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1) Damned
Author
Series
Damned Trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
As thirteen-year-old Madison tries to figure out how she died and ended up in Hell, she learns how to manipulate the corrupt system of demons and bodily fluids.
3) The way back
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
A historical fantasy that follows Eastern European teens Yehuda and Bluma on a journey through the Far Country, the Jewish land of the dead.
Author
Series
Lying game novels volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sutton Mercer watches from the afterlife as her long-lost twin sister, Emma Paxton, continues to pretend to be her in order to identify Sutton's killer.
5) Whisper
Author
Series
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
To graduate from heaven's soul rehabilitation program for wayward teenagers, guardian angel Jerome must keep sixteen-year-old Heidi safe, but when he accidentally lets her down, he has only twenty-four hours before her soul dissolves forever.
Author
Series
Wells of Sorcery volume 1
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Isoka, an eighteen-year-old ward boss in the great port city, Kahnzoka, is sent on an impossible mission to steal Soliton, a legendary ghost ship, or her sister will be killed.
9) Reboot
Author
Series
Reboot duology volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Wren rises from the dead as a Reboot and is trained as an elite crime-fighting soldier until she is given an order she refuses to follow"--
Author
Series
Tales from the sinister city volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
With his father, a fugitive, falsely accused of multiple murders and the real serial killer stalking the wretched streets of Urbs Umida, Pin Carpue, a young undertaker's assistant, investigates and soon discovers that all of the victims mayhave attended the performance of a stage magician who claims to be able to raise corpses and make the dead speak.
11) Shallow graves
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After waking in a shallow grave, Breezy, a high school senior, crosses the country seeking answers about her death and resurrection, discovering along the way a host of supernatural creatures, as well as a human cult determined to "free" them at any cost.
12) Graveminder
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Rebekkah Barrow never forgot the tender attention her grandmother, Maylene, bestowed upon the dead of Claysville. Now Maylene is dead and Bek must go back to the place--and the man--she left a decade ago. But what she soon discovers is that Maylene was murdered. It turns out that in placid Claysville, the worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously connected.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Lacy Brink, surprised to find herself dead and buried at Baltimore's Westminster Cemetery, recruits fellow poets Sam and Edgar Allan Poe in resisting tyrannical Mrs. Steele's rules by having an open mic night.
14) Between
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
By weaving through her memories and watching the family and friends she left behind, eighteen-year-old Liz Valchar solves the mystery of how her life ended in the Long Island Sound.
15) The body finder
Author
Series
Body finder novels volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
High school junior Violet uses her uncanny ability to sense murderers and their victims to try to stop a serial killer who is terrorizing her town, and although her best friend and would-be boyfriend Jay promises to keep her safe, she becomes a target.
Author
Series
Necromancer (Lish McBride) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer, part of a world of harbingers, werewolves, satyrs, and one particular necromancer who sees Sam as a threat to his lucrative business of raising the dead.
17) The gateway
Author
Series
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
On a class field trip to a cursed bog, three best friends discover a gateway between the living and the dead.
18) The bone houses
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"When risen corpses called 'bone houses' threaten Ryn's village because of a decades-old curse, she teams up with a mapmaker named Ellis to solve the mystery of the curse and destroy the bone houses forever"--
19) Winterveil
Author
Series
Secrets of Wintercraft volume 3
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Silas and Edgar try to rescue Kate after she is abducted by vicious Dalliah, who wants to use Kate's power to bring down the veil between the living and the dead.
Author
Series
Riley Bloom series volume 1
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After crossing the bridge into the afterlife, a place called Here where the time is always Now, Riley's existence continues in much the same way as when she was alive until she is given the job of Soul Catcher and, together with her teacher Bodhi, returns to earth for her first assignment, a ghost called the Radiant Boy who has been haunting an English castle for centuries and resisted all previous attempts to get him across the bridge.