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Thirteen days to midnight
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Patrick Carman |
*You are indestructible.* These are the words that transfer an astonishing power to Jacob Fielding...and it changes everything. After all, there's something addictive about testing the limits of fear… |
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Briana's gift
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Lurlene McDaniel |
When a pregnant seventeen-year-old girl is hospitalized and in a coma, her younger sister faces several difficult choices while dealing with loss, love, and life at Christmastime. |
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The Day I Killed James
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Catherine Ryan Hyde |
IT WASN'T SUPPOSED to end up like this. But it did.When Theresa brings James to a party as her date, it's just for the night . . . and he knows that. But when everything goes horribly wrong, James dr… |
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Julia Gillian (and the dream of the dog)
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Alison McGhee |
While trying to cope with more school work, including an assignment in her least favorite subject, reading, a sixth-grade girl faces her toughest challenge as her beloved dog--and lifelong companion-… |
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Hero
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Mike Lupica |
Fourteen-year-old Billy learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Billy must decide whether to… |
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One of the survivors
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Susan Shaw |
When his classmates die in a school fire, fourteen-year-old Joey is haunted by their deaths and struggles to survive amidst suspicion and anger from the town. |
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Bring me a memory
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Rose Blue |
Twelve-year-old Holly's father is dying, so she asks friends and relatives to tell her their memories of him. |
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Hunting Grandma's treasures
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Gina Willner-Pardo |
A boy's dying grandmother helps him say good-bye and accept life's changes. |
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Thin Ice
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Marsha Qualey |
Seventeen-year-old Arden has been raised by her older brother, Scott, since their parents died when she was just six years old, so when Scott is presumed drowned in a snowmobile accident, Arden is co… |
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White Noise
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Don DeLillo |
The trials and tribulations of a profesor of Hitler studies. |
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A Dirty Job
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Christopher Moore |
Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being carefu… |
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Striking out
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Will Weaver |
Since the death of his older brother, thirteen-year-old Billy Baggs has had a distant relationship with his father, but life on their farm in northern Minnesota begins to change when he starts to pla… |
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Crónica de una muerte anunciada
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Gabriel García Márquez |
Also contained in:
- [Collected Novellas](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL274508W) |
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Good-bye, Chicken Little
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Betsy Cromer Byars |
A boy discovers that he doesn't have to feel personally responsible for his uncle's drowning. |
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The Fall of Freddie the Leaf
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Leo Buscaglia,Leo F. Buscaglia |
As Freddie experiences the changing seasons along with his companion leaves, he learns about the delicate balance between life and death. |
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The stone silenus
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Jane Yolen |
A year after her father, a poet who identified with fauns and satyrs, has been found dead in a motel swimming pool, a strange faun-boy appears to Melissa, seeming to be the reincarnation of her belov… |
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Ghost cat
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Mark Abley |
When her beloved cat, Tommy Douglas, dies after many years of companionship, Miss Wilkinson is inconsolable until his spirit returns to give her comfort. |
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Annie and the Old One
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Miska Miles |
A Navajo girl unravels a day's weaving on a rug whose completion, she believes, will mean the death of her grandmother. |
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The Leap
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Jonathan Stroud |
After her best friend, Max, drowns, grief-stricken Charlie discovers that she can enter a mysterious afterlife when she is dreaming, and as she tries desperately to find Max, she puts herself in grav… |
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The Hanged Man
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Francesca Lia Block |
After the death of her father, Laurel is haunted by a legacy of family secrets, hidden shame, and shattered glass. Immersing herself in the heady rhythms of a city that is like something wild, caged,… |
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