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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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As he is driving home from a minister's conference, Baptist minister Don Piper collides with a semi-truck that crosses into his lane. He is pronounced dead at the scene. For the next 90 minutes, Piper experiences heaven where he is greeted by those who had influenced him spiritually. He hears beautiful music and feels true peace.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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With society divided by a new technology claiming to alert people on the day of their death, thousands sign up, and on day one, dozens receive their calls, including two boys destined for love until one receives the first End Day call.
3) Adam
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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FBI behavioral psychologist Daniel Clark has been made famous by his arguments that religion is one of society's greatest antagonists. What Daniel doesn't know is that his obsessive pursuit of a serial killer known only as "Eve" will end in his own death at Eve's hand. Twenty minutes later Daniel is resuscitated, only to be haunted by those twenty missing minutes of life. It soon becomes painfully clear that the only way to stop Eve is to recover...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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The Boston Globe "Love Letters" columnist and author of Chemistry Lessons follows the experiences of a girl who learns about life and love while on a road trip to scatter her late grandmother's ashes in favorite gardens.
5) Being dead
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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A haunting new novel about love, death, and the afterlife, from the author of Quarantine
Baritone Bay, mid-afternoon. A couple, naked, married almost thirty years, are lying murdered in the dunes.
"Their bodies had expired, but anyone could tell--just look at them--that Joseph and Celice were still devoted. For while his hand was touching her, curved round her shin, the couple seemed to have achieved that peace the world denies, a period of grace,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Drawing on extensive historical and anthropological research, personal accounts, and interviews with people who work in the funeral industry, Penny Colman examines the compelling subjects of death and burial across cultures and societies. The text, enriched with stories both humorous and poignant, includes details about the decomposition and embalming processes (an adult corpse buried six feet deep without a coffin will usually take five to ten years...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
In a near-future New York City where a service alerts people on the day they will die, teenagers Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio meet using the Last Friend app and are faced with the challenge of living a lifetime on their End Day.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After her death, seventeen-year-old Maddy finds a way to revisit moments in her life by using objects that she lost while she was alive, and by so doing she tries to figure out the complicated emotions, events, and meaning of her existence.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 24
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English
Description
A teenage suicide pact between a pregnant girl and her boyfriend, both children of wealthy New England families. He shoots her, but fails to shoot himself and is charged with murder. At the trial he explains what made them do it.
11) Broken things
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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An unforgettable, mesmerizing tale of exquisite obsession, spoiled innocence, and impossible friendships. It's been five years since Summer Marks was brutally murdered in the woods. Everyone thinks Mia and Brynn killed their best friend. That driven by their obsession with a novel called The Way into Lovelorn the three girls had imagined themselves into the magical world where their fantasies became twisted, even deadly. The only thing is: they didn't...
12) North of happy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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A wealthy dual citizen of Mexico and the United States rebels against his family's strict plans for his future in the aftermath of his older brother's tragic death, an event that compels him to secure a job with his favorite celebrity chef.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Maureen and Bridget, two sixteen-year-old best friends who look like sisters, are in a terrible car accident and one of them dies, they are at first incorrectly identified at the hospital, and then, as Maureen achieves a remarkable recovery, she must deal with the repercussions of the accident, the mix-up, and some choices she made while she was getting better.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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When a young black teen is murdered, his two best friends decide to keep his memory alive by promoting his music -- rhymes that could turn any hangout into a party -- with the help of his younger sister, Jasmine, who is out for justice. As the buzz builds, it forces Quadir, Jarrell, and Jasmine, to each confront the death in their own ways.
Brooklyn, 1998. When their best friend Steph is killed, Quadir and Jarrell don't want his tracks to lie forgotten....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people ... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance -- and Papi's secrets -- the two girls are forced to...
17) When
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Maddie Flynn cannot help but see the death date of everyone she meets or sees in a photograph or on-screen, and her alcoholic mother exploits this by having her do readings for money, but when Maddie predicts the death of a young boy, she becomes the center of an FBI investigation.
18) Brother, brother
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After his grandmother's death, seventeen-year-old Brother sets out, with the abandoned son of a friend, on a 200-mile trip to North Carolina's Outer Banks to find his twin brother, of whose existence he just learned.
19) Verify
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Chicago teen Meri Beckley's pride of living in a land of peace, prosperity, and truth crumbles when questions following her mother's death reveal buried facts, especially that words can have great power.
When Meri Beckley looks at the peaceful Chicago streets, she feels pride in the era of unprecedented hope and prosperity over which the governor presides. But when her mother is killed, Meri suddenly has questions that no one else seems to be asking....
20) As you wish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Madison, Nevada, is a small town in the Mojave desert on the road between nothing and nowhere. The town has a secret: in Madison, everyone can make one wish on their eighteenth birthday-- and that wish always comes true. Eldon has seen how wishing has hurt the people around him. His parents' marriage is strained, his sister is a virtual ghost in their house, his ex-girlfriend is dating his ex-friend ... Now he has only twenty-six days to figure out...
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