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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Every night, ever since Conor's mother fell ill and started the treatments that don't seem to be working, Conor has had the same dream. But tonight is different. Tonight there's a visitor at his window. It's ancient, elemental, a force of nature. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor, It wants the truth.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Description
Around the time that Freya loses her voice while recording her debut album, Harun is making plans to run away from everyone he has ever loved, and Nathaniel is arriving in New York City with a backpack, a desperate plan, and nothing left to lose. When a fateful accident draws these three strangers together, their secrets start to unravel as they begin to understand that the way out of their own loss might just lie in helpƯing the others out of theirs....
3) Fourmile
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Foster knows in his gut that Dax, his mother's boyfriend, is a bad seed. Then a mysterious man arrives at their Alabama farm and Foster thinks that he may have found an ally against Dax.
4) Playing hurt
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chelsea Keyes, a high school basketball star whose promising career has been cut short by a terrible accident on the court, and Clint Morgan, a nineteen-year-old ex-hockey player who gave up his sport following a game-related tragedy, meet at a Minnesota lake resort and find themselves drawn together by the losses they have suffered.
Author
Language
English
Description
"It's been a year--a year of missing Nina. A year of milestones--holidays, birthdays, everything without her. Leo feels like she should remember what happened that night. But all she knows is that she left the party and got into a car with Nina and Nina's boyfriend, East. East, who once promised Nina he'd watch out for her younger sister. East, who has been trying to keep that promise every day since. But East won't give Leo the one thing she wants--the...
6) Dear Zoe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Tess DeNunzio attempts to work through her guilt and grief over the death of her three-year-old half-sister Zoe by writing letters to the child who was struck and killed by a car on September 11, 2001, while Tess was supposed to be watching her
7) Paperweight
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 600L
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Stevie is trapped. In her life. In her body. And now in an eating-disorder treatment center on the dusty outskirts of the New Mexico desert. Her dad has signed her up for sixty days of treatment. But what no one knows is that Stevie doesn't plan to stay that long. There are only twenty-seven days until the anniversary of her brother Josh's death--the death she caused. And if Stevie gets her way, there are only twenty-seven days...
10) Lucas
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
On an isolated English island, fifteen-year-old Caitlin McCann makes the painful journey from adolescence to adulthood through her experiences with a mysterious boy, whose presence has an unsettling effect on the island's inhabitants.
Author
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Biz sees her father every day, though he died when she was seven, but when Biz's almost-normal life turns upside-down and her father disappears again, she tumbles into a disaster-land of grief and depression from which she must find her way back"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Six years ago, Evelyn and Philippa Hapwell cowered from air strikes in a London bomb shelter. But that night took a turn when the sisters were swept away to a strange and beautiful kingdom called the Woodlands, where they lived for years in a forest straight out of myth and legend. When they finally returned to London, no time had passed and nothing had changed--nothing, except themselves. Now Evelyn is desperate to return to the Woodlands no matter...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When seventh-grader Bette finds an angel coin she puts it in her pocket and forgets it but soon the mysterious and kind Gabby moves into her building and helps her face her major losses, and then the coin connects her with three classmates who all find new ways to believe in themselves.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
After a boating accident takes her beautiful singing and speaking voice from her, Elyse d'Abreau, the youngest of six sisters, leaves her home in Tobago to stay in an Oregon seaside town where Christian Kane, a notorious playboy, challenges her to express herself and to overcome her fear of the sea.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
"The tragic 9/11 event in NYC that changed the world, altered the life of Abbi Hope Goldstein as well as that of Noah Stern. They did not know each other back then, but they know each other now, and while Abbi is trying to move forward with her life, Noah still has unanswered questions that he believes Abbi can help answer"--
17) Lost and found
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
Three stories explore how we lose and find what matters most to us, as a girl finds a bright spot in a dark world, a boy leads a strange, lost being home, and a group of peaceful creatures loses its home to cruel invaders.
Three short stories that focus on loss and despair ; the final story, The rabbits, was written by John Marsden.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Description
"Life in a small Appalachian town is not easy. Cash lost his mother to an opioid addiction and his Papaw is dying slowly from emphysema. Dodging drug dealers and watching out for his best friend, Delaney, is second nature. He's been spending his summer mowing lawns while she works at Dairy Queen. But when Delaney manages to secure both of them full rides to an elite prep school in Connecticut, Cash will have to grapple with his need to protect and...
19) Windfall
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Alice doesn't believe in luck-at least, not the good kind. But she does believe in love, and for some time now, she's been pining for her best friend, Teddy. On his eighteenth birthday-just when it seems they might be on the brink of something-she buys him a lottery ticket on a lark. To their astonishment, he wins $140 million, and in an instant, everything changes. At first, it seems like a dream come true, especially since the two of them are no...
20) Entwined
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Confined to their dreary castle while mourning their mother's death, Princess Azalea and her eleven sisters join The Keeper, who is trapped in a magic passageway, in a nightly dance that soon becomes nightmarish.
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