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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is at her superb best in this fun-loving, moving novel about what it means to be truly alive.
WINNER OF THE SOUTHERN BOOK PRIZE
Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is a small town like any other, but something strange is happening at the cemetery. Still Meadows, as it’s called, is anything but still....
WINNER OF THE SOUTHERN BOOK PRIZE
Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is a small town like any other, but something strange is happening at the cemetery. Still Meadows, as it’s called, is anything but still....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Nora Seed finds herself faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, or realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist, she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
3) Underworld
Author
Series
Abandon trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Hayden, a death deity, takes seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera back to the Underworld against her will to keep her safe from the Furies, but her family is still at risk and she, herself, may never escape his captivity.
4) Croak
Author
Series
Croak trilogy volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
A delinquent sixteen-year-old girl is sent to live with her uncle for the summer, only to learn that he is a Grim Reaper who wants to teach her the family business.
Author
Language
English
Description
In this celebrated work, his only novel, Wilde forged a devastating portrait of the effects of evil and debauchery on a young aesthete in late-19th-century England. Combining elements of the Gothic horror novel and decadent French fiction, the book centers on a striking premise: As Dorian Gray sinks into a life of crime and gross sensuality, his body retains perfect youth and vigor while his recently painted portrait grows day by day into a hideous
...Author
Series
Madison Avery novels volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Technically dead seventeen-year-old Madison must choose between reclaiming her body and continuing as Dark timekeeper, struggling in the war between light and dark reapers while trying to change the rules.
Author
Series
Everneath novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Nikki and Jack take on the underworld to free themselves of the Everneath's power"--
9) Scorch
Author
Series
Croak trilogy volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old grim reaper Lex Bartleby tries to redeem herself among her fellow Grims by finding renegade Zara, who is indiscriminately damning souls, and stopping her once and for all.
10) Rogue
Author
Series
Croak trilogy volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Uncle Mort rounds up sixteen-year-old Lex, the other Junior Grims, and Grotton, the most powerful Grim of all time, for a journey to Necropolis, where only an impossible choice can save the Afterlife from destruction.
Author
Series
Everneath novels volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Now that Nikki Beckett's boyfriend has been sucked into the tunnels of the Everneath, Nikki must journey down to the underworld to bring him back before he is lost forever."--
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Takes readers on a journey both of individual healing and society's response to the question of life after life, follows a single father just released from prison as he sets out to prove that the mysterious calls from beyond to the residents of Coldwater, Michigan are nothing but a hoax.
13) Edgeland
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orphaned Wren and her friend Alec live on Edgeland, where the dead are prepared for the afterlife, but when they are accidentally sucked into the Drain, they find something unimaginable.
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Mitchell discovers a time-travel device that will allow him to escape his internship in Hell's accounting office and return to Earth, but his plans to alter the circumstances of his own death take an unexpected turn when his three closest friends in Hell insist on accompanying him back to the land of the living"--
15) Dead anyway
Author
Series
Arthur Cathcart novels volume 1
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
After surviving being shot by a gunman who killed his wife, Arthur Cathcart has his sister--a doctor--declare him dead so that he can assume a new identity and track down his wife's killer.
Author
Series
Archived novels volume 2
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Starting her junior year at Hyde School, Mackenzie Bishop, a Keeper tasked with stopping violent Histories from escaping the Archive, becomes the prime suspect when several people vanish without a trace.
Author
Series
Circles of Heck volume 4
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When goth teen Marlo wakes up in Fibble, the part of Heck that is reserved for liars, she is disgusted to find that she is in her younger brother Milton's body.
Author
Series
Madison Avery novels volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Madison Avery, 17, spunky, and technically dead, takes on the role of Dark Timekeeper, she struggles to figure out her place in the war between light and dark reapers.
Author
Series
Circles of Heck volume 5
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Milton and his older sister Marlo are led by the Glib Reaper to Camp Snivel, the level of Heck for whiners, but manage to escape, only to be caught and taken to the court of Judge Judas to testify at Satan's trial.
Author
Series
Circles of Heck volume 3
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Milton Fauster puts aside his own escape plans to help his sister, Marlo, who is in training to be an underworld secretary, and his best friend, Virgil, who is stuck in the circle of Heck reserved for overweight children.
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