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Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
May survived the school shooting, but her twin brother died that day, and May was the only one to walk out of the band room. Even after a year she feels angry, lost, and alone. Zach lost his old life-- and most of his friends-- when his mother decided to defend the shooter. His friend Conor talks Zach into coming to band practice on the same night May goes with her friend Lucy to audition for a new band. Now both might figure out that surviving could...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Description
The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Since her twin brother, Eddie, drowned five years ago, sixteen-year-old Elsie Main has tried to remember what really happened that fateful day on the beach. When cute, mysterious Tay introduces Elsie to the world of freediving, she vows to find the answers she seeks at the bottom of the sea." --
5) Rabbit, run
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Harry Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school and that was the best time of his life. Now in his mid-20s, his work is unfulfilling, his marriage is moribund, and he tries to find happiness with another woman.
6) After you
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Description
"How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can't help but feel she's right back where she started. Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Discusses how to deal with different types of grief, in such situations as death, suicide, romantic break-up, and pregnancy. Includes fictional examples and lists of crisis centers and agencies to provide help.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"As the youngest of eight, painfully average Pup Flanagan is used to flying under the radar. He's barely passing his classes. He lets his longtime crush walk all over him. And he's in no hurry to decide on a college path. The only person who ever made him think he could be more was his older brother Patrick. But that was before Patrick died suddenly, leaving Pup with a family who won't talk about it and acquaintances who just keep saying, "sorry for...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Description
After her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird.
Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: when her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. When she travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time, Leigh is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Description
After falling for Kate, her unexpected death sends Jack back in time to the moment they first met. He soon learns that his actions have consequences when someone else close to him dies.
Jack and Kate met, bonding until sunrise over their mutual love of Froot Loops and their favorite flicks. Jack falls-- hard. But then Kate dies. Somehow Kate's death sends Jack back to the beginning, the moment they first meet, and Kate's there again. Healthy, happy,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Twins Audrey and Clare grapple with their brother Adam's death as well as with the need to belong.
Audrey and Clare may be twins, but as they grew older they grew apart. When their brother Adam died, Clare blamed Audrey for the accident. Now Audrey is attending an alternative school, but is determined to switch to the public school with Clare, rebuilt their friendship, and atone for Adam's death. Clare is still dealing with Adam's death, and with...
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Seventeen-year-old Bo has always had delusions that he can travel through time. So when his worried parents send him to a school for troubled youth, Bo assumes that he's actually attending Berkshire Academy, a school for kids who, like Bo, have 'superpowers'. At the Academy, Bo falls in love with Sofia, who helps Bo open up in a way he never has before. In turn, Bo provides comfort to Sofia, who lost her mother and two sisters at a very young age....
13) Paper valentine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Followed everywhere by the ghost of her recently deceased best friend, Hannah investigates the serial murders of young girls in her community.
15) Let's get lost
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Description
During her cross-country adventures following the tragic death of her family, Leila touches the lives of four strangers -- Hudson, Bree, Elliot, and Sonia. While forever changing the lives of these four, Leila also discovers an important truth about herself.
A love-seeking mechanic, a dramatic petty thief, a disappointed planner, and a broken-hearted teen all find their lives transformed as each shares whirlwind adventures with a girl in an insanely...
16) What to say next
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
When an unlikely friendship is sparked between relatively popular Kit Lowell and socially isolated David Drucker, Kit asks David for his help figuring out the how and why of her father's tragic car accident.
Author
Publisher
Farra Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
When Laurel starts writing letters to dead people for a school assignment, she begins to spill about her sister's mysterious death, her mother's departure from the family, her new friends, and her first love.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
While on vacation in California, sixteen-year-old best friends Anna and Frankie conspire to find a boy for Anna's first kiss, but Anna harbors a painful secret that threatens their lighthearted plan and their friendship.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001, c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Although thirteen-year-old Willa Jo and her Aunt Patty seem to be constantly at odds, staying with her and Uncle Hob helps Willa Jo and her younger sister come to terms with the death of their family's baby.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people ... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance -- and Papi's secrets -- the two girls are forced to...
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