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Series
Denton Little volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Living in an alternate world where everyone knows the day they will die, Denton Little survives his death date and finds himself separated from his family and chased by a ruthless Death Investigation Agency.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mia still hasn't got over her cat's death - she had Sandy for as long as she can remember. But one day, just before Christmas, she finds out that her friend's cat has had kittens. Over the holidays she goes round to play with them. Is Mia ready to welcome a new kitten into her life?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Adrift after her sister Bailey's sudden death, Lennie finds herself torn between quiet, seductive Toby--Bailey's boyfriend who shares Lennie's grief--and Joe, the new boy in town who bursts with life and musical genius. Each offers Lennie something she desperately needs. One boy helps her remember. The other lets her forget. And she knows if the two of them collide, her whole world will explode"--
4) The dog, Ray
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Daisy, age twelve, has died in a car accident. She finds herself in the afterworld, which resembles nothing more than a job center. Her soul is being returned to Earth, but not as a human being--she's returning as a dog. A dog who retains Daisy's thoughts and pluck and is determined to get back to her parents and to get back home. What she doesn't expect is that life as a dog named Ray would come with such worries--and moments of jubilation--as she...
5) Fracture
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After falling through the ice of a frozen lake and being resuscitated by her best friend Decker, seventeen-year-old Delaney begins experiencing a strange affinity for the dead and wonders whether she is predicting death or causing it.
7) Cape
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After losing the person in his life he loves more than anything, a young child holds onto a cape as a source of comfort and strength as he navigates the sadness and joy of his memories.
8) Light it up
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from multiple viewpoints, Shae Tatum, an unarmed, thirteen-year-old black girl, is shot by a white police officer, throwing their community into upheaval and making it a target of demonstrators.
A girl walks home from school. She's tall for her age. She's wearing her winter coat. Her headphones are in. She never makes it home. In the aftermath, while law enforcement tries to justify the response, one fact remains: a police officer has shot and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on a camping trip to an isolated beach on the Scottish coast, Heather's friends suffer the wrath of a malevolent spirit, and a year later, Heather remains imprisoned in a facility, refusing to admit guilt.
Heather agrees to a group camping holiday with Dougie and his friends because she's desperate to get closer to him. But when the two of them disturb a pagan burial site above the beach, she becomes certain that they have awoken a malevolent...
Author
Publisher
Orange Hat Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Clare Burch has just lost the person she loves most in the world. She wonders if her feelings of sorrow and self-blame over her grandfather's death will ever go away. Out of the blue, a special request sends Clare on a journey from her home in Chicago to the Northwoods of Wisconsin. She knows that she must honor Grandpa Anthony's last wishes, even though they completely upend her summertime plans. Clare heads to rural Alwyn with her...
11) Afterlove
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"In this powerful, all-encompassing YA love story, a girl who becomes a grim reaper must figure out what the future holds--especially when it comes to the girlfriend she left behind. When Ashana Persaud meets Poppy Morgan on a school trip, she's sure it's too good to be true. Ash has never had much luck with girls, but Poppy proves different. Coffee dates turn to museum trips until, soon, the two girls can see a future together--one that's seemingly...
12) Croak
Author
Series
Croak trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
A delinquent sixteen-year-old girl is sent to live with her uncle for the summer, only to learn that he is a Grim Reaper who wants to teach her the family business.
13) Wishing season
Author
Language
English
Description
"A moving middle grade story...about the enduring bond between twins: Anders, who has recently died, and Lily, who has to balance her grief and confusion with a brother who isn't quite gone--and how to navigate a world that is moving forward without him"--
Author
Series
Addie Mills stories volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Clear River, Nebraska, in 1947, the real meaning of Thanksgiving is friendship and forgiveness—can the holiday end an ancient feud between Addie’s father and his nemesis?
Eleven-year-old Addie and her best friend, Carla Mae, are looking forward to Thanksgiving in their small hometown. When the girls make their annual bike ride into the country to pick cattails, milkweed pods, thistles, and gold leaves for their autumn bouquets,...
Eleven-year-old Addie and her best friend, Carla Mae, are looking forward to Thanksgiving in their small hometown. When the girls make their annual bike ride into the country to pick cattails, milkweed pods, thistles, and gold leaves for their autumn bouquets,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Everything happens for a reason. At least that's what everyone keeps telling Liam Cooper after his older brother Ethan is killed suddenly in a hit-and-run. Feeling more alone and isolated than ever, Liam has to not only learn to face the world without one of the people he loved the most, but also face the fading relationships of his two best friends in the process. Soon, Liam finds themself spending time with Ethan's best friend, Marcus, who might...
Author
Series
Monsterstreet volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Max Bloodnight can't decide what's more terrifying about his weekend in Wolf County--the fact that he has to stay with grandparents he's never met before or being stuck on a farm without cell service. If only that was all he had to fear. Determined to solve the mystery of his father's death, which occurred years before at the claws of a legendary werewolf, Max must hunt to uncover the truth before the full moon rises . . . and the werewolf strikes...
17) Scorch
Author
Series
Croak trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old grim reaper Lex Bartleby tries to redeem herself among her fellow Grims by finding renegade Zara, who is indiscriminately damning souls, and stopping her once and for all.
18) Neverworld wake
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"A group of teens who all attended the same elite prep school reunite a year after graduation. After a night on the town, the teens are faced with an impossible choice--only one of them can live and the decision must be unanimous"--
Beatrice Hartley and her friends were the cool kids at Darrow-Harker School. The shocking death of Jim-- their creative genius and Beatrice's boyfriend-- changed everything. A year after graduation the group returns to...
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
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"Once, in a tiny village in India, there was a young boy who loved to paint. He lived with his grandfather, who taught him to paint with his fingers, to make paints from marigolds and brushes made from jasmine flowers. Sometimes, the village children would watch them painting together, and the boy's grandfather would invite them to join in. They didn't have much, but they had each other. After his grandfather dies, the boy notices a little box wrapped...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Struggling to confront her grandfather's impending death, sixteen-year-old Vicky Austin finds herself the center of attention for three young men, and, when the inevitable crisis comes, she must rely on the love of others to overcome her grief.
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