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1) Elsewhere
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live."
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Scotty compares herself to tofu: no flavor unless you add something. And it's true that Scotty's friends, Misha and Faclone, and her brother, Keone, make life delicious. But when a terrible accident occurs, Scotty feels responsible for the loss of someone she hardly knew, and the world goes wrong. She cannot tell what is a dream and what is real. Her friends are having a hard time getting through to her and her family is preoccupied with their own...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Do you remember the hospital, Colton?" Sonja said. "Yes, mommy, I remember," he said. "That's where the angels sang to me." When Colton Burpo made it through an emergency appendectomy, his family was overjoyed at his miraculous survival. What they weren't expecting, though, was the story that emerged in the months that followed--a story as beautiful as it was extraordinary, detailing their little boy's trip to heaven and back. Colton, not yet
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Publisher
David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Jack enters the deserted house in his neighborhood, he finds a group of people who invite him to take the thirteenth chair in the room and share a story--in the house where the ghosts meet.
Author
Series
The Dead Kid Detective Agency volume 1
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old October Schwartz is new in town; short on friends and the child of a clinically depressed science teacher, she spends her free time in the Sticksville Cemetery and it isn't long before she befriends the ghosts of five dead teenagers, each from a different era of the past. Using October's smarts and the ghost's abilities to walk through walls and roam around undetected, they form the Dead Kid Detective Agency, a group committed to...
9) Woven
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A princess and a ghost set out on a journey to find a magic needle that can sew the ghost back to his life.
Author
Series
Madison Avery volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Madison Avery, seventeen, spunky, and technically dead, takes on the role of Dark Timekeeper, she struggles to figure out her place in the war between light and dark reapers.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Neal shares the details of her life in which she has experienced not just one miracle, but many. Her experiences provide confirmation that miracles still occur, shows how God keeps his promises and why there is sufficient reason to live by faith.
12) Skin of the sea
Author
Series
Skin of the sea volume 1
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Transformed by the goddess Yemoja into a Mami Wati, an African mermaid charged with collecting the souls of those who die at sea, Simi goes against the gods to save a living boy, Kola, from drowning.
13) Turtle under ice
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After her mother died a few years ago, Rowena and her sister, Ariana, drifted into their own corners of the world, each figuring out in their own separate ways how to exist in a world in which their mother is no longer alive. When Ariana disappears-- at night, in the middle of a snowstorm-- Row is left to piece together the mystery behind where Ariana went and why. And she comes to realize that she might be part of the reason Ariana is gone. -- adapted...
14) Summer Bird Blue
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Rumi Seto plans to spend her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea. When Lea dies in a car accident, her mother sends Rumi to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Struggling with the loss of her sister, abandoned by her mother, and without music in her life, Rumi turns to the friendship of a teenage surfer named Kai, and an eighty-year-old named George Watanabe. And Rumi is determined to write the song she and...
15) Ghostgirl
Author
Series
Ghostgirl volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After dying, high school senior Charlotte Usher is as invisible to nearly everyone as she always felt, but despite what she learns in a sort of alternative high school for dead teens, she clings to life while seeking a way to go to the Fall Ball with the boy of her dreams.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
How does a visit to heaven change your life? Todd and Sonja Burpo's almost-four-year-old son Colton made an unforgettable trip to heaven and back during the darkest, most stressed-out days of their lives. Times were tough, money was scarce, and the bills, frustrations, and fears were piled high. How did Colton's visit to heaven change things for them individually and as a family? And what does any of this mean for you and your life? Todd, and for...
18) Entwined
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Confined to their dreary castle while mourning their mother's death, Princess Azalea and her eleven sisters join The Keeper, who is trapped in a magic passageway, in a nightly dance that soon becomes nightmarish.
19) Fadeaway
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Sam is struggling to get by without her best friend, Reagan, who died suddenly the summer before high school, but Regan's "reappearance" only helps temporarily.
20) Trouble
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Henry, wishing to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog. But fate adds another companion - the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring Franklin - and reveals troubles that predate the accident.
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