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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
There are zero reasons for Theo Ripley to look forward to his family vacation. Not only are he, sister Laura, and nature-obsessed Dad going to Big Bend, the least popular National Park, but once there, the family will be camping. And Theo is an indoor animal. It doesn't help that this will be the first vacation they're taking since Mom passed away. Once there, the family contends with 110 degree days, wild bears, and an annoying amateur ornithologist...
Author
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After her brother Jared dies, ten-year-old Annie worries about the hidden dangers of everything, from bug bites to bicycle riding, until she is befriended by a new neighbor who is grieving her own loss.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Estranged from the best friend whose brother killed her sister in a school shooting, a grieving Cora receives a message on her twelfth birthday from her friend, asking for her help with creating a time portal to prevent the tragedy.
4) Missing May
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.
5) Pencilvania
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Zora finds herself transported into a fantastic world where all of her drawings have come to life.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Samantha Bennett's life was a nightmare.
Dealing with the untimely death of her mother and the abuse of her cruel father was too much for teenager Samantha Bennett to handle. But, for the first time in her life, this courageous, rodeo-riding young woman is finally learning what it means to be loved and to be part of a real family. Samantha is more than ready to begin a new chapter of her life. But when her past comes back to haunt her, will anyone...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Loving her family but disliking the circus that is her grandparents' life, Lily is devastated when her grandfather passes away, a loss that leads her to develop an unexpected bond with her grandfather's equally grieving elephant.
Author
Series
Summerhill secrets volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the wounds from an old tragedy reopen, Merry gradually learns that storms don't last forever.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tired of staying in seclusion since the death of her best friend, a fourteen-year-old Native American girl takes on a photographic assignment with her local newspaper to cover events at the Native American summer youth camp.
12) Aftermath
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her younger brother's death from a heart defect, twelve-year-old Lucy moves to a town that was devastated by a school shooting four years earlier, where she must navigate different kinds of grief.
13) The only game
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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.
14) Zombie Tag
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
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
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In "conversations" with her dead mother, fifth-grader Livvy records her adjustment to living in Baltimore with a woman she had never met, and she comes to see the wisdom of her mother's choice as she gets to know the woman's large, loving family.
19) Second wind
Author
Series
Golden filly volume 8
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Although still grieving her father's death and facing ominous threats, Trish helps petition the Portland City Council to keep open a local thoroughbred horse racing track embroiled in rumors of corruption.
20) The Wolf's curse
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Accused of witchcraft and shunned by his fearful village, twelve-year-old carpenter's apprentice Gauge allies with another orphan to prove his innocence and capture the magical wolf hounding his every move.
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