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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist infatuated by Dorian's beauty. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic worldview: that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only things worth pursuing in life. Suddenly understanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul, to ensure that the picture, rather than...
Author
Publisher
Shambhala
Language
English
Description
"Beloved Buddhist nun and bestselling author Pema Chödrön's wise words on working with the countless changes in our lives to find more freedom and less fear. As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment-the end of a relationship, the end of a day, the end of a breath, and ultimately the end of life. And behind each ending is a beginning-though it may be unclear what the beginning holds. How We Live is How We'll Die shares Pema...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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World-famous psychic, spiritual guide, and #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author Browne uses her special psychic gift to show readers how pets fit into the afterlife. With 40 years of research and stories culled from her decades-long career, the author reveals keen insights into the true beings of animals.
Author
Series
Five people you meet in Heaven volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him, as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers....
6) Everlife
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Series
Everlife volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tenley "Ten" Lockwood knows the fate of the Everlife rests on her ability to unite the realms and destroy the Prince of Ravens. When betrayal leads to defeat and Ten finds herself bonded to the enemy, an unthinkable choice may be the only answer.
Publisher
Sentai Filmworks
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
There is a train station on the other side of death, yet not all who arrive on the platform will be judged ready for passage onwards. For one unready soul, there will be both a test and a second chance. Rather than be reborn, this soul will awake in the body of 14-year-old suicide, Makoto Kobayashi, where it must not only find a way to fit into Makoto's existence, but also unravel two mysteries. What is the secret of the great sin it committed in...
10) 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.
Author
Publisher
Experiment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Widely published bereavement expert Dr. Lucy Hone is the first academic researcher to fuse the fields of positive psychology and bereavement research. In Resilient Grieving, she upends the oft-cited (but unsubstantiated) “five stages of grief” to help those who have experienced profound loss carve their own path to healing.Dr. Hone comes to the subject with experience both professional and personal: In 2014, her 12-year-old daughter died in a...
12) Goldfish Ghost
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a goldfish who just died.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to find out.
14) For one more day
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In an inspirational debut novel by the author of Tuesdays with Morrie, Charles "Chick" Benetto, grieving over the death of his mother, uses alcohol as a crutch to deal with his loneliness, isolation, and depression and the disintegration of his life, until an encounter with his mother's ghost brings him new awareness and leads him to attempt to put his life back together.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Hundreds of years in the future, humans have colonized the solar system. The UN controls Earth. Mars is an independent military power. The planets rely on the resources of the Asteroid Belt, where air and water are more precious than gold. Earth, Mars, and the Belt are now on the brink of war. And all it will take is a single spark.
16) The After-room
Author
Series
Apothecary series volume 3
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Teenagers Janie and Benjamin continue to explore the secrets of the Pharmacopoeia while Benjamin risks everything to find a way to connect with his father.
"The triumphant finale in the bestselling trilogy is now in paperback! It’s 1955, and Benjamin Burrows and Janie Scott are trying to live a safe, normal life in America. It’s not easy, when they have the power to prevent nuclear disaster, and sinister forces are circling. Soon the advice of...
17) Violet ghosts
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Loner Dani and his best friend Sarah, the ghost of a teen murdered decades earlier, team up to help other murdered women who are still tethered to this life.
Author
Series
May Bird volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Still trapped in the Ever After, ten-year-old May Bird struggles to decide whether to save the world of her ghostly friends from the evil Bo Cleevil or to return to her West Virginia home.
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.
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