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1) Wintergirls
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
2) Scythe
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.
8) Mockingbird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
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.
10) Grave mercy
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Description
In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts--and a violent destiny.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
In 1982 Buncombe County, North Carolina, sixteen-year-old Alex Stromm writes of the aftermath of the accidental drowning of a friend, as his English teacher reaches out to him while he and a fellow boarding school student try to cover things up.
14) Chasing Redbird
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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.
15) Mortal heart
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Description
Annith's worst fears are realized when she discovers that, despite her lifelong training to be an assassin, she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever shut up in the convent of Saint Mortain.
16) Cicada summer
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Twelve-year-old Lily mourns her brother, and has not spoken since the accident she feels she could have prevented, but the summer Tinny comes to town she is the only one who realizes Lily's secret.
18) Umbrella summer
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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.
19) Dark triumph
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Description
"Sybella's duty as Death's assassin in 15th-century France forces her return home to the personal hell that she had finally escaped. Love and romance, history and magic, vengeance and salvation converge in this sequel to Grave Mercy"--
20) Listen!
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
During her solitary convalescence from a crippling accident, twelve-year-old Charley finds a wild dog, and the arduous process of training him leads her to explore her feelings about her mother's death two years earlier.
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