Dodger by Libby Gleeson. Turton and Chambers, 1990.
This book shows the damage that can be done to a young child by not acknowledging their grief and loss. Mick's mother died three years earlier and he now lives with his grandmother as his father is a long-distance truck driver. Mick has never properly grieved for his mother's death, and all of the emotion explodes during the school production. He and his father begin to connect, and Mick to grieve, with the help of a special teacher.
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