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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Colton Burpo made it through an emergency appendectomy, his family was overjoyed at his miraculous survival. Colton, not yet four years old, told his parents he left his body during the surgery. He talked of visiting Heaven and relayed stories told to him by people he met there whom he had never met in life, sharing events that happened even before he was born.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1982 Buncombe County, North Carolina, sixteen-year-old Alex Stromm writes of the aftermath of the accidental drowning of a friend, as his English teacher reaches out to him while he and a fellow boarding school student try to cover things up.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Annabel Beam spent most of her childhood in and out of hospitals with a rare and incurable digestive disorder that prevented her from ever living a normal, healthy life. One sunny day when she was able to go outside and play with her sisters, she fell three stories headfirst inside an old, hollowed-out tree-- and survived without a scratch. While unconscious inside the tree, with rescue workers struggling to get to her, she visited heaven, and was...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • One million copies sold! Dr. Mary Neal (featured in the Netflix original series Surviving Death) tells the incredible story of the kayak accident during a South American adventure that took her to heaven—where she experienced God’s peace, joy, and angels—and back to life again.
In 1999 in the Los Rios region of southern...
In 1999 in the Los Rios region of southern...
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.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible in her family, where grumpy eighteen-year-old Sarah is working at the family restaurant, fourteen-year-old Holden is struggling with school bullies and his emerging homosexuality, and adorable, three-year-old Charlie is always the center of attention, and when tragedy strikes, the fragile bond holding the family together is stretched almost to the breaking point.
9) I'm not her
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When popular, sporty sister, Kristina, is diagnosed with cancer, her younger, brainy sister, Tess, is thrown into new roles as she becomes the center of the popular crowd and must be the strong one in her family.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tandy Angel is, along with her brothers, a suspect in their parents' murder but having grown up under Malcolm and Maud Angel's perfectionist demands, Tandy decides she must clear the family name no matter what.
11) Untwine: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Waking up in the hospital seriously injured, Giselle reflects on her past choices to evaluate how her friends, her family, and especially her identical twin have defined her existence.
12) Reflection
Author
Series
Twisted tales (Liz Braswell) volume 4
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Captain Shang is mortally wounded by Shan Yu in battle, Mulan must travel to the Underworld, Diyu, in order to save him from certain death. But King Yama, the ruler of Diyu, is not willing to give Shang up easily.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"By early 1945, the destruction of the German Nazi State seems certain. The Allied forces, led by American generals George S. Patton and Dwight D. Eisenhower, are gaining control of Europe, leaving German leaders scrambling. Facing defeat, Adolf Hitler flees to a secret bunker with his new wife, Eva Braun, and his beloved dog, Blondi. It is there that all three would meet their end, thus ending the Third Reich and one of the darkest chapters of history....
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"To escape her father's overprotectiveness, twenty-year-old Kenzie Caine spends the summer working at a horse farm rehabilitating Tennessee Walking horses, where a good deed results in a violent end to the summer and the revelation of her attractive assistant's secrets." --
16) Whisper
Author
Series
Riley Bloom series volume 4
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
This time, Riley might really have bitten off more than she's ready for. After practically begging the Council for a more challenging Soul Catch, she is assigned an actual Roman gladiator-Theocoles, the Pillar of Doom. How is Riley, a skinny twelve-year-old, supposed to get through to him? Then she meets the beautiful Messalina, who convinces her that her only chance is to become part of this world. To accomplish this, Messalina helps Riley through...
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