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1) Piranesi
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 16
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Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers—some willingly, some unwittingly—have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. In this fascinating account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries and tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them.
3) Damned
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
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As thirteen-year-old Madison tries to figure out how she died and ended up in Hell, she learns how to manipulate the corrupt system of demons and bodily fluids.
4) Everwild
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Nick, known as the dreaded "chocolate ogre," is trying to find all the children in Everlost and release them from the limbo they are in, while Mikey and Allie have joined a band of skinjackers and are putting themselves in danger by visiting the world of the living.
5) The way back
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
840L
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Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominees: 2021-2022 Master List
VT Golden Dome Book Award 2021-2022
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For the people of Tupik, a tiny village in Eastern Europe, demons are everywhere: dancing on the rooftops in the darkness of midnight, congregating in the trees, even reaching out to try and steal away the living. The demons have a land of their own: a Far Country, governed by demonic lords and ladies. When the Angel of Death comes strolling through the little shtetl of Tupik one night, Yehuda Leib and Blume will be sent spinning off on a journey...
7) Everfound
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Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 20
Description
In the limbo that is Everlost, Mary, Nick, Allie, and others face the decisions that will determine whether that place and the Earth itself will continue to exist, as well as where their own futures lie.
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Graveyard book (Graphic novels) volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
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Necromancer (Lish McBride) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer, part of a world of harbingers, werewolves, satyrs, and one particular necromancer who sees Sam as a threat to his lucrative business of raising the dead.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"A Man Called Ove meets The Good Place in Under the Whispering Door, a delightful queer love story from TJ Klune, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he's definitely dead. But even in death he's not...
14) Between
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 15
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By weaving through her memories and watching the family and friends she left behind, eighteen-year-old Liz Valchar solves the mystery of how her life ended in the Long Island Sound.
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Last kids on Earth volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
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It's been forty-two days since the monster apocalypse hit town and pretty much everyone ran away or got zombified. Average thirteen-year-old Jack Sullivan is holed up in his tree house, which he's armed to the teeth with catapults and a moat, not to mention video games and an endless supply of Oreos and Mountain Dew scavenged from abandoned stores. But Jack alone is no match for the hordes of Dozers and Winged Wretches and Zombies, and especially...
16) Imaginary girls
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
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Two years after sixteen-year-old Chloe discovered classmate London's dead body floating in a Hudson Valley reservoir, she returns home to be with her devoted older sister Ruby, a town favorite, and finds that London is alive and well, and that Ruby may somehow have brought her back to life and persuaded everyone that nothing is amiss.
17) House of Hollow
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
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A dark, twisty modern fairytale where three sisters discover they are not exactly all that they seem and evil things really do go bump in the night. Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange. Ever since they disappeared on a suburban street in Scotland as children only to return a month a later with no memory of what happened to them, odd, eerie occurrences seem to follow in their wake. And they're changing. First, their dark...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 6
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After crossing the bridge into the afterlife, a place called Here where the time is always Now, Riley's existence continues in much the same way as when she was alive until she is given the job of Soul Catcher and, together with her teacher Bodhi, returns to earth for her first assignment, a ghost called the Radiant Boy who has been haunting an English castle for centuries and resisted all previous attempts to get him across the bridge.
19) Shadowcry
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Series
Secrets of Wintercraft volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Pursued by two ruthless men of the High Council of Albiom, fifteen-year-old Kate Winters discovers that she is one of the Skilled, a rare person who can see through the veil between the living and the dead.
20) Doomed
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Welcome to Purgatory, also known as Earth. Finally free from Hell, Madison Spencer is a spirit who's still fighting Satan's iron grip as she seeks her celebrity parents on Earth, her own personal Purgatory. It all leads to a new plastic continent that goes by the name of Madlantis.