Books that will make you ugly cry

My display last week got a lot of attention:

• I put up the poster above;
• I selected a bunch of "sad" books and put them on display;
• I attached a tissue to each book with a teardrop-shaped note that said, "In case of feels";
• and I watched as the books flew off the display!
• Better still, my students kept recommending their favourite weepy, so I kept my display stocked for days.

Girls are so easy...

Here are some examples of the books I used:

• Fault in our Stars, by John Green
• Before I Fall, by Lauren Oliver
• 13 Reasons Why, by Jay Asher
• Everybody Sees the Ants, by A.S. King
• The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, by John Boyne
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
• The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
• A Monster Calls, by Patrick Ness
• My Sister’s Keeper, by Jodi Picoult
• A Child Called “It”,  by Dave Pelzer
• Home, by Emma Donoghue
• Eleanor & Park, by Rainbow Rowell
• Me Before You, by JoJo Moyes
• Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech
• Atonement, by Ian McEwan