- Boats For Papa by Jessixa Bagley
- Grandma’s Purple Flowers by Adjoa J. Burrows
- The Dandelion’s Tale by Kevin Sheehan
- Gentle Willow: A Story For Children About Dying by Joyce C. Mills
- My Father’s Arms Are A Boat by Stein Erick Lunde
- Cry Heart, But Never Break by Glenn Ringtved
- The Dead Bird by Margaret Wise Brown
- The Day Tiger Rose Said Goodbye by Jane Yolen
- Bone Dog by Eric Rohmann
- Samsara Dog by Helen Manos
- Sweet, Sweet Memory by Jacqueline Woodson
- The Bug Cemetery by Frances Hill
Check out these titles and others at your local library!!!

and I loved it! It is refreshing to read a book featuring dynamic children protagonists which contains no magical elements in it. In The Mysterious Benedict Society the children are recruited by adults to save the world based on their unusual abilities. If you have read this series and loved it and are looking for something similar than I have just the thing!
also feature extraordinary children who at the age of twelve have the heighten ability to do and learn remarkable things with their minds. These children with “the ability” are recruited to save various facility members from an old institution,who are being attacked through their minds. Though The Ability is darker in tone than The Mysterious Benedict Society, they share in common a mystery and the need for adults to be saved. Interested? Please check it out at your nearest library. Enjoy!