Loss & Grief
Before and After
by Rosellen Brown
Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
The Deep End of the Ocean
by Jacquelyn Mitchard
The Empty Room: Surviving the Loss of a Brother or Sister at Any Age
by Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
Girls
by Frederick Busch
The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
A Map of the World
by Jane Hamilton
Ordinary People
by Judith Guest
Past the Bleachers
by Christopher Bohjalian
River, Cross My Heart
by Breena Clarke
The Sweet Hereafter
by Russell Banks
Visions of Gerard
by Jack Kerouac
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
You Remind Me of Me
by Dan Chaon
Foster Care/Adoption
The Bean Trees
by Barbara Kingsolver
A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life
by Dana Reinhardt
Brother and Sister
by Joanna Trollope
The Heart Knows Something Different: Teenage Voices from the Foster Care System
by Al Desetta
The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family
by Dave Pelzer
One Small Boat: The Story of a Little Girl, Lost Then Found
by Kathy Harrison
Orphans of the Living: Stories of America's Children in Foster Care
by Jennifer Toth
A Theory of Relativity
by Jacquelyn Mitchard
White Oleander
by Janet Finch
Coming of Age
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Bastard Out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
by Wallace Stegner
Boys of My Youth
by Jo Ann Beard
Disturbances in the Field
by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Ellen Foster
by Kaye Gibbons
Gapcreek
by Robert Morgan
The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls
Life-Changing Stories of Coming of Age
edited by Thomas Dyja
She’s Come Undone
by Wally Lamb
Sleeping Arrangements
by Laura Shaine Cunningham
This Boy’s Life
by Tobias Wolff
Where the Heart Is
by Billie Letts