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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
440L
Language
English
Description
Declan O'Brien always had a gentle word to share, odd phrases he liked to repeat, and songs to sing while he played basketball. His favorite song was Dona Nobis Pacem, "Grant Us Peace." His family loved him deeply and always knew they were loved in return. But a terrible accident one day changes their lives forever, and Fiona and Finn O'Brien are left without a father. Their mother is at a loss. What words are there to guide them through such overwhelming...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Description
Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college; they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation; and they never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter: that was Olga's role. When a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead, Julia is left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken, too. Instead, her...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ghosts aren't meant to stick around forever. . . Ghosts are everywhere in Shelly's life. Recently passed people, pets, and a boy who lives in the local graveyard and lends her Smiths tapes are all part of spirit world she and her grandmother are privy to. In the tradition of their Cree ancestors, Shelly and her grandmother help these lost souls transition to the next world by catching them in their hair. But when Shelly's mom dies, her relationship...
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: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Chloe loves musicals and is desperate to go on the class trip to Broadway, but since her mother died money has been tight, and her father's zany inventions are not selling--so with the help of her best friend Sabrina Chloe comes up with a way to make some money by making and selling boba tea"--Title verso page.
6) Mixed up
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-olds Reef and Theo have a mutual problem: their memories are getting mixed up, and that means that Reef is losing his memory of his mother, recently dead of COVID, which terrifies him--but for Theo his new memories are helping him deal with his domineering father.
Reef and Theo don't know what's happening to them. They'll be going about their days and then suddenly they'll have these strange flashes of memory -- but the memories don't...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Walter Tipple is looking for adventure. He keeps having a dream that his big brother, Tank, appears before him and says, “Let's you and me go see my world, little man.” But Tank went to the army and never came home, and Walter doesn't know how to see the world without him. Then he meets Posey, the brash new girl from next door, and an eccentric man named Banjo, who's off on a bodacious adventure of his own. What follows is a summer of taking...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
"In this novel in blank verse, twelve-year-old Cass struggles to cope with her father's recurring cancers that have dominated her whole life, with the knowledge that he is likely to die soon because the latest recurrence is worse--and with the possibility that she may have inherited the genetic disease, Li-Fraumeni Syndrome, that causes the cancers"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rumi Seto plans to spend her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea. When Lea dies in a car accident, her mother sends Rumi to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Struggling with the loss of her sister, abandoned by her mother, and without music in her life, Rumi turns to the friendship of a teenage surfer named Kai, and an eighty-year-old named George Watanabe. And Rumi is determined to write the song she and...
10) The 9:09 project
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jamison finds hope after the loss of his mother, and recognizes the role that family, friends, and even strangers can play in the healing process if you are open and willing to share your experience with others.
Jamison Deever discovered a love of photography through his mother, who taught him to understand the difference between a snapshot and a work of art. Two years after her death, Jamison, his dad, and his younger sister seem...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Description
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance -- and Papi's secrets -- the two girls are forced to...
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