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Ryan, Harley and Miles are very different people-the swimmer, the rebel and the nerd. All they've ever had in common is Isaac, their shared best friend. When Isaac dies unexpectedly, the three boys must come to terms with their grief and the impact Isaac had on each of their lives. In his absence, Ryan, Harley and Miles discover things about one another they never saw before, and realize there may be more tying them together than just Isaac. In...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
720L
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English
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Clayton feels most alive when he's with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Bluesmen -- he can't wait to join them, just as soon as he has a blues song of his own. But then the unthinkable happens. Cool Papa Byrd dies, and Clayton's mother forbids Clayton from playing the blues. And Clayton knows that's no way to live. Armed with his grandfather's brown porkpie hat and his harmonica, he runs away from home in search of the Bluesmen, hoping...
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2018.
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English
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How do you deal with a hole in your life? Do you turn to poets and pop songs? Do you dream? Do you try on love just to see how it fits? Do you grieve? If you're Avery, you do all of these things. And you write it all down in an attempt to understand what's happened--and is happening--to you. I Felt a Funeral, In My Brain is an astonishing novel about navigating death and navigating life, at a time when the only map you have is the one you can...
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"Seventeen-year-old CJ Ainsworth doesn't drive--not because she can't, but because she won't. She's been living with the guilt of being the sole survivor of the head-on collision that claimed her mother's and sister's lives. It's the reason she refuses to get behind the wheel. It's the reason her father has nearly abandoned her. It's the reason she's send to piddle the summer away at her estranged Memaw's house in Edisto Beach. All CJ wants to do...
7) Teen spirit
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Lexile measure
HL 770L
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English
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After Julie's grandmother passes away, she is forced to move across town to the not-so-fancy end of Beverly Hills and start over at a new school. The only silver lining to the perpetual dark cloud that seems to be following her? Clark -- a die-hard fan of Buffy and all things Joss Whedon, who is just as awkward and damaged as she is. Her kindred spirit. When the two try to contact Julie's grandmother with a Ouija board, they make contact with a different...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
780L
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English
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Eve gave up her belief in stories and magic after her mother's death, but a mysterious seed given her as an eleventh-birthday gift by someone she has never met takes her and a boy who claims to be a ghost on a strange journey, to where their supposedly cursed town of Beaumont, New York, flourishes.
9) Sun & Spoon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
780L
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English
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After the death of his grandmother, ten-year-old Spoon observes the changes in his grandfather and tries to find the perfect artifact to preserve his memories of her.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 26
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
770L
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English
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Claudia's grief over her grandmother Mimi's death goes unexpressed -- leaving Claudia unable to move forward with her life -- until she pours out her emotions to her sister and learns to see beyond her pain.
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