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1) Imaginary
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Eleven-year-old Zach knows he is too old to have an imaginary playmate, but between grieving for the loss of his father and coping with bullying at school the only place he seems to find joy is in his fantasy world with his best friend Shovel.
3) I was here
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In an attempt to understand why her best friend committed suicide, eighteen-year-old Cody Reynolds retraces her dead friend's footsteps and makes some startling discoveries.
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Eight months after her mother's death, Jaya rescues an otherworldly being who is the first of her kind to survive a fall from the sky and hides her new friend from the authorities while her society tries to come to grips with the possibilities of a world beyond.
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Grieving over the death of a special person, a young child creates a memory box to keep mementos and written memories of the loved one. Includes a guide for parents with information from a Christian perspective on helping manage the complex and difficult emotions children feel when they lose someone they love, as well as suggestions on how to create their own memory box.
7) Wildlife
Author
Publisher
Poppy/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Two sixteen-year-old girls in Australia come together at an outdoor semester of school, before university--one thinking about boys and growing up, the other about death and grief, but somehow they must help each other to find themselves.
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
4 sound discs (5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Resettled in the "Bomb City" with her mother and brother, Davey Wexler recovers from the shock of her father's death during a holdup of his 7-Eleven store in Atlantic City.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
476 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"In this novel in blank verse, twelve-year-old Cass struggles to cope with her father's recurring cancers that have dominated her whole life, with the knowledge that he is likely to die soon because the latest recurrence is worse--and with the possibilitythat she may have inherited the genetic disease, Li-Fraumeni Syndrome, that causes the cancers" Provided by publisher.
Told in blank verse, twelve-year-old Cass struggles to cope with her father's...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Seventeen-year-old Julie fell in love with Sam the day she met him, and planned to attend college with him; but Sam died, and getting rid of his things, trying to erase him from her life is not working, so desperate to hear his voice one more time, Julie calls his cellphone expecting to hear his voicemail--but then Sam answers, and suddenly their cellphones become the living connection between them, a connection Julie finds impossible to let go.
11) Crazy
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
348 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Fifteen-year-old loner Jason lives a precarious life with his mentally ill father, who thinks he is an Argonaut and wears tinfoil ear guards as he prepares for imminent attack from the Furies. When Jason was 6, his father tried to bury him alive, and his nightmares of suffocation continue to haunt him. Now that his mother has died from a stroke, Jason struggles to care for his needy father alone and with few resources. To help him cope, he creates...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"In one impulsive moment the summer before they leave for college, overachievers Scarlett and David plunge into an irresistible swirl of romance, particle physics, and questionable decisions. Scarlett and David have known each other all their lives in small-town Graceville, Colorado, where David is just another mountain in the background, until, one day, he is suddenly so much more than part of the landscape. Magnetic, spontaneous, David is a gravitational...
14) Jane, unlimited
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
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Description
"Recently orphaned Jane accepts an unexpected invitation from an old acquaintance to an island mansion where she will face five choices that could ultimately determine the course of her newly untethered life"--
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