Parental Death - (It Happened to Me) by Michelle Shreeve (Hardcover)

About the Book

This book aims to show young adults how to cope with losing a parent at an early age. It includes discussions of various types of loss and how those particular dynamics can affect individuals. The book also includes insights from other teens who have lost a parent and provides...

Book Synopsis

This book aims to show young adults how to cope with losing a parent at an early age. It includes discussions of various types of loss and how those particular dynamics can affect individuals. The book also includes insights from other teens who have lost a parent and provides various sources that young people can consult.

Review Quotes

Parental Death is a compassionate resource that addresses topics often ignored in the midst of chaos, grief, and uncertainty. Teens struggling with the death of a parent will find the reading sensitive to their needs. This book offers insightful case studies that provide support to teen readers whose coping skills may be underdeveloped and who feel overwhelmed by new and raw emotions. The author, Michelle Shreeve, offers thoughtful and authentic advice, having lost her own parent while still a young child . . . The book's transition points and organization are flawless . . . Parental Death: The Ultimate Teen Guide is an essential bookstore offering for self-help shelves. Public, high school, middle school, and college libraries will benefit by including this book in their collection.

Teens grappling with the death of a parent will find validation and solace in these pages. Written with the kind of authority and compassion that surfaces only when an author has navigated similar challenges, this book will be a steady, fortifying companion.

The author has created a book filled with practical and readily accessible advice, illustrated with personal stories--drawn from her own past experience and those of other youth--and supplemented with expert opinion.

About the Author

Michelle Shreeve holds two undergraduate degrees in psychology as well as two master's degrees in English and creative writing. She has written columns and journalism pieces, as well as movie and book reviews, for various newspapers, magazines, and online blog sites.