loved no matter where they are.

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The Invisible String has 734 ratings and 66 reviews. Camie said: Buying copies of this cute children's book for several Grandchildren that have recently ...

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6) Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
Caitlin is an eleven-year-old girl with Autism. After her brother died in the tragedy, she lost her rock in the life and her dad were stuck with the sadness. With Caitlin's efforts, she and her dad finished her brother’s uncompleted Eagle Scout Chest and share it with the whole community. Furthermore, their work also helped the community found Closure.

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Mockingbird has 24,469 ratings and 3,734 reviews. Nicola said: Reason for Reading: I have Asperger's and when I saw a book that featured a female protago...

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2) I Don't Want To Talk About It by Jeanie Franz Ransom

When the little girl's parents tell her that they are getting divorce, she felt mad, sad, scared and did not want to talk about it. After making sure that no matter how many changes there would be, their loves would still remain the same, she felt much better. The author used a lot of animals to describe how does the little girl feel. This may give the readers more sense about what does the feelings are like.

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children's / teenage personal & social issues: divorce

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After reluctantly talking with her parents about their upcoming divorce, a young girl discovers that there will be some big changes but that their love for her will remain the same. Includes an afterword for parents on helping children through such a change.After reluctantly talking with her pare...

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3) Far Apart, Close in Heart by Becky Birtha

This book contains all kinds of feelings and questions from children when their parents are incarcerated. Different children may have different feelings with the same situation. The best method for these children to get through is to talk with someone they trust about how they feel. It would be good for the children to keep in touch with their parents even if they were in prison. Reading this book can reassure the children that they are not the only one in this kind of situation.

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Far Apart, Close in Heart has 129 ratings and 35 reviews. Children can experience many emotions when a parent is in jail or prison. They may be angry, sa...

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3) Star Of The Week by Darlene Friedman

It was Cassidy-Li's turn to be the Star of the Week. She would need to bring a poster that tells her story and also some snack for the class. When her poster was almost done, she found something was missing- a picture of her birthparents. Sometimes she missed them, she was also curious about them. Her parents tell her that it doesn't matter how families formed, families are families. At last, she drew a picture of her imaginative birthparents and shared proudly with the class.

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children's / teenage fiction: family & home stories

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children's / teenage fiction: school stories

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children's / teenage personal & social issues: family issues

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family & home stories (children's / teenage)

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juvenile fiction / family / general (see also headings under social themes)

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juvenile fiction / people & places / asia

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juvenile fiction / social themes / emotions & feelings

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juvenile fiction / social themes / emotions & feelings

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children's / teenage fiction: family & home stories

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children's / teenage fiction: school stories

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family & home stories (children's / teenage)

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Star of the Week: A Story of Love, Adoption, and Brownies with Sprinkles

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It's Cassidy-Li's turn to be Star of the Week at school! So she's making brownies and collecting photos for her poster. She has pictures of all the important people in her life-with one big exception. Cassidy-Li, adopted from China when she was a baby, doesn't have a photo of he...

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4) Visiting Day by Jacqueline Woodson

On the visiting day, the little girl and her grandma take the long ride bus to the prison to visit her dad. Only on this day she get chance to tell her dad everything that happened over the month. They count their blessings and love each other while waiting for the day her father comes back.

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family & home stories (children's / teenage)

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juvenile fiction / holidays & celebrations / other

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juvenile fiction / social themes / emotions & feelings

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juvenile fiction / social themes / general (see also headings under family)

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juvenile fiction/holidays & celebrations - other

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juvenile fiction/social themes - general

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juvenile fiction / holidays & celebrations / other

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juvenile fiction / social themes / general (see also headings under family)

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In this moving picture book from multi-award winning author Jacqueline Woodson, a young girl and her grandmother prepare for a very special day--the one day a month they get to visit the girl's father in prison. "Only on visiting day is there chicken frying in the kitchen at 6 a.m, and Grand...

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3) Divorce Is The Worst by Anastasia Higginbotham

This book showed that you may feel confused, betrayed, heartbroken, angry and guilty when you know your parents are getting divorce. You may experience a lot of changes. Although you may feel like being pulled in two different directions at once, you stay in one piece.

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Divorce Is the Worst has 69 ratings and 18 reviews. Becky said: I am not a child of divorce. I'm just a youth services librarian trying to make sure ther...

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5)  Ruby on the Outside by Nora Raleigh Baskin

Ruby Danes, an eleven-year-old girl, has a secret that she keeps deeply in her for years-her mother is in prison. She is going to middle school and finally has a real best friend for the first time ever. She was struggling whether to tell her best friend the secret or not. She is afraid that once she tells the truth, she will lose everything.

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simon & schuster books for young readers

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children's / teenage fiction & true stories

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juvenile fiction / social themes / friendship

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Ruby's mom is in prison, and to tell anyone the truth is to risk true friendship in this novel that accurately and sensitively addresses a subject too often overlooked-from the author of The Summer Before Boys.Eleven-year-old Ruby Danes is about to start middle school, and only her au...

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4) Half a World Away by Cynthia Kadohata

A twelve-year-old boy, Jaden, was adopted at the age of 8. He doesn't feel the connection to anyone so he lights fires, steals, and hoards food. His birthmother didn't want him. When his adoptive parents said they love him, he doesn't believed. Then, his adoptive parents decided to adopt another kids from Kazakstan, which Jaden thought it was because he is not a good one. Because of some process issue, the baby they travelled for has already been adopted by another family. While his adoptive parents were choosing another baby, Jaden seemed more interested in the weak toddler with the special need, Dimash. By interacting with Dimash, Jaden learned how to love again

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Half a World Away has 1,325 ratings and 279 reviews. Scooping it Up said: I am shocked by the low average rating on this book. Written from the perspec...

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6) The Same Stuff as Stars by Katherine Paterson

Angel is an eleven-year-old girl whose father is in jail and her mother abandoned her and her little brother at their great-grandmother's crumbling farmhouse. She struggled to take care of her stubborn little brother and the frail great-grandmother. The only bright spot in Angel's life was the mysterious stranger who teaches her all about the stars on clear nights.

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children's picture books & activity books

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juvenile fiction / family / general (see also headings under social themes)

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juvenile fiction / family / multigenerational

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2013 Laura Ingalls Wilder AwardAngel Morgan needs help. Daddy is in jail, and Mama has abandoned her and her little brother, leaving them with their great-grandmother. Grandma is aged and poor, and doesn't make any attempt to care for the children-that's left up to Angel, even t...

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4) Fred Stays With Me! by Nancy Coffelt

This story tells a little girl who sometimes lives with her mom, sometimes lives with her dad. Despite of having two homes, she always brings her dog, Fred, with her. Fred is the one who is constantly stays in her life.

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Fred Stays With Me! has 1,477 ratings and 159 reviews. Amie said: Fred Stays With Me! is a cute story about a girl who sometimes stays with her dad and s...

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5) Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson

Lonnie, a twelve-year-old boy, is finally starting to feel at home with his foster family. After his parents were died, he had been lived apart from his little sister, Lili. Because they were living in two different foster home, Lonnie decided to write down everything in letters so he can remembered and shared with his sister once they met again after they grow up.

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Peace, Locomotion Reprint Edition by Woodson, Jacqueline (2010)

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Peace, Locomotion Reprint Edition by Woodson, Jacqueline (2010) on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.

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6) One For The Murphys by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Carley, the twelve-year-old girl, was learned to be tough. She never expected that a betrayal would lead her in foster care. She doesn't believed that a happy family would really exist. By living with the Murphys, a lively family with three boys, she changed from keeping distance to people to experience loved.

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family & home stories (children's / teenage)

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juvenile fiction / social issues / self-esteem & self-reliance

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juvenile fiction / family / orphans & foster homes

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juvenile fiction / social themes / self-esteem & self-reliance

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personal & social issues: family issues (children's / teenage)

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personal & social issues: self-awareness & self-esteem (children's / teenage)

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social themes - self-esteem & self-reliance

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social themes - self-esteem & self-reliance

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personal & social issues: family issues (children's / teenage)

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personal & social issues: self-awareness & self-esteem (children's / teenage)

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From the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Fish in a Tree! Carley uses humor and street smarts to keep her emotional walls high and thick. But the day she becomes a foster child, and moves in with the Murphys, she's blindsided. This loving, bustling family shows Carle...

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5) Dinosaurs Divorce by Laurene Krasny Brown and Marc Brown

This book is a guidance for children to explore what is going to happen when parents get divorce. It contains all situations that children may experience. Divorce may cause lots of changes in the family; but, the parents' love would never change.

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dinosaurs divorce: a guide for changing families

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juvenile nonfiction / family / marriage & divorce

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juvenile nonfiction / social topics / self-esteem & self-reliance

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Dinosaurs Divorce: A Guide for Changing Families

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For over 25 years, changing families have been using Dinosaurs Divorce to learn to talk to each other about one of life's most difficult moments, from the creators of the beloved, bestselling Dino Life Guides--over half a million copies of the series sold.Dinosaurs Divorce Will Help you Understan...

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1) Adopt America Network

This website includes the successful cases of the adoption. By reading the cases, students can get more understandings about how is the adoption like.

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Our adoption stories are proof of the value of special needs and disabled child adoption. Open your heart and home to a special needs child today.

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6) Daddy's Getting Married by Jennifer Moore-Mallinos

When the little girl's parents got divorced, it took her a while to get use to it. She was so mad and upset that she even act badly and hope her parents would get back together. One day, her dad introduced a "friend" of him to her and she tried hard to be mean to scare her away. Soon later, his dad is going to married that lady which broken her dreams of her daddy and mommy get back together as the family. Her parent let her know that they would always be her parents and nobody could ever replace them. Now, she is happy to have Mommy, Daddy, and Cindy.

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Daddy's Getting Married (Let's Talk) [Jennifer Moore-Mallinos] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. 'Daddy's Getting Married' encourages boys and girls to understand that a parent who remarries will continue to love them and look after them.

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1) Little Children, Big Challenges: Divorce

This is the website from Sesame Street. There are videos that made by them which talks about one of the character's parents got divorce. There are also videos from children in real life who are in this situation shared their feelings, what do they know, and how do they get through the sadness. No matter what happened, parents would always love their children, this would be a concept that would never change.

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We offer tips, strategies, and activities to help with the difficult challenges that come with divorce.

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2) Foster families

This is the website from KidsHealth. This article tells the readers lots of information about foster families. It includes about "what is the foster families", "who can be a foster parent", " what happen when a kid goes to a foster family" and etc.

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Some kids live with foster families, who provide a safe place for kids to be cared for. Let's find out more.

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2) A Kid's Guide to Divorce

In this article, it tells children that divorce is the thing between moms and dads. Children would not fixed the problem for the parents. Neither behaved well or badly would change the parents' decision of divorce. Children can found some adults that they trust to talk about their feelings. However, the most important thing children should do would be: be themselves.

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Divorce is tough for everyone involved, including kids. Find out more in this article.

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1) Sharing their love with others

Have the students make some cards to encourage the kids in foster home and donate some toys that they don't play anymore. Send these cards and donations to the foster home or orphanage to share their loves.

2) Readers Theatre

After reading One For The Murphys, students can works in groups to do Readers Theatre. They would pick one scene in the story that they like most and write their own scripts according to the story basis. With writing their scripts, they can think about what the character may say or experience, and what do they feel at that moment.

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1) Classroom discussion:

Showed the short video about Kids Talked About: Marriage and Divorce. Have the students to share their ideas about marriage and divorce. Then, lead a discussion about their suggestions of what should parents do to make the kids feel better.

http://kidshealth.org/en/kids/talkabout-marriage.html

2) Read-aloud- It's Not Your Fault, Koko Bear by Vicki Lansky

By reading this book, discuss questions about "divorce" with the students. Some students may have experience or experiencing this situation, they can also share their thoughts during reading the book. It is really important for children to talk to someone about their feelings and confusion.

3) Rewriting the story

Most of the books talks about how does the children feel when their parents divorce. Ask the students to rewrite the story about "Daddy's Getting Married" from the father's perspective. Students can also try to write from the "Daddy's friend's" perspective.

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1) When Somebody Dies

This is a website called KidsHealth. It had lots of articles that talks about health. It also has articles that are talking about death. One of them was When Somebody Dies. It contains topics about "When — and How — Does It Happen?", "Where Do Dead People Go?", "What Does Grieving Mean?" and etc. Another article is Somebody In My Friend's Family Died. What Should I Do? This talks about how can students help when their friend is feeling grieve.

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It's difficult, even for grownups, to understand why death must happen. It may be the hardest thing of all to understand. We'll try to help you understand a little bit more in this article for kids.

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1) Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration

This is a website from Sesame Street. It contains videos about  how children may feel when their parents go to jail, why that happened, and what should they do. It also contains some interviews about some kids who have parents in prison. This is a great website with plenty of informations for students to explore about incarceration.

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Help little ones build the skills they need to tackle any challenge with confidence.

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2) The Most Emotional Cartoon Deaths

Cartoons often contain death in part of the story. This website collects lots of the cartoon that include death scenes. Students can compare the differences between each cartoon and find the feelings that are familiar to them. Most of the cartoons also create the ideas that facing death can make people become stronger.

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There are few things more heartbreaking than the ending of Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark." Back in 1999, before Fry was frozen (and then defrosted a thousand years later), Fry gave his faithful canine pal one last command - to wait in front of Panucci's Pizza until he returned. And wait he did. Scruffy little Seymour waited in that very spot, day after day, season after season, year after year, until his dying day, as revealed in a conclusion so poignant, most Futurama fans don't even like to talk about it.

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Cartoon death scenes are quite common, even though animation is often thought to be kid's stuff. Animated characters die in movies and on TV with surprising regularity and poignance. The finality and sadness of death is a powerful and emotional thing, and as it turns out, not even cartoon cha...

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1) Multimodel Response:

Let the children use Glogster or Storybird to share about how they feel when someone they loved pass away. Students can pick colors, patterns, pictures, and words to express their feelings. Share their feeling with each other and they may find people that have the same feelings. Sometime, by watching others work can clear some of the students' own confusions.

2) Writing Poems:

Have the students write poems to describe their beliefs about what happen after the person they loved died. After writing the poem, students can read it to the whole class and share their thoughts to the others.

3) Making poster

Students can create a poster about one person that they missed a lot. By making the poster, students can make connections to the person that is passed away. With all these connections they make, they may feel better because students can feel that the person still lives in their heart. Also, by sharing their works with others, students would know that they were not the only one who lost their loved.

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2) Angel Tree

Angel Tree is a program of Prison Fellowship. Children whose parents were in prison often would wondered if their parents still love them. This program helps the parents that were in the prison to give out Christmas gifts to their children. With their help, children feel their parents love and would feel less loneliness during the time that everyone is gathering with their family.

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Angel Tree is a program of Prison Fellowship that connects parents in prison with their children through the delivery of Christmas gifts. In most cases, local church volunteers purchase and deliver gifts and the Gospel to children in the name of their prisoner-parent.

Many churches make an annual commitment to this highly rewarding program, and recognize it as a way to care for some of the most overlooked members of our communities.

The Process

Angel Tree Christmas begins when a church member registers their church for the program with the support of their pastor or other church leader(s). Once a church is registered, the process works like this:

Receive Angel Tree Names: Sometime in the fall, Angel Tree coordinators will receive the name, caregiver, and contact information of children who were signed-up by their mom or dad in prison.

Display Angel Tree Name Tags: Angel Tree tags are completed with the name of these children, along with gift suggestions, and are displayed in your church.

Angel Tree Announcement: Church members need to be notified of the program -bulletin, pulpit announcement, bulletin board, etc.-and invited to select names from the Angel Tree display.

Gift purchase and delivery: Church members purchase, wrap, and deliver a gift for each child on behalf of his or her incarcerated parent-and in the process, share the Gospel.

The Costs

The cost of Angel Tree Christmas is minimal - $15-$25 per child. Included with the children's information, we will provide a suggested gift type based on what the prisoner picked out using our gift guide. You will confirm with the child's caregiver that this would be a good gift for the child. This is simply a minimum requirement and churches/volunteers may purchase gift(s) as they are led and see fit.

Getting Started!

Ready for the life-changing adventure of Angel Tree Christmas? Please complete the church registration form or call us at 1-800-55-ANGEL if you have questions. Angel Tree materials will be shipped in September and will include our Quickstart Kit, video, and everything else you need to get started. Additional Angel Tree Coordinator training is available here.
REGISTER FOR ANGEL TREE

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Angel Tree Program - How Does it Work - Prison Fellowship

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Angel Tree is a program of Prison Fellowship that connects parents in prison with their children through the delivery of Christmas gifts. In most cases, local church volunteers purchase and deliver gifts and the Gospel to children in the name of their prisoner-parent.

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1) Literature Circle- Ruby On the Outside

Have the students separate into groups to share their feelings from reading the book. Have them discuss about "If you were Ruby, would they share the fact that your mom is in prison?"

2) Debate-Does everyone who was in the prison "bad"?

Have the students debate about "whether he or she is bad or not?" Lead students to think about some situations that people aren't acting bad; however, they been caught in the prison. By having this sense of ideas, students would be more willing to be friends with the kids that their parents were in prison.