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Author
Series
Once upon a con volume 3
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In this adaptation of "Beauty and the Beast," the teenaged star of a popular science fiction movie franchise hides out in a small town, following a tabloid scandal, and meets the bookish Rosie Thorne who is still grieving over her mother's death.
3) The reminder
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A teenaged girl who hears her dead mother's voice makes a startling discovery after breaking into her father's industrial robotics lab and finding his latest secret project: a lifelike replica of her mother's head that looks, talks, moves, and even smiles just like her mother.
4) 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.
5) Cashay
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When her world is turned upside down by her sister's death, a mentor is assigned to fourteen-year-old Cashay to help her through her anger and grief.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
While grieving following an unexpected family tragedy, Rose Darrow finds her quiet world turned upside down when Bodhi Lowell is hired to spend the summer working on her family's farm.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"After Sharkey's best friend commits suicide (or was it an accident?) in front of him, he spends the summer processing his grief on an abandoned beach resort island where his dad is the caretaker"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible in her family, where grumpy eighteen-year-old Sarah is working at the family restaurant, fourteen-year-old Holden is struggling with school bullies and his emerging homosexuality, and adorable, three-year-old Charlie is always the center of attention, and when tragedy strikes, the fragile bond holding the family together is stretched almost to the breaking point.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Rumi Seto spends a lot of time worrying she doesnt have the answers to everything. What to eat, where to go, whom to love. But there is one thing she is absolutely sure ofshe wants to spend the rest of her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea. Then Lea dies in a car accident, and her mother sends her away to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Now thousands of miles from home, Rumi struggles to navigate the...
10) 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...
11) 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.
Author
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When her late best friend’s formerly inactive Instagram starts posting again during the Scrabble competition, with cryptic messages suggesting that her death was no accident, Najwa Bakri, surrounded by suspects, must find out who’s behind these mysterious posts.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grader Hannah Carlisle feels unattractive compared to her movie star parents and cliquish Beverly Hills classmates, and when her mother's cancer worsens and her father starts drinking heavily, Hannah's grief and anger turn into bulimia, which only her aunt, a documentary filmmaker, understands.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Fifty years after Where the Wild Things Are was published comes the last book Maurice Sendak completed before his death in May 2012, My Brother's Book. With influences from Shakespeare and William Blake, Sendak pays homage to his late brother, Jack, whom he credited for his passion for writing and drawing. Pairing Sendak's poignant poetry with his exquisite and dramatic artwork, this book redefines what mature readers expect from Maurice Sendak while...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After a car accident in the Adirondacks leaves her older sister Ivy brain-dead, seventeen-year-old Rose struggles with her grief and guilt as she slowly learns to let her sister go.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Kaia, who has felt emotionally isolated since her brother's suicide, befriends a wild boy who mysteriously appears at her London school, finding a way to communicate with him despite his being mute.
18) Fadeaway
Author
Publisher
Yellow Jacket
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Sam's best friend Reagan dies after her heart suddenly gives out, Sam must learn to deal with her grief and ultimately discover who she is without her best friend by her side. Fourteen-year-old Sam thinks she has all summer to hang out with her best friend, Reagan. But then her life changes forever. Sam's world, once filled with school, basketball, and Reagan, has now abruptly changed and she must learn to navigate high school on and off the...
20) Positively
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Emmy, grieving over her mother who died of AIDS, resentful of having to live with her father and pregnant stepmother, and despairing about her future, finds hope at a summer camp for HIV-positive girls like herself. Includes facts about Elizabeth Glaser, one of the founders of the Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
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