There are many helpful books that were created JUST FOR SIBLINGS to help you get through this difficult time. Here is a list of the books and journals SuperSibs! sends out once we are notified that your brother or sister has died:

Books For Young Siblings:
  1. "The Empty Place"
    by Roberta Temes, PhD (New Horizon Press)
    A young child's book to guide through grief

  2. "My Grieving Journey Book"
     by Donna and Eve Shavatt (Paulist Press)
    A journal for young children
Books For Teen Siblings:
  1. "Fire in My Heart, Ice in My Veins"
    by Enid Samuel-Traisman, MSW (Centering Corporation)

  2. "Facing Change"
     by Donna O’Toole (Compassion Books, Inc.)
    A book about loss and change for teens

Let us know what you think of these books. What pages were especially helpful to you? What other books helped with this loss in your life? (click here to email SuperSibs!)

Other Non Fiction Books:
  1. "Children Are Not Paper Dolls"
    by Erin Linn Levy
    This is a book of drawings and quotations from young siblings who are bereaved. They talk about their personal experiences of loss, hearing the news, what the funeral was like, how they reacted, how their families changed, their feelings of guilt and sorrow, and what helped them to heal. A good resource for bereaved siblings of all ages.

  2. "Losing Someone You Love: When a Brother or Sister Dies"
     by Elizabeth Richter
    True stories written by surviving siblings age 10-24. For all ages.

  3. "Straight from the Siblings : Another Look at the Rainbow"
     by Gerald Jamplosky
    With drawings and quotes from bereaved brothers and sisters, the editor creates a touching memorial to the love between siblings. The book brings out not only the sadness, but also the difficult feelings, such as jealousy and guilt, that trouble the survivors. Any bereaved sibling reading this book will come away feeling included in its pages. It is full of hope and appropriate for readers of all ages.
Other Fiction Books:
  1. "Eighty-Eight Steps to September: A Novel"
    by Jan Marino
    Eleven-year-old Amy fights and plays with her 13-year-old brother Robbie like any sister. When he is hospitalized with leukemia, she stubbornly believes he will come home. Before he dies, she is able to fulfill his final wish.

  2. "Mourning Song"
     by Lurlene McDaniel
    Dani's older sister Cassie has a brain tumor, and Dani is determined to fulfill her sister's last wish before she dies.

  3. "Phoenix Rising : Or How to Survive Your Life"
     by Cynthia D. Grant
    When her 18-year-old sister Helen dies of cancer, Jessie (Helen's younger sister) begins reading Helen's journal. As the story unfolds, moving between Helen's journal entries and Jessie's telling of the story, the reader is drawn into Helen's struggle with dying and Jessie's struggle with staying alive

  4. "Something for Joey"
     by Richard E. Peck
    A fictionalized true story of football star John Cappelletti who made touchdowns as medicine for his younger brother Joey, who was suffering from leukemia and died in 1976.