Crisis Fiction

Contributor's Form (list #40)

?. About David. (Teen commits suicide.)
• ?. First One Foot, Then the Other.
• ?. Tunafish Thanksgiving.
• Adler, C.S. Tuna Fish Thanksgiving. (4th and up)
• Bauer, Marion Dane. On My Honor.
• Blue, ?. A month of Sundays.
• Blume, Judy. It's not the end of the world.
• Blume, Judy. Tiger Eyes.
• Brown, Larry. Dinosaurs Divorce. (Easy)
• Byars, Betsy. Pinballs.
• Dana, ?. Necessary Parties. (divorce)'
• Danziger, Paula. Amber Brown Goes Fourth. (2nd and up)
• de Paola, Tomie. Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs.
• Hermes, ?. You Shouldn't Have to Say Goodbye.
• Hermes, Patricia. Mama, Let's Dance.
• Johnston, ?. Hero of Lesser Causes.
• LeShan, Eda. What's Going to Happen to Me? (3rd and up)
• Lowry, Lois. Summer to Die. (upper grades)
• Mann, ?. My dad lives in a downtown hotel.
• Park, Barbara. Don't Make Me Smile.
• Park, Barbara. Mick Harte Was Here.
• Paterson, Katharine. Great Gilly Hopkins.
• Pfeffer, ?. Make Believe.
• Philbrick, ?. Freak the Mighty.
• Rucks, Ivy. Night of the Twister.
• Smith, Robert Kimmel. The Squeaky Wheel.
• Stinson, Kathy. Mom and Dad Don't Live Together Any More.
• Stowe, Cynthia. Home Sweet Home, Good-bye. (4th and up)
• Taylor, Theodore. The Cay.
• Voigt, Cynthia. Homecoming, Dicey's Song.

  Bibliotherapy Sites:
  http://www.netscope.net/~gkcruey/btchart.htm
  http://literary.com/gsinc/pages/p83.html

  Reference Books:
  A to Z Subject Access to Childrens's Books (Bowker). Guide to picturebooks treating death, sickness, divorce, and other crises.
  The BookFinder (American Guidance Service). Guide to children's literature about needs & problems of youth aged 2-18. Elaborate reviews and usage ideas.