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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
"Simon O'Keeffe's biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a holy sacrament. Or maybe the alpaca disaster that went viral on YouTube. But the story the whole world wants to tell about Simon is the one he'd do anything to forget: the story in which he's the only kid in his class who survived a school shooting. Two years after the infamous event, twelve-year-old Simon and his family move to the National Quiet Zone...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Loving their gifted teacher, three boys are dismayed when the teacher falls ill and leaves for the rest of the school year, a situation that compels them to share their stories while cutting class and journeying across town together on a fateful day.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Colton Burpo made it through an emergency appendectomy, his family was overjoyed at his miraculous survival. Colton, not yet four years old, told his parents he left his body during the surgery. He talked of visiting Heaven and relayed stories told to him by people he met there whom he had never met in life, sharing events that happened even before he was born.
5) I wasn't ready to say goodbye: surviving, coping, and healing after the sudden death of a loved one
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Now there is a hand to hold... Each year about eight million Americans suffer the death of someone close to them. Now for those who face the challenges of sudden death, there is a hand to hold, written by two women who have experienced sudden loss. This updated edition of the best-selling bereavement classic will touch, comfort, uplift and console. Authors Brook Noel and Pamela D. Blair, Ph.D. explore sudden death and offers a comforting hand to hold...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Emma's grandmother, who takes care of her after school and takes her out for bagels on Wednesdays, gets sick and has to go to the hospital, Emma is afraid that she will die--but she is also afraid to talk about her fear.
8) Cat Heaven
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
God created Cat Heaven, with fields of sweet grass where cats can play, kitty-toys for them to enjoy, and angels to rub their noses and ears.
9) The barn
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In an effort to fulfill their dying father's last request, nine-year-old Ben and his brother and sister construct a barn on their land in the Oregon Territory.
Author
Series
Riley Bloom series volume 3
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eager to contact her sister Ever, ghost Riley goes in search of the place where dreams are made, where she finds a renegade ghost boy who has been flouting the rules of Dreamland for decades.
Author
Series
Death-Cast volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In a near-future New York City where a service alerts people on the day they will die, teenagers Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio meet using the Last Friend app and are faced with the challenge of living a lifetime on their End Day.
13) Whisper
Author
Series
Riley Bloom series volume 4
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
This time, Riley might really have bitten off more than she's ready for. After practically begging the Council for a more challenging Soul Catch, she is assigned an actual Roman gladiator-Theocoles, the Pillar of Doom. How is Riley, a skinny twelve-year-old, supposed to get through to him? Then she meets the beautiful Messalina, who convinces her that her only chance is to become part of this world. To accomplish this, Messalina helps Riley through...
Author
Publisher
W Pub. Group
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Now with 250K copies in print! Revised and Updated Edition. Anne affirms that Heaven truly is the home of your dreams: a home of lasting value that's fully paid for and filled with family, where you will be wanted and welcomed. Best of all, Heaven is a home you are invited to claim as your own. With over 40 percent new and revised content, Anne Graham Lotz has updated her classic book on Heaven for a whole new generation of readers, and also for herself....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 4
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class studies poetry and her students write haiku, couplets, free verse, and finally, a tribute to Mrs. Pidgeon's mother organized by the irrepressible Gooney Bird Greene.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Kingston James is sure his brother Khalid has turned into a dragonfly. When Khalid unexpectedly passed away, he shed what was his first skin for another to live down by the bayou in their small Louisiana town. Khalid still visits in dreams, and King must keep these secrets to himself as he watches grief transform his family. It would be easier if King could talk with his best friend, Sandy Sanders. But just days before he died, Khalid...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After Cecelia Dahl's little brother, Celadon, dies tragically, his soul goes where all souls go: the Land of Yesterday -- and Cecelia is left behind in a fractured world without him. Her beloved house's spirit is crumbling beyond repair, her father is imprisoned by sorrow, and worst of all, her grief-stricken mother abandons the land of the living to follow Celadon into Yesterday. It's up to Cecelia to put her family back together, even if that means...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A tumultuous love affair between Reena and Sawyer ends when Sawyer abruptly abandons their Florida town, causing Reena to bear their child alone and struggle with mistrust when Sawyer returns three years later.
20) Zombie Tag
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In the months since Wil Lowenstein's older brother Graham died, Wil has spent most of his time playing a game he invented but when he finds a way to bring Graham and others back from the dead, fighting zombies is suddenly no longer a game.
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