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Author
Publisher
Bethany Backyard
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Wondering about heaven after the death of his grandfather, a boy questions his sister, a teacher, his parents, and other people, whose diverse answers help him begin to understand life after death and how to ensure that he will see his grandfather again one day.
63) The black death
Author
Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
64) Revival: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt in front of his house when a shadow falls over him. He looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later, who with his beautiful wife, will transform the church and the town. The men and boys are a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls, with the Reverend Jacobs--including Jamie's sisters and mother. Then tragedy...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic In Five Years returns with a moving and unforgettable exploration of the powerful bond between mother and daughter set on the breathtaking Amalfi Coast. "When Katy's mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn't just Katy's mom, but her best friend and first phone call. To make matters worse, the mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: two weeks in Positano. Katy has been waiting years...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
ix, 323 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After his eleven-year-old son dies, guitarist Quinn Porter does yard work for an aged Lithuanian immigrant, Ona Vitkus, whom his son had often visited and comes to a resolution about his son's death as Ona discusses his son's capacity to listen and learn.
67) Legacy
Author
Language
English
Description
"A ... novel of a mother and a daughter, of ambition and romance, and of a traumatic past reawakened by a terrifying threat ... Adrian Rizzo was seven when she met her father for the first time. That was the day he nearly killed her--before her mother, Lina, stepped in. Soon after, Adrian was dropped off at her grandparents' house in Maryland, where she spent a long summer drinking lemonade, playing with dogs, making a new best friend--and developing...
69) Before I fall
Author
Publisher
Harper
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
After she dies in a car crash, teenaged Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
628 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Late one night, Laura, Daniel, and Mo find themselves confused and disembodied, blinking under the fluorescent lights of their high school music room. They are greeted by the man they know as their music teacher, who restores the ghostly teens to their corporeal forms with a flick of his fingers and explains: nearly a year ago they went missing from their hometown, the small seaside community of Lovesend, Massachusetts, and have long been presumed...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Ex-secret agent Cotton Malone and his partner, the enigmatic Cassiopeia Vitt, are pitted against ruthless Central Asian dictator Irina Zovastina as they scour the globe in search of the final resting place of Alexander the Great.
72) When a pet dies
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1988
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the feelings of frustration, sadness, and loneliness that a youngster may feel when a pet dies.
Author
Series
Cotton Malone volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mysterious manuscript discovered in the tomb of Charlemagne sends Cotton Malone on a perilous international quest that takes him and twin sisters with their own agenda from an ancient German cathedral to the harsh, unforgiving world of Antarctica in pursuit of the truth about the death of his father on a classified sub mission beneath Antarctica.
74) Thunderhead
Author
Series
Arc of a Scythe volume 2
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, and the Thunderhead is not pleased.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From "a writer at the top of her game" (The New York Times) comes a bighearted and sharply funny debut novel about two estranged sisters and the crossroads they face after becoming unexpectedly pregnant at the same time. Two years after the death of their mother, Jada and Maddy Battle both navigate unplanned pregnancies. Jada, a thirty-one-year-old psychology PhD student living in Pittsburgh, quietly obtains an abortion without telling her husband,...
76) Doomsday book
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit.
“A tour de force.”—The New York Times Book Review
For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the...
“A tour de force.”—The New York Times Book Review
For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the...
77) Neverworld wake
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A year after her boyfriend's death, Beatrice returns to Darrow-Harker School where she and her circle of friends are confronted by a stranger who forces them to unanimously choose who should live, or be stuck in time forever.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Killed in a tragic accident, Eddie, an elderly man who believes that he had an uninspired life, awakens in the afterlife, where he discovers that heaven consists of having five people explain the meaning of one's life.
79) Gotcha!
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sometimes, justice is a long time coming. That's the case with Julie Wyatt, whose story strikes close to home for the original founder of the Sisterhood, Myra Rutledge, and her best friend--and fellow sister--Annie. Julie is convinced her greedy daughter-in-law Darlene had something to do with the mysterious circumstances surrounding her son Larry's death.
80) The green mile
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Old South of the 1930s, when a gentle giant of a man is sentenced to death for the murder and rape of two little girls, the fact that he is black and the girls are white is inflammatory enough, but the situation is further complicated by his near muteness and gift for healing.