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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Science Fiction [High School Readers]
Columbia Pike Teen Book Club - Oct 2023 - Hispanic Authors and Stories
Columbia Pike Teen Book Club - Oct 2023 - Hispanic Authors and Stories
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On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They're going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they're both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There's an app for that. It's called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure-to live a lifetime in a single...
2) After Eli
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Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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After the death of his older brother, Daniel Anderson became engrossed in recording details about dead people, how they died, and whether their deaths mattered but he is eventually drawn back into interaction with the living.
3) Cape
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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After losing the person in his life he loves more than anything, a young child holds onto a cape as a source of comfort and strength as he navigates the sadness and joy of his memories.
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"Pesah has lived with leprosy for years, and the twins have spent most of that time working on a cure. Then Pesah has a vision: The Angel of Death will come for him on Rosh Hashanah, just one month away. So Ziva takes her brother and runs away to find doctors who can cure him. But when they meet and accidentally free a half-demon boy, he suggests paying his debt by leading them to the fabled city of Luz, where no one ever dies--the one place Pesah...
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Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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After her grandfather's death, a young girl explores her Baba Bazorg's house. As the girl wanders through the house, almost idly, her Baba Bazorg's house stands in for the man himself, with each object she describes standing as a touchstone to a memory, and each memory serving as a window into the relationship between the child and her grandfather. As she looks through its rooms, the things she sees and the object she touches bring to life memories...
6) The Honeys
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English
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Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
Odyssey Award Winners
Titles Worth Trying: LGBTQIA+ [High School]
Odyssey Award Winners
Titles Worth Trying: LGBTQIA+ [High School]
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"Mars has always been the lesser twin, the shadow to his sister Caroline's radiance. But when Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars is propelled to learn all he can about his once-inseparable sister who'd grown tragically distant. Mars's genderfluidity means he's often excluded from the traditions--and expectations--of his politically-connected family. This includes attendance at the prestigious Aspen Conservancy Summer Academy where his...
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Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"One summer's day we started a business called Funerals Ltd, to help all the poor dead animals in the world. Esther did the digging, I wrote the poems, and Esther's little brother, Puttie, cried."--Page [4] of cover.
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Confessions (James Patterson) volume 1
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English
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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.
10) Our violent ends
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"Though secrets and lies keep Juliette and Roma apart, a monster still prowls the city of Shanghai, and the two are going to have to put aside their differences to end this threat to once and for all"--
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"It's the night before Death-Cast goes live, and there's one question on everyone's mind: Can Death-Cast actually predict when someone will die, or is it just an elaborate hoax? Orion Pagan has waited years for someone to tell him that he's going to die. He has a serious heart condition, and he signed up for Death-Cast so he could know what's coming. Valentino Prince is restarting his life in New York. He has a long and promising future ahead and...
12) Bone dog
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Although devastated when his pet dog dies, a young boy goes trick-or-treating and receives a timely visit from an old friend during a scary encounter with graveyard skeletons.
13) Blackbird fly
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Bullied at school, eighth-grader Apple, a Filipino American who loves the music of the Beatles, decides to change her life by learning how to play the guitar.
14) Hysteria
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Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After stabbing and killing her boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Mallory, who has no memory of the event, is sent away to a boarding school to escape the gossip and threats, but someone or something is following her.
15) Chip
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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A young boy grieves when his pet fish dies, but his heart is full of the good memories he had with his fish friend.
Author
Series
Sally the dog series volume 8
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A beloved dog dies and goes to heaven where she lives happily and helps to find her family on earth a new pet.
17) Just like that
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English
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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...
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