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Death by Newbery Medal

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Death by Newbery Medal	comment	There is a Slice of Life story about childhood and coming of age. The main character has a best friend (an animal, another child, or a family member) who is a source of joy, wisdom, and understanding in their life. This friend is often frailer, more unworldly, or otherwise more "special" than The Protagonist. Bonus points if the character is cute or adorable. At the end of the story, this very special best friend is abruptly killed off, usually in a clear-cut case of Diabolus ex Machina. A favorite trick is to have the death happen entirely off-screen. The more horribly poignant, the better. All this is generally accompanied by lots of "end of innocence" angsting from the main character, along the lines of "That was the day my childhood ended..." Really, it's just the author's way of having a child suddenly make the jump to adulthood via a single defining tragedy.note In cases where the victim is a dog, this can be justified in that the average lifespan of a typical dog is around eleven to twelve years. Since it's not recommended to get a dog until the child is around five or six, this would result in the dog dying when they reach their late teens. It also matches the typical age when someone is attending school. The Newbery Medal is a prestigious award given to American novels written for children. Even a nomination without a win (called a Newbery Honor) can net your book a healthy amount of prestige. To win one, it helps a lot to use a story like this. The British equivalent is the Carnegie Medal, which has a similar reputation. Bridge to Terabithia won a Newbery Medal for its handling of the topics embodied by this trope. Thirteen years later, Shiloh may have won its medal because it didn't go for the easy win by killing off the dog at the end (there were still three sequels to be written, after all). This trope is so pervasive, some readers expect that the most lovable character won't get to see the end of a critically acclaimed work of fiction. They're Too Good for This Sinful Earth, after all. Remember, one reader's predictable, Narm-filled Award Bait can be another's Heartwarming Childhood Classic that will always hold a special place on their bookshelf. Compare Death Is a Sad Thing (where youngsters are taught about death), Oscar Bait (which often employs the same principle), True Art Is Angsty, The Plot Reaper, and Manic Pixie Dream Girl (not a coming of age, but the character of spirit, spunk, and unconventional wisdom is very likely to die by the end). Contrast Dog Got Sent to a Farm, when adults avoid telling children the truth about death. If the inspirational appeal to the heartstrings becomes too overwrought, there's danger of overlapping with Glurge. This trope is about a character's death as a critical aspect of the storyline they're in. Any instances where a character is killed with an actual Newbery Medal should go to Trophy Violence (or the supertrope Improvised Weapon, or Once Killed a Man with a Noodle Implement if it's not shown). Also, do not confuse with a medal awarded for dying from a newbie ("newb") mistake. And see these two AV Club lists. Note: there's only one 'r' in "Newbery". As a Death Trope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware. Examples
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_107aec0a	comment	The Underneath (Newbery Honor, 2008). The calico cat drowns in the river when Gar-Face tosses her into it.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_11d0af1	comment	Roger, the heroine's best friend, dies in the first book of His Dark Materials. It's especially gut-wrenching because Lyra, the heroine, spent most of the novel trying to find a way to save him, and then she ended up causing his death unintentionally (to make things even worse, she leads him right into it, and at the hands of her own father. "Bringing him what he needs", indeed.).
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_158b0cbb	comment	The Mister Rogers' Neighborhood episode "Death of a Goldfish" memorably deals with the death of a pet as one of Mr. Rogers' goldfish is found dead. Mr. Rogers gives it a burial and reflects on his emotions as a child when his pet dog Mitzi died. The episode won multiple awards and acclaim from child development organizations.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_15b637c2	comment	In the Under the Umbrella Tree episode "Farewell, Findly," Gloria, Iggy and Jacob learn about death when they lose their pet goldfish Findley, and Holly leads them in giving him a funeral.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_17fa5f0a	comment	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: It included one death that J.K. Rowling has acknowledged as being for this purpose, that of Hedwig. Dobby's Heroic Sacrifice especially falls into this. Lupin's offscreen death during the final battle basically serves the same purpose as Sirius'. The only father figure Harry has by the end of the series is Arthur Weasley (whom Rowling planned to kill off in the fifth book until she decided otherwise), and he is too distant to be considered a friend.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_1b675426	comment	Lois Lowry's Newbery winner, Number the Stars (1990). Involves Nazis, and ends with the leader of La RÃ©sistance Peter Nielsen dying, although protagonist's Jewish friend survives, as she is evacuated along with other Danish Jews. Also, the protagonist's elder sister died before the events of the book - but she only discovers the truth about how it happened during the course of the story, as she develops a more adult understanding of the realities of the war and occupation.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_1d1cc72d	comment	The PokÃ©mon the Series: Sun & Moon episode "One Journey Ends, Another Begins", revolves around the dog-like Stoutland dying of old age, and Litten coming to grips with the loss.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_1d2ec262	comment	The Snowman ends with James running downstairs the morning after his magical adventure with the title character, eager to spend more time with him, only to find that the Snowman has melted. While it isn't spelled out, having no dialogue, it's easy to see this as symbolic of the fleeting nature of childhood and its special joys. Father Christmas and The Snowman and the Snowdog reveal that he can be rebuilt and come back to life, but never permanently.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_1d623d5d	comment	The Chipmunks: The episode "Cookie Chomper III" revolves around the chipmunks and Dave adopting a kitten. Then one night, the kitten gets out through a window and is killed by a car, leaving the chipmunks to come to terms with his death.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_1f52721d	comment	The title character in Freak the Mighty has Morquio Syndrome — or, as one character puts it, he died because his heart was too big for his body.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_2006e81a	comment	Goodnight Mister Tom won half a dozen awards; the protagonist's baby sister dies of starvation in his arms, and his best friend is killed in an air raid.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_2247a14a	comment	Lloyd Alexander's The High King (Newbery Medal, 1969), final book of The Chronicles of Prydain. While the series hadn't exactly shied away from death before, the fifth book kills off Prince Rhun, Annlaw Clay-Shaper, the High King Math, Loino, Coll, and Achren, depicts veritable carnage in what's ostensibly a children's book, and then throws in a rape threat for good measure. The previous book, Taran Wanderer, had been the series's Coming of Age story, and had its own angsty death. Alas, no Newbery for that one.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_22dfb2a	comment	All Dogs Go to Heaven is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. It revolves around a dog whose death actually kicks off the main plot of the movie.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_2319cc69	comment	Ori and the Will of the Wisps defies this with Ku, who would have been Killed Off for Real by Shriek, but this nullification of her mother's sacrifice in the prior game didn't sit well with focus groups, so it was changed to a Disney Death.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Invoked in "Thursdays with Abie". Grampa makes friends with an aspiring author, who writes a biography about his life. Later, Homer goes through the author's office and finds a Pulitzer Prize application form and a draft of the book's final chapter saying that Abe died peacefully in his sleep, making him realize that he is plotting to kill Grampa for the sake of getting the award.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_269ade33	comment	Ginga Tetsudou no Yoru (or Night on the Galactic Railroad) - a novel by Kenji Miyazawa, made into an anime film - although the death doesn't occur at the end of the story, only the reveal of it.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_27f86cfb	comment	In The One and Only Ivan (2013), by K. A. Applegate, the aunt of the elephant on the cover dies.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_2a77a546	comment	In Inside Out, Bing Bong, the imaginary friend of Riley, pulls a Heroic Sacrifice during the climax so Joy can reset Riley's emotions and restore her happiness. This movie was one of the most critically acclaimed movies of 2015, and won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_32a3c517	comment	The Yearling - young boy on a farm, emotionally distant parent, adorable pet deer...you know where this is going. Pulitzer-prize winner.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_33b33535	comment	Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is arguably one of these- though the person who dies isn't frail, they are the protagonist's (one of them, anyway) faithful companion, and their death both teaches him a valuable lesson and launches him on the path to adulthood. It feels like it's this trope.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_373a871f	comment	The Puzzle Place has "The Ballad of Davy Cricket," where Jody's pet cricket Davy dies. Her friends and her father help her honor and remember him by sharing their cultures' various mourning and remembrance customs (e.g. Dia de los Muertos, Qingming, and sitting shiva).
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_3802ca35	comment	In Rule of Rose, your loyal dog Brown is the object of the Princess of the Red Rose's jealous tyranny.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter has a lot of this, mainly due to the combined theme of death, Growing Up Sucks, and Mentor Occupational Hazard. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Cedric has been Harry's closest friend outside Gryffindor and someone he can rely on during the Triwizard Tournament, despite being a fellow tournament champion. His death — for being in the wrong place at the wrong time — causes Harry to suffer from a near-Heroic BSoD throughout an entire year and sets the later books' Darker and Edgier tone. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Being Harry's father figure and friend rolled together makes Sirius a prime Growing Up Sucks death. Sirius gets extra points for being able to turn into a dog, therefore pretty much counts as both a dead father figure and pet. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Dumbledore, a figure whose presence has brought at least a semblance of comfort to Harry's increasingly chaotic world. His death means that nowhere, not even Hogwarts, is safe. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: It included one death that J.K. Rowling has acknowledged as being for this purpose, that of Hedwig. Dobby's Heroic Sacrifice especially falls into this. Lupin's offscreen death during the final battle basically serves the same purpose as Sirius'. The only father figure Harry has by the end of the series is Arthur Weasley (whom Rowling planned to kill off in the fifth book until she decided otherwise), and he is too distant to be considered a friend.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_3c4ddc1e	comment	For Better or for Worse- one of the story arcs had the family dog, Farley, dying while saving the life of the then-toddler April.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_3deab509	comment	Alpha (2018) looks like it's going to go this way, but instead it subverts it and turns it into a case of Your Tomcat Is Pregnant.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_3ed2c970	comment	Joan Bauer's Hope Was Here (Newbery Honor, 2001). The protagonist's father figure is dying of leukemia throughout the book.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_400469e	comment	Calvin and Hobbes has an early storyline where Calvin finds a wounded baby raccoon. His parents put in a box with a blanket and food in hopes of helping it, but it dies by the next morning. Calvin is left to come to terms with its death. According to its cartoonist Bill Watterson, this storyline was based on his wife finding a dead kitten. He also said that this story was the moment where he felt his strip was ready to handle more emotionally heavy topics.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_4382e364	comment	Anohana The Flower We Saw That Day: If there was a Newbery medal for anime, this would win one hands down. It's a sort of double-subversion layer cake with played-straight icing in the middle. The doomed character is a Cute Ghost Girl named Meiko "Menma" Honma who died years ago, but she still manages to "die" at the end by going to Heaven after finishing her Ghostly Goals, in the most tragic possible way; and her literal death in the backstory turns out to be a total Newbery Medal death in itself (at what would have been the climax of a Puppy Love-like Love Triangle plot in a Slice of Life series, poor Menma falls into a river and drowns, and her death totally changes her friends and family's dynamics).
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_44a80bd3	comment	Carlos Ruiz ZafÃ³n's Marina is one of the most heartwrenching examples on Spanish modern literature. Despite the book is quite dark and depressing, you probably never figure what is going with Marina until the very end, when she is revealed to have the same illness which killed her mother. After the entire adventure, she dies and the protagonist loses the only light in his life.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_455e3038	comment	The story arc of King of the Hill when Buckley died was not nearly as touching as the episode in which his angel comes back to help Luanne get over her loss and advise her to go to college. Especially touching is the last scene before the credits when he is shown from behind walking down the street and pulls a halo from his pocket he didn't have before; the music packs an especially powerful punch.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_4585d76b	comment	Wilson Rawls's Where the Red Fern Grows gives us two dogs, both of which are dead by the end of the book. The horrible wounds of the first dog to die and the death of the bully who disembowels himself on his own hatchet are described in graphic detail.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_46518682	comment	The famous episode of Sesame Street where Big Bird learns that Mr. Hooper has died. The actor had actually died and the writers decided to address the topic directly.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_4ae827cc	comment	Trevor getting killed by the bullies at the end of Pay It Forward. He didn't have a mean bone in his body and his titular idea made many people do good deeds, and made his civics professor find a reason to not push other humans away.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_4b2696c7	comment	Kira☆Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (2005). Katie and her sister Lynn move to 1950s Georgia. While Katie struggles with being the only Japanese-American in her classes, Lynn seems to be becoming more popular. Eventually, Lynn gets lymphoma and dies, and teaches Katie that one should never lose hope.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_4d30a4f6	comment	In Verano Azul, the death of Cool Old Guy Chanquete happens almost to the end of the series and completely changes the mood of the following episodes. And since the series itself is a Coming of Age Story for the young protagonists, well, here it is.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_5046ce2f	comment	Cynthia Voigt's Dicey's Song This one would have a greater effect on readers who have read the preceding book, Homecoming. The mother dies but she's been missing/hospitalized for most of the book - her death is only a confirmation of what was coming all along (Newbery Medal, 1983).
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_5114574b	comment	The French-Canadian film La Guerre des Tuques (of the Tales for All series) took its English title, The Dog who Stopped the War from the ending of the movie. Of course the dog ends the (snowball) war by dying. Poor girl has a snow fort collapse on her. No Newbery (obviously), but several awards and nominations anyway, and an acclaimed and beloved classic to this day in Quebec, to the point where it was remade in 2015 as an animated film under the new English name Snowtime.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_5307b01d	comment	Tycho of Penny Arcade, after seeing how beautiful and emotive the trailer for The Last Guardian was, immediately thought that there were only two possible endings for such a game.note The game ended up having a pretty tearful ending, but without any deaths.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_549dd4d5	comment	In 1991's winner, Maniac Magee, the title character befriends an elderly zookeeper, Earl Grayson, who adopts him. They live together for a few months until Earl dies in his sleep.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_55740773	comment	Rebecca Stead's When You Reach Me (Newbery winner, 2010). Miranda slowly becomes friends with sometime bully Marcus. At the end of the book she discovers that an older version of Marcus has traveled through time to die for another child.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_56f42de7	comment	The Casper the Friendly Ghost short "There's Good Boos Tonight" focuses on how Casper befriends a fox named Ferdie. Towards the end of the short, Ferdie is shot by hunters and comes back to Casper as a ghost.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_57cfc014	comment	Kirsten: In Meet Kirsten, Kirsten's best friend Marta dies of cholera during their families' journey to Minnesota.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_585e315b	comment	A-X-L has the robot dog pull off a Heroic Sacrifice, but the GUI from the dog's point of view says that it's doing a backup. The epilogue has the human protagonist find out about that backup. The credits scene is a montage of the blueprints involved in the robot dog's reconstruction.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_59535abe	comment	Savvy (Newbery Honor, 2008). Mibs's father does not die after entering his coma, but he wakes up with amnesia and severe paralysis, making him effectively "dead" despite still technically being alive and still with the family.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_5a16d46b	comment	In Feed (2002) the main character's girlfriend's death is a long, slow, awful business that is actively tedious to read, but that's the point. The feed-addicted lead character has no attention span, and therefore doesn't stay with her through her illness—and then realizes too late what an immature jerk he's been, after she's gone.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_60f02ddb	comment	Parodied, along with other Oscar Bait-related tropes, with "Oscar Gold" in the American Dad! episode "Tearjerker", in which Roger (a.k.a. Tearjerker) makes very sad movies in a plot to get audiences to cry to death. The aforementioned movie is about a mentally handicapped Jew with alcoholism with a cancer-ridden puppy during the Holocaust. Eventually, the dog dies. In the same episode, there were plans to make an even sadder movie about a baby chimpanzee trying to revive its dead mother.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_633ce07b	comment	What's Eating Gilbert Grape. At the beginning of the film it's established that Gilbert's younger mentally-impaired brother Arnie was expected to die as a young child and still "could go at any time": viewers familiar with the trope would naturally assume that Arnie would die near the end of the movie. It turns out he lives — their morbidly-obese mother is the one who dies.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_6595c98a	comment	Parodied in The Goes Wrong Show episode "Summer Once Again"; while the titular Show Within a Show isn't exactly a children's story, it is a parody of similar "angsty upper-class person undergoes a voyage of self-discovery between the World Wars" dramas such as The Painted Veil and Brideshead Revisited. As such, while the play doesn't get to this point due to numerous catastrophes, in his rushed summary of the key plot points one of the actors reveals that a dog that appears in the first act was supposed to get killed by one of the servant characters for reasons that even the actor admits don't actually make a lot of sense, and which can only be explained by an attempt at this trope.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_69b97f4f	comment	William H. Armstrong's Sounder (Newbery Medal, 1970).
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_6a2c6f35	comment	The Green-Sky Trilogy played this one straight by giving Too Good for This Sinful Earth Raamo a Disney Villain Death. Snyder realized (after being swamped with mail) that the Senseless Sacrifice was a bad idea, but couldn't go back and change it...But then she got approached by some video game designers, and made what was probably the first Canon video game sequel to a book, having the player take on the role of one of Raamo's True Companions to save him.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_6bade31d	comment	Julia's Kitchen by Brenda A. Ferber is about a 11-year-old Jewish girl coping with the death of her mother, little sister and pet cat who are all killed in a house fire while the main protagonist is away from home with her best friend one day. Most of the story is centered around her and her equally heartbroken but distant father trying to get on better terms with each other while attempting to run her mother's famous cookie business in her legacy.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_6c535f55	comment	My Dog Skip looks like it's heading this way (twice, if you also count the initial possibility that Skip will starve to death in the crypt he got trapped in) but subverts it with a Disney Death. Skip does eventually die of old age at the very end of the movie, but it's more of a footnote than anything else; his owner has grown up and moved an entire ocean away by that point.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_6e859048	comment	Big Hero 6 was met with similar acclaim and was another Oscar winner for Best Animated Feature. In it, protagonist Hiro goes through this twice: once near the beginning when his older brother and mentor Tadashi dies in a fire while trying to save Professor Callahan, and again when Baymax, the robot Tadashi left behind, pulls a Heroic Sacrifice while he and Hiro are trying to escape a portal.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_7895bad7	comment	Josefina: Josefina's mother died a year before the start of the series, and the family is still coming to terms with the loss.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_7904d868	comment	This trope takes place in Kujira no Josephina, with a whole episode dedicated to Josephina helping Santi to deal with the death of his beloved grandmother. And by the end of the series, Santi himself is stepping into adolescence, First Love included, and Josephina is the one who must go. Though it's implied that she might stay around as the Imaginary Friend of Santi's little sister.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_7d494418	comment	In Dominick and Eugene, Fred the dog is hit by a car and killed during a picnic.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_7eceb06d	comment	Fable II has your sister in the beginning of the game and your dog at the end. With the right DLC, you can resurrect your dog. Or you can just choose to resurrect your loved ones (which includes your dog) almost ten minutes after the dog dies. It's not like the other choices do anything important.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_7fc1aff4	comment	Not a day after Stray was released, a suggested Google search was "does the cat die?" The answer is no, incidentally, but their robot companion does.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_80c382f4	comment	The Defenders of the Earth episode "Audie and Tweak" involves the heroes going to a socially isolated supergenius named Audie who has developed organic microchips that he uses in his Robot Buddy Tweak, who also happens to be his only friend. By the end of the episode, Tweak is fatally damaged. Due to his unique construction from organic microchips, he cannot be repaired or rebuilt. The death of his robot, however, leads to Audie gaining real live friends.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_82bbf06d	comment	Mildred Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is another Newbery Award winner (1977). A young black boy is accused of a murder, made into the scapegoat by the older, white instigators. There's almost a lynching of a thirteen-year-old boy. Almost. Instead, he gets tried and executed in the sequel. The book after that includes a premature death, too.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_88a1c151	comment	K-9 subverts the trope: Dooley delivers an emotional soliloquy to what he assumes is Jerry's corpse, only to be told that patients aren't allowed in the recovery room.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_8cb3a247	comment	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Cedric has been Harry's closest friend outside Gryffindor and someone he can rely on during the Triwizard Tournament, despite being a fellow tournament champion. His death — for being in the wrong place at the wrong time — causes Harry to suffer from a near-Heroic BSoD throughout an entire year and sets the later books' Darker and Edgier tone.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_8cea2648	comment	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has two semi-examples that serve as turning points in Miles Morales' life. The first is the Spidey of his universe, who was going to mentor Miles, but is unceremoniously killed by Kingpin before he can do so. Later, Miles' uncle Aaron is also killed by Kingpin, after which the other Spider-People relate loved ones they lost during their journeys. The sequel is about Miles attempting to avert this trope: Miguel O'Hara and the Spider-Society believe that there are canon events in each Spider-Man's life that have to happen or the fabric of the multiverse might fall apart. Miles finds out his father is supposed to die according to this belief, and is determined to find a way to save both the multiverse and his dad. The film ends on a cliffhanger, so as of now it's unknown whether this trope will be subverted or not, but Gwen's father and Pavitr's girlfriend's father both seemingly avoid this fate, which indicates it's possible.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_8f65b800	comment	The Odd Life of Timothy Green, about an infertile couple who write down what they would like their child to be like on little paper slips, lock them in a box and bury it in their backyard. After a thunderstorm, a little boy named Timothy "grows" from the box, and the couple instantly adopts him. They prove to be bad parents, but Timothy gradually teaches them lasting lessons. As each of the requests from the paper slips are fulfilled, the leaves growing on Timothy's legs fall off one by one, and when they're all gone, he "dies" having done what he set out to do, and the couple then finds themselves model parents to a new adopted kid.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_8f6f33c	comment	Subverted in Sam, Bangs & Moonshine: It's an award-winning book about a little girl and her cat and the cat gets washed away by the tide, but he survives.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_8f8c88cf	comment	Gail Carson Levine's Ella Enchanted (1997), Ella's mom dies early in the book as a result of not doing what the fairy godmother told her to. But, hey, it's a take on "Cinderella"; the mom has to die.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_8f9c0e62	comment	Thomas Sennett (Macaulay Culkin) in My Girl (1991). Which, by the way, has a remarkably similar plot to A Taste Of Blackberries.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_8fe66664	comment	Viciously and repeatedly mocked in Brandon Sanderson's Alcatraz Series. Sanderson himself has gone on record as saying that as a kid, he hated reading because of books living up to this trope, until he found fantasy novels.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_90c5e1fd	comment	In Esther Forbes's Johnny Tremain, 1944 Newbery Medal winner and another favorite middle-school reading assignment, Rab dies at the end.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_952d2e68	comment	Several books in the American Girls Collection have someone close to the young heroine die and have the loss play a role in her character development. For example: Kaya: In Kaya's Hero, the warrior woman Swan Circling becomes a friend and mentor to Kaya, only to be thrown from her horse and die when her head hits a boulder. Felicity: In Changes for Felicity, Felicity's beloved grandfather dies of a lung infection (or, in the film version, a heart attack). Josefina: Josefina's mother died a year before the start of the series, and the family is still coming to terms with the loss. Kirsten: In Meet Kirsten, Kirsten's best friend Marta dies of cholera during their families' journey to Minnesota. Addy: In Changes for Addy, Addy's family finally reunites, but Uncle Solomon has died, and Auntie Lula is also ill and eventually dies just before Christmas.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_986cb669	comment	Most of the latter half of Felix Salten's Bambi, starting when Bambi loses his mother, is one long series of Deaths by Newbery Medal. Particularly Gobo, the deer who was rescued and raised to adulthood by Man; he assumes all humans are his friends and dies horribly for it. Unsurprisingly, the Disney version adapts him out and makes Bambi's mother the only major character who dies.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_9a0cb5f4	comment	Parodied in the Bob's Burgers episode "The Silence of the Louise". Louise ends her book report on Old Yeller with the observation that all "classic children's literature" ends with a cute animal dying.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_9c2dce7b	comment	In Little Women, Beth's slow death from complications of scarlet fever serves as this trope for Jo. Nursing her favorite sister through her last year of life and then coming to terms with losing her is a central part of Jo's coming-of-age arc.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_9cff8e37	comment	The video for "Happier" by Bastille chronicles the life of a dog and its owner starting with a birthday party where she gets it as a present to... well, the line "I think that we both know the way that the story ends" plays during that first scene, and could not be more appropriate.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_9e226520	comment	The Girl Who Drank the Moon covers Luna's coming of age and developing magic powers at thirteen, but said powers are inversely linked to her adoptive grandmother Xan's life force. When Luna ascends Xan dies (Newbery Award 2017).
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_9fa025d	comment	Mother 3 has Lucas getting more mature after he recovers from his mom Hinawa's death, and this again happens when his brother, Claus, commits suicide.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_a0500a06	comment	In the Rugrats episode "I Remember Melville", Chuckie has a pillbug named Melville which he takes in as a pet and as a friend. However, after only a few minutes in, he unexpectedly dies, and it is here where Chuckie and the rest of the babies go through the process and concept of death.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_a183d57f	comment	In the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark", Fry finds the fossil of his dog, and the rest of the episode chronicles Fry dealing with the angst from the death of his dog, and his eventually letting it go in the end. The end of the episode makes this tragic by showing the dog spent the rest of its natural life waiting for Fry to come back, but this was retconned even later into showing Seymour did live and die happily with a time-paradox clone of Fry that was accidentally created by an unrelated incident.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_acbd6ec7	comment	Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins (Newbery Medal, 1961) kills off not only the heroine's little brother in the beginning of the novel but her friendly wolf companion toward the end. Given that these were her only companions on a deserted island, it's pretty harsh.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_af470a96	comment	A Corner of the Universe (Newbery Honor, 2003) by Ann M. Martin, where the heroine meets a long-lost uncle she didn't know she had and they become great friends. Unfortunately, he has a learning disability and is mentally ill, and commits suicide at the end. Wasn't that cheery, boys and girls?
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure does this to a memetic extent, to the point that viewers seeing a dog for the first time shouldn't bet on if it will die but how.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_b1932cd3	comment	Fred Gipson's Old Yeller — but not its sequel Savage Sam, which far fewer people have probably heard of, let alone read. Although it was also filmed by Disney.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_b2fba3e0	comment	Surprisingly enough, this trope shows up, of all places, in the Ultra Series film, Ultraman Gaia: The Battle In Hyperspace, a Real-World Episode that takes places in our reality; most of the film focuses on the struggles of Tsutomu Shinsei, a lonely third-grader who's constantly bullied in school, until the arrival of a mysterious girl named Lisa Nanase, which quickly becomes Tsutomu's only friend, turns his life around. But the film's climax reveals Lisa to actually be the human form of a wish-granting alien artifact, who must depart our reality for good (via turning entirely into light) after her identity is revealed; and Tsutomu, after his brief friendship with Lisa, have became stronger and more matured as a person after getting over her loss.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_b7475bcb	comment	Taken to soul-crushingly depressing levels in Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust, the 1998 Newbery Medal winner. The main character's mother's body is disfigured in a horrific freak accident, she later dies while giving birth to a baby boy, and, to put the icing on the cake, the whole mess could've been avoided if the protagonist hadn't been in the wrong place at the wrong time. She gets better.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_b8b43ba	comment	Haunting Ground: Hewie - a white German Shepherd dog - is introduced early on, immediately comes to Fiona's aid after she frees him, and continues to act as her sole companion and protector for the game. Mid-way through the game, he will run off into the forest to tackle a Stalker, and gets shot. If you didn't treat him well enough, he dies and you get a Bad End.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_bc18062d	comment	In the first Anne of Green Gables book, the emotional climax is the death of Anne's foster father Matthew Cuthbert from a heart attack in the second-to-last chapter. Anne is sixteen by then, but symbolically, Matthew's death marks the end of her childhood.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_bc57cc31	comment	Felicity: In Changes for Felicity, Felicity's beloved grandfather dies of a lung infection (or, in the film version, a heart attack).
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_bc5c7b02	comment	Despite being predicted by several fans and even lampshaded by the developers themselves, Riley, your dog companion in Call of Duty: Ghosts, averts this trope narrowly. Riley is injured by enemy gunfire and evacuated by helicopter, but he ends up just fine by the start of the next mission.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_bf844333	comment	In the 1937 film of Captains Courageous, Harvey's Coming of Age Story on board the fishing ship reaches its climax when Manuel, his best friend and father figure among the sailors, is killed in an accident. He spends the rest of the film coming to terms with the loss. (This is a Death by Adaptation â€“ in the novel, Manuel survives.)
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_c0af82cd	comment	Averted with Because of Winn-Dixie (Newbery Honor, 2001). The dog goes missing at the end but does come back. The protagonist is on a quest for maturity and a major theme is accepting the sadness in your life and moving on, but nobody dies within the book. Two deaths that would fit the trope happen before the book even begins.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_c1aca350	comment	In the 6teen episode "Fish and Make Up", Jude's pet fish (named Fish) dies at the end of the episode due to improper (yet well-meaning) care from his owner. Jude is quite broken up about it, and when Jen arranges a funeral, the main cast comes to term with Fish's death. And this was the episode that got the show its first award nomination.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_ca06885e	comment	In A Girl Named Sooner, the titular character - a mountain child - is taken in by a childless couple in town. She has a pet bird who meets its sad demise when Sooner and other neighborhood kids attempt to encourage the bird to fly.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_cbb87f37	comment	Stone Fox, a critically acclaimed children's book about a boy and his dog, Searchlight, entering a sled race to save his ailing grandfather's farm. At the end, Searchlight dies during a race when her heart gives out.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_cc49cf71	comment	The Il Ã‰tait Une Fois... l'Homme episode "Neanderthal Man" ends with Neanderthal Maestro dying of old age and in his sleep. His friends then bury him with a spear, some fruit, a small sculpture, and a charm necklace.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_cdb56166	comment	Played with in Daisuki! BuBu ChaCha- the titular Chacha dies while saving his owner's preschooler from an oncoming car. Then gets reincarnated into a toy car. And that was the start of the show.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_cf7739d0	comment	Averted by Ramona Quimby: Age 8, the 1982 Newbery Honor winner. The book is full of Age-Appropriate Angst and light-hearted humor, with no one dying. In the following book Ramona Forever, however, the family cat Picky-Picky dies of old age: but even this is a downplayed example, with the loss itself emphasized less than the positive sisterly bonding it leads to between Ramona and Beezus.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_d07446b9	comment	Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet is what happens when Gen Urobuchi et al. try to write something that can be presented to the Newbery committee. This anime is a lot of things, but ultimately it's about a boy growing up and finding a place in the society. Oh, and his Robot Buddy dies in the end.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_d26874b6	comment	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Discussed. Greg said that his mom was picking out what she called "classics", the criteria of which being, in his opinion, it has to be more than 50 years old, and some person or animal has to die at the end. While most things he says are untrue and biased, this is the (unfortunately brutal) truth. He is later told to read Charlotte's Web, and predicts that either the girl or the pig doesn't make it to the end of the book (he's wrong—it's the spider). He never finds out what happens because he only reads three chapters.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_d27c007d	comment	Kill la Kill is ultimately the over-the-top tale of an abandoned, friendless teenage girl growing-up and finding her place in the world with the help of her sentient, vampiric Sailor Fuku who dramatically gives up his life for her with final words that make the coming of age theme of the story more than evident.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_d31cdea	comment	The Hunger Games, being a series about gladiatorial combat by unwilling teenagers, has a lot of characters that die for any number of reasons, but a few still serve the purpose of representing a transformation in the life of protagonist Katniss: Rue, forced to participate in the Hunger Games at only twelve, is the very first sympathetic character to die, demonstrating that the Games truly are no laughing matter. Katniss' execution of Rue's killer Marvel immediately afterwards is also the first time she intentionally takes a human life. Finnick Odair is the most morally upright winner of a past Hunger Games, and of all Katniss' mentor figures in the series is easily the most level-headed and compassionate. When Katniss is forced to kill him to spare him an even worse demise at the claws and teeth of mutant tracker beasts, we witness the moment she realizes that the last steps of her adventure must be taken alone. Last and most traumatically is Primrose Everdeen, Katniss' beloved younger sister and the moral core of the story. Rebel Leader Alma Coin callously sacrifices Prim's life for a minor propaganda victory against Big Bad President Snow, and in the process very nearly breaks Katniss completely, only to come back from the brink upon realizing that it's now her duty to prevent the replacement of one coldhearted dictator with another.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_d326fdf7	comment	Theodore Taylor's The Cay features a Magical Negro who cares for a racist blind boy while they live stranded on a tropical island, then dies in a hurricane. The book has become a classic and received a number of awards, though not an actual Newbery.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_d34b015e	comment	In Easy Rider, the protagonists' lovably eccentric friend George is beaten to death by a gang of angry rednecks immediately after giving a melancholy speech about American culture having lost its way. Jack Nicholson got an Oscar nomination for the part, and it became a major Star-Making Role for him.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_db3fbf5e	comment	Spoofed in No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman, which starts out with the main character writing a book report about "Old Shep, My Pal", a fictional medal-winning book. He notes he knew Old Shep was going to die when he saw the award sticker, and then name-checks Old Yeller, Sounder, Bristle Face, and Where the Red Fern Grows.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_dc25de3f	comment	Portal riffs on this trope by insinuating that you develop an emotional attachment to a "companion cube" that you need to carry around to solve a level's puzzle. GlaDOS tells you that the companion cube does not actually love you, and ultimately requires you to "euthanize" it at the end of the level. She then chides you for cruelty by being so quick to destroy your only companion. Graffiti from Doug Rattmann includes tearful epitaphs to his own companion cube. This was all added after the designers noticed that testers were reluctant to destroy their cubes. The only reason the cubes were marked as special to begin with was to let players know that they'd need them throughout the level. Ultimately Portal 2 has a callback when at the end of the game, your scorched companion cube is kicked out the test facility door along with you.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_dc918180	comment	Mick Harte Was Here is a well-done example that shows how the narrator Phoebe and her family deal with the loss of her brother. It won the William Allen White Children's Book Award.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_dcbd6000	comment	Princesses of the Pizza Parlor: In Princesses in the Darkest Depths, a death is called "dropped a Newbery Award on".
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_dda72858	comment	The Iron Giant is about a young boy befriending the titular giant. It ends with the boy's hometown about to be blown up and the giant sacrificing himself in order to save it. However, the ending implies that the giant may not be truly dead after all.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_ddad77ae	comment	Astro City has a story running between #47 and #48, about a man named Andy who finds an amulet that lets him fuse with his pet corgi, Hank, to become a superhero. The story takes place over a fifteen-year timeframe. You can perhaps imagine what happens to Hank in the second issue. Much of the story is a rumination on just how much pets can mean to people, and what it means to care for someone you will undoubtedly outlive.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_de0a2ea5	comment	In Ori and the Blind Forest's prologue, Naru, Ori's adoptive mother, dies of starvation following the blinding and decay of the forest, though she is brought Back from the Dead near the end of the game.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_df391436	comment	Elizabeth Coatsworth's The Cat Who Went to Heaven. Yup, Exactly What It Says on the Tin. (Newbery winner, 1931)
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_e07f4a1c	comment	In Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moons (Newbery Medal, 1995), this trope is played twice. First time it's subverted because the girl's mother has been dead the whole time, she's just in denial about it. Played straight when her Grandma dies though.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_e5a61646	comment	Every character in the Family Tree Series experiences at least one hard-hitting death before they're an adult that affects them emotionally as they grow up: Abby not only loses her mother Nell (to suicide, a fact she doesn't learn until much later), but her best friend Sarah Moreside, who drowns just before Christmas when they're early teens. Dana sees her father Zander fall overboard while drunk and he drowns. She blames her mother for what happened even though there was nothing any of them could have done about it, including Dana. While Francie doesn't see it directly, the presumed death of a girl who is kidnapped by the same man who tried to kidnap her makes her grow up paranoid, because she thinks if she had said something the girl wouldn't have been kidnapped. Georgie loses her beloved music teacher when her brother's friend collides with him in a drunk driving accident; her older brother Richard is the only survivor of the accident. She also learns that her great great grandmother, Nell lost her first love in World War I—or thinks she does. She did lose two babies early in life and was separated from her only living son Fred because her controlling husband Luther sent him to an institution.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_e936047a	comment	The Hey Arnold! episode "Grandpa's Sister" reveals that when Phil and his sister Mitzi were kids, they had a dog named Pooter that got out and was hit by a milk truck, then had to be put down when the vet couldn't do anything to help. Naturally, they blame each other for him getting out.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: The A-plot of "Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows" involves Brian caring for an agoraphobic old woman who he doesn't get along with at first, but befriends after seeing a documentary about her. She is run over by the end of the episode and doesn't make it. The episode won an Emmy, but it wasn't for the death, but for its song. Brian's death in "Life of Brian" plays the trope straight.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_ed8b3b42	comment	Addy: In Changes for Addy, Addy's family finally reunites, but Uncle Solomon has died, and Auntie Lula is also ill and eventually dies just before Christmas.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_ed8fbe28	comment	Kaya: In Kaya's Hero, the warrior woman Swan Circling becomes a friend and mentor to Kaya, only to be thrown from her horse and die when her head hits a boulder.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_f05f8cb7	comment	The Harold and the Purple Crayon Animated Adaptation series episode "I Remember Goldie", which was about Harold's goldfish, Goldie, dying, and Harold coming to terms with her death.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_f127ad23	comment	The Gathering by Isobelle Carmody. Towards the end the protagonist's dog is killed in a frankly brutal fashion by being set on fire.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_f3c0e616	comment	In Hiveswap, protagonist Joey Claire's in-game narrative refers to this trope directly when interacting with the books on her shelf in the first room of the game. She uses the medal as a warning for which books to get and not get as she loathes this trope.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_f4a4daec	comment	In Elizabeth George Speare's The Bronze Bow (1962 Medal winner) Samson, a slave freed by Daniel at the beginning dies saving Daniel and his friends from the Romans, during their botched attempt to rescue Joel. Although he dies offscreen, his wounds are undeniably fatal.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_f502a38a	comment	The Smurfs (1981): In "Squeaky", Smurfette finds and befriends a sick mouse. With the help of Papa Smurf, the mouse is nursed back to health, but dies later after being in a house fire.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_fae3b9cd	comment	Doraemon: Nobita and the Windmasters is an Adaptation Expansion of a short from the manga, titled Typhoon Fuuko, in which Nobita unexpectedly becomes the master of an adorable, living typhoon named Fuuko whom he bonds with, with Fuuko as a source of joy, courage, and strength for Nobita to develop and get over hardships in life. The story end with Fuuko dying (a Heroic Sacrifice to save Nobita and all her friends from a powerful typhoon), and Nobita, initially sad over her demise, learns to overcome grief, sadness, and become stronger in the weeks to come. The story even ends with Nobita seeing a normal typhoon randomly blow past, and reminds himself even after Fuuko's death, she is everywhere around him and never truly left, before rejoining his friends for a hangout.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_fd191ee0	comment	E.B. White's Charlotte's Web: Admittedly, it is a pig, not a child, who suffers the loss, but the theme of death and emotional maturity is still present. And it's still quite sad. (Newbery Honor, 1953)
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_fd65a037	comment	Originally averted in My Side of the Mountain (Newbery Honor, 1960), where Frightful the Falcon survives to have three sequels focusing on her, but played straight in the Film of the Book, where she gets shot at the end.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_fea45550	comment	In The Big Comfy Couch Season 3 finale "Full of Life", Loonette learns about death from Granny Garbanzo when the caterpillar she had befriended minutes earlier suddenly dies.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_ff7ca733	comment	Marley & Me. Within a week or so of the movie's release, everyone knew the ending was this.
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Death by Newbery Medal / int_ffe7d862	comment	Inverted in Jack London's The Call of the Wild, where the dog is the protagonist, undergoing a transformation through hardship (and sometimes abuse) from dutiful pet to wild wolf, and when a Diabolus ex Machina abruptly kills his loving human master (off-screen), it allows him to make the final jump to fully wild. Not primarily for children.
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StoneFox	seeAlso	Death by Newbery Medal
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The Chronicles of Prydain / int_8c678d33	type	Death by Newbery Medal
Alvin and the Chipmunks / int_8c678d33	type	Death by Newbery Medal

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