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Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Newly orphaned and living with the half sister she hardly knows, twelve-year-old Olive rediscovers her hope when she starts training a guide dog puppy.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
327 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Autumn, Shay, and Logan, whose lives intersect in complicated ways, each lose someone close to them and must work through their grief.
5) Birdie
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Still grieving for her father, twelve-year-old Birdie struggles to adjust to many changes, including when her grandmother, her mother, and her best friends all begin dating.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the sudden death of her parents, Stevie, thirteen, is sent to live at a rundown motel, where she charms everyone except her estranged grandfather.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Enrolled in school after her mother's death, Possum resolves to preserve her mother's homeschooling lessons by proving she already knows everything, an unsuccessful endeavor complicated by her teacher's attraction to Possum's father.
10) Slob
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
199 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed.
Author
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x27 cm.
Language
English
Description
The day a young boy loses his mother, an invisible dragon swoops in and stays with him, weighing him down day and night until, at last, their relationship changes.
Author
Series
Sal and Gabi volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In order to heal after his mother's death, Sal learned how to meditate. But no one expected him to be able to take it further and 'relax' things into existence. Turns out he can reach into time and space to retrieve things from other universes.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Living with her warden father in an apartment above a 1950s prison, Cammie O'Reilly struggles to come to terms with the loss of her mother, who died saving her from harm when she was a baby, and interacts with some of the reformed inmates.
15) The dare
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Blaming herself for her best friend Erica's swimming death, seventeen-year-old Bryn tries to make a fresh start by burying her memories of that awful night. But when a Twitter post from 'EricaNShaw' pops up on her feed and a chilling voice mail appears on her phone, she realizes that someone isn't ready to let go of the past"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After the death of her parents, Lotties loses her colorful magic and is sent to the gray wasteland to live with her uncle, but the discovery of a locked-up garden, a wise cardinal, and a hidden boy gives Lottie a second chance at bringing color back into her life.
17) Love, Aubrey
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
262 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While living with her Gram in Vermont, eleven-year-old Aubrey writes letters as a way of dealing with losing her father and sister in a car accident, and then being abandoned by her grief-stricken mother.
Author
Publisher
Sparkhouse Family
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Grieving over the death of a special person, a young child creates a memory box to keep mementos and written memories of the loved one. Includes a guide for parents with information from a Christian perspective on helping manage the complex and difficult emotions children feel when they lose someone they love, as well as suggestions on how to create their own memory box.
19) Inkling
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When an inkblot, who can write, listen, learn, and draw, jumps out of Mr. Rylance's sketchbook, Ethan believes he may be the answer to their problems and names him Inkling.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
288
Language
English
Description
When Laurel starts writing letters to dead people for a school assignment, she begins to spill about her sister's mysterious death, her mother's departure from the family, her new friends, and her first love.