RIYL+Sad+Books


 * Sad Books for Upper Elementary**

The Faithful Elephants by Yukio Tsuchiya The Wall by Eve Bunting Our Tree Named Steve by Alan Zweibel Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco The Greatest Skating Race: A World War II Story from the Netherlands by Louise Borden ||
 * __ Books with pictures: __

Alan and Naomi by Myron Levoy Bambert’s Book of Missing Stories by Reinhardt Jung Black Beauty by Anna Sewell Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson The Cay by Theodore Taylor Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen A Dog’s Life: the Autobiography of a Stray by Ann M. Martin Dicey’s Song by Cynthia Voigt Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles Edward’s Eyes by Patricia MacLachlan Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan Foster’s War by Carolyn Reeder Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis The Giver by Lois Lowry Hans Brinker, or, the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Mick Harte was Here by Barbara Park Missing May by Cynthia Rylant The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo The Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier National Velvet by Enid Bagnold Old Yeller by Fred Gipson The Peppersalt Land by Marilyn Harris Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Sing Down the Moon by Scott O’Dell Something Very Sorry by Bohlmeijer Arno Sounder by William Howard Armstrong Spider Sparrow by Dick King-Smith The Summer of Riley by Eve Bunting A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry You Shouldn’t Have to Say Good-bye by Patricia Hermes Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963: a Novel by Christopher Paul Curtis The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls Compiled by Heidi Snively, Manhattan Beach CA [|www.grandviewlibrary.info] March 2008

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13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher "All We Know of Heaven" by  Jacquelyn Mitchard The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman Before I Die by Jenny Downham //Beowulf// Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen //The Book Thief// by Markus Zusak Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Cheated by Patrick Jones. Deadline by Chris Crutcher Do Angels Sing the Blues by LeMieux An egg on three sticks by Jackie Fischer ELSEWHERE by Gabrielle Zevin //Feed by M. T. Anderson// Finder by Emma Bull The First Part Last by Angela Johnson Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Gemma Doyle series by Libba Bray GUARDIAN by Julius Lester Hanging On To Max by Margaret Bechard Hard Love by Margaret Bechard How We Live Now by Meg Rosoff If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson Imani all mine by Connie Ann Porter Inexcusable by Chris Lynch Invincible Summer by Jean Ferris INSIDE OUT by Terry Trueman Letters from Wolfie by Patti Sherlock Marley and Me: life and love with the world's worst dog [|Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern] by Anne McCaffrey and Michael Whelan "My Sister's Keeper " by Jodi Picoult. NIGHT KITES by M.E. Kerr Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro "Nothing but the truth" by Avi OF MICE AND MEN by Steinbeck “<span class="yshortcuts" style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">One True Thing ,” by Anna Quindlen <span class="yshortcuts" style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none">The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky <span class="yshortcuts" style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none">The Pigman by <span class="yshortcuts" style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none">Paul Zindel <span class="yshortcuts" style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none">A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle Say Goodnight Gracie by Julie Deaver <span class="yshortcuts" style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none">A Separate Peace by <span class="yshortcuts" style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none">John Knowles Sex Education by Jenny Davis <span class="yshortcuts" style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Shattering Glass by Gail Giles Sleeping Dogs by Sonya Hartnett So B. It by Sarah Weeks Surrender by Sonya Hartnett A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Tears of a Tiger by Sharon M. Draper //Thirsty// by M.T. Anderson “Three Little Words” by Ashley Rhodes-Courter <span class="yshortcuts" style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #dceeff">A Time for Dancing by Davida Wills Hurwin //Uprising// by <span class="yshortcuts" style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Margaret Peterson Haddix <span class="yshortcuts" style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none">A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks <span class="yshortcuts" style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Lurlene McDaniel <span class="yshortcuts" style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none">Nicholas Sparks Robert Cormier: Chocolate War, TENDERNESS, WE ALL FALL DOWN, I AM THE CHEESE, and FADE
 * Sad books for YA:**
 * Sad Authors:**

The Darkangel series by <span class="yshortcuts" style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Meredith Ann Pierce
 * Series:**
 * The Darkangel
 * A Gathering of Gargoyles
 * The Pearl of the Soul of the World

FIRE-US trilogy by <span class="yshortcuts" style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #dceeff">Jennifer Armstrong __ The Last Herald-Mage Series __ by Mercedes Lackey
 * The Kindling
 * Keepers of the Flame
 * The <span class="yshortcuts" style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none">Kiln
 * Magic's Pawn
 * Magic's Promise
 * Magic's Price

Updated 08/27/08 with postings from YALSA-BK