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"Fifteen-year-old Emma's growing up and feels isolated from her friends and family. Things go from bad to unfathomably worse when Emma inadvertently causes an accident that kills her increasingly distant father on a spring break canoe trip meant to bring them closer together. Suddenly, Emma's efforts to reconcile with her father as a parent and a person have to happen without him, and she must confront her guilt and her grief to begin moving forward"--...
2) Stones
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Lexile measure
HL 140L
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English
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"My family is a mess. It was never like this when my dad was alive. I miss him!" --back cover.
3) Gobbledy
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English
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"Ever since eleven-year-old Dexter Duckworth and his brother, Dougal, lost their mom, everything has been different. But "different" takes on a whole new meaning when, one day just before Christmas (or Kissmas, as they call it), Dexter finds a golden rock in the forest that hatches into an adorable alien. Gobbledy is smarter than he seems and is lost on planet Earth. Before long, Gobbledy takes Dexter, Dougal, and their best friend Fi on an adventure...
4) Planet grief
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Lexile measure
660L
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English
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"In this novel for middle readers, a group of young teens gather for Grief Camp, where they confront their feelings and try to understand how grief affects everyone differently."--
5) Windfall
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
HL 590L
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English
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Grieving the loss of a local homeless man and her family's apple tree, thirteen-year-old Liza seeks healing through gardening.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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Alone in New York, sixteen-year-old Cat is determined to realize the dream she shared with her recently-deceased grandmother--to be a fashion designer whose line is sold in Bloomingdale's--but first she must survive the big city and avoid being stopped by her mother.
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"When the strange new girl at her high school takes her to a place underneath the subways of New York, where people like them can go and find a home, Harriet Adu, who is riddled with guilt over her brother's death, gets a second chance at being a better person"--
12) Sitting shiva
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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 560L
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English
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"In this gorgeously illustrated, deeply moving picture book, a young girl learns about the practice of sitting shiva after her mother dies."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
820L
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.
14) Defining Dulcie
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
650L
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English
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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.
16) Better Place
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English
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This sidekick misses his superhero... After hearing that his grandfather has gone to a "better place," a boy sets off on a grand adventure to find him, dressed as his favourite comic book character. Dylan just moved to a new house, with no friends, and a mother who doesn't have time for him. Luckily, he has his grandad. Together, they are Red Rocket and Kid Cosmo, who save the world from evil every day with the power of imagination! But one day, Dylan...
17) Lark
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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When sixteen-year-old Lark is murdered, she, her childhood best friend Eva, and a girl she used to babysit, Nyetta, find themselves facing hard truths about their lives and seeking a way to move on.
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Pony club secrets. Main series volume 1
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English
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After a tragic accident takes her beloved horse Mystic from her, Issie is asked to care for a high spirited pony rescued by her instructor, who tests her horsemanship skills, and Issie wonders if Mystic will somehow return to help her.
19) On a good horse
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English
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"When Alex finds out his dad has bought him a peace offering of a sort-a spitfire of a horse with a red coat, lightning speed, and a fighting spirit-it just might be enough to heal Alex's heart and reunite father and son"--Publisher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Lexi has an alcoholic dad in jail; an overwhelmed, critical, anorexic and bipolar stepmother; an autistic half brother; and an infant half sister claimed by crib death one year earlier. During a health-class project, traumatized Lexi-recalling the lost sister-paints her “Almost-Real Baby” girl doll blue because “Pink stinks. / It makes me think too much.” Mental health intervention, a supportive librarian and meeting the right guy all help...
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