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Author
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
235 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her brother Jared dies, ten-year-old Annie worries about the hidden dangers of everything, from bug bites to bicycle riding, until she is befriended by a new neighbor who is grieving her own loss.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
On Dead Wednesday, every eighth grader in Amber Springs is assigned the name and identity of a teenager who died a preventable death in the past year. The kids don black shirts and for the whole day everyone in town pretends they're invisible--as if they weren't even there. The adults think it will make them contemplate their mortality. The kids know it's a free pass to get away with anything. Worm Tarnauer feels invisible every day. He's perfectly...
4) Good dog
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brodie was a good dog. And good dogs go to heaven. Except Brodie can't move on. Not just yet. As wonderful as his glimpse of the afterlife is, he can't forget the boy he left behind. The boy he loved, and who loved him in return. The boy who's still in danger. So Brodie breaks the rules of heaven. He returns to Earth as a spirit. With the help of two other lost souls -- lovable pitbull Tuck and surly housecat Patsy -- he is determined to find his...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Cora hasn’t spoken to her best friend, Quinn, in a year.
Despite living next door to each other, they exist in separate worlds of grief. Cora is still grappling with the death of her beloved sister in a school shooting, and Quinn is carrying the guilt of what her brother did.
On the day of Cora’s twelfth birthday, Quinn leaves a box on her doorstep with a note. She has decided that the only way to fix things is to go back in time to the moment...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
230 p.: 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Mary Lou grows up considerably during the summer while learning about romance, homesickness, death, and her cousin's search for his biological father.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Winner of Newbery Award, 1995. After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
261 p.: 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Zinnia Taylor uncovers family secrets and self truths while clearing a mysterious settler trail that begins on her family's farm in Kentucky.
10) Cress Watercress
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"When Papa doesn't return from a nocturnal honey-gathering expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst. It's a dangerous world for rabbits, after all. Mama moves what's left of the Watercress family to the basement unit of the Broken Arms, a run-down apartment oak with a suspect owl landlord, a nosy mouse super, a rowdy family of squirrels, and a pair of songbirds who broadcast everyone's business. Can a dead tree full of annoying...
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
184 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Kate is having a wonderful summer, playing baseball and taking a poetry class, until her mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer, causing Kate to struggle to keep her faith and trust in God.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After his father's death, seventh-grader Sam West is whisked from Louisiana to Oklahoma, where he discovers a mysterious tree trunk that leads to a world where Pa is still alive.
13) Missing May
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old biracial Japanese American girl grieves the loss of her beloved grandma and attempts to contact her beyond the grave.
15) Sunnyside Plaza
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
While helping police officers Esther and Lon investigate a suspicious death at her group home, nineteen-year-old Sal Miyake, who is mentally challenged, gains insights into herself and makes new friends.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
1st Aladdin hardcover ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
419 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spirited, restless Gracie Lockwood, twelve, of Cliffden, Maine, living in a world where sasquatches, dragons, giants, and mermaids are common, keeps a diary of her family's journey in a used Winnebago as they seek The Extraordinary World in hopes of keeping her little brother, Sam, safe against all odds.
17) Houdini and me
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
212 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Harry Mancini lives in the house where Houdini spent his final years, so he has always been interested in the famous magician, and has even learned a few simple magic tricks; he just never expected Houdini to contact him from beyond the grave--and what Houdini wants him to do could well cost Harry his own life.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
476 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this novel in blank verse, twelve-year-old Cass struggles to cope with her father's recurring cancers that have dominated her whole life, with the knowledge that he is likely to die soon because the latest recurrence is worse--and with the possibility that she may have inherited the genetic disease, Li-Fraumeni Syndrome, that causes the cancers" --
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Against the wishes of his mortician mother, Hadorah, twelve-year-old Walter and classmate Cordelia take a hearse on a road trip to meet legendary inventor Flasterborn, who once mentored Walter's long-dead father.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Unable to celebrate the holidays in the wake of his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting, Lolly Rachpaul struggles to avoid being forced into a gang himself while constructing a fantastically creative LEGO city at the Harlem community center.