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61) Whisper
Author
Series
Riley Bloom series volume 4
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Twelve-year-old ghost Riley, having been assigned to Roman gladiator Theocoles, is convinced by the beautiful Messalina that the only way to get through to Theocoles is to become human and helps Riley transform into a mature teenager, which gives Riley the opportunity to experience her first boyfriend and her first kiss, but makes her question if she wants to return to the afterlife.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Twenty-five years ago, five heroes risked their lives to defeat the bone maker Eklor—a corrupt magician who created an inhuman army using animal bones. But victory came at a tragic price. Only four of the heroes survived. Since then, Kreya, the group’s leader, has exiled herself to a remote tower and devoted herself to one purpose: resurrecting her dead husband. But such a task requires both a cache of human bones and a sacrifice—for each day...
64) Freedom's ransom
Author
Series
Freedom series (Anne McCaffrey) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Kristin Bjornsen lived a normal life, right up until the day the Catteni ships floated into view above Denver. Now, as human slaves are herded into the maw of a massive vessel, Kristin realizes that her normal life is over, and her fight for freedom is just beginning.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Formats
Description
In an afterlife world inhabited by the recently departed who remain in the memories of the living, Marion and Phillip Byrd fall in love again, while on Earth, their daughter, Laura, is stranded alone in an Antarctic research station.
66) Constable & Toop
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In Victorian London, an undertaker's son who can see ghosts and is haunted by their constant demands for attention must decide whether to help when a horrible disease imprisons ghosts into empty houses in the world of the living.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
""In a life full of lies, he settled finally for the truth."No one in Mattingly ever believed Bobby Barnes would live to see old age. Drink would either rot Bobby from the inside out or dull his senses just enough to send his truck off the mountain on one of his nightly rides. Although Bobby believes such an end possible--and even likely--it doesn't stop him from taking his twin sons Matthew and Mark into the mountains one Saturday night. A sharp...
69) The Naked God
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Description
The Confederation is starting to collapse politically and economically, allowing the ̀possessed' to infiltrate more worlds. Quinn Dexter is loose on Earth, destroying the giant arcologies one at a time. As Louise Kavanagh tries to track him down, she manages to acquire some strange and powerful allies whose goal doesn't quite match her own. The campaign to liberate Mortonridge from the possessed degenerates into a horrendous land battle, the kind...
Author
Series
Chronicle of the Fallers volume 2
Description
"Bestselling author Peter F. Hamilton returns to his acclaimed Commonwealth series in this thrilling follow-up to The Abyss Beyond Dreams. Featuring Hamilton's trademark blend of intricate plotting, riveting suspense, high-concept science, and vivid characters, A Night Without Stars brings the story to a fully satisfying finish. After centuries trapped inside the Void, the planet Bienvenido--along with its inhabitants, both human and Faller--has been...
71) Goldfish Ghost
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The adventures of a goldfish who just died.
72) The Door
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
The story of a girl whose strange life in a mysterious lighthouse is turned upside down when her mother's murder leads her to a hidden door -- and a mission into an alternate world.
For years, the door has stayed closed. Hannah Silver hardly notices it as she goes about her strange life in an isolated lighthouse. But when a pair of mysterious strangers -- a boy and his guardian -- show up at the lighthouse, things start to go very wrong. Hannah's...
74) The last academy
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Fourteen-year-old Camden Fisher arrives at a boarding school after a falling-out with her best friend, but Lethe Academy is a strange place, where students disappear suddenly, and as she searches for answers Camden begins to fear what she will find.
Series
Description
"Five hundred years in the future there's a whole new frontier, and the crew of the spaceship Serenity is eager to stake a claim on the action. They'll take any job, legal or not, to keep fuel in the tanks and food on the table. But things get complicated after they take on a passenger wanted by the new totalitarian Alliance regime." -- Container.
76) Dying to forget
Author
Series
The station volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
"Piper Willow dies the summer after her high school graduation but she doesn't make it to Heaven or Hell...instead she finds herself in a spiritual terminal called the Station. She's given only two choices: return to earth as the sub-conscious for a person in need of some outside assistance, or move on and spend an eternity lost in her own sorrow and pain. Does Piper have what it takes to save a life - to be the nagging voice inside someone else's...
Author
Series
Station volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"The next installment in The Station Series ... takes readers on another lively journey through the after-life adventures of eighteen year old Piper Willow. Piper has new challenges to overcome, new names to learn and is faced with a new Station occupation. Did she make the right choice - choosing to stay at the Station and become a Volunteer? Does she really want answers to the questions that never leave her mind? How did the Station come to be?...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
The voice of Music narrates the tale of its most beloved disciple, young Frankie Presto, a war orphan raised by a blind music teacher in a small Spanish town. At nine years old, Frankie is sent to America in the bottom of a boat. His only possession is an old guitar and six precious strings. But Frankie's talent is touched by the gods, and his amazing journey weaves him through the musical landscape of the 20th century, from classical to jazz to rock...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
When her sister Patty died, Jenna blamed herself. When Jenna died, she blamed herself for that, too. Unfortunately Jenna died too soon. Living or dead, every soul is promised a certain amount of time, and when Jenna passed she found a heavy debt of time in her record. Unwilling to simply steal that time from the living, Jenna earns every day she leeches with volunteer work at a suicide prevention hotline. But something has come for the ghosts of New...