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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of The Rules of Magic, a miraculous, enthralling tale of a woman who is struck by lightning, and finds her frozen heart is suddenly burning.
Be careful what you wish for. A woman who was touched by tragedy as a child now lives a quiet life, keeping other people at a cool distance. She even believes she wants it that way. Then one day she utters an idle wish and, while standing in her house, is struck by...
Be careful what you wish for. A woman who was touched by tragedy as a child now lives a quiet life, keeping other people at a cool distance. She even believes she wants it that way. Then one day she utters an idle wish and, while standing in her house, is struck by...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
A New Age vision of afterlife through the eyes of writer Daniel Turpin. After dying at the age of 73, Turpin is welcomed in Heaven by officials who give him a tour. Hell is where souls live in constant fear of reality, while Purgatory is where souls undergo psychotherapy. By the author of In Search of Stones.
7) The drowning
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Carl Adams awakens beside his drowned brother, unable to remember anything about himself, the incident, or the girl who rides with him in the ambulance.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Blake goes to a mysterious, by-invitation-only carnival he somehow knows that it could save his comatose brother, but soon learns that much more is at stake if he fails to meet the challenge presented there by the beautiful Cassandra.
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Time stops for Jen when her beloved daughter, Gracie, is involved in a terrible car crash. After the little girl is pronounced dead at the scene, it's a miracle when paramedics manage to then resuscitate her. The relief Jen feels at Gracie's recovery is matched only by her fury at the driver of the car-- her ex-husband's new girlfriend, Ella. Jen has never trusted Ella, and now her worst fears have been confirmed. But then Gracie begins to tell strange...
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Written as a college admission essay, eighteen-year-old Harry Jones recounts a childhood defined by the hideous scars he hid behind, and how forming a band brought self-confidence, friendship, and his first kiss.
11) Abandon
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
A near-death experience, a horrible incident at school, and a move from Connecticut to Florida have turned seventeen-year-old Pierce's life upside-down, but when she needs him most John Hayden is always there, helping but reminding her of her visit to the Underworld.
13) The reason
Author
Series
Ghost huntress volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old psychic Kendall arrives at the mayor's house in her small Georgia town to investigate a haunting, she recognizes the scene of her precognitive dream which foretold her death.
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
Español
Description
When sixteen-year-old Teresita, the illegitimate daughter of a late-nineteenth-century rancher, arises from death possessing the power to heal, she is declared a saint and finds her faith tested by the impending Mexican civil war.
Es 1889, y la guerra civil está elaborando cerveza en México. Una muchacha de 16 años, hija ilegítima pero querida de Teresita, del ranchero rico y de gran alcance pone a Tomás Urrea, estelas del sueño más extraño--un...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Nine-year-old Julian almost died when he was born and he believes that he has a special connection to the universe because of that, and he wants to make his two moms and his sister (who turned into a black hole of discontentment when she turned fourteen) happy because he is convinced that soon he will die and travel to the dog star--but now they have moved to Maine and he resolves to also use his "uni-sense" ability to help Mr. X, their neighbor,...
16) The in-between
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Elanor Moss's suicide attempt leads her family toward a new start in New York, but tragedy strikes before they arrive and while grieving and recovering Ellie meets Madeline Torus, a mysterious girl who becomes more than a best friend--and worst enemy.
18) Abandonada
Author
Publisher
Molino
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Español
Formats
Description
A near-death experience, a horrible incident at school, and a move from Connecticut to Florida have turned seventeen-year-old Pierce's life upside-down, but when she needs him most John Hayden is always there, helping but reminding her of her visit to the Underworld.
Publisher
Viva Pictures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
For all his far-reaching fame, Sol Harkens, the world's most famous atheist, is a lonely soul and a lousy part-time dad. After a near death experience challenges his simplest assumptions about this world, Sol finds his purpose and re-imagines his life, in a film that will make you laugh and cry and want to stand up and cheer.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning plane, RAF pilot Peter Carter encounters the American radio operator to whom he has just delivered his dying wishes and, face-to-face on a tranquil English beach, the pair fall in love. When a messenger from the afterlife arrives to correct the clerical error that spared his life, Peter must mount a fierce defense for his right to stay on earth.
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