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Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1982 Buncombe County, North Carolina, sixteen-year-old Alex Stromm writes of the aftermath of the accidental drowning of a friend, as his English teacher reaches out to him while he and a fellow boarding school student try to cover things up.
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...
3) Elsewhere
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
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
Publisher
Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Rumi Seto plans to spend her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea. When Lea dies in a car accident, her mother sends Rumi to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Struggling with the loss of her sister, abandoned by her mother, and without music in her life, Rumi turns to the friendship of a teenage surfer named Kai, and an eighty-year-old named George Watanabe. And Rumi is determined to write the song she and...
5) Trouble
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Henry, wishing to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog. But fate adds another companion--the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring Franklin--and reveals troubles that predate the accident.
6) Perfect
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2004.
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
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005.
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
Series
Things not seen volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Gwen, who has been living with her grandfather in Manhattan while she attends music school, joins up with another music student to solve the mystery when her grandfather suddenly goes missing.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of the accident that killed his foster father, high school student Jacob Fielding discovers that he has acquired the power of indestructibility, and the more he learns about it the more he realizes that it is a heavy burden, if not a curse.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Billy Bartholomew has an audacious soul, and he knows it. Why? Because it's all he has left. He's dead. Eddie Proffit has an equally audacious soul, but he doesn't know it. He's still alive. These days, Billy and Eddie meet on the sledding hill, where they used to spend countless hours -- until Billy kicked a stack of Sheetrock over on himself, breaking his neck and effectively hitting tilt on his Earthgame. The two were inseparable friends. They...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After the loss of her mother, Allie is sent from Tennessee to Maine to become the daughter of Miss Beatrice Lovell, a prim woman with a faith Allie cannot accept. Clinging to the past is comforting but will it cost Allie her chance to be loved?
12) Freefall
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Briar Academy senior Luke prefers avoiding conflict and letting others make his decisions, but he is compelled to choose whether or not to stand by the best friend whose reckless behavior has endangered Luke and may have caused another student's death.
13) Defining Dulcie
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Dulcie's father dies, her mother makes a decision to move them to California, where Dulcie makes an equally radical decision to steal her dad's old truck and head back home.
14) Reflection
Author
Series
Twisted tales (Liz Braswell) volume 4
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Captain Shang is mortally wounded by Shan Yu in battle, Mulan must travel to the Underworld, Diyu, in order to save him from certain death. But King Yama, the ruler of Diyu, is not willing to give Shang up easily.
15) Red kayak
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Living near the water on Maryland's Eastern Shore, thirteen-year-old Brady and his best friends J.T. and Digger become entangled in a tragedy which tests their friendship and their ideas about right and wrong.
16) Revolver
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Finland, 1910: Fifteen-year-old Sig is shocked to see a hole in the frozen lake outside his family's cabin and to find his father's corpse nearby. Why did Einar steer his dog sled across the lake instead of taking the safer land route? Sig's sister and stepmother go for help, leaving Sig alone with Einar's body in the cabin. Soon after, an armed stranger barges in, demanding a share of Einar's stolen gold.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When her unstable mother dies unexpectedly, sixteen-year-old Lucy must take control and find a way to keep the long-held secret of her mother's compulsive hoarding from being revealed to friends, neighbors, and especially the media.
18) Everlost
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash, they end up in Everlost, or limbo for lost souls, where although Nick is satisfied, Allie will stop at nothing--even skinjacking--to break free.
19) Antsy does time
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Anthony "Antsy" Bonano learns about life, death, and a lot more when he tries to help a friend with a terminal illness feel hopeful about the future.
Author
Series
Morpheus Road volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Marshall Seaver is expecting a boring summer when his best friend goes away, but instead he finds himself haunted--and hunted--by ghosts that want something from him which he cannot decipher.
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