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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Not since The Book Thief has the character of Death played such an original and affecting part in a book for young people.
Flora and Henry were born a few blocks from each other, innocent of the forces that might keep a white boy and an African American girl apart; years later they meet again and their mutual love of music sparks an even more powerful connection. But what Flora and Henry don't know is that they are pawns in a game played by the eternal...
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Series
TombQuest volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-olds Alex and Renata are on the run from the Order, which is on the brink of creating an army of indestructible stone warriors to carry out their evil schemes, and only the Lost Spells which his mother used to bring Alex back to life can stop them--and undoing the powerful magic that created the chaos that is now loose in Egypt might very well kill him.
Author
Series
TombQuest volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Alex and Ren must confront the Death Walkers, The Order, and an army of the dead in an attempt to save themselves, Alex's mother, and the world--and hope that Ammit, the Devourer of Egyptian legend, will be able to separate the guilty from the innocent.
44) How it went down
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
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When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.
45) Always remember
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Old Turtle dies and is taken back by the sea, his friends remember that he was a wonderful teacher and friend who made his world a better place.
46) Ghoulish song
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When the music of a bone flute given to her by a goblin separates Kaile's shadow from herself, her family believes she has died and become a ghoul, and Kaile must set out to prove that she still lives.
47) Paws + Edward
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Language
English
Description
Paws, an old, faithful dog, dreams about the rabbits he used to chase, while he spends his last moments with his devoted young boy, Edward.
48) Come find me
Author
Publisher
Crown
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Kennedy Jones and seventeen-year-old Nolan Chandler are drawn together by strange signals related to family tragedies, and find they are more connected than they could have imagined.
Author
Series
Alvin Ho volume 1
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A fearful second grader in Concord, Massachusetts, learns about death when his grandfather's best friend passes away and he offers to accompany his grandfather to the funeral.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a young boy's beloved dog dies, the boy encounters a stray dog on the beach. At first, the boy is not interested in having another dog as a pet, but as he walks and plays on the beach, he gradually becomes interested in taking care of the stray dog as a pet -- Provided by publisher.
52) Bone dog
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Although devastated when his pet dog dies, a young boy goes trick-or-treating and receives a timely visit from an old friend during a scary encounter with graveyard skeletons.
Sam doesn't feel like doing much after his dog Ella dies, but when he runs into a bunch of rowdy skeletons on Halloween, it's Ella who comes to his aid and together they put those skeletons in their place.
53) The last forever
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After her mother's death, it's all Tessa can do to keep her friends, her boyfriend, her happiness from slipping away. Even the rare plant her mother entrusted to her care starts to wilt. Then she meets Henry. Though secrets stand between them, each has a chance at healing...if first, Tessa can find the courage to believe in forever.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A story set on the American border with Mexico, about family and friendship, life and death, and one teen struggling to understand what his adoption does and doesn't mean about who he is. -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Murder. Fire. Revenge. That's all seventeen-year-old Alice Monroe thinks about. Committed to a mental ward at Savage Isle, Alice is haunted by memories of the fire that killed her boyfriend, Jason. A blaze her twin sister, Cellie, set. But when Chase, a mysterious, charismatic patient, agrees to help her seek vengeance, Alice begins to rethink everything. Writing out the story of her troubled past in a journal, she must confront hidden truths-and...
58) Twice Dead
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Series
Language
English
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In this imaginative debut perfect for fans of character-driven fantasies like Graceling and Daughter of Smoke and Bone, seventeen-year-old Naya Garth becomes one of the undead and an unlikely spy for her country. Naya, the daughter of a sea merchant captain, nervously undertakes her first solo trading mission in the necromancer-friendly country bordering her homeland of Talmir. Unfortunately, she never even makes it to the meeting. She's struck down...
60) The epidemic
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Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Can one girl help others find closure by slipping into the identities of their loved ones? In a world before "The Program" Quinlan McKee has spent her life acting as a closer, hired to play the role of the recently deceased in order to give their families closure.
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