HIT: Tearjerkers

[Joni J Rathbun <jrathbun@OREDNET.ORG>]

Here's a quick list of tearjerks as submitted by members of LM_Net.
Those books receiving more than one mention have tally marks after.
Responses came from all grade levels and interests.

Abby, My Love by Hadly Irwin
The angel with a mouth-organ by Mattingley
Beat the Turtle Drum ||
Beautiful Joe
Black Beauty
Black Gold ||
Bridge to Terabithia
Charlotte's Web
Children of Christmas by Rylant
The Christmas Day Kitten by Herriot
Christmas Spurs
Crazy Lady by Conley
A Day No Pigs Would Die
The Faithful Elephants by Yukio Tsuchiya |||
Foxy by Helen Griffith
Freak the Mighty
Grandfather's Journey
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Paterson
Grey Dawn
In Lane Three, Alex Archer
The Incredible Journey ||
Land Before Time
Lassie Come Home ||
Leah's Pony
Little Women
The Lottery Rose by Hunt
Love You Forever
Maniac McGee by Spinelli
Mick Harte Was Here by Park
Mrs. Katz and Tush by Polacco ||
Number the Stars by Lowry
Old Yeller
The Outsiders
Peef the Christmas Bear
Pink and Say by Polacco  |||||  ||||
Riptide by Frances Ward Weller ||
Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes |||
Say Goodnight, Gracie by Deaver
Sex Education by Davis
Small Steps, the year I got Polio by Kehret
 A Silent Night for Peef
Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch
Stone Fox ||||| |
Story of Jumping Mouse
A Summer to Die ||
A taste of Blackberries ||
A Time For dancing
Tuck Everlasting
Uncle Jed's Barbershop by Mitchell ||
The Velveteen Rabbit
The Wall by Bunting |||
The Wednesday Surprise
Where the Red Fern Grows ||||
Who owns the sun
You shouldn't have to say goodbye by Patricia Hermes


   J. Rathbun | Library Teacher - Media Specialist
   Lincoln Elementary School - Las Vegas
   jrathbun@orednet.org [home]
   The views I express are mine and mine alone.

  "Poetry and hums aren't things which you get, they're
   things which get you. And all you can do is to go
   where they can find you."

             -- Winnie the Pooh

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