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This book is amazing
I was given the amazing opportunity to spend time with Virginia Fry while living in Vermont this past winter. My 14 year old sister had recently passed away after her stuggle against cancer. I was completely lost, and met with Virginia several times. She is one of the most amazing people that I've ever been priviledged enough to have come into my life. This book enveloped every part of her ideas and extremely heartfelt suggestions to get you through the most horrible times. She is such an amazing person and this book reflects that to the fullest extent.

Chapter 5 is about me
My name is Amy Petrucelli and chapter 5 is about me, my sister Betsy and our brother Frankie. IT WAS EXCELLENT!I LOVED IT!
I really enjoyed this book.I bought it a few years after my mother died, and it helped me a great deal with what I was feeling, thinking, and seeing.It also helped me deal with the day-to-day struggles that Iencountered.Thank you so much for writing this book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Bereavement    2. Bereavement in children    3. Bereavement in youth    4. Children's 12-Up - Politics / Current Events    5. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    6. Death, Grief, Bereavement    7. Juvenile literature    8. Politics & Government    9. Self-Help    10. Social Situations - Death & Dying   

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Book Review
This book details the real life story of a boy at fourteen that decided he wnated to kill himself. After he tries he decides he does not want to go through with it and he gets himself all wet to put the fire out. After this he goes through great detail of the year after the sucide attmept and his inner thoughts about the whole suicide. I really enjoyed reading this book and I believe that this book is good for many people to read to truly understand all of the pain that can come from commiting suicide.

Good description of teen depression
As someone who has lived with depression for many years and who as a teenager has also tried to hurt myself, I felt that Runyon did a good job of describing the elusive and often non-descript feelings of teen depression--including his inability (post-suicide attempt) to talk with his parents and psychiatric professionals about why he set himself on fire.While some might want this book to be the rememdy for depressed teens everywhere, it is not a self-help book for teens disguised as memoir.There are no answers for troubled teens.Rather, it is a memoir.Even without providing any answers, it is still a good way to open the topic of teen suicide and depression. I loaned the book to my mother who said it did help her understand a little more what I was feeling when I was a teen.

Teaching and learning tool...
I recommend it as a good read for adolescents and adults and as a great teaching tool for middle school and older students. I plan to read excerpts to my students this year.
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Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography - General    3. Case studies    4. Children's 12-Up - Biography / Autobiography    5. Children's Books/Young Adult Social Situations    6. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12)    7. Juvenile Nonfiction    8. Runyon, Brent    9. Social Issues - Death & Dying    10. Social Issues - Suicide    11. Social Situations - Death & Dying    12. Suicidal behavior    13. Teenage boys    14. Virginia    15. Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Literary   

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Excellent and true
Knowing nick in life did not take away the impact this book had on me. It tells his story and does it well. I commend Nicks mother for her courage in taking the time to write this story to share with everyone. I can only hope that this story has as much of an impact on people as Nick did in life.

A Young Man's Journey with AIDS
In this book Nick Trevor has found out that he has AIDS. His mother a strict catholic comes to terms with her son and both open up to a new way of thinking. They find the answer to the question when bad things happen to people, Will that make the person bad?Read more

Subjects:  1. AIDS (Disease)    2. AIDS (Disease) in adolescence    3. Biography    4. Biography & Autobiography    5. Children's 12-Up - Sociology    6. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12)    7. Diseases    8. Health    9. Health - Diseases    10. Medical - General    11. Patients    12. Social Situations - Death & Dying    13. Trevor, Nicholas J    14. United States   

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Excellent explanation of effects of PTSD for young people
I treat many young people who suffer PTSD and who have tried to cope withthe effects of trauma through the abuse of drugs and alcohol.Ofparticular help were the sections "un-demonizing" PTSD as anormal set of responses to traumatic experiences and the section involvingthe neurological and biochemical changes which occur and may endure as aresult of trauma.These are helpful explanations for teens who need tofeel in charge of themselves in their unpredictable and often terrifyingworlds.I do not hesitate to give a copy of this book to young people inmy practice where appropriate. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's 12-Up - Psychology / Counseling    2. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    3. Juvenile Nonfiction    4. Post-traumatic stress disorder    5. Psychology    6. Social Issues - Violence    7. Social Science - General    8. Death & dying    9. Popular medicine   

Subjects:  1. Children's 12-Up - Medicine    2. Children's Books/Young Adult Social Situations    3. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12)    4. Euthanasia    5. Juvenile Nonfiction    6. Palliative treatment    7. Social Issues - Death & Dying    8. Social Problems (General) (Young Adult)    9. Social Science - Sociology    10. Terminal Care   

Subjects:  1. Assisted suicide    2. Children's 12-Up - Family    3. Children's Books/Young Adult Misc. Nonfiction    4. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12)    5. Death    6. Death & Dying    7. Death, Grief, Bereavement    8. Euthanasia    9. General    10. Juvenile Nonfiction    11. Social Issues - Death & Dying    12. Social Problems (General) (Young Adult)    13. Sociology    14. Terminal care    15. Biology, life sciences    16. Social Science / General    17. Suicide, death & bereavement   

Subjects:  1. Children's 12-Up - Sociology    2. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    3. Health Sciences (Young Adult)    4. Moral and ethical aspects    5. Moral and religious aspects    6. Philosophy (Young Adult)    7. Right to die    8. Social Situations - Death & Dying    9. Terminal care    10. Medicine & nursing    11. Philosophy / history of ideas   

Subjects:  1. Children's 12-Up - Family    2. Children's Books/Young Adult Misc. Nonfiction    3. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12)    4. Death    5. Death, Grief, Bereavement    6. Encyclopedias    7. English    8. General    9. Health Sciences (Young Adult)    10. Juvenile Nonfiction    11. Reference - Encyclopedias    12. Social Issues - Death & Dying    13. Thanatology    14. Death & dying    15. Reference works   

Subjects:  1. Social Situations - Death & Dying    2. Depression, Mental    3. Social Situations - Emotions & Feelings    4. Poetry - General    5. Grief    6. High schools    7. Children's 12-Up - Poetry   

Subjects:  1. Children's 12-Up - Animals/Pets    2. Children's Books/Young Adult Misc. Nonfiction    3. Death & Dying    4. General    5. Social Science    6. Sociology   

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This book helped me out a lot!
I broke up with my boyfriend a few weeks ago and i really felt like I waz going to die because I felt like my life was meaningless without him. My friend told me to read this book because it helped her when her cat gotcancer. So I read it, even though i didnt really htink it would help atall. Becuse Trey was like the only good thinkg in my life. But anyway, thebook suggested all these great tools for coping withe the pain, and made merealize that it would just take time for me to feel better. and I almostdon't even believe it, but I really DO feel better! I know that Trey isn'tthe most importatn part of my life, i know that I'll be ok even if i don'thave a boyfrined at all. Anyways, i Just wanted to write this review incase anyone else out there was feeling some kind of loss, ccause this bookmight really help you. Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's 12-Up - Psychology / Counseling    2. Children's Books/Young Adult Misc. Nonfiction    3. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    4. Death, Grief, Bereavement    5. Grief    6. Grief in adolescence    7. Juvenile Nonfiction    8. Juvenile literature    9. Loss (Psychology)    10. Loss (Psychology) in adolescen    11. Loss (Psychology) in adolescence    12. Social Issues - Death & Dying   

Subjects:  1. Children's 12-Up - Psychology / Counseling    2. Children's Books/Young Adult Social Situations    3. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    4. Death    5. Grief    6. Health & Daily Living - General    7. Juvenile Nonfiction    8. Juvenile literature    9. Psychological aspects    10. Psychology    11. Social Issues - Death & Dying    12. Social Situations - Death & Dying   

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Sadness? or happiness?
The book, the death is hard to live with is collection of personal Narratives about teenagers dealing with death. The author, Janet Bode interviews teenagers who have experienced a loss and puts together their stories in one book. The main conflicts or theme throughout the book is internal conflict with the teens trying to decide how to cope with their situations.
Teens learning to cope with death.
In the book "Death is Hard to Live With", they have a lot of true short stories.Most of the stories are written by teenagers explaining the death of a relative or close friend.For instance, one girl lost her mother at the age of twelve.As the years went on she felt worseand worse about her life, she then went to see a psychiatrist to keep herin line.Many kids that shared their stories were telling about the helpthey either had or need.After a hard death, especially as a teen, youusually start feeling hopeless in your life which could lead to suicide. That is the last answer doctors want to hear as a result.This book is tomotivate you to change your life into a better situation after a death hasoccured.Learning to cooperate with death can be hard and challenging attimes, but reading this book points out many different ways to cope withit.There are different alternatives other than hurting or harmingoneself.This book provides true stories that may be similar to asituation you are going through.I really enjoyed this book, and thoughtit would be great for others.It was nice because I could relate to someof the stories that were told.It was fun to compare the different choiceswe took to get through the situations. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's 12-Up - Psychology / Counseling    2. Social Situations - Death & Dying   

Subjects:  1. Children's 12-Up - Psychology / Counseling    2. Children's Books/Young Adult Social Situations    3. Social Issues - Death & Dying    4. Social Situations - Death & Dying   

Subjects:  1. Children's 12-Up - Religion - Christian Living    2. Children's Books/Young Adult Religion    3. Children: Grades 4-6    4. Christian teenagers    5. Christianity    6. Conduct of life    7. Death    8. Juvenile Nonfiction    9. Religion - Christianity    10. Religion - Christianity - General    11. Religious aspects    12. Social Issues - Death & Dying    13. Social Situations - Death & Dying   

Subjects:  1. Children's 12-Up - Psychology / Counseling    2. Children's Books/Young Adult Social Situations    3. Juvenile Nonfiction    4. Psychology    5. Social Issues - Death & Dying    6. Social Science - Psychology    7. Social Situations - Death & Dying   

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Get This Book for the Grieving Teen in Your Life
I work with grieving teens and whenever possible, I give them a copy of this book.Every page has a gem that can help them sort through their feelings and experiences.All of the children have told me this book really helps them.It is written in large print with pictures, poems, and sayings throughout making it extremely accessible for a grieving teen (or adult, for that matter).It is one of the very best books written for grieving teens.I recommend it highly.

Thank you to Earl Hipp
I just wanted you to know that both my teens have read your book, "Help for the Hard Times".It was the only book on loss that really made them feel like it spoke to their true feelings.I can't thankyou enough for writing such a wonderful book.I am recently widowed, anduntil I discovered your book, I was desperately searching.I bought anextra copy and donated it to my school district.I am a MSW graduatestudent at Fordham University.I eventually hope to work in the publicschool system.You can bet your book will be on the shelf along with myother resources.

Great for adults too!
I recently read the book, Help for the Hard Times, Getting Through Loss." I am a divorced mother of two great kids 13 and 18. I was divorced after 21 years of marriage. I went looking for a book I could giveto my kids to help hem deal with their own issues of loss revolving aroundthe divorce. I went through my own hard times, and in fact am just nowafter 3 years reaching the healing times. Unfortunately, my kids grief isjust now showing up in ways that until now went unrecognized by them or me.I have to say that this book was very enlightening to me and therefore justcan't loose with my kids. I will read it together with my 13-year-old, andgive it to my 18-year-old to read on her own. This kind of nuts and boltshelp can be very helpful to people of all ages, not just the kids. Sometimes we have to go back to the basics in order to heal an overloadedloss pot, and recognizing the stages is a great start. Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's 12-Up - Psychology / Counseling    2. Children's Books/Young Adult Misc. Nonfiction    3. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    4. Grief    5. Grief in adolescence    6. Juvenile Nonfiction    7. Juvenile literature    8. Loss (Psychology)    9. Loss (Psychology) in adolescen    10. Psychology    11. Social Issues - Death & Dying    12. Social Science - Psychology    13. Social Situations - Death & Dying