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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.
3) Revolution
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 17
Formats
Description
An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.
6) Slob
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed.
7) Sun & Spoon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
After the death of his grandmother, ten-year-old Spoon tries to find the perfect artifact to preserve his memories of her.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Convinced he should have died in the accident that killed his parents and sister, sixteen-year-old Drew lives in a hospital, hiding from employees and his past, until Rusty, set on fire for being gay, turns his life around. Includes excerpts from the superhero comic Drew creates."
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In the week following her mother's death in a freak accident, eighteen-year-old Sandanista Jones finds small measures of happiness even as she fantasizes about an act of revenge against an abusive teacher at her high school.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When her father is killed in an accident, twelve-year-old Wren is grief stricken, but what upsets her even more is that her mother seems to be filled with anger, rather than sadness--as they move from place to place Wren is forced to cope with her mother's strange behavior, her own grief, and all the problems that come with being the new girl in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where they finally end up.
11) I don't care
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
c1977
Description
Young boy discovers that denying his grief doesn't make it disappear.
12) 14 ways to die
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jessica Simmons becomes the star of a YouTube reality series, and she uses her fame to catch her mother's murderer.
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.
14) Bonechiller
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Four high school students face off against a soul-stealing beast that has been making young people disappear from their small Ontario, Canada, town for centuries.
15) Missing May
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1996, 1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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
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.
17) Me (Moth)
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Moth, who lost her family in an accident, and Sani, who is battling ongoing depression, take a road trip that has them chasing ghosts and searching for ancestors, which helps them move forward in surprising, powerful and unforgettable ways.
18) The grief keeper
Author
Publisher
putnam/G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
After escaping a detention center at the U.S. border, seventeen-year-old Marisol agrees to participate in a medical experiment hoping to keep her and her younger sister, Gabi, from being deported to El Salvador.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.
Author
Series
Description
A once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity takes shoe designer and businesswomen Valentine Roncalli from the winding streets of Greenwich Village to the sun-kissed cobblestones of Buenos Aires, where she finds a long-buried secret hidden deep within a family scandal. Once unearthed, the truth rocks the Roncallis and Valentine is determined to hold her family together as she longs to create one of her own.
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