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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.
Author
Series
Necromancer (Lish McBride) volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
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.
3) Between
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 15
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
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.
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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: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
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For popular high school senior Samantha Kingston, February 12 - "Cupid Day" - should be one big party, a day of valentines and roses and the privileges that come with being at the top of the social pyramid. And it is...until she dies in a terrible accident that night. However, she still wakes up the next morning. In fact, Sam lives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes, she may hold more...
7) Graveminder
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Rebekkah Barrow's grandmother Maylene always has tended to the dead of Claysville by proclaiming, 'Stay where I put you.' And with good reason. The worlds of the living and the dead meet in their little town, and only the Graveminder-a Barrow woman-and the undertaker have the means to keep them down. Bek never knew any of this until she returns to town upon Maylene's murder.
Author
Series
Lying game novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sutton Mercer watches from the afterlife as her long-lost twin sister, Emma Paxton, continues to pretend to be her in order to identify Sutton's killer.
Author
Series
Necromancer (Lish McBride) volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Six weeks after escaping from the necromancer Douglas, Sam LaCroix is under the protection of the Blackthorn pack of werewolves and fey hounds and unsure if his necromancer rival is dead.
11) The everafter
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
After her death, seventeen-year-old Maddy finds a way to revisit moments in her life by using objects that she lost while she was alive, and by so doing she tries to figure out the complicated emotions, events, and meaning of her existence.
12) Afterworlds
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 22
Description
In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy's novel, slips into the "Afterworld" to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide, as both face many challenges and both fall in love.
14) Die for me
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Description
After their parents are killed in a car accident, sixteen-year-old Kate Mercier and her older sister Georgia, each grieving in her own way, move to Paris to live with their grandparents and Kate finds herself powerfully drawn to the handsome but elusive Vincent who seems to harbor a mysterious and dangerous secret.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Sixteen-year-old Katrell uses her witchy powers to talk to the dead and escape her home life, but when she disregards the dead's warnings to stop, dark forces begin to close in forcing Ketrell to make some hard decisions.
16) Rooms: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Wealthy Richard Walker has just died, leaving behind his country house full of rooms packed with the detritus of a lifetime. His estranged family -- bitter ex-wife Caroline, troubled teenage son Trenton, and unforgiving daughter Minna -- have arrived for their inheritance. But the Walkers are not alone.
17) Bruja born
Author
Series
Brooklyn brujas volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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Still feeling broken after her family's battle in Los Lagos, Lula invokes a dark spell to bring her boyfriend and others back after a fatal bus crash, but unwittingly raises an army of hungry, half-dead casimuertos, instead.