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41) Holding court
Author
Publisher
Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jules Verity knows exactly what's in store at her new job at castle-turned-dinner-theater Tudor Times. Some extra cash, wearing a fancy-pants dress, and plenty of time to secretly drool over the ever-so-tasty-and completely unavailable-Grayson Chandler. Except that it's not quite what she imagined.
For one, the costume Jules has to wear is awful. Then there's the dead body she finds that just kind of...well, disappears. Oh, and there's...
Author
Language
English
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Tween Reads for Junior High
YA Genres: Supernatural & Paranormal
YA Reads: Vampires!
YA Topics: Books about Grief and Loss
YA Genres: Supernatural & Paranormal
YA Reads: Vampires!
YA Topics: Books about Grief and Loss
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Description
As her father lies gravely ill with pancreatic cancer, eighteen-year-old Victoria's last hope is to find a vampire in New Orleans, an impossible mission that rekindles a special friendship.
43) The building boy
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
All at once, it was as if the stars leapt closer. Grandma grabbed the boy, raising him high above the rooftiles on her head. She was alive! The boy's grandma was a famous architect. Her garden is still full of old building materials. Unwilling to accept she has gone, the boy builds a giant structure from the bricks and girders he finds. And then Grandma comes to life! The boy is whisked away on an epic adventure across fields, through oceans and atop...
44) Fowl play
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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,...
46) Our violent ends
Author
Series
These violent delights volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 once and for all"--
Author
Language
English
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"Once, in a tiny village in India, there was a young boy who loved to paint. He lived with his grandfather, who taught him to paint with his fingers, to make paints from marigolds and brushes made from jasmine flowers. Sometimes, the village children would watch them painting together, and the boy's grandfather would invite them to join in. They didn't have much, but they had each other. After his grandfather dies, the boy notices a little box wrapped...
48) Cress Watercress
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Papa doesn't return from a nocturnal honey-gathering expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst. It's a dangerous world for rabbits, after all. Mama moves what's left of the Watercress family to the basement unit of the Broken Arms, a run-down apartment oak with a suspect owl landlord, a nosy mouse super, a rowdy family of squirrels, and a pair of songbirds who broadcast everyone's business. Can a dead tree full of annoying...
49) A box of bones
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After receiving a wooden puzzle box at a town festival, twelve-year-old Kallie figures out how to open the box and finds that her fate seems to be connected to a young bone carver from another time.
50) Little universes
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two sisters struggle with the secrets brought to light in the aftermath of their parents' sudden death.
Author
Series
Clue mystery volume 3
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The dramatic and deadly conclusion to the thrilling YA mystery series inspired by the classic board game CLUE! After a tragic accident that forever changed the lives of the Murder Crew-killing one of their own-the students at Blackbrook Academy are justtrying to get by. As relationships evolve, strain, and break, Orchid, Green, Scarlett, Mustard, Plum, and Peacock find themselves lost. When the dark secret at the heart of Blackbrook forces its way...
52) When
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Maddie Flynn cannot help but see the death date of everyone she meets or sees in a photograph or on-screen, and her alcoholic mother exploits this by having her do readings for money, but when Maddie predicts the death of a young boy, she becomes the center of an FBI investigation.
53) Adios, abuela
Author
Publisher
ING Edicions
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Primera edicin̤
Language
Español
Description
Fiona's grandmother died, but she finds comfort in nature
54) Sunnyside Plaza
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
While helping police officers Esther and Lon investigate a suspicious death at her group home, nineteen-year-old Sal Miyake, who is mentally challenged, gains insights into herself and makes new friends.
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Shay and their dog Fluffy are best friends. Through the years they are each other's source of comfort and companionship in times of both sadness and joy. When Shay learns that Fluffy is sick and they must say goodbye, they feel angry and scared. But Fluffy offers a gentle reassurance—as she always has—and Shay reflects on the meaningful bond they have shared with their friend and the love for her that they will hold in their heart forever." --publisher's...
56) Lolo's light
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Once in your life, sometime after your first memory but before you can drive a car, something is going to happen to you that doesn't happen to anyone else you know. It might be something good. It might be something bad, or special, or funny, or shocking. For Millie, it's something really sad. Lolo, her neighbors' infant daughter, dies--unexpectedly, suddenly, inexplicably--on the night Millie babysits. There's nothing she could have done. There's...
Author
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
Rendered a ghost by a bicycle accident, young Finn McAllister teams up with fellow spirit Isabella Rojas to commit invisible pranks on the living, before discovering that they cannot move on to the afterlife.
Author
Publisher
XPuck
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
1.ª edición.
Language
Español
Description
The forbidden magic has awakened and claimed a victim. Kaia is a summoner scarred by misfortune. When a corpse appears on the shores of the city with strange markings that evoke an extinct magic, the safety of the summoners world is put to the test. Along with Medea, a summoner who has lived up to family expectations, and Ariadne, a frustrated writer marked by the shadow of her brother, Kaia will cross the fuzzy limits of what is right to discover...
59) The flat rabbit
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When they find a rabbit flattened in the road, a dog and a rat decide to give the deceased animal a proper sendoff.
When a dog and a rat come upon a rabbit flattened on the road in their neighborhood, they contemplate her situation, wondering what they should do to help her. They decide it can't be much fun to lie there; she should be moved. But how? And to where? Finally, the dog comes up with an inspired and unique idea and they work together through...
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