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1) Being Clem
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When nine-year-old Clem's father dies in the Port Chicago Disaster he is forced to navigate his family's losses and strunggles in 1940's Chicago.
2) Grounded
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
After her father, brother, and sister are killed in a plane crash, twelve-year-old Daralynn's life in tiny Digginsville, Missouri, proceeds as her mother turns angry and embittered, her grandmother becomes senile, and her flamboyant aunt continues to run the Summer Sunset Retirement Home for Distinguished Gentlemen, while being courted by the owner of the town's new crematorium.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In early 1960s Alabama, eleven-year-old Ben, carrying an urn with his father's ashes, sets out on an eventful journey to the Augusta National, "the Sistine Chapel of golf courses, " to make peace with his father.
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
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Twelve-year-old Boomi accidentally travels back in time to 1986 Thumpton-on-Soar, England, where she meets her late father as a child, changing her life forever
7) Seeing red
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
When twelve-year-old Frederick "Red" Porter's father dies in 1972, his mother wants to sell their automobile repair shop and move her two sons back to Ohio, but Red is desperate to stop the sale even if it means unearthing some dark family secrets in a Virginia rife with racial tensions.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Twelve-year-old Kela is still mourning her mother when she finds a mermaid's comb while she and her friend are looking for sea glass on her Caribbean island; such combs have magic in them, and touching it opens a connection to the mermaid Ophidia who can grant her wish, to bring her mother back to life--but all wishes have consequences, and magic demands a price which may prove to be more painful than the loss of her mother.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Yusuf is excited to start middle school in his small Texas town, but with the twentieth anniversary of the September 11 attacks coming up, suddenly it feels like the country's same anger and grief is all focused on his Muslim community"--
11) Kaleidoscope
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
An astounding new feat of storytelling from Brian Selznick, the award-winning creator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Wonderstruck. A ship. A garden. A library. A key. In Kaleidoscope, the incomparable Brian Selznick presents the story of two people bound to each other through time and space, memory and dreams. At the center of their relationship is a mystery about the nature of grief and love which will look different to each reader. Kaleidoscope...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
A long ago "accident." An isolated girl named Aviva. A community that wants to help, but doesn't know how. And a ghostly dybbuk, that no one but Aviva can see, causing mayhem and mischief that everyone blames on her. That is the setting for this suspenseful novel of a girl who seems to have lost everything, including her best friend Kayla, and a mother who was once vibrant and popular, but who now can't always get out of bed in the morning. As tensions...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Lenny Spink is the sister of a giant. Her little brother, Davey, suffers from a rare form of gigantism and is taunted by other kids and turned away from school because of his size. To escape their cruel reality, Lenny and Davey obsess over the entries in their monthly installment of Burrell's Build-It-at-Home Encyclopedia set. Lenny vows to become a beetle expert, while Davey decides he will run away to Canada and build a log cabin. But as Davey's...
14) Brighid's quest
Author
Series
Partholon volume 5
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Strong and beautiful centaur Huntress Brighid struggled for years under her family's restrictive ideals and the oppressive, tyrannical rule of her mother, the clan's High Shaman. Choosing to blaze her own path in life instead of follow her kinfolk, Brighid leaves the Centaur Plains and finds a new home and a loving family among the walls of MacCallan Castle. But as Brighid sets out on a journey to guide the grief-stricken warrior Cuchulainn back home...
15) Remember me
Author
Formats
Description
When Blue Owens wakes up with the overwhelming feeling that something is wrong with her memory, she meets Adam Mendoza, who explains that she paid to have her unpleasant memories erased in order to "start over"--and that begins Blue's journey to recover her memories and understand the truth of why she felt the need to lose them in the first place.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Katie was Jude's favorite person in the world. And not many brothers say that about their sister and mean it. But to Jude, Katie was everything--the person who made him learn how to say "I love you" in every language, who performed dramatic readings of Romeo and Juliet, who obsessed over every item on the diner menu looking for the most authentic diner meal. The one who called him "Jude Banks, Superhero," because to her, Jude was the best. She was...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Nine months after Danny disappeared, his closest friends, Ellie, Rae, and Deenie, deal with their loss very differently but will have to share secrets about the night he disappeared to uncover the truth. Chapters alternate between past and present.
Nine months ago, Danny disappeared and everything changed for his friends. Rae is pouring herself into rage-baking. Deenie has deepened her commitment to Orthodox Judaism. And Ellie-- Danny's best friend...
Author
Series
[Scarlet alchemist duology] volume 1
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
In an alternate Tang Dynasty China, aspiring royal alchemist Zilan, who has the ability to resurrect the dead, arrives in the capital to compete against the best alchemists in the country and becomes drawn into the dangerous political games of the royal family.
Zilan dreams of becoming a royal alchemist, of providing for her family by making alchemical gold and gems for the wealthy to eat in order to stay young forever. Instead she lives in an impoverished...
19) Wishing season
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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"--
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