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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When four year old Colton Burpo made it through an emergency appendectomy his family was overjoyed at his miraculous survival. What they weren't expecting, though, was the story that emerged in the following months, a story as beautiful as it was extraordinary, detailing their little boy's trip to heaven and back. This true story, retold by his father but using Colton's uniquely simple words, offers a glimpse of the world that awaits us, where as...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The death of a friend is a wrenching event for anyone at any age and can spark feelings that range from sadness to guilt to anxiety. Teenagers especially need help coping with grief and loss. This sensitive book answers questions grieving teens often have, like "How should I be acting?" "How long will this last?" and "What if I can't handle my grief on my own?" The book also addresses the complicated emotions that can accompany the death of an acquaintance,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Neal shares the details of her life in which she has experienced not just one miracle, but many. Her experiences provide confirmation that miracles still occur, shows how God keeps his promises and why there is sufficient reason to live by faith.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Adam Moynihan's life used to be awesome. Straight As, close friends and a home life so perfect that it could have been a TV show straight out of the 50s. Then, his oldest brother died. Now, his fun-loving mom cries constantly, he and his remaining brother can't talk without fighting, and the father he always admired proved himself a coward by moving out when they needed him most. Jolene Timber's life is nothing like the movies she loves -- not the...
5) Elsewhere
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
720L
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: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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...
8) Hereafter
Author
Series
Hereafter trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Amelia, long a ghost, forms a strong bond with eighteen-year-old Joshua, who nearly drowned where she did and who awakens in her long-forgotten senses and memories even as Eli, a spirit, tries to draw her away.
9) Sabriel
Author
Series
Old Kingdom volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Sent to a boarding school in Ancelstierre as a young child, Sabriel has had little experience with the random power of Free Magic or the Dead who refuse to stay dead in the Old Kingdom. But during her final semester, her father, the Abhorsen, goes missing, and Sabriel knows she must enter the Old Kingdom to find him. She soon finds companions in Mogget, a cat whose aloof manner barely conceals its malevolent spirit, and Touchstone, a young Charter...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
Four years after her brother Simon drowned while in her charge, Francesca, now fifteen, begins to move on after a summer caring for Frankie, who seems to be Simon reincarnated, and getting closer to her best friend's boyfriend.
11) Skin of the sea
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
860L
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.
12) Trouble
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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.
13) Red kayak
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Madison Avery novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
750L
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.
15) Everlost
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
After Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash they end up in Everlost, a limbo between live and death. Nick feels that he has found a home, but Allie will stop at nothing, even skinjacking, to break free.
16) The survival kit
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their friend Scooter dies of a rare disease, teenagers Nick Gardner and Jaycee Amato set out on a secret journey to find the father who abandoned "The Scoot" when he was an infant, and give him a signed first edition of "Of Mice and Men."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
Billy, recently deceased, keeps an eye on his best friend, fourteen-year-old Eddie, who has added to his home and school problems by becoming mute, and helps him stand up to a conservative minister and English teacher who is orchestrating a censorship challenge.
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