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1) Perfect
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
Following the death of her father, a thirteen-year-old uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and ten-year-old sister's grief, as well as her own.
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: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Guy Langman, his best friend Anoop, and other members of the school Forensics Club investigate a break-in and a possible murder, which could be connected to the mysterious past of Guy's recently-deceased father.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grader Molly's ability to throw a knuckleball earns her a spot on the baseball team, which not only helps her feel connected to her recently deceased father, who loved baseball, it helps in other aspects of her life, as well.
8) Emory's gift
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1974, when thirteen-year-old Charlie Hall's mother dies and his father retreats into silent grief, Charlie finds himself drifting, nearly friendless, through a northern Idaho junior high school. B ut when a grizzly bear saves his life, Charlie forms an unusual friendship that changes his life.
Author
Series
Letters to the Lost volume 01
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Juliet Young has always written letters to her mother, a world famous photojournalist--even after her mother's death, she leaves letters at her grave. When Declan finds a haunting letter left beside a grave, he can't resist the urge to write back. Soon, he is sharing his pain with a perfect stranger. When real life interferes with their secret life of letters, Juliet and Declan discover truths that might tear them apart"--
10) Speed of life
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sofia lost her mother eight months ago, and her friends were 100% there for her. Now it's a new year and they're ready for Sofia to move on. Problem is, Sofia can't bounce back, can't recharge like a cellphone. She decides to write Dear Kate, an advice columnist for Fifteen Magazine, and is surprised to receive a fast reply. Soon the two are exchanging emails, and Sofia opens up and spills all, including a few worries that are totally embarrassing....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.
12) The telling
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A series of murders that are eerily similar to the dark stories Lana's deceased brother used to tell start happening in her home town, threatening her newfound popularity.
13) Cashay
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her world is turned upside down at her sister's death, a mentor is assigned to fourteen-year-old Cashay to help her through her anger and grief.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the loss of her mother, Allie is sent from Tennessee to Maine to become the daughter of Miss Betrice Lovell, a prim woman with a faith Allie cannot accept. Clinging to the past is comforting but will it cost Allie her chance to be loved?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Finley, seeking God, quiet time to prepare for an audition at a prestigious music conservatory, and knowledge of the land her deceased brother loved, spends senior year in Ireland, where teen movie idol Beckett Rush, equally troubled, desires her company.
Author
Series
Roadside assistance trilogy volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After her mother dies and she and her father move in with her wealthy aunt and cousin, Emily struggles when her car-loving, tomboy identity and her way of expressing her faith clash with the expectations of others.
Author
Series
Once upon a con volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Language
English
Description
In this adaptation of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale, the teenaged star of a popular science fiction movie franchise hides out in a small town, following a tabloid scandal, and meets the bookish Rosie Thorne who is still grieving over her mother's death.
19) Sleepless
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eron, a supernatural being known as a Sandman whose purpose is to seduce humans to sleep, falls in love with a sad teenaged girl who is mourning her boyfriend's death.
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