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261) Even if I fall
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A year ago, Brooke Covington lost everything when her beloved older brother, Jason, confessed to the murder of his best friend, Calvin. Brooke and her family became social pariahs, broken and unable to console one another. Brooke's only solace remains the ice-skating rink, where she works but no longer lets herself dream about a future skating professionally.When Brooke encounters Calvin's younger brother, Heath, on the side of the road and offers...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Winchester, England, has always been home for Flora, but when her mother dies after a long illness, Flora feels untethered. Her family expects her to apply to university and take a larger role in their tea-shop business, but Flora isn't so sure. More than ever, she's the chaotic "hurricane" in her household, and she doesn't always know how to manage her stormy emotions. So she decides to escape to Miami without telling anyone--especially her longtime...
263) Days of the dead
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Glorieta Magdalena Davis Espinosa is happy that Papi married Alice. She's happy that he can smile again after years of mourning Mamá. But the urn containing Mamá's ashes disappeared into a drawer the day Alice moved in. If everything about Glorieta's life is going to change, then she wants one thing to go her way: She wants to hear stories about her mamá when the family gathers on the last night of los Días de los Muertos. And that can only...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
202 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Eleven-year-old Stella Rodriguez finds herself in possession of a strange new pet that swallows up everything in sight when a black hole decides to follow her home from NASA one day. Stella especially likes it when Larry swallows up items that remind her of her dad who died recently and left a cosmically vast space in her heart. Stella, her little brother Cosmo, along with the help of their pet hamster Stinky Stu and Larry go on an adventure from...
265) Breakaway
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
viii, 290 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"When Jason Marshall's younger sister passes away, he knows he can count on his three best friends and soccer teammates--Mario, Jordie, and Chick--to be there for him. With a grief-crippled mother and a father who's not in the picture, he needs them more than ever. But when Mario starts hanging out with a rough group of friends and Jordie finally lands the girl of his dreams, Jason is left to fend for himself while maintaining a strained relationship...
266) Dear Rosie
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
203 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
A group of animal friends navigates a new school year together as they grieve the loss of their friend, Rosie.
Seventh-grader Millie has the best friends in the whole world: Florence, Claire, Gabby, and Rosie, but when Rosie dies in a car accident everything changes. Rocked by grief, the remaining four girls struggle to move on. Millie barely understands her normal pre-teen feelings, let alone the messy ones left behind by Rosie, so she outruns her...
267) The order of things
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Eleven-year-old April Jackson loves playing the drums, almost as much as she loves her best friend, Zee, a violin prodigy. They both dream of becoming professional musicians one day. When Zee starts attending a new school that will nurture his talent, April decides it's time for her to pursue her dreams, too, and finally take drum lessons. She knows she isn't very good to start, but with Zee's support, she also knows someday she can be just as good...
268) Sparrow
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Fourteen-year-old Sparrow Cooke of Brooklyn has always been the kind of child who prefers reading books to playing with friends (not that she has many of those) and since fifth grade the one person who seemed to understand her was the school librarian--so when Mrs. Wexler was killed in an accident, Sparrow's world came apart, and when she was found on the edge of the school roof everyone assumed that it was a suicide attempt, which Sparrow denies,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
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Description
"Some girls call their mother their best friend. Marisol Martin? She could never relate. She and her mom were forever locked in an argument with no beginning and no end. Clothes, church, boys -- no matter the topic, Marisol always felt like there was an unbridgeable gap between them. But when her mother dies suddenly, Marisol is left with no one to fight. Her dad seems completely lost, and worse, baffled by Marisol's attempts to connect with her mother's...
270) Jacked up
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
267 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In a bizarre attempt to force Nick to confront his grief, his nonreligious parents ship him off to Jesus camp after his sister's suicide. The campers ride donkeys into the desert, snap selfies with counselors dressed as disciples, and replace song lyrics with Bible verses. And somehow, only Nick seems to find this strange. Nick is also being followed around by Jack Kerouac, who's incredibly annoying for a genius-- and a ghost. Nick drops a secret...
Author
Series
Cici's journal volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
234 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Everyone has secrets, but no one can hide them from Cici! As a future writer, Cici knows what questions to ask and where to find the clues she needs to unlock people's hearts. Yet even though Cici is great at helping others, for a long time now she has kept a dark and painful secret hidden inside herself. Cici's friends and mom all want to help her heal, but she keeps pushing them away. Can a treasure hunt, a mysterious mansion, and an epic beachside...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
246 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Mary Lennox is a loner living in Silicon Valley. With her parents always working, video game and tech become her main source of entertainment and 'friends.' When her parents pass away in a tragic accident, she moves to New York City to live with her uncle who she barely knows, and to her surprise, keeps a gadget free home. Looking for comfort in this strange, new reality, Mary discovers an abandoned rooftop garden and an even bigger secret ... her...
273) Flora's wish
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 24 x 27 cm
Description
A young mouse learns how to grieve and honor her best friend, a dandelion named Lion who helped her be brave.
274) Up in heaven
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged).
Description
When Arthur's dog Daisy dies, she watches over him from heaven and eventually helps him find a new puppy.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
313 pages : 22 cm.
Description
As he attempts to fulfil a list left behind by his deceased best friend, nineteen-year-old Case meets eighteen-year-old Winnie, a hardworking ranch hand with aspirations of her own, and together they embark on an unexpected journey as they chase down their rodeo dreams.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
270 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Philippa gets caught up in unraveling the mystery of a dream-catcher that threatens the life of her fairy friend Daisy and the happiness of her human friend Robyn, who is grieving over her mother's death.
277) Remembering
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"On Día de los Muertos, a family prepares an ofrenda for their favorite furry family member, remembering all the ways that their beloved pet brought love and comfort to their lives"--
278) Me (Moth)
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Moth, who lost her family in an accident, and Sani, who is battling ongoing depression, take a road trip that has them chasing ghosts and searching for ancestors, which helps them move forward in surprising, powerful and unforgettable ways.
Author
Series
Summer I turned pretty volume 2
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 19 cm
Description
For most of his young life Avery has dealt with his alcoholic mother with the help of his grandfather Pal--he immerses himself in poetry and popular music, and now that high school is over for the summer, he makes out with his best friend Luca (who understands about alcoholic mothers), but the death of his grandfather creates a hole in his life that he can not seem to crawl out of.
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