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1) Dear Mothman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of his best friend and the only other trans boy at school, Noah starts writing letters expressing his feelings to the humanoid creature Mothman and risks everything when he treks into the woods to prove Mothman's existence.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Attending an elite prep school in Connecticut on a scholarship with his best friend (and secret love) science genius Delaney Doyle, sixteen-year-old Cash Pruitt, from a small town in East Tennessee, struggles with emotional pain and loss until his English teacher suggests writing poetry.
Cash lost his mother to an opioid addiction and his Papaw is dying slowly from emphysema. Dodging drug dealers and watching out for his best friend (and person of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Estranged from the best friend whose brother killed her sister in a school shooting, a grieving Cora receives a message on her twelfth birthday from her friend, asking for her help with creating a time portal to prevent the tragedy.
5) Spin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
When DJ ParSec (Paris Secord), rising star of the local music scene, is found dead over her turntables, the two girls who found her, Kya (her pre-fame best friend) and Fuse (her current chief groupie) are torn between grief for Paris and hatred for each other--but when the lack of obvious suspects stalls the investigation, and the police seem to lose interest, despite pressure from social media and ParSec's loyal fans, the two girls unite, determined...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1911, when orphaned ten-year-old Inge comes to live with her stern grandmother in a remote island village in Bornholm, Denmark, she ends up changing the climate of the town, bringing joy and laughter to her grandmother's life and finding a new family for herself to help assuage her grief over losing her mother.
11) Maybe tomorrow?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elba carries the black block of grief and sadness wherever she goes--until Norris comes along and helps her to let go of the block and enjoy life again.
12) Bird Lake moon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Mitch, spending the summer with his grandparents at Bird Lake after his parents' separation, becomes friends with ten-year-old Spencer, who has returned with his family to the lake where his little brother drowned years earlier, and as the boys spend time together and their friendship grows, each of them begins to heal.
14) Boomi's boombox
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Boomi accidentally travels back in time to 1986 Thumpton-on-Soar, England, where she meets her late father as a child, changing her life forever.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Albie's mother dies from cancer, his father explains that she may be alive in a parallel universe, so he decides to universe-hop and find her with the help of a banana, a laptop, and a box.
17) Kaleidoscope
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
An astounding new feat of storytelling from Brian Selznick, the award-winning creator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Wonderstruck. A ship. A garden. A library. A key. In Kaleidoscope, the incomparable Brian Selznick presents the story of two people bound to each other through time and space, memory and dreams. At the center of their relationship is a mystery about the nature of grief and love which will look different to each reader. Kaleidoscope...
18) Wake the bones
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After dropping out of college, nineteen-year-old Laurel Early returns to her uncle's tobacco farm, where she encounters a monster as well as her mother's ghost, and soon Laureal realizes that she must tap into her own innate magic to save everyone she loves.
Author
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Najwa Bakri is forced to investigate the mysterious death of her best friend and Scrabble Queen, Trina, a year after the fact when her Instagram comes back to life with cryptic posts and messages.
20) Sad Ninja
Author
Series
Publisher
Grow Grit Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Sad Ninja deals with the loss of his grandmother and his parents getting a divorce. Find out what happens in this SEL book about accepting sad feelings like loss and grief."--Amazon.
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