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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Tyler Feder had just white-knuckled her way through her first year of college when her super cool mom was diagnosed with late-stage cancer. Now, with a decade of grief and nervous laughter under her belt, Tyler shares the story of that
gut-wrenching, heart-pounding, extremely awkward time in her life—from her mom's first oncology appointment to her funeral and shiva week through the beginning of facing reality as a motherless daughter. She shares...
502) The Fetch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After 350 years as a Fetch, or death escort, Calder breaks his vows and enters the body of Rasputin, whose spirit causes rebellion in the Land of Lost Souls while Calder struggles to convey Ana and Alexis, orphaned in the Russian Revolution, to Heaven.
503) Awaken: Abandon bk.3
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera knew by accepting the love of John Hayden, she'd be forced to live forever in the Underworld. But now her happiness and safety are threatened because the Furies have discovered that John has broken one of their strictest rules, and the only way to fix the balance is for someone to die"--
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Give the dark my love volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, seventeen-year-old alchemy student Nedra turns to dark magic when a deadly plague sweeps through her homeland leaving her new friend, Grey, to pull her from the darkness.
Nedra Brysstain left the rural, northern territories of Lunar Island to attend the prestigious Yugen Academy with only one goal in mind: learn the trade of medicinal alchemy. She's a scholarship student matriculating with the children of Lunar Island's wealthiest...
505) Rebecca (DVD)
Series
Criterion collection volume 135
Language
English
Description
A young woman who believes she has found her heart's desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter. But upon moving to Manderley, her groom's baroque ancestral mansion, she soon learns that his deceased wife haunts not only the home but the temperamental, brooding Maxim as well.
506) A Cinco Pies De Ti
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English
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A Stella Grant le gusta tener el control, a pesar de no poder dominar sus propios pulmones, que la han tenido en el hospital la mayor parte de su vida. Por encima de todo, Stella necesita controlar su espacio para mantenerse alejada de cualquier persona o cosa que pueda transmitirle una infección y poner en peligro su trasplante de pulmón. Dos metros de distancia. Sin excepciones.
En cuanto a Will Newman, lo único que quiere controlar es cómo...
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English
Description
Chick Benetto, a broken-down former baseball player who has collapsed into alcoholism and despair, returns one night to his small hometown with plans to take his life. At the final moment, he is magically granted one more day with his departed mother, Posey Benetto, who illuminates the secrets of both their lives and shows him a way to redemption.
508) Sense & Sensibility
Author
Series
The Austen Project volume 1
Language
English
Description
Elinor Dashwood, an architecture student, values patience and reliability. Her impulsive sister, Marianne, is fiery and creative, filling the house with her dramas and guitar playing while dreaming of going to art school. But when their father, Henry Dashwood, dies suddenly, his whole family finds itself forced out of Norland Park, their beloved home for twenty years. Without the comfort of status, they discover that their values are severely put...
509) The dead bird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When they find a dead bird, a group of children buries it in the woods, sings a song to it, and puts flowers on the grave.
510) A Walk in the Woods
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Language
English
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"A grieving son follows a treasure map his late father left him through the woods they used to explore together."--|cProvided by publisher.
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Series
The Book of Lost Things volume 1
Language
English
Description
Taking refuge in fairy tales after the loss of his mother, twelve-year-old David finds himself violently propelled into an imaginary land in which the boundaries of fantasy and reality are disturbingly melded.
512) The Accident Season
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Every October Cara and her family become mysteriously and dangerously accident-prone, but this year, the year Cara, her ex-stepbrother, and her best friend are 17, is when Cara will begin to unravel the accident season's dark origins"--
514) Falling Into Place
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English
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"One cold fall day, high school junior Liz Emerson steers her car into a tree. This haunting and heartbreaking story is told by a surprising and unexpected narrator and unfolds in nonlinear flashbacks even as Liz's friends, foes, and family gather at the hospital and Liz clings to life"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Annith's worst fears are realized when she discovers that, despite her lifelong training to be an assassin, she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever shut up in the convent of Saint Mortain.
516) Hamlet
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Series
Language
English
Description
Now presenting Manga Shakespeare—the Bard’s greatest plays in an accessible, lively format for a new generation of readers
Hamlet is one of Shakespeare’s most well-known plays, and this exciting new retelling provides young readers an innovative introduction to “the melancholy Dane.” Hamlet is your typical angst-ridden teen—he doesn’t know how to deal with his responsibilities, how to treat his girlfriend, or how to react to his father’s...
517) Hungry Ghost
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English
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"Valerie Chu is quiet, studious, and above all, thin. No one, not even her best friend, Jordan, knows that she has been bingeing and purging for years. But when tragedy strikes, Val finds herself reassessing her priorities, her choices, and her body. The path to happiness may lead her away from her hometown and her mother s toxic projections but first she will have to find the strength to seek help"--
519) The Invisible Leash
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Language
English
Description
Emily tries to comfort her best friend, Zack, whose dog Jojo recently died, by telling him about the "Invisible Leash" that connects each owner to his or her deceased pet.
520) Death's First Kiss
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Series
My High School Odyssey volume 1
Language
English
Description
After surviving the deadly crash that took the lives of his parents and having a front-row seat to his aunt's heartbreaking journey with life-ending cancer, Evan Morgan was more familiar with death than any seventeen-year-old should be. When the enigmatic Hana Blackmore transfers into his high school, her arrival-- and mere existence-- brings more excitement, mystery, and peril than he could have imagined. Evan never would have believed that the ancient...
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