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41) Grave mercy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Description
In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts--and a violent destiny.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
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...
43) Foxglove
Author
Series
Belladonna volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen-year-old Signa Farrow must solve a duke's murder and contend with a seemingly all-powerful deity, Fate"--
"The captivating sequel to the Gothic-infused Belladonna, in which Signa and Death face a supernatural foe determined to tear them apart. A duke has been murdered. The lord of Thorn Grove has been framed. And Fate, the elusive brother of Death, has taken up residence in a sumptuous estate nearby. He's hellbent on revenge after Death...
44) The Honeys
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
Mars has always been the lesser twin, the shadow to his sister Caroline's radiance. But when Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars is propelled to learn all he can about his once-inseparable sister who'd grown tragically distant. Mars's genderfluidity means he's often excluded from the traditions -- and expectations -- of his politically-connected family. This includes attendance at the prestigious Aspen Conservancy Summer Academy where...
45) Bottled sunshine
Author
Publisher
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
47) Kira-kira
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
Author
Series
Jack Perdu series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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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
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Once, in a tiny village in India, there was a young boy who loved to paint. He lived with his grandfather, who taught him to paint with his fingers, to make paints from marigolds and brushes made from jasmine flowers. Sometimes, the village children would watch them painting together, and the boy's grandfather would invite them to join in. They didn't have much, but they had each other. After his grandfather dies, the boy notices a little box wrapped...
53) Lasting love
Author
Publisher
Rodale Kids, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019].
Language
English
Description
"What happens when someone you love gets very, very sick? In this story, when a young child's mother gets sick, a magical creature appears. It grows and grows, just like a mother's love. Even as her illness takes a turn for the worse and the child faces tragedy, he can see the creature will always be there. Forever and ever. Terminal illness and its effect on a loved one is a hard thing for anyone to understand, especially a child. Written by a parent...
56) Rudi's pond
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a sick boy dies, his friends and classmates remember him by building a schoolyard pond in his memory.
58) 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...
59) Walking backward
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year old Josh makes death his summer research project while trying to deal with his actual mother's death.
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