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Freeze Frame
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Heidi Ayarbe |
No matter how many times Kyle rewrites the scene, he can't get it right. He tries it in the style of Hitchcock, Tarantino, Eastwood, all of his favorite directors — but regardless of the style, he ca… |
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Uncle monarch and the Day of the Dead
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Judy Goldman |
Upon the death of her beloved Tio Urbano, who has taught her that monarch butterflies are the souls of the dead, young Lupita gains a deeper understanding of Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead, … |
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The Battle of Jericho
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Sharon M. Draper |
When Jericho is invited to pledge for the Warriors of Distinction, he thinks his life can't get any better. As the most exclusive club in school, the Warriors give the best parties, go out with the h… |
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All the Living
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Claudia Mills |
Karla's preoccupation with death and her brother's concern over being a loser threaten to ruin their summer in Maine. |
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Losing Faith
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Denise Jaden |
In this lyrical, emotionally intense debut, a teenager encounters more questions than closure while mourning the death of her sister. |
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Do you hear me, Mr. Lincoln?
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Judith Caseley |
Grieving for her beloved father who recently died, thirteen-year-old Sierra remembers special moments in their lives, including their interest in the life of Abraham Lincoln. |
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The wishing tree
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Roseanne Thong |
Ming's wishes at the tree on Lunar New Year with his grandmother always seemed to come true, but one year the tree does not help, and he alone must make peace with the loss of his grandmother and the… |
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A Time for Dancing
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Davida Wills Hurwin |
Seventeen-year-old best friends Samantha and Juliana tell their stories in alternating chapters after Juliana is diagnosed with cancer. |
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A hole in the world
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Sid Hite |
Fifteen-year-old Paul Shackleford experiences an eye-opening and transformative summer living and working on the central Virginia farm belonging to a distant relative, where everyone seems to be haun… |
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Walk softly, Rachel
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Kate Banks |
When fourteen-year-old Rachel reads the journal of her brother, who died when she was seven, she learns secrets that help her understand her parents and herself. |
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The tenth good thing about Barney
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Judith Viorst |
In an attempt to overcome his grief, a boy tries to think of the ten best things about his dead cat. |
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Tighter
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Adele Griffin |
Based on Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw," tells the story of Jamie Atkinson's summer spent as a nanny in a small Rhode Island beach town, where she begins to fear that the estate may be haunted… |
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Say goodnight, Gracie
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Julie Reece Deaver |
When a car accident kills her best friend Jimmy, with whom she has shared everything from childhood escapades to breaking into the professional theater scene in Chicago, seventeen-year-old Morgan mus… |
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Is my sister dying?
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Alida E. Young |
When Allyson has kidney failure her sister is asked to donate a kidney to help Allyson get well. |
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Ashes
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Ilsa J. Bick |
Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse… |
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Between
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Jessica Warman |
By weaving through her memories and watching the family and friends she left behind, eighteen-year-old Liz Valchar solves the mystery of how her life ended in the Long Island Sound. |
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Infinity
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Rachel Ward |
Adam, Sarah, and Mia are living together, struggling with the fame brought about by their knowing the dates when people will die, but ever since Mia swapped her number for another, her new power make… |
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Sammy in the sky
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Barbara Walsh |
A little girl tells about her special pet, Sammy, "the best hound dog in the whole world," and how, after he becomes sick and dies, she comes to know the truth of her mother's words, that Sammy's spi… |
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Grave Mercy
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Robin LaFevers |
Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the g… |
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Something strange and deadly
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Susan Dennard |
"In an alternate nineteenth-century Philadelphia, Eleanor Fitt sets out to rescue her brother, who seems to have been captured by an evil necromancer in control of an army of Undead"-- |
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