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Lordor Nordstrom created, in his wisdom, not only a lively town and a prosperous legacy for himself but also a beautiful final resting place for his family, friends, and neighbors yet to come. "Resting place" turns out to be a bit of a misnomer, however. Odd things begin to happen, and it starts the whole town talking.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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A young man's quest for eternal youth and beauty ends in scandal, depravity and death. Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life, indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The picture of Dorian Gray was a...
4) Damned
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"Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison," declares the whip-tongued thirteen-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk's subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a marijuana overdose--and the next thing she knows, she's in...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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The story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to find out.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
"'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive...
8) Everlost
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Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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After Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash they end up in Everlost, a limbo between live and death. Nick feels that he has found a home, but Allie will stop at nothing, even skinjacking, to break free.
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English
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"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...
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Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2014]
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.
11) Ghostgirl
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Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
Español
Description
After dying, high school senior Charlotte Usher is as invisible to nearly everyone as she always felt, but despite what she learns in a sort of alternative high school for dead teens, she clings to life while seeking a way to go to the Fall Ball with the boy of her dreams.
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Publisher
Santillana Ediciones Generales
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Español
Description
Offers twenty-three stories about belief in the resurrection of the body and eternal life, including tales about saints, people who merely find such beliefs a comfort, and those who are afraid of ghosts, even though they do not believe in them.
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Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Dino and July, seventeen, are granted time to resolve what was left unfinished between them after July's sudden death, one year after their friendship ended over Dino's new relationship.
17) The archived
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Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"When an otherworldly library called the Archive is compromised from within, sixteen-year-old Mackenzie Bishop must prevent violent, ghost-like Histories from escaping into our world"--
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Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Español
Description
Weaves three stories about 83-year-old Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement park. Eddie meets 5 individuals in heaven each with a story to share, a secret to reveal and a lesson. The have profound meanings for Eddie on the real purpose of his life.
20) Afterworlds
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Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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.
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