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Author
Series
Middle school (James Patterson) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Rafe Kane enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue-in Marilyn's case that her daughter become...
Author
Language
English
Description
"With her mega-bestseller Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an untapped power hidden in plain sight. Now, she employs the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and the surprising lessons these states of mind teach us about creativity, compassion, leadership, spirituality, mortality and love. Bittersweetness...
24) Just like that
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students...
Author
Publisher
Flat Rock
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The friendship between Grant Thorson and Will Campbell is the only sure thing in Grant's life as he suffers a series of painful losses. When he falls in love with Susan, it seems that happiness is his once more. But when Will dies, Grant decides that loving someone makes him too vulnerable, so he pushes Susan and his daughter away to keep from being hurt again.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In this illuminating account of how we grieve, Ruth David Konigsberg reveals that everything we thought we knew about confronting loss is wrong. She maintains that people cope with grief thanks largely to the human capacity for resilience, relying heavily on the work of psychologist George Bonanno.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief.
28) After Eli
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of his older brother, Daniel Anderson became engrossed in recording details about dead people, how they died, and whether their deaths mattered but he is eventually drawn back into interaction with the living.
29) Griefwalker
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Griefwalker is an extraordinary portrait of Harvard-trained theologian Stephen Jenkinson, who teaches that death empowers us to live and that we must know grief well in order to appreciate our own lives.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Paj Ntaub, a young Hmong American girl, spends a busy year with her family in their new home, and seeks a way to share the beauty of the world with a grieving neighbor."--Provided by publisher.
31) Blue: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ginny Carter was once a rising star in TV news, married to a top anchorman, with a three-year-old son and a full and happy life in Beverly Hills-until her whole world dissolved in a single instant on the freeway two days before Christmas. In the aftermath, she pieces her life back together and tries to find meaning in her existence as a human rights worker in the worst areas around the globe. Then, on the anniversary of the fateful accident-and wrestling...
Author
Publisher
Fleming H. Revell
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Themes of grief, love, and renewed faith intertwine in this winsome novella by best-selling author Melody Carlson. The recently widowed Claire Andrews is mourning the deaths of her husband and young son who were killed in a boating accident. Grief-stricken and angry with God, Claire, a professional artist, finds she is no longer able to paint. In her sorrow, she flees to an isolated cabin in the Cascade Mountains to find solace and healing, and hopefully,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Trauma loss and grief - victims of crime is a timely representation of the experiences of victims of crime, and its impact on their lives. Their stories will evoke emotions, raise awareness and consciousness for all who view it, and contribute greatly to a broader community understanding of the issues and support needs of victims of crime. This Speaking from experience program offers offer first-hand accounts from people who have experienced the affects...
34) 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.
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Skiff Beaman has a boatload of problems. Ever since his mother died, his father doesn't want to get up off the TV couch -- even when the Mary Rose, his fishing boat, sinks at the dock. Twelve-year-old Skiff's been bailing out Rose by himself for months, getting up before dawn to pump out the bilge and keep her floating. A starkly dramatic yet poignant story about a determined boy who refuses to give up, despite overwhelming odds.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
They arrive under age and alone, often traumatized and seeking asylum in a country completely alien to their own. In some provinces, specifically Ontario, these unaccompanied refugee minors have surprisingly no government system in place for their care after arriving. This documentary is a cinematic portrait of a year in the life of two such teenagers, Joyce and Sallieu. They seem like your typical teenagers, except that reserved Sallieu, 16, witnessed...
37) Good grief
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
36-year-old Sophie Stanton has just lost her husband to cancer. But instead of the five stages of grief, there are fourteen: Denial, Oreos, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Ashes, Lust, Waitressing, Mentoring, Dating, Baking, Acceptance, Goodwill, and Thanksgiving. Determined to be a good widow, Sophie nonetheless ends up scarfing cartons of ice cream for breakfast, weeping in the produce section, and showing up at work in her robe and bunny slippers....
38) The only game
Author
Series
Home team novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixth grade is supposed to be the year that Jack Callahan would lead his team to a record-shattering season and the Little League World Series, but after the death of his brother he loses interest in baseball and only Cassie, star of the girls' softball team, seems to understand.
39) Lyle
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An expecting couple, Leah (Gaby Hoffmann - Emmy nominee: GIRLS & TRANSPARENT) and June (Ingrid Jungermann), move into a Brooklyn brownstone apartment with their toddler daughter, Lyle. Despite the strange baby-obsessed landlady downstairs and the group of female models who live above them, the two are happy with their new apartment until a bizarre accident leads to the death of Lyle. Months later, Leah is still grief-stricken, trying to make sense...
40) A new hope
Author
Series
Thunder Point novels volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After losing her child, Ginger Dysart was lost in grief. But since moving to Thunder Point, a small town on the Oregon coast, and with the help of her cousin Ray Anne, Ginger is finally moving forward. Her job at the flower shop is peaceful and fulfilling, and she's excited to start her first big assignment, assisting with the Lacoumette wedding."--p. [4] cover.
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