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Mara Nichols, a terminally ill career woman, wife, and mother, and Scott Coffman, a middle-school teacher whose eight-year-old foster son is about to return to his former inmate mother, traverse the last five days they have to say goodbye to their loved ones.

A young boy presents the different ways his family members and others say goodbye, then describes the worst goodbye he ever experienced.

Franny takes her time saying goodbye to the only school she has ever attended, remembering everything that has made it special.

From a renowned sociologist, the wisdom of saying goodbye Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is enthralled by exits: long farewells, quick goodbyes, sudden endings, the ordinary and the extraordinary. There's a relationship, she attests, between small goodbyes and our ability "to master and mark the larger farewells." In Exit, her tenth book, she explores the ways we leave one thing and move on to the next; how we anticipate, define, and reflect on our departures;...

Saying goodbye is hard, even for dinosaurs. When they have to part from a loved one, they might cry, or hide in their bedrooms, or even write "DON'T GO!" on the wall. But with a little courage, they can face their fears. They can tell grown-ups how they're feeling and know that time apart can still be filled with love. This humorous and heartfelt picture book from bestselling duo Jane Yolen and Mark Teague will teach young readers how to say goodbye...

Ten poems to change your life was published ten years ago. Now comes the sixth and final book in the series, Ten poems to say good-bye. This last volume helps us find the good in goodbyes.

The young daughter of a Navy man does not want him to go to sea, but he points out the red flag on the mailbox, the white clouds in the sky, and the blue ocean that will remind her of him while he is away.

Collection of essays, creative non-fiction and comics.

"Loving friendship between a pet baby animal bird, a crow, rescued in the natural environment by a young girl and family in their home, where it is raised, comes of age, returns to the wild with a poignant reunion."--