Heart-wrenching, emotional and compelling, or overly sentimental, navel-gazing and insipid? You make up your mind, but remember, keep those tissues ready!!
	The thing about jellyfish by Ali Benjamin (2015)
	The boy in the striped pyjamas by John Boyne (2006)
	The cry of the wolf by Melvin Burgess (1989)
	One by Sarah Crossan (2015)
	The heaven shop by Deborah Ellis (2004)
	The snow goose by Paul Gallico (1940)
	The silver donkey by Sonya Hartnett (2004)
	See you at Harry's by Jo Knowles (2012)
	Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian (1981)
	Secrets in the fire by Henning Mankell (1995) First book in the Sofia series
	So much to tell you by John Marsden (1987) First book in the So much to tell you series
	Sold by Patricia McCormick (2006)
	Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo (2003)
	A monster calls by Patrick Ness (2011)
	Wonder by R.J. Palacio (2012) First book in the Wonder series
	My sister lives on the mantlepiece by Annabel Pitcher (2011)
	Drums, girls, and dangerous pie by Jordan Sonnenblick (2004)
	Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt (1981) First book in the Tillerman family series
	Dustbin baby by Jacqueline Wilson (2001)
	Refugee boy by Benjamin Zephaniah (2001)
	A summer to die by Lois Lowry (1977)
	Cut by Patricia McCormick (2000)
	Never fall down by Patricia McCormick (2012)
	Keep your hair on by Elizabeth Vercoe (2003)