[ISLMA-Share] Books dealing with student death

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We lost a brother and sister on the Saturday before the start of the school
year 3 years ago.  It's tough to get through.  Honestly the students are
their own best resources (or at least ours were). They talked, cried,
shared, laughed, remembered, etc. with each other, with the parents, with
all of us. They are remembered often by all of us. There were shirts and
bracelets made and sold in their memory and those brought everyone
together.  Their chairs were empty at their graduations and their parents
acknowledged. We have a memorial bench and tress near the students
entrance. (Sadly, we have several student memorials out there.)

I bought books on grief, but the students and the community were really the
best help for all of us.

It is tough, but just being there for each other is the best "medicine".
Hoping for you and your students.

Leslie Forsman

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I am so sorry for your school's tragic loss.
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> Hello.
>>
>> This weekend, two of our students in the high school where I work passed
>> away in a motorcycle accident. I was wondering if any librarians had
>> suggestions about reading material for teenagers, both fiction and
>> nonfiction, that could help during this very difficult time. If this has
>> happened before at anybody else's school, was there a resource that you
>> found to be helpful or that students appreciated?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Amy Edrington
>> Central A&M High School
>>
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-- 
*Leslie Forsman*
*K-12 Librarian*
*Education to Careers Instructor*
*Quest Instructor*
*Triopia CUSD #27*
*2204 Concord Arenzville Road*
*Concord  IL  62631*
*217-457-2281, x33*
*lforsman at triopiacusd27.org <lforsman at triopiacusd27.org>*
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