- Recommended Titles in our Catalogue
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Afterlife
- Gary Soto
After Chuy, a 17-year-old Mexican-American, is murdered in a nightclub, his ghost roams his native Fresno, visiting his family and friends and coming face-to-face with his killer. Chuy also meets the ghost of a girl who has just committed suicide, and the two spirits begin to fall in love.
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Behind You
- Jacqueline Woodson
After police bullets kill 15-year-old Jeremiah, he watches over the people he has left behind – his girlfriend; his friends; his divorced parents – as each struggles through grief and tries to keep doing what the living do, ultimately finding new connections with one another.
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Certain Slant of Light
- Laura Whitcomb
A combination of Gothic romance with modern-day drama creates a sensual supernatural story of Helen and James, two spirits caught in purgatory.
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Dead on Town Line
- Leslie Connor
Cassie is a teenage murder victim whose body lies hidden in a crevice on the edge of town. She meets the ghost of Birdie, another murdered girl who was hidden in the same crevice years earlier.
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Elsewhere
- Gabrielle Zevin
Elsewhere is where 15-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. It is a place so like Earth, yet completely different. Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth.
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Everlost
- Neal Shusterman
Nick and Allie don't survive the car accident... but their souls don't exactly get where they're supposed to get either. Instead, they're caught in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with all the things and places that no longer exist.
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Gracious Plenty
- Sheri Reynolds
Finch Nobles tends to the flowers and shrubs that surround gravestones of people who were not known to her while they lived but who in death have become her lifeline. She discovers that if she listens closely enough, she can hear the voices of those who have gone before.
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Great Blue Yonder
- Alex Shearer
Harry, a boy who has died, tries to describe what it is like on the "other side," a place known as the Other Lands.
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Innocent's Story
- Nicky Singer
When Cassina is blown-up by a suicide bomber in a station in England, life as she knows it is over. Except that she doesn't die. And - miraculously - neither does the bomber. Cassina survives as something that can live in the heads of humans, knowing their thoughts but powerless to change them.
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Lovely Bones
- Alice Sebold
Fourteen-year-old Susie looks down from heaven and describes the horrifying events of her murder, while her family struggle to cope with the pain of her death.
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Ninth Key
- Meg Cabot
Sixteen-year-old Suze Simon is a typical California high school student except for the fact that she is a "shifter" who can mediate between the living and the dead.
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Saving Fish from Drowning
- Amy Tan
Twelve American tourists join an art expedition that begins in China and continues into the jungles of Burma. The original tour leader dies just before the trip, but in spirit form she follows the group's misadventures.
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Sledding Hill
- Chris Crutcher
Billy Bartholomew is dead. His best friend, Eddie Proffit, is still alive. Billy and Eddie meet on the sledding hill--like they always have. And Billy is not about to let a little thing like death stop him from hanging in there with Eddie in his epic struggle to get his life back on track.
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Where I Want to Be
- Adele Griffin
Two teenaged sisters, separated by death but still connected, work through their feelings of loss over the closeness they shared as children that was later destroyed by one's mental illness, and finally make peace with each other.
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Wish List
- Eoin Colfer
After an accidental explosion during an attempted robbery, Meg's spirit is flung into limbo, and a race begins between the demonic and the divine to win Meg's soul.
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You Had Me at Halo
- Amanda Ashby
Holly's heavenly shrink doesn't believe that she didn't kill herself - and says she must return to earth to straighten things out.
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