book that made you cry?

I have an old book that used to belong to my grandmother. There are many short stories in the book and some of them are very sad. One of the stories is about a very poor family, during the winter months their house is very cold and they are all very hungry, but they look forward to the summer months where they are usually able to go to the beach. That beach is the only pleasure in their lives. One day someone has bought the area around the beach and the new owners don't want anyone else to use the beach, so the family loses their only source of happiness. The story is very well-written, and I alwasy get a strong feeling of sadness when I read it.

2 books by Nicholas Gage make me weep, one is 'Eleni' the true story of one boys young life in Greece during the second world war and then the Greek civil war. It is such a passionate book about one boys as a grown man to find out the truth about the murder of his mother. The sequel, 'A Place for Us' shows the families integration into American life when they emigrate after Eleni's murder. These two books really pull on the heartstrings all the more so as all the events are real.

I've read Mitch Album's Tuesdays with Morrie a long, long time ago, and although, I didn't cry while reading it, I will agree it was a touching story. What is more interesting is that at that time, I was teaching high school, and a student of mine recommended it to me. Just appropriate I would say. I have cried over many books, and sometimes more because of what I've been feeling or my hormones..(drat, i hate being female, sometimes..LOL) than because of the storyline. One of the few "sad" books that made me cry buckets of tears are two very old books. Coleen McCollough (sp?) Thornbirds and Harold Robbins' A Stone for Danny Fisher.