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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
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Estranged from the best friend whose brother killed her sister in a school shooting, a grieving Cora receives a message on her twelfth birthday from her friend, asking for her help with creating a time portal to prevent the tragedy.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm. All summer, Jess pushed himself to be the fastest boy in the fifth grade, and when the year's first school-yard race was run, he was going to win. But his victory was stolen by a newcomer, by a girl, one who didn't even know enough to stay on the girls'...
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"After Granny dies, she leaves something behind for everyone in the family. She leaves Father her tuba and Mother her locket. Sister receives her microscope and brother her record collection. But our main character receives something special that unlocks cherished memories of Granny through a world of imaginative play. Through spare prose, award-winning author Heather Smith has crafted a beautiful story about memory, loss and grief, and how we can...
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"The last thing highly organized Olivia Schwartz wants to do the summer before her senior year of high school is go on a cruise with her parents and younger brothers, so when Olivia meets charming, exciting Sebastian, she feels like she can have fun, but when past secrets come to light, Olivia must face the long-ignored truths about herself, Sebastian, her older brother's death years before, the past she thought she understood and the future she's...
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This book is based on the true story of Jonathan Ned Cole, a deaf adopted son of Mary Carol Cole and Ned M Cole. Much of the story is factually about Jon's rather tragic life. Some of the story about his biological parents are works of my imagination. Jon never knew who his biological parents were. Other parts are dramatized to better portray who Jon was, a black, deaf boy raised in an all-white family. The last chapter is about Jon's time in Heaven...
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Journalist Carol Smith recounts how she faced down the crippling loss of her seven-year-old son, Christopher, through a series of profiles of people coping with their own intense challenges. Here are stories of survival and transformation, of people facing devastating situations that changed them in unexpected ways, mixed with her own account of how they helped her heal, from grief to hope. -- From book jacket flap
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This revolutionary book about our future is based on the simple idea that, according to the Bible, heaven is not our eternal home--the New Earth is. As Jesus says in the gospel of Matthew, the next chapter of our story begins with "the renewal of all things," by which he means the earth we love in all its beauty, our own selves, and the things that make for a rich life: music, art, food, laughter and all that we hold dear. Everything shall be renewed...
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The Altar of the Dead Henry James - The Altar of the Dead is a short story by Henry James, first published in his collection Terminations in 1895. A fable of literally life and death significance, the story explores how the protagonist tries to keep the remembrance of his dead friends, to save them from being forgotten entirely in the rush of everyday events. He meets a woman who shares his ideals, only to find that the past places what seems to be...
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In this inspirational and deeply personal book, an award-winning, platinum-selling, American country music singer-songwriter shares the dark days following the death of his youngest son and how he found the strength and the faith to keep living after loss, showing that life is like a river, full of twists and turns.
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Called "the best preacher in the family," by her father, Billy Graham, Anne Graham Lotz speaks around the globe with the wisdom and the authority of years spent studying God's Word. In her latest book, Anne shares her heart and God's teachings on the universal problem of suffering. Drawing her characteristically keen insights from the familiar story of Lazarus in the ninth and eleventh chapters of the Gospel of John, Anne offers Jesus' reassuring...
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Losing means grieving.
Grieving means choices.
Choices mean hurt or healing.
You've lost someone you love. Or you're on the brink of losing your marriage. Your dreams. Your health. Or perhaps the trauma of your past pursues you into the present.
Your life's going to change. Which way it goes won't be decided by your loss, but by the choices you make.
At the crossroads of grief, one road will lead to hope and healing. The other, to more hurt....
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Find fullness of joy during the holidays-especially for the brokenhearted. Divorce. Financial stress. Chronic illness. Losing a loved one. Experiencing any of these situations during the year is already difficult. But the holiday season, once joyful and happy, can heighten this pain even more. Author Bo Stern has spent the past two Christmases struggling to connect with the joy of the season. As she has watched her husband, Steve, struggle with terminal...
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"In this profoundly honest and examined memoir about returning to Iowa to care for her ailing parents, the star of Orange Is the New Black and New York Times bestselling author of Born with Teeth takes us on an unexpected journey of loss, betrayal, and the transcendent nature of a daughter's love for her parents. They say you can't go home again. But when her father is diagnosed with aggressive lung cancer and her mother with atypical Alzheimer's,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
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For thirteen years, Elly has been in Kathy's shadow, always second best. Even so, the two of them understand each other as only sisters can. Jealousy, anger, and resentment give way to guilt when Kathy dies suddenly and Elly is left to ask, "Why did she have to die?"
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Publisher Annotation: Eden had her best friend Katie-she didn't need anyone else. But then there was Truman. Katie's older brother, the artist. The recluse. The boy with the innocent smile and the dangerous eyes. Eden had never really known Truman-not until the night of Katie's accident. That was the night they'd finally let each other into their orbits-only to have the sky come crashing down on them. With Katie in the hospital and Truman fleeing...
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En 1998, subitement, Martine Lafontaine perd son fils Justin, âgé d'à peine un an. Tout au long d'un cauchemar dont elle n'émergera que beaucoup plus tard, elle expérimentera toutes les douleurs qu'engendre cette perte.
Qu'est-ce qui fait qu'une personne demeure prisonnière d'une souffrance qui l'envahit et détruit tout sur son passage? C'est la question que s'est posée Martine après avoir entamé, finalement, un...
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Peggy McMahon's prayers are heartfelt and capture the raw, authentic emotions many face with a serious or life-threatening illness. Her prayers have touched lives well beyond their origin in Anchorage, Alaska. Written out of her own pain, the prayers of Peggy McMahon have ministered to many in times when they could not find the words to pray. Addressed to Abba, Father, the prayers are personal and heartfelt, written from a place of vulnerable trust....
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When a beloved pet dies, the grief that often follows can be overwhelming. Why We Love Them So: Surviving the Loss of an Animal Friend offers profound guidance on how to understand deep sorrow and eventually use its power to transform our lives.
Father Paul Keenan faced his own grief journey when Teddy, his twenty-five-year-old cat, passed away. Knowing the love he felt for Teddy was irreplaceable, Father Paul turned within and listened to his...
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There are many highs and lows in a woman's life. When thinking about highs, marriage and children are often the first things mentioned. But another, the death of her spouse or significant other, can be the lowest of the lows. One of the reasons it is so devastating is that she is often trying to navigate through it either by herself or with the "help" of others who may not understand what she's going through or how she really feels,
"A Widow's...
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