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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After her younger brother, Tyler, commits suicide, Lex struggles to work through her grief in the face of a family that has fallen apart, the sudden distance between her and her friends, and memories of Tyler that still feel all too real.
63) Invisible ghosts
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Rose Asher believes in ghosts. She should, since she has one for a best friend: Logan, her annoying, Netflix-addicted brother, who is forever stuck at fifteen. But Rose is growing up, and when an old friend moves back to Laguna Canyon and appears in her drama class, things get complicated. Jamie Aldridge is charming, confident, and a painful reminder of the life Rose has been missing out on since her brother's death. She watches as Jamie easily...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"It's been eighty-three days since Annie Lee's daddy died, but she still sees reminders of him everywhere. His record player mysteriously plays his favorite songs, there's shaving cream in the sink every morning, and the TV keeps flipping to the Duke basketball games he loved. She knows Mama notices it too, but Mama's been working around the clock to make ends meet. To make matters worse, Annie Lee's friends ditched her over the summer. She feels...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
"When Sal Vidon meets Gabi Real for the first time, it isn't under the best of circumstances. Sal is in the principal's office for the third time in three days, and it's still the first week of school. Gabi, student council president and editor of the school paper, is there to support her friend Yasmany, who just picked a fight with Sal. She is determined to prove that somehow, Sal planted a raw chicken in Yasmany's locker, even though nobody saw...
66) Funeral girl
Author
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
"When Georgia revives the spirit of a recently deceased classmate at her family's funeral home, she's forced to sort out her complex feelings about grief and mortality"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Anna's always idolized her older sister, Storm. So when Storm dies in a tragic car accident on the night of her high school graduation, Anna is completely lost and her family is torn apart. That is, until she finds Storm's summer bucket list and decides to honor her sister by having the best summer ever--which includes taking an epic road trip to the coast from her sleepy Iowa town. Setting out to do everything on Storm's list along with her sisters...
69) Defining Dulcie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
650L
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.
70) Wishing season
Author
Language
English
Description
"Lily doesn't believe in making wishes. Not anymore. Not since Anders died. Wishes can't fix the terrible thing that happened. Wishing won't change how it feels. But Lily doesn't believe in the impossible. She has a secret so extraordinary, so magical, no one would believe that it's true. No one except Anders, of course. Nothing about this summer is turning out how Lily would have wished. But wishes, like seasons, can change"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
"Ten-year-old Dottie Bing is a problem-solver and question-asker who is never more gleeful than when she's encountering a new dilemma--whether it's her own, or someone else's. But when her Grandpa Walter comes to stay (and stay, and stay!) he brings the biggest question that Dottie has ever encountered: How do you heal a broken heart? You see, Grandpa Walter is grieving the loss of his beloved wife, Dottie's Grandma Ima. Even though she knows every...
73) Love, Aubrey
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Language
English
Description
While living with her Gram in Vermont, eleven-year-old Aubrey writes letters as a way of dealing with losing her father and sister in a car accident, and then being abandoned by her grief-stricken mother.
74) Raising Lumie
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
"Newly orphaned and living with the half sister she hardly knows, twelve-year-old Olive rediscovers her hope when she starts training a guide dog puppy".
75) Ketchup clouds
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Zoe, a teenager in Bath, England, writes letters to a death-row inmate in Texas, hoping to find comfort in sharing her guilty secret over the death of a friend with someone who can never tell her family.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
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...
77) Summerlost
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
"Following the sudden deaths of her father and autistic younger brother, Cedar Lee spends the summer working at a Shakespearean theater festival, making a new friend, and coming to terms with her grief"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
Philippa Fisher is trying to have a good time on vacation with her parents, but she's feeling lonely. When she meets Robyn, a girl with sad eyes and a strict father, she enjoys the company, but can't help wondering what Robyn and her dad might be hiding. Meanwhile, Daisy, Philippa's best friend (and fairy godsister), sneaks into her former charge's room for a visit, but now has a furtive new mission and must dash away. Philippa longs to uncover the...
80) A summer to die
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Meg envys her sister's beauty and popularity. Her feelings don't make it any easier for her to cope with Molly's strange illness and eventful death.
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