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A novel-in-verse about life after loss, the power of sibling bonds, the depth of grief, and the strength of learning to love again.
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When her best friend, Ness, dies suddenly, Ember finds a way into the Afterworld, determined to bring Ness back.
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When thirteen-year-old Sage's best friend dies, Sage struggles with grief and feels that she's at fault, but when she joins a grief group, she slowly learns to heal. Told in verse format.
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"Four years ago, Millie lost her baby brother Noah before he could be born. She writes to him in heaven often and confides in him her anxieties upon learning her mother is pregnant again. Millie is both excited and scared. What if the baby dies like Noah did? Living on a farm and friendship issues add their own challenges, but Millie comes to realise that she is more resilient than she ever believed. Millie has a lot of big, mixed feelings, but her...
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"At the turn of the new year in 1948, Amil and his family are trying to make a home in India, now independent of British rule. Both Muslim and Hindu, twelve-year-old Amil is not sure what home means anymore. The memory of the long and difficult journey from their hometown in what is now Pakistan lives with him. And despite having an apartment in Bombay to live in and a school to attend, life in India feels uncertain. Nisha, his twin sister, suggests...
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After her mother's death, thirteen-year-old Opal moves to her uncle's farm where she befriends a group of orphaned, music-loving bats, and summons the courage to protect them from a mining company as she attempts to find them a new home.
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Jess Aarons gains the strength to cope with unexpected tragedy by going to a secret kingdom in the woods invented by Leslie Burke, a newcomer to his rural Virginia community.
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"Lucretia and her mother have come to tiny Candle Island, Maine (Population: summer, 986; winter, 315) to escape--escape memories of the car accident that killed her father and escape the journalists that hound her mother, a famous and reclusive artist. The rocky coast and ocean breeze are a welcome respite for Lucretia, who dedicates her summer days to painting, exploring the island, and caring for an orphaned osprey chick. But Candle Island has...
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Feeling most alive when he's playing the blues with his grandfather, Clayton is devastated when his grandfather dies and his mother forbids him from playing music, losses that compel him to run away and join bluesmen on the road.
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"At night, Roddie still dreams of sitting at his mother's feet while she braids his Afro down. But that's a memory from before. Before his mom died in a tragic accident. Before he was taken in by an aunt he barely knows. Before his aunt brought him to Dogwood House, the creepiest place Roddie has ever seen. It was his family's home for over a hundred years. Now the house--abandoned and rotting, draped in Spanish moss that reminds him too much of hair--is...
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"Esmerelda Santos is a rare bruja, born with Chaos magic in her veins. She and her family are direct descendants of one of the four original witches--a mysterious legend about the night magic was born in San Bosco. But since the death of her mother, Esme is more concerned about healing their father's spiraling grief. When Esme finds a heart spell in a forbidden grimorio, she thinks it could be the answer to making her dad whole again. But before she...
12. The dog, Ray
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Returning to Earth as a dog after losing her human life in a car accident, Daisy resolves to go back to her parents while learning to care for others in entirely new ways.
13. Ferris
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"It's the summer before fifth grade, and for Ferris Wilkey, it is a summer of sheer pandemonium: Her little sister, Pinky, has vowed to become an outlaw. Uncle Ted has left Aunt Shirley and, to Ferris's mother's chagrin, is holed up in the Wilkey basement to paint a history of the world. And Charisse, Ferris's grandmother, has started seeing a ghost at the threshold of her room, which seems like an alarming omen given that she is also feeling unwell....
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"Everything is changing, and twelve-year-old Rowan Robinson hates it. She's dreading having to spend her summer in New York City with her Aunt Monica, even though she used to love it. But things are just different after her father passed away. Without him, nothing about her world feels the same start to get a little better when Rowan brings her dad's old camera to Central Park to take pictures. But as she's snapping photos, she notices a strange mirror-like...
15. Fowl play
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"Chloe Alvarez has never been to the reading of a last will and testament before, but she hopes it is just like the movies. Lies! Intrigue! The reading of her Uncle Will's will is standard, until he announces his gift for Chloe: his African grey parrot Charlie. Uncle Will was Chloe's best friend. Without him, she's left with only her memories of them together--which come to her in snapshots--and her new friend Charlie. The parrot has a vast vocabulary,...
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Eleven-year-old Fern grapples with her father's death, a distant best friend, and a failing family business, but discovers an unexpected connection with neighbor Jasper as they collaborate on a photography contest and attempt to photograph an endangered pod of killer whales.
17. Ghost boys
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After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till.
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Briana, devastated by the sudden death of her dad, imagines she has a new heart growing deep inside her belly that gives advice in her father's voice, providing her with the support she needs to navigate her grief.
19. Good dog
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Brodie was a good dog. And good dogs go to heaven. Except Brodie can't move on--not just yet. As wonderful as his glimpse of the afterlife is, he can't forget the boy he left behind. The boy he loved, and who loved him in return. The boy who's still in danger. So Brodie breaks the rules of heaven. He returns to Earth as a spirit.
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Ten-year-old Walter Tipple is grieving his beloved older brother, Tank, when a sassy girl named Posey moves in next door and Banjo, a hot-air balloonist, sets the pair on an adventure.