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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
After her mother dies and she and her father move in with her wealthy aunt and cousin, Emily struggles when her car-loving, tomboy identity and her way of expressing her faith clash with the expectations of others.
3) Kaleidoscope
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
A ship. A garden. A library. A key. In Kaleidoscope, the incomparable Brian Selznick presents the story of two people bound to each other through time and space, memory and dreams. At the center of their relationship is a mystery about the nature of grief and love which will look different to each reader. Kaleidoscope is a feat of storytelling that illuminates how even the wildest tales can help us in the hardest times.
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighteen-year-old Finley, seeking God, quiet time to prepare for an audition at a prestigious music conservatory, and knowledge of the land her deceased brother loved, spends senior year in Ireland, where teen movie idol Beckett Rush, equally troubled, desires her company.
Author
Language
English
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Description
As he attempts to fulfil a list left behind by his deceased best friend, nineteen-year-old Case meets eighteen-year-old Winnie, a hardworking ranch hand with aspirations of her own, and together they embark on an unexpected journey as they chase down their rodeo dreams.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An intoxicating, compact debut novel, Tides is the story of a lost woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town by the winner of the Henfield Prize, Sara Freeman. After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy beach town with a dead cellphone and barely any money. Mired in her grief, Mara detaches from the outside world and spends her days of self-imposed exile scrounging for food and swimming...
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After the death of her father, Amy, a high school student, and Roger, a college freshman, set out on a carefully planned road trip from California to Connecticut, but wind up taking many detours, forcing Amy to face her worst fears and come to terms with her grief and guilt.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
On February 22, 1862, two days after his death, Willie Lincoln was laid to rest in a marble crypt in a Georgetown cemetery. That very night, shattered by grief, Abraham Lincoln arrives at the cemetery under cover of darkness and visits the crypt, alone, to spend time with his son's body.
On February 22, 1862, two days after his death, Willie Lincoln was laid to rest in a marble crypt in a Georgetown cemetery. That very night, shattered by grief,...
11) The friend
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of intractable conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to take to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend. Theirs is a life in which children from both sides of the wall throw stones at one another. But their worlds shift irreparably when ten-year-old old Abir is killed by a rubber bullet meant to quell unruly...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning author ofHold Still comes an achingly beautiful novel about grief and the enduring power of friendship. ★"Exquisite." -Kirkus, starred review ★"LaCour paints a captivating depiction of loss, bewilderment, and emotional paralysis. raw and beautiful."-Booklist, starred review ★"Beautifully crafted. A quietly moving, potent novel."-School Library Journal, starred review ★ "Amoving portrait of a girl struggling...
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