Saying Goodbye When You Don't Want to: Teens Dealing with Loss

By Martha Bolton

Book Overview

Teens will find encouragement and hope in these stories by peers who share about their pain from deaths of their parents, siblings and friends, runaways and suicides; divorces and broken... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569552665
• ISBN13: 9781569552667
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Vine Books
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Everyone should read it!

My story is one of the many stories published in this book. When I heard about the opportunity to have my story published in Martha's book I was excited and I knew exactly what I wanted to write about. Greg was a role model for everyone in our school, and when I found out he had been diagnosed with lukemia I was heartbroken. I know I am not the only teenager who has been through something like this. To be able to share my experience with others is great. I hope you all enjoy the book as much as I have. Oh, my story is on page 20!

Sensitive resource for teens in grief

As a high school teacher who loves teens, I well know of the many issues of loss with which they deal during years that are already issue-filled. SAYING GOODBYE is a book they'll find full of help and hope. I recommend it highly to teachers, parents and friends who want to help a teen dealing with loss.

Finally!

Finally! A book for children and teens written by children and teens who know how it feels-because they have been there! For twenty years I counseled with many in this age group who had experienced loss. The author is to be commmended for sensitively covering loss in a language that even young children easily grasp. Thank you Martha, for giving us a recovery tool, written from a Christian prospective, to put in the hands of parents children who are wandering in the widerness of grief.

Great Validation for Bereaved Teens

Martha Bolton has reached into a very difficult subject--grief and loss. We all find loss difficult, but especially teens. As the president of an organization that deals specifically with adoption loss and grief, I am putting Martha's book on my list of recommendations.Martha provides a springboard for teens to read about others who have experienced similar losses and thus brings validation. And with validation comes healing. It is also a valuable tool for parents who are having difficulty getting their teens to talk about the loss and process it.