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1) Trouble
Author
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Henry, wishing to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog. But fate adds another companion--the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring Franklin--and reveals troubles that predate the accident.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of the accident that killed his foster father, high school student Jacob Fielding discovers that he has acquired the power of indestructibility, and the more he learns about it the more he realizes that it is a heavy burden, if not a curse.
Author
Language
English
Description
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 from wealthy backgrounds. In a parallel story, Matt Coffin has wound up on the Maine coast near St. Elene's with a pillowcase full of money lifted from the leader of a criminal gang, fearing...
4) Ghostgirl
Author
Series
Ghostgirl volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After dying, high school senior Charlotte Usher is as invisible to nearly everyone as she always felt, but despite what she learns in a sort of alternative high school for dead teens, she clings to life while seeking a way to go to the Fall Ball with the boy of her dreams.
Author
Series
Iron codex volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aoife Grayson will do anything to make her way to the Deadlands and try to win back her love, Dean, who died helping her, even if that means killing Tremaine, who has vowed to keep her in the Thorn Lands, the faerie home of her mother Nerissa.
6) The savage
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
79 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A boy tells about a story he wrote when dealing with his father's death about a savage kid living in a ruined chapel in the woods--and the tale about the savage kid coming to life in the real world.
Author
Series
Madison Avery novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Madison Avery, seventeen, spunky, and technically dead, takes on the role of Dark Timekeeper, she struggles to figure out her place in the war between light and dark reapers.
8) Entwined
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Confined to their dreary castle while mourning their mother's death, Princess Azalea and her eleven sisters join The Keeper, who's trapped in a magic passageway, in a nightly dance that soon becomes nightmarish.
11) Revived
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having been brought back from the dead repeatedly by a top-secret government super drug called Revive, and forced to move so the public does not learn the truth, fifteen-year-old Daisy meets people worth living for and begins to question the heavy-handed government controls she has dealt with for eleven years.
12) Everlost
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash, they end up in Everlost, or limbo for lost souls, where although Nick is satisfied, Allie will stop at nothing--even skinjacking--to break free.
13) The survival kit
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After her mother dies, sixteen-year-old Rose works through her grief by finding meaning in a survival kit that her mother left behind.
14) Perfect
Author
Language
English
Description
Following the death of her father, a thirteen-year-old uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and ten-year-old sister's grief, as well as her own. Isabelle Lee has a problem, and it's not just Ape Face, her sister, or group therapy for an eating disorder, or even that her father died and her mother is depressed and in denial. It's that Ashley, the most popular girl in school, is inviting Isabelle to join her at lunch and at sleepovers at her...
15) Revolver
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finland, 1910: Fifteen-year-old Sig is shocked to see a hole in the frozen lake outside his family's cabin and to find his father's corpse nearby. Why did Einar steer his dog sled across the lake instead of taking the safer land route? Sig's sister and stepmother go for help, leaving Sig alone with Einar's body in the cabin. Soon after, an armed stranger barges in, demanding a share of Einar's stolen gold from when the two men knew each other during...
16) Elsewhere
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live."
17) Six feet over it
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old Leigh's father buys a graveyard and insists she work there after school, she learns much about life, death, and the power of friendship.
19) Red kayak
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
209, 4 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Living near the water on Maryland's Eastern Shore, thirteen-year-old Brady and his best friends J.T. and Digger become entangled in a tragedy which tests their friendship and their ideas about right and wrong.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Psychic twins Mallory and Meredith try to figure out why their baby brother, who is being cared for by a number of babysitters while their mother attends medical school and works, keeps getting sick, while Meredith endures the pain and heartbreak of falling in love with a ghost who died in the Vietnam War.
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