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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
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Description
The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief.
Author
Series
Little blue envelopes volume 1
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.
6) Journey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Journey is eleven the summer his mother leaves him and his sister, Cat, with their grandparents. He is sad and angry, and spends the summer looking for the clues that will explain why she left.
7) Missing May
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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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. Twelve-year-old Summer, her classmate Cletus, and her grieving Uncle Ob set off across West Virginia in search of a "Small Medium at Large" in fond hopes of reaching Aunt May beyond the grave. Their journey is heartening, funny, and altogether unforgettable.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Following the death of her older sister, seventeen-year-old Lennie Walker suddenly finds herself involved with two boys. One was her sister's former boyfriend, and the other is a new boy from Paris. While one helps her escape her grief, the other allows her to confront it, leaving Lennie to wonder who is closer to her heart.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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"You go through life thinking there's so much you need. . . . Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother. Marin hasn't spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she's...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"It used to be that Belly counted the days until summer, until she was back at Cousins Beach with Conrad and Jeremiah. But not this year. Not after Susannah got sick again and Conrad stopped caring. Everything that was right and good has fallen apart, leaving Belly wishing summer would never come. But when Jeremiah calls saying Conrad has disappeared, Belly knows what she must do to make things right again. And it can only happen back at the beach...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
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Description
Twins Jude and Noah were best friends, until a tragic event during their adolescence drove them apart. Noah narrates the years before their separation, and Jude narrates their later years, allowing readers to witness the complete story of their rift and eventual reconnection.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Lucy always loved summers on Halcyon Lake-sunning on the lake raft, relaxing on the boat, and spending every possible minute with her best friend, Trixie, and Trixie's brother, Ben, Lucy's lifelong crush. Until last summer, when one tragic event turned their idyllic world upside down. Now nothing is the same. This summer, Trixie is gone, and Ben is distant, numbing his pain with parties and a string of interchangeable girlfriends. Lucy does her best...
14) The remedy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Seventeen-year-old Quinn provides closure to grieving families by taking on the short-term role of a deceased loved one, until huge secrets come to the surface about Quinn's own past.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance-and Papi's secrets-the two girls are forced to face...
16) I was here
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
"When her charismatic best friend, Meg, drinks a bottle of industrial-strength drain cleaner alone in a motel room, a piece of Cody dies, too. Meg was everything to her. How could Cody not know? Determined to find out what really happened, Cody begins a dangerous search to the shadowy fringes of Meg's life where she discovers some unsettling truths about friendship, secrets, forgiveness, and love."-- Page [4] of cover.
17) Perfect
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Following the death of her father, a thirteen-year-old uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and ten-year-old sister's grief, as well as her own.
18) Sun and Spoon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
After the death of his grandmother, ten-year old Spoon observes the changes in his grandfather and tries to find the perfect artifact to perserve his memories of her.
19) Verify
Author
Series
Verify volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Chicago teen Meri Beckley's pride of living in a land of peace, prosperity, and truth crumbles when questions following her mother's death reveal buried facts, especially that words can have great power.
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