Top Ten Books dealing with Grief or Hard Subjects (Any Choosing)
Flowers for Algernon Deals with what can go horribly wrong when man plays God, and the sadness associated with low intelligence and how they are treated by society.
Speak
Deals with the important issue of rape and bullying in high school
Tiger Eyes
Blume excels with this one - dealing with a teenager and family coming to grips with their father dying
Of Mice and Men
Deals with the frustrations of social classes and poverty
Shutter Island
Deals with repressed memory/trauma, something quite important and tragic
Go Ask Alice
Deals with drug abuse/addiction
The Lovely Bones
How sad! A very realistic, touching book on the families grief of losing their child
It's Not the End of the World
Great for Young Adults when their parents are getting a divorce. A painful subject.
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