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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Author Birthdays - August
NYT - Children’s Chapter Books
NYT - Young Adult
YA Books that Inspired Movies
NYT - Children’s Chapter Books
NYT - Young Adult
YA Books that Inspired Movies
Description
Despite the medical miracle that has bought her a few more years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, but when Augustus Waters suddenly appears at the Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be rewritten.
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly...
3) Ghost boys
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Banned Books Week
Challenged in Washoe County Libraries
NYT - Children’s Paperback Books
NYT - Young Adult
Challenged in Washoe County Libraries
NYT - Children’s Paperback Books
NYT - Young Adult
Description
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.
The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 international bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars. Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award. Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist. New York...
6) 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."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Jamal's best friend, Q, doesn't know that he died, and that he's about to die again. He doesn't know that Jamal tried to save him. And that the reason they haven't been friends for two years is because Jamal blames Q for the accident that killed his parents. But what if Jamal could have a second chance? A new technology allows Q to be reanimated for a few weeks before he dies permanently. And Q's mom is not about to let anyone ruin this miracle by...
8) Ghost cat
Author
Publisher
Douglas & McIntyre
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Emily has six siblings, but she was also close to her best friend, Lizzie Porter, who died nearly a year ago, and she is still grieving; but Lizzie's family are also grieving, so much so, that they use Lizzie's younger sister, Chloe, as a lure and kidnap Emily, forcing her to dress, talk, and act like Lizzie, and threatening to go after Emily's family if she does not become the replacement for the daughter they lost--and Emily is...
Author
Series
Jack Perdu series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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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.
14) Up in heaven
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Book for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Arthur's dog Daisy is very old, and one night, after going to sleep as usual, she wakes up in heaven. Because Daisy knows that Arthur is sad, she finds a way to let him know she is very happy, the first step toward making him happy again, too.
15) No dogs allowed!
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Kristina, still struggling to come to terms with the death of her beloved horse, finds it difficult to accept the new dog she receives for her birthday.
16) Bear and Bird
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"An old bear and a young bird become friends and spend several years together until the bear's death. The young bird is comforted by memories of their time together"--
17) Entwined
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Confined to their dreary castle while mourning their mother's death, Princess Azalea and her eleven sisters join The Keeper, who is trapped in a magic passageway, in a nightly dance that soon becomes nightmarish.
18) The old dog
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a young boy finds his old dog dead one morning, he spends the rest of the day thinking about all the good times they had together.
19) Neverworld wake
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Enter a realm where fears are physical and memories come alive in this absorbing psychological suspense thriller from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics and Night Film. "A thriller that will grip readers from the start." -Hypable. Once upon a time, back at Darrow-Harker School, Beatrice Hartley and her five best friends were the cool kids, the beautiful ones. Then the shocking death of Jim--their...
20) Our violent ends
Author
Series
These violent delights volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Though secrets and lies keep Juliette and Roma apart, a monster still prowls the city of Shanghai, and the two are going to have to put aside their differences to end this threat once and for all"--
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