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Author
Publisher
Pajama Press Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Every day, the children in the village wait to watch the mysterious Mr. Rodriguez go by. His odd but charming ways are eventually revealed to be part of his preparation for the afterlife in this moving intergenerational tale."--
3) Air miles
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Miles the dog is growing older, but adventure still awaits when he takes to the skies.
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old twins--and powerful mediums--Edie and Violet Bond are part of a Spiritualist show, a tight-knit group of young women who express unladylike talents and opinions under the guise of communing with spirits, but when the dark spirit responsible for their mother's death crosses into the land of the living, the twins race against time to uncover a killer who will stop at nothing to cheat death.
Author
Series
Austin family books volume 4
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Description
During the summer her grandfather is dying of leukemia and death seems all around, 15-year-old Vicky finds comfort with the pod of dolphins with which she has been doing research.
13) The book thief
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Author
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After finding a break-up letter written by her older sister on the day she died, sixteen-year-old Juniper Lemon becomes determined to find the recipient--only identified as "you"--and in the process uncovers other notes and secrets that demand her attention.
16) Scythe
Author
Series
Arc of a scythe volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't"--
17) Fadeaway
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Sam is struggling to get by without her best friend, Reagan, who died suddenly the summer before high school, but Regan's "reappearance" only helps temporarily.
18) Funeral girl
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When Georgia revives the spirit of a recently deceased classmate at her family's funeral home, she's forced to sort out her complex feelings about grief and mortality"--
Author
Series
Aurora County trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
For most boys in a small Mississippi town, the biggest concern one hot summer is whether their annual July 4th baseball game will be cancelled due to their county's anniversary pageant, but after the death of the old man to whom twelve-year-old star pitcher House Jackson has been secretly reading for a year, House uncovers secrets about the man and the history of baseball in Aurora County that could fix everything.
20) Neverworld wake
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A group of teens who all attended the same elite prep school reunite a year after graduation. After a night on the town, the teens are faced with an impossible choice--only one of them can live and the decision must be unanimous"--
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