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1) Perfect
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
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.
2) 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: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Years after writing stories about a superheroine character she created with a best friend who died in a tragic car accident, sixteen-year-old May is shocked to see stickers, patches, and graffiti images of the superheroine appearing around Seattle.
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The accident season has been part of seventeen-year-old Cara's life for as long as she can remember. Towards the end of October, foreshadowed by the deaths of many relatives before them, Cara's family becomes inexplicably accident-prone. They banish knives to locked drawers, cover sharp table edges with padding, switch off electrical items -- but injuries follow wherever they go, and the accident season becomes an ever-growing obsession and fear....
Author
Series
Antsy Bonano volume 2
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
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Teenaged Luna, who lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her movie director father, tries to piece together the death of her mother with the seven unheard messages left on her forgotten cell phone.
Author
Series
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.
Author
Series
Ghostgirl volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Petula becomes ill, her sister seeks help from former classmate Charlotte, who finds the afterlife burdensome, leaving her as insecure and isolated as she was while she was alive. The plot contains sexual references and alcohol use. Book #2.
When Petula becomes deathly ill, her sister Scarlet seeks help from former classmate Charlotte, for whom the afterlife has become burdensome, leaving her just as insecure and isolated as she was while she...
10) Skin of the sea
Author
Series
Skin of the sea volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Transformed by the goddess Yemoja into a Mami Wati, an African mermaid charged with collecting the souls of those who die at sea, Simi goes against the gods to save a living boy, Kola, from drowning.
11) Love & gelato
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn't in the mood for Italy's famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She's only there because it was her mother's dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind of father isn't around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is get back home. But then Lina is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. Suddenly Lina's uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art,...
Author
Series
Confessions (James Patterson) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, Tandy Angel knows just three things: 1) She was the last person to see her parents alive. 2) The police have no suspects besides Tandy and her three siblings. 3) She can't trust anyone--maybe not even herself. Having grown up under Malcolm and Maud's intense perfectionist demands, no child comes away undamaged. Tandy decides that she will have to clear the family name, but digging deeper into her powerful...
13) Everlost
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
14) The Survival Kit
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After her mother dies, sixteen-year-old Rose works through her grief by finding meaning in a survival kit that her mother left behind.
15) Things hoped for
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
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.
16) The black
Author
Series
Morpheus Road volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Cooper Foley, who has a knack for getting into trouble, ends up in the middle of a border war between the worlds of the living and the dead, trying to find out about the mysterious Morpheus Road.
17) 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.
18) Ostrich boys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After their best friend Ross dies, English teenagers Blake, Kenny, and Sim plan a proper memorial by taking his ashes to Ross, Scotland, an adventure-filled journey that tests their loyalty to each other and forces them to question what friendship means.
19) The light
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.
Author
Series
Madison Avery novels volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Spunky teen Madison, though technically dead, uses a stolen amulet to retain the illusion of a body and help her in the struggle between Light and Dark reapers.