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81) The similars
Author
Series
Similars volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Six new students join the elite junior class of Darkwood Academy, and they happen to be exact clones of students already attending. Dubbed "the Similars," the clones are all anyone can talk about. When Emmaline Chance meets Levi--the clone of her best friend Oliver who died over the summer--her heat breaks all over again. Soon, however, Emmaline is pulled deeper into the Similar's clique, and begins to learn some troubling secrets about her boarding...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Following the death of her father, journalist and hospice volunteer Ann Neumann sets out to examine what it means to die well in the United States. If a good death exists, what does it look like? This question lies at the heart of Neumann's rigorously researched and intimately told journey along the ultimate borderland of American life: American death. From church basements to hospital wards to prison cells, Neumann charts the social, political,...
83) Swing sideways
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Spending the summer with her grandfather, Annie enlists the help of her new friend California to find the ponies her mother rode on as a girl and repair a family rift.
84) UnSouled
Author
Series
Unwind dystology volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Description
After the destruction of the Graveyard, Connor and Lev are on the run, seeking a woman who may be the key to bringing down unwinding forever while Cam, the rewound boy, tries to prove his love for Risa by bringing Proactive Citizenry to its knees.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Description
In 2019 Bec Lyons traveled to six countries on a Churchill Fellowship. She was researching the human relationship to death and ceremony through alternative approaches and technologies. It was a huge effort and this book is the result. Through an extensive process of interviews and site visits, Bec met with and learned from people who are doing death differently - from funeral directors to doulas to health professionals, and everyone in between. This...
86) Gasp
Author
Series
Visions (Lisa McMann) volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
After narrowly surviving two harrowing tragedies, Jules now fully understands the importance of the visions that she and people around her are experiencing, and that it is on Jules and Sawyer and their friends to once again prevent disaster.
88) UnDivided
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Proactive Citizenry, the company which created Cam from the parts of unwound teens, has a plan: to mass produce Rewound teens like Cam for military purposes. But below the surface is of that horror lies another shocking level of intrigue: Proactive Citizenry has been suppressing technology that could make unwinding completely unnecessary. As Conner, Risa and Lev uncover these shocking secrets, enraged teens begin to march on Washington to demand justice...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"One cold fall day, high school junior Liz Emerson steers her car into a tree. This haunting and heartbreaking story is told by a surprising and unexpected narrator and unfolds in nonlinear flashbacks even as Liz's friends, foes, and family gather at the hospital and Liz clings to life"--
90) The Adjustment
Author
Series
The Program. Main series volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
When Tatum's boyfriend, Weston, loses his memories of her in The Program, they decide to undergo The Adjustment, where Tatum's memories of their time together are implanted into Weston's mind, but trouble lies ahead when Weston's emotions do not match the experiences.
91) El crossover
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
A light-hearted look at the history and practice of "the ultimate human-interest story," the obituary.
"What a wonderful surprise-a charming, lyrical book about the men and women who write obituaries. The Dead Beat is sly, droll, and completely winning."- David Halberstam
Where can readers celebrate the life of the pharmacist who moonlighted as a spy, the genius behind Sea Monkeys, the school lunch lady who spent her evenings as a ballroom hostess?...
93) Last man out
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Tommy Gallagher plays monster back for the Brighton Bears defense--and he's every quarterback's worst nightmare. A fierce competitor, Tommy's the toughest--and bravest--guy on the field. After all, he learned the game from his dad, a Boston firefighter who tackles each fire with a simple mantra: first man in, last man out. But his father never said anything about being carried out. Even Tommy isn't strong enough for what happens when the sirens sound...
96) Fever
Author
Series
Chemical Garden trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In a future where genetic engineering has cured humanity of all diseases and defects but has also produced a virus that kills all females by age twenty and all males by the age twenty-five, teenaged Rhine escapes her forced marriage and journeys back to New York to find her twin brother.
98) The hunted
Author
Series
Enemy series (Charlie Higson) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Description
The others told Ella that the countryside would be safer than the city. They were wrong. Now Ed wants to assemble a crew and find her, though he has no idea who - or what - they'll meet out there. Or if Ella is even alive...But the sickos are moving as one towards the capital as if being called - and will kill anyone who stands in their way.