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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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Fifth-grader Cally Louise Fisher stops talking, partly because her father and brother never speak of her mother who died a year earlier, but visions of her mother, friendships with a homeless man and a disabled boy, and a huge dog ensure that she still communicates.
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"The death of a friend is a wrenching event for anyone at any age and can spark feelings that range from sadness to guilt to anxiety. Teenagers especially need help coping with grief and loss. This sensitive book answers questions grieving teens often have, like "How should I be acting?" "How long will this last?" and "What if I can't handle my grief on my own?" The book also addresses the complicated emotions that can accompany the death of an acquaintance,...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They're going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they're both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There's an app for that. It's called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure--to live a lifetime in a single...
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
©2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Zeke has no idea how he was chosen for this, and he knows that measuring up to the other nominees - a saintly lineup of selfless, talented do - gooders with photogenic smiles and hearts of gold = is hopeless. But with $10,000 prize on the line and Zeke's mom struggling to support them on her single-parent salary, he decides to give it his best shot. As Zeke concocts various plots to show everyone how "great" he is, however, he finds himself wondering...
26) Untwine: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Identical twin teenagers Giselle and Isabelle Boyer have always been inseparable, and expected to stay that way even though their Haitian American parents are separating--but when the entire family is caught in a car crash, everyone's world is shattered forever.
27) Before you go
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Jude's house is kept dark, and no one talks much. It's been that way since his little sister drowned in a swimming pool seven years ago when Jude was supposed to be watching her. This summer he gets his first job, falls in love for the first time, and starts to break away from his parents. And then, life spins out of control. Again.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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"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." --
30) As I descended
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Publisher
HarperTeen, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Maria Lyon and Lily Boiten are Acheron Academy's power couple. Only one thing stands between them and their perfect future: campus superstar Delilah Dufrey. And Lily and Maria are willing to do anything to keep Delilah from winning the distinguished Cawdor Kingsley Prize. Together, Maria and Lily harness the dark power long rumored to be present on the former plantation that houses their school. When feuds turn to fatalities, and madness begins to...
31) Hereafter
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Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Amelia, long a ghost, forms a strong bond with eighteen-year-old Joshua, who nearly drowned where she did and who awakens in her long-forgotten senses and memories even as Eli, a spirit, tries to draw her away.
32) Flyaway
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
While her father is in the hospital, thirteen-year-old Isla befriends Harry, the first boy to understand her love of the outdoors, and as Harry's health fails, Isla tries to help both him and the lone swan they see, struggling to fly, on the lake outside Harry's window.
33) Before I fall
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Description
After she dies in a car crash, teenaged Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself.
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This is a sensitive book, a classic in many countries, about a friendship between two boys and an old man. There are plenty of old men who would do as a grandfather at the retirement home, Ulf suggests, when Berra wonders why he doesn't have one. They go there together to find one - ideally one who eats pig's trotters, invites you to tea and who can teach you to whistle.
36) Where Lily isn't
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Lily ran and jumped and barked and whimpered and growled and wiggled and wagged and licked and snuggled. But not now. It is hard to lose a pet. There is sadness, but also hope--for a beloved pet lives on in your heart, your memory, and your imagination"--Dust jacket flap.
37) Just like that
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
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Description
With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students...
38) A summer to die
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Series
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
1993, c1977
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Thirteen-year-old Meg envys her sister's beauty and popularity. Her feelings don't make it any easier for her to cope with Molly's strange illness and eventual death.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2018].
Description
"A boy dealing with the loss of his father describes the many waves of emotion that come with the grieving process: sad waves, mad waves, fear waves, even happy waves. As the boy and his family learn to adjust to life without Dad, the waves still come, but with help from friends, they learn to cope and heal"--
40) Me and me
Author
Publisher
KCP Loft
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"In a canoe trip gone terribly wrong, the little girl that 17-year-old Lark babysits and the boy Lark is dating fall into the lake at the same moment. They are both drowning, and Lark can only save one of them in time. In this critical moment, Lark's world splits into two, and the rest of the novel takes us, in alternating sections, through the consequences of both choices. In one life, Lark and Alec are falling in love while Annabelle is hospitalized...
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