The Best Grief And Healing Books for Kids

Summary: Ten-year-old Alice Atherton is sent by her father to spend the summer with his friends the Murphys, who live on the French Riviera with three children and a pet monkey. There she meets some of the era's great figures, hunting a junkyard for art with Pablo Picasso, dancing with the Ballets Russes and dreaming up adventures with Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Summary: On the coldest night of the year, a tiny kitten was stuffed into the book drop of the public library in Spencer, Iowa. The librarians named him Dewey Readmore Books, and for nineteen years he greeted visitors and comforted a farm town through hard times. This middle-grade adaptation of the bestselling memoir Dewey tells his true story, with an eight-page photo insert.