Lowe, Mari
Summary: A long ago "accident." An isolated girl named Aviva. A community that wants to help, but doesn't know how. And a ghostly dybbuk, that no one but Aviva can see, causing mayhem and mischief that everyone blames on her. That is the setting for this suspenseful novel of a girl who seems to have lost everything, including her best friend Kayla, and a mother who was once vibrant and popular, but who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOWConnor, Leslie
Summary: As he grieves his best friend Benny's death, Mason and his friend Calvin, who are targeted by the neighborhood bullies, create an underground haven for themselves, but when Calvin goes missing Mason finds himself in trouble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CONWilliams, Alicia
Summary: A tender-souled boy reeling from the death of his best friend struggles to fit into a world that wants him to grow up tough and unfeeling. It's the last few months of eighth grade, and Isaiah feels lost. He thought his summer was going to be him and his boys Drew and Darius, hanging out, doing wheelies, watching martial arts movies, and breaking tons of Guinness World Records before high...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILRegina, Michael
Summary: "When the Russo family returns home from vacation to discover their nanny, Ruby, has unexpectedly passed away, Matthew takes the news the hardest. After weeks of reeling, his three best friends decide to cheer him up with a night of junk food, prank calls, and scary movies. But their plans for a sleepover are jeopardized when Matt's single mother -- unable to take any more time off of work --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2021
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Summary: An astounding new feat of storytelling from Brian Selznick, the award-winning creator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Wonderstruck. A ship. A garden. A library. A key. In Kaleidoscope, the incomparable Brian Selznick presents the story of two people bound to each other through time and space, memory and dreams. At the center of their relationship is a mystery about the nature of grief and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: JFIC SELYumoto, Kazumi
Summary: When the Bear's friend, the little bird, dies, Bear is inconsolable. Full of grief, he locks himself in his house and ventures out again only when the smell of spring grass blows in through his window. He meets a wildcat and finally feels understood. As the cat plays his violin, Bear remembers all the fun he had with the little bird. Now he can say goodbye to his friend, because he knows he'll...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YUMHalliday, Fiona
Summary: A young mouse learns how to grieve and honor her best friend, a dandelion named Lion who helped her be brave.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HALParsons, Mark H.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Jamison finds hope after the loss of his mother, and recognizes the role that family, friends, and even strangers can play in the healing process if you are open and willing to share your experience with others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PARAgell, Charlotte
Summary: Elba carries the black block of grief and sadness wherever she goes--until Norris comes along and helps her to let go of the block and enjoy life again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AGEBuxbaum, Julie
Summary: When an unlikely friendship is sparked between relatively popular Kit Lowell and socially isolated David Drucker, Kit asks David for his help figuring out the how and why of her father's tragic car accident.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2017
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Summary: In an attempt to understand why her best friend committed suicide, eighteen-year-old Cody Reynolds retraces her dead friend's footsteps and makes some startling discoveries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FORKorman, Gordon
Summary: Reef and Theo don't know what's happening to them. They'll be going about their days and then suddenly they'll have these strange flashes of memory -- but the memories don't belong to them. And at the same time, their own memories are starting to... vanish. For Reef, this is a big problem, because memories are all he has left of his mom. For Theo, it's strange because the new memories give him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KORNeilson, Riss M.
Summary: After Jasmine is killed in a car accident, her remaining best friends Miliani, Inez, and Natalie plan to resurrect her using magic learned from Miliani's Filipino aunt, but their actions have dangerous consequences that threaten themselves and those they care about.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NEISchumacher, Ashley
Summary: Since her mother's death, Madeline "Gwen" Hathaway has been determined that nothing in her life will change ever again. She keeps extensive lists in journals, has had only one friend since childhood, and looks forward to the monotony of working the ren faire circuit with her father. They arrive at the end-of-tour stop to find the faire is under new management and completely changed. Arthur, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SCHAlsaid, Adi
Summary: During her cross-country adventures following the tragic death of her family, Leila touches the lives of four strangers -- Hudson, Bree, Elliot, and Sonia. While forever changing the lives of these four, Leila also discovers an important truth about herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: After the death of his best friend and the only other trans boy at school, Noah starts writing letters expressing his feelings to the humanoid creature Mothman and risks everything when he treks into the woods to prove Mothman's existence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GOWHanna Alkaf
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Najwa Bakri is forced to investigate the mysterious death of her best friend and Scrabble Queen, Trina, a year after the fact when her Instagram comes back to life with cryptic posts and messages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HANLi, Christina
Summary: The only thing Rosalind Ling Geraghty loves more than watching NASA launches with her dad is building rockets with him. When he dies unexpectedly, all Ro has left of him is an unfinished model rocket they had been working on together. Benjamin Burns doesn't like science, but he can't get enough of Spacebound, a popular comic book series. When he finds a sketch that suggests that his dad created...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LIPerkins, Mitali
Summary: Twelve-year-old Indian-American Pandita Paul doesn't like change. She's not ready to start middle school and leave the comforts of childhood behind. Most of all, Pandita doesn't want to feel like she's leaving her mother, who died a few years ago, behind. After a falling out with her best friend, Pandita is planning to spend most of her summer break reading and writing in her favorite secret...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PERTurk, Mariko
Summary: While mourning her best friend, Natalie, an aspiring teen paranormal investigator, stays at the purportedly haunted Harlow Hotel where she finds more than she expected.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TURVidal, Juan
Summary: "When sixteen-year-old Marcos travels to Cartagena, Colombia, to scatter his late father's ashes, he strikes up a friendship with Camilo, a boy his age who works as a local taxi driver and shares Marcos' love for the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VIDWarga, Jasmine
Summary: "Cora hasn't spoken to her best friend Quinn in a year. Despite living next door to each other, they exist in separate worlds of grief. Cora is still grappling with the death of her beloved sister in a school shooting, and Quinn is carrying the guilt of what her brother did. On the day of Cora's twelfth birthday, Quinn leaves a box on her doorstep with a note. She has decided that the only way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC WARCouch, Robbie
Summary: Eighteen-year-old River Lang struggles after the death of his best friend and reluctantly joins a research study for struggling teens where he confronts his complex relationship with Dylan's ex, develops feelings for a charismatic jock, and uncovers unsettling truths about the study.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COUDeaver, Mason
Summary: "Everything happens for a reason. At least that's what everyone keeps telling Liam Cooper after his older brother Ethan is killed suddenly in a hit-and-run. Feeling more alone and isolated than ever, Liam has to not only learn to face the world without one of the people he loved the most, but also face the fading relationships of his two best friends in the process. Soon, Liam finds themself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Push 2021