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1) The savage
Author
Publisher
Candlewick
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A boy tells about a story he wrote when dealing with his father's death about a savage kid living in a ruined chapel in the woods--and the tale about the savage kid coming to life in the real world.
Author
Series
Madison Avery novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Spunky teen Madison, though technically dead, uses a stolen amulet to retain the illusion of a body and help her in the struggle between Light and Dark reapers.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Jacob wakes up in the middle of a field, he realizes that the only thing he remembers is his name, and when he arrives at a nearby town he becomes aware that everyone there is also suffering from amnesia.
5) Elsewhere
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live."
7) The black
Author
Series
Morpheus Road volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Cooper Foley, who has a knack for getting into trouble, ends up in the middle of a border war between the worlds of the living and the dead, trying to find out about the mysterious Morpheus Road.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Scotty compares herself to tofu: no flavor unless you add something. And it's true that Scotty's friends, Misha and Faclone, and her brother, Keone, make life delicious. But when a terrible accident occurs, Scotty feels responsible for the loss of someone she hardly knew, and the world goes wrong. She cannot tell what is a dream and what is real. Her friends are having a hard time getting through to her and her family is preoccupied with their own...
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love.
10) Sleepless
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Eron, a supernatural being known as a Sandman whose purpose is to seduce humans to sleep, falls in love with a sad teenaged girl who is mourning her boyfriend's death.
11) In a heartbeat
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, Eagan, who has died in a figure-skating accident, becomes a heart donor for Amelia, who then begins taking on some aspects of Eagan's personality.
12) Woven
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A princess and a ghost set out on a journey to find a magic needle that can sew the ghost back to his life.
Author
Series
Jack Perdu series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
After fourteen-year-old classics prodigy Jack Perdu has a near fatal accident he meets Euri, a young ghost who introduces him to New York's Underworld, where those who died in New York reside until they are ready to move on, and Jack vows to find his dead mother there.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a fable about a whiny young worm who finds a hair in his dirt and whose father teaches him about the reality of a worm's existence by relating the story of a nature-loving woman and her dauntless walk through the woods
16) Just like that
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
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...
17) Revived
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Having been brought back from the dead repeatedly by a top-secret government super drug called Revive, and forced to move so the public does not learn the truth, fifteen-year-old Daisy meets people worth living for and begins to question the heavy-handed government controls she has dealt with for eleven years.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When her struggles with anxiety worsen in the aftermath of a family death, Lottie is bequeathed a series of letters from her late aunt, a best-selling author, who leaves instructions to help Lottie overcome her fears and explore her own literary voice.
19) Skin of the sea
Author
Series
Skin of the sea volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Transformed by the goddess Yemoja into a Mami Wati, an African mermaid charged with collecting the souls of those who die at sea, Simi goes against the gods to save a living boy, Kola, from drowning.
20) Perfect
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Following the death of her father, a thirteen-year-old uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and ten-year-old sister's grief, as well as her own.
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