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2) 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...
3) Pet sematary
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a little boy's pet dies, and he persuades his parents to bury it in an old Indian cemetary, reputed by legend to house restless spirits, a nightmare of death and destruction begins.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Cora hasn’t spoken to her best friend, Quinn, in a year.
Despite living next door to each other, they exist in separate worlds of grief. Cora is still grappling with the death of her beloved sister in a school shooting, and Quinn is carrying the guilt of what her brother did.
On the day of Cora’s twelfth birthday, Quinn leaves a box on her doorstep with a note. She has decided that the only way to fix things is to go back in time to the moment...
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old identical twins Sabine and Blythe Braxton cope differently when their father dies unexpectedly, but unite to figure out mysterious Charlie and the crumbling mansion he moves into with them.
8) Bleachers
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a novel about high school football in a small Texas town, a place in which football has become a religion.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
�2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Gwen, who has been living with her grandfather in Manhattan while she attends music school, joins up with another music student to solve the mystery of her grandfather's sudden disappearance.
10) The confession
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Travis Boyette, recently paroled and suffering from an inoperable brain tumor, resolves to confess that he committed a murder nine years earlier for which another man was convicted and awaits execution, but finds it difficult to convince lawyers and judges of their error.
11) Splotch
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When his prized pet fish Splotch mysteriously disappears, a young boy is determined to find him again--and his mother is determined to 'fix' the problem by any means necessary"--
Author
Series
Heaven volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this enchanting sequel to the number one bestseller The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom tells the story of Eddie's heavenly reunion with Annie--the little girl he saved on earth--in an unforgettable novel of how our lives and losses intersect. Fifteen years ago, in Mitch Albom's beloved novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, the world fell in love with Eddie, a grizzled war veteran- turned-amusement park mechanic who died saving...
13) A separate peace
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
A conflict of loyalties between Gene and his fearless friend, Phineas, leads to tragedy.
14) The book thief
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
15) The treasure box
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Before he becomes very sick, Grandpa enjoys joining his granddaughter in her favorite activity, searching for things to add to her secret treasure box, including a broken robin's egg, a rusty spring, and a snakeskin that makes Grandpa squirm and make funny faces.
16) The weekend
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For nearly four decades, lifelong friends Jude, Wendy, Adele, and Sylvie have seen each other through romances, child-rearing, changing careers, divorces, medical recoveries, and general aging. But now Sylvie has died, and the three remaining women are tasked with cleaning out her beach house before it's sold. Thrust together In this weathered old house on the ocean, where the ghosts of their younger selves compete with their current realities, the...
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.
Author
Series
Jigsaw files volume 01
Language
English
Description
"PI Charlie Dodge knows what it's like to have something important disappear. His wife, Annie, suffers from early-onset Alzheimer's, causing her to remember little of the life she shared with her husband. Charlie has devoted his career to saving what he can - missing people, threatened lives. But when prominent Denver multimillionaire Carter Dunleavy vanishes without a trace, Charlie and his assistant, Wyrick, discover missing doesn't always mean...