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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Appears on list
Description
"As Pelican Island's history-making drought wears on, the water level on Bex and Davey's beloved marsh reveals the hand of a statue that has been underneath the water for who knows how long, and the siblings are determined to find out more."
3) Lucky Boy
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A neglected dog finds a real home with a grieving widower who needs a friend.
6) Turtle girl
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
As her grandmother taught her, Magdalena continues to protect the sea turtles that nest near her home even after Grandma's death.
7) Choices
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Overcome with guilt over her brother's death, a teenaged girl shifts between multiple universes in an attempt to find one in which he is alive.
8) The giant
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
As the seasons pass on the family farm after her mother's death, a young girl searches for the giant that her mother said would look after her.
11) Out of order
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Four youngsters, ages nine to fifteen, narrate one side of the story of their newly blended family's adjustment, interwoven with grief and loss.
13) Upstream
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After her boyfriend is killed in a hunting accident, Alaska high-school-senior Marty, with help from her mother and two younger sisters, tries to get over her grief and begin a new life.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Ten-year-old Effie is dealing with a lot of problems, including some missing money, losing her best friend, the death of her grandfather and more, and her mean older sister Maxey is making things even worse.
16) Eva underground
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In 1978, a high school senior is forced by her widowed father to move from their comfortable Chicago suburb to help with an underground education movement in communist Poland.
17) Pepperland
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Struggling to come to terms with the death of her mother in the late 1970s, sixteen-year-old Beatles fan Star Cochran hopes to find closure by delivering to John Lennon a letter her mother wrote to him in 1964 but never sent.
Author
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Having moved with his mother to a remote corner of Vermont after his father's death, sixteen-year-old Aidan learns much about his family, including that ghosts inhabit an ancient orchard on the family farm, sustained by his grandmother.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When he and his mother move into an farmhouse in the English countryside, twelve-year-old Jack discovers he can communicate with ghosts and establishes a relationship with a spirit that threatens to destroy both his mother and himself.
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