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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Best-selling author and licensed mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition. Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral? In the tradition of Randall Munroe's What If?, Doughty's new book, Will My Cat...
3) Suburbicon
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Formats
Description
A peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns, the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that. The tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge must navigate the town's dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit, and violence. This is a tale of very flawed people making very bad choices.
4) Shadowcry
Author
Series
Secrets of Wintercraft volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Pursued by two ruthless men of the High Council of Albiom, fifteen-year-old Kate Winters discovers that she is one of the Skilled, a rare person who can see through the veil between the living and the dead.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
℗2015.
Language
English
Description
The film follows a group of medical students who discover a way to bring dead patients back to life. After a successful, yet unsanctioned, trial on a newly deceased animal, the team is ready to unveil their breakthrough to the world. When the dean of their university learns of their underground experiments, their project is unexpectedly shut down and their materials confiscated.
Author
Series
Death and life of Zebulon Finch volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The conclusion to Daniel Kraus's saga about a murdered teen who is resurrected to walk the earth for decades to come"--
8) Spellbinder
Author
Series
Spellbinder novels volume 1
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2011, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Belladonna Johnson, who lives with the ghosts of her parents in the north of England, teams up with an always-in-trouble classmate to investigate why all of the ghosts in the world have suddenly disappeared.
9) Everwild
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nick, known as the dreaded "Chocolate Ogre," is trying to find all the children in Everlost and release them from the limbo they are in, while Mikey and Allie have joined a band of skinjackers and are putting themselves in danger by visiting the world of the living.
10) Whichwood
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Laylee, thirteen, is nearly worn out from washing and packaging corpses for the Otherwhere and being shunned by villagers when two strangers, Alice and Oliver, arrive determined to help.
11) Hungry ghosts
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
Necromancer Eric Carter's problems keep getting bigger. Bad enough he's the unwilling husband to the patron saint of death, Santa Muerte, but now her ex, the Aztec King of the dead, Mictlantecuhtli has come back, and it turns out that Carter and he are swapping places. As Mictlantecuhtli breaks loose of his prison of jade, Carter is slowly turning to stone.
13) Song of the Dead
Author
Series
Reign of the Fallen volume 2
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Odessa and Meredy journey beyond Karthia to a land where the Dead rule the night and dragons roam the streets, but just as they are beginning to explore the new world a terrifying development in Karthia summons them home at once.
Author
Series
Last kids on Earth volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The zombies are disappearing. This might seem like a good thing, since zombies eat your brains, but normal human kid Jack Sullivan is suspicious. He keeps hearing an eerie shrieking noise that seems to be almost summoning the zombies?but to where, and for what (probably) foul purpose? Jack, his three best friends (maybe the only people left on Earth), and their pet monster Rover need to get to the bottom of this. Along the way they encounter a lot...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After crossing the bridge into the afterlife, a place called Here where the time is always Now, Riley's existence continues in much the same way as when she was alive until she is given the job of Soul Catcher and, together with her teacher Bodhi, returns to earth for her first assignment, a ghost called the Radiant Boy who has been haunting an English castle for centuries and resisted all previous attempts to get him across the bridge.
Author
Series
Lying game novels volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Emma Paxton steps into the life of her long-lost twin Sutton to solve her murder, she finds new suspects at every turn, while Sutton looks on from her afterlife.
New York Times bestselling series The second book in the New York Times bestselling series The Lying Game, by author of the bestselling Pretty Little Liars series, Sara Shepard. Sutton Mercer is dead, but only a few people know it. Her long-lost twin, Emma, has stepped into her shoes—doing...
17) Nightspell
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sent by her father, the king of Raellia, who is trying to forge an empire out of warring tribes, Darri arrives in Ghostland and discovers that her sister, whom she planned to rescue, may not want to leave this land where the dead mingle freely with the living.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an effort to impress a female classmate, high school sophomore Jack Perdu endangers both of their lives by taking her to New York City's Underworld, where those who died in New York reside until they are ready to move on.
19) The Exodus quest
Author
Series
Daniel Knox novels volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams's second adventure featuring archaeologist Daniel Knox"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by Mexican culture and perfect for fans of the hit movies Coco and The Nightmare Before Christmas, Skeletina and the In-Between World is the first book in a series that combines kooky characters and a spooky story with important and resonant themes about empathy, bravery, self-esteem, and the enduring power of love. Meet Skeletina, a fun-loving, fearless little girl who lives in the in-between world with her friends, who include monsters,...
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