Useful Books

Cancer

  • Afraid to ask: a book for families to share about cancer - Judylaine Fine (William Morrow & Co., 1986)
  • Cancer: The role of genes, lifestyle and environment - Joseph Panno (Facts of File, 2004)
  • Cancer: Understanding illness series (21st Century books, 1997)
  • Coping with Cancer - Holly Cefrey (Rosen Publishing group, 2000)
  • Hard Hit - Ann Warren Turner (Scholastic Press, 2006)
  • Hope was here - Joan Bauer (Speak, 2005)
  • Living with Leukaemia - Patsy Westcolt (Hodder Wayland)
  • Teenagers Face to Face with Cancer - Karen Gravelle, John Bertram (1986)
  • The Chemo Kid - Robert Lipsyte (Harper Collins Children’s Books, 1992)
  • The Specter - Joan Lowry Nixon (Laurel leaf Books, 2001)
  • The Wizard’s Dilemma - Diane Duane (Magic Carpet Books, 2002)
  • The year my mother was bald - Ann Speltz, Kate Sternberg  (Maginahan Press, 2003)
  • What does it mean to be a wheel chair user? (Heinemann Library, 2002)
  • When Your Mum or Dad Has Cancer - Ann Couldrick (High Wycombe, 1997)

 

Other Conditions

  • Going shopping: Sara uses a wheelchair - D Church (Franklin Watts Ltd, 2000)
  • Living with a brother or sister with special needs: a book for sibs - Donald Meyer, Patricia Vadasy (University of Washington Press, 1996)
  • The Diving bell and the butterfly - Jean Dominique Baudy (Collins Educational, 2000)

 

When Somebody Dies

  • A Dragon in Your Heart - Sophie Le Blanc, Jessica Kingsley (1999)
  • Badger’s Parting Gifts - Susan Varley (Picture Lions, 2004)
  • Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson (Puffin, 1995)
  • Chasing Redbird - Sharon Creech (Macmillan, 1997)
  • It Isn’t Easy: Coping with the hardest thing of all – the death of a child - Margaret Connolly (Oxford University Press , 1997)
  • Let’s Talk About When a Parent Dies - Elizabeth Weitzman (Heinemann, 1998)
  • Remembering Granddad :A story about bereavement - Sheila and Kate Isherwood (Oxford University Press, 1999)
  • Remembering mum - Ginny Perkins, Leon Morris (A&C Black, 1996)
  • River Boy - Tim Bowler (Oxford University Press, 1997)
  • Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: how to cope with losing someone you love - Earl Grollman (Beacon, 1993)
  • The Charlie Barber Treatment - Carole Lloyd Walker (1997)
  • The Goodbye Boat - Mary Joslin Lion (1998)
  • Vicky Angel - Jacqueline Wilson (1992)
  • What Do You Know About Death and Dying? - Pete Sanders and Steve Myers (Franklin Watts, 2000)
  • When Parents Die - Rebecca Abrams (Routledge, 1999)