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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After her death, seventeen-year-old Maddy finds a way to revisit moments in her life by using objects that she lost while she was alive, and by so doing she tries to figure out the complicated emotions, events, and meaning of her existence.
2) Grave mercy
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts--and a violent destiny.
Author
Series
Grimrose girls volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Ella, Yuki, and Rory are the talk of their elite school, Grimrose Académie. After the mysterious death of their best friend Ariane, the police ruled it a suicide. When Nani Eszes arrives as their newest roommate, it sets into motion a series of events they couldn't have imagined. As the girls retrace their friend's last steps, they uncover dark secrets about themselves and their destinies. They are all cursed to repeat the brutal and gruesome endings...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Grimrose girls volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Nani, Yuki, Ella, and Rory have discovered the truth about the curse that's left a trail of dead bodies at Grimrose. But the four still know nothing of its origins, or how to stop the cycle of doomed fates. And each girl harbors her own secret. One is learning why she was brought to the school. One struggles to keep her new and deadly power under control. One knows exactly how much time she has left. And one, trying to escape her dark destiny, will...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her Aunt Flo comes to help care for eleven-year-old Evie and her younger sister after their mother's death, Evie wants nothing to do with her and she is especially uncomfortable with her aunt's calling of helping prepare bodies for burial.
7) Dark triumph
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
The extremely damaged Lady Sybella serves Mortain, the god of Death, by killing those who have been "marqued" by His hand. When Sybella is ordered back to her childhood home (and personal hell) to spy on her wicked father, she waits hopefully for the order to kill him -- but Mortain has other plans and instead orders her to rescue her father's enemy, the Beast of Waroch. Set in 15th-century France, this story is packed with action, adventure, and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Afraid that she is crazy, thirteen-year-old Mia, who sees a special color with every letter, number, and sound, keeps this a secret until she becomes overwhelmed by school, changing relationships, and the death of her beloved cat, Mango.
Author
Series
Soul riders volume 1
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Soul Riders tells the heroic tale of four young girls who have been chosen by destiny to save the world from the ancient demon: Garnok and his band of dangerous Dark Riders. Lisa is a teenage girl who is still coming to terms with the tragic loss of her mother in a riding accident and has sworn never to go near a horse again until she met Starshine, a mysterious blue-maned steed who comes to her in dreams. New on the island of Jorvik, Lisa befriends...
10) The good sister
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Language
English
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Description
When teenaged Sarah dies in a sudden and puzzling accident, sending her two sisters into a tailspin of grief and confusion, Sarah wakes up in the afterlife and must piece together how she got there.
11) Thin ice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Arden has been raised by her older brother, Scott, since their parents died when she was just six years old, so when Scott is presumed drowned in a snowmobile accident, Arden is convinced he's really run away.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The people of fourteenth-century Florence, Italy, starving after years of bad weather and natural disasters, now face the Black Plague but twelve-year-old Maria is determined to survive. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion questions.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a seaside New England town in the 1920s, twelve-year-old Clare finds refuge from the cruelty of her society friends in a mysterious glass house inhabited by Jack, a charming and playful ghost who cannot remember his real name or how he died.
14) Just Lucky
Author
Lexile measure
HL 500L
Language
English
Description
"Lucky loves her grandparents, and they are all the family she really has. True, her grandma forgets things... like turning off the stove, or Lucky's name. But her grandpa takes such good care of them that Lucky doesn't realize how bad things are. That is until he's gone. When her grandma accidentally sets the kitchen on fire, Lucky can't hide what's happening any longer, and she is sent into foster care. She quickly learns that some foster families...
Author
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighteen-year-old Cayenne learns that her long-dead mother left her and her sister a series of video messages; that their aunt, who raised them, has the same gene mutation that caused their mother's cancer; and that she and her sister may also have it.
16) Body swap
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Language
English
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Description
Hallie, dying to know whether her crush likes her, runs across a mall parking lot with her cell phone blocking her vision as 82-year-old Susan is backing out. The freak accident appears to cost both of them their lives. It's all Susan's fault, right? What business does she have still being behind the wheel at her age? The two find themselves transported to a strange fairground, and argue back and forth over whose fault the accident was. In order to...
17) The elementals
Author
Series
Vespertine volume 03
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1917, Kate Witherspoon, who has lived a bohemian life with her artist parents, goes to Los Angeles where she meets crippled midwestern farm boy Julian Birch, another runaway, and together they realize they have the ability to triumph over death and time.
18) In Search of Sam
Author
Series
Truths I learned from Sam volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
CCBC's Best Books for Kids & Teens (Fall 2015) — Commended
When Dani sets out to uncover her father's past, she also discovers her own future.
Raised by her mother, eighteen-year-old Dani Lancaster only had six weeks to get to know her father, Sam, before he lost his battle with cancer. It was long enough to love him, but not long enough to get to know him — especially since Sam didn't even know himself.
Left on the...
When Dani sets out to uncover her father's past, she also discovers her own future.
Raised by her mother, eighteen-year-old Dani Lancaster only had six weeks to get to know her father, Sam, before he lost his battle with cancer. It was long enough to love him, but not long enough to get to know him — especially since Sam didn't even know himself.
Left on the...
19) Dead Rules
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When high school junior Jana Webster dies suddenly, she finds herself in Dead School, where she faces choices that will determine when she, a Riser, will move on, but she strives to become a Slider instead, for the chance to be with the love of her life--even if it means killing him.
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