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6242) Metal fish, falling snow
Author
Publisher
The Text Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Dylan and her adored French mother dream of one day sailing across the ocean to France. Paris, Dylan imagines, is a place where her black skin won't make her stand out, a place where she might feel she belongs. But when she loses her mother in a freak accident, Dylan finds herself on a very different journey: a road trip across outback Australia in the care of her mother's grieving boyfriend, Pat. As they travel through remote towns further and further...
6243) Archie's war
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Archie is given a scrapbook for his tenth birthday in 1914, he chronicles the next four years of his life using documents, artifacts, and comic strips.
6244) A green velvet secret
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A MG novel about a young girl grieving the loss of her eccentric grandmother, while investigating the history of a velvet green dress."--
6245) Te deje ir
Author
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Devastated by a hit-and-run accident that has ended the life of her young son, Jenna moves to the remote Welsh coast to search for healing while two dedicated policemen try to get to the bottom of the case.
6246) The everlasting road
Author
Series
Walking in two worlds volume 2
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Devastated by the loss of her beloved older brother to cancer, Bugz returns to the place where she can always find solace and strength: the Floraverse. Over the past year, she has gained back all that she had lost in that virtual world, and while the remaining ClanLess members still plot against her, she is easily able to overcome their attacks. Even better, she's been secretly working on a bot that will be both an incredible weapon and a source...
6247) Blind faith
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
While coping with her grandmother's sudden death and her mother's resulting depression and fascination with a spiritualist church, whose ministers claim to communicate with the dead, fifteen-year-old Liz finds herself falling for a new neighbor whose mother is dying of cancer.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"When tragedy strikes, Tess drops out of school and moves in with her funeral director dad, forcing her to examine life, death, and the boy she thought she knew and loved in a brand new light"--
6249) Finding him
Author
Series
Covet volume 2
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Coming out of a coma was one hell of a wake-up call. While I was in the dark, my estranged twin brother, Bridge, had replaced me in the company I owned and swept up my fiancée in the takeover. With my ruthless reputation, can I blame them for falling in love? I have to look long and hard at where I've been and where I'm headed. Alone time? The universe has other plans. Our family's secluded Vermont cabin comes with a gorgeous--if at first, unwelcoming--surprise....
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother, and former heir to the throne, has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is ravaged with betrayal, tragedy, and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba's exile. With help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba will have to figure out how to grow up and take back what...
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke's voluminous, never-before-translated letters to bereaved friends and acquaintances, The Dark Interval is a profound vision of the mourning process and a meditation on death's place in our lives. Following the format of Letters to a Young Poet, this book arranges Rilke's letters into an uninterrupted sequence, showcasing the full range of the great author's thoughts on death and dying, as well as his sensitive and moving...
6252) Stormwalker
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Ever since his mother died, 11-year-old Owen has felt lost. He's drifting apart from his dad, his grades are dropping, and the only thing keeping him sane are the soccer trials coming up. Then, in the middle of school one day, he is sucked out of real life and thrown into a desolate alternative world, a largely deserted wasteland where a menacing storm of Darkness plagues the city, threatening his life and the lives of the people who dwell there....
Author
Publisher
Forefront Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"By the Time You Read This is the story former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst was about to publish before her tragic suicide. Her mother, April, wraps up the narrative by exploring the mental illness and depression that took her daughter's life. The text read, "By the time you get this . . ." This is the story of Cheslie Kryst, a former Miss USA, in her own words. When the world awoke on the morning of January 30, 2022, many were shocked to learn of the tragic...
6254) Wake Wood
Publisher
Dark Sky Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The grieving parents of a nine-year-old girl, who was killed by a savage dog, move to the remote town of Wake Wood where they learn of a pagan ritual that will allow them three more days with their daughter.
6255) Rosa, sola
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Longing for a sibling in 1966 Chicago, fourth-grader Rosa is delighted with her mother's pregnancy, until tragedy strikes and her family struggles to deal with its grief.
6256) Marsh & me
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Joey wants more than anything to talk to someone about music, to be a part of the group. But he's so shy, something always seems to get in the way. He escapes to a secret place on a hill, until one day he discovers that a strange girl has invaded the hill--and built a fort that looks like a spaceship. The hill is the one place he can be himself, so Joey decides he needs to stake his claim. He confronts the girl, whom he calls Marsh (short for Martian),...
6257) Das andere Madchen
Author
Publisher
Deutscher Tachenbuch Verlag
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
Deutsch
Description
Uprooted following the death of their father, nine-year-old Vinnie and her five-year-old brother, Mason, cope in different ways--one in silence--but both with the help of Lupe, the flip-flop girl.
6258) Playing Dad's song
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While wrestling with memories of his father, who died when the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001, eleven-year-old Gus, born into a family of musicians, starts taking oboe lessons, begins to compose music, and joins his sister in auditioning for a school musical.
6259) Antichrist
Series
Criterion collection volume 542
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Grieving over the loss of their infant son, a husband and wife retreat to a cabin in the woods where their darker sides consume them.
6260) The injustice
Author
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Theo Foster's Twitter account used to be anonymous--until someone posted a revealing photo that got him expelled. No final grade. No future. No fair. Theo's resigned to a life of misery working at the local mini-mart when a miracle happens: Sasha Ellis speaks to him. Sasha Ellis knows his name. She was also expelled for a crime she didn't commit, and now he has the perfect way to get her attention: find out who set them up. To uncover the truth, Theo...