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Living with her Great-aunt Louise on the shores of Cape Cod, Stella finds that Louise likes routine just as much as she does. Stella's mother lacks reliability, so she is off finding herself while Stella hopes she will be able to settle back at Cape Cod. The only hitch in a perfect life so far is Angel, Louise's less-than-angelic foster kid. When Stella and Angel are forced into a situation where Louise cannot help them, they find that they have come...
83) Cuerpo de nube
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"Un corderito diferente. Su cuerpo no tiene lana, sino una nube. Una conmovedora historia para grandes y pequeños, sobre la aceptación de las diferencias y que ayuda a afrontar la pérdida de un ser querido. Porque muchas veces lo que nos ocurre es una oportunidad para crecer y para aprender de las circunstancias que nos toca vivir." --From publisher's description.
Kor Derito is a lamb with a cloud where other lambs have wool, so he is often by...
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Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.
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Sixth grader Annie Lee Fitzgerald's father died eighty-three days ago. Since then, her mother has worked long hours to make ends meet, and Annie Lee does her best to stay invisible. To get away from mysterious events in her house, Annie Lee makes her way to a local mall where she takes piano lessons from Ray, the elderly man who plays for patrons, in hopes of winning a cash prize to help her family. One day, Ray goes missing and Annie Lee decides...
86) Drive-By
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Jimmy is dead-a victim of gang violence in Los Angeles. Gunned down in front of his family, he was accused of skimming drug-money from Ice Breaker Joe and Lamar. Jimmy's younger brother Tito knows Jimmy hated gangs-how could he have been involved with these criminals? Now the gangbangers are looking for Tito. He needs to find their missing money soon, or his family may be hurt. Dodging taggers, hustlers and dealers along the way, Tito comes up with...
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Flint Larson has known when he was going to die since he was eight because of the Half-Life Institute, and he is spending the last forty-one days quietly with his divorced parents; September is a vibrant aspiring scientist who wants to cure "half-life", especially since she has met Flint--but their time together is getting short.
90) Healer and witch
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"Sylvie and her mother and grandmother are beloved, trusted healers in their French village at the end of the Middle Ages, though some whisper that fifteen-year-old Sylvie and her grand-mère deal in more than herbs and medicines. Perhaps they’re a bit . . . witchy? After her grandmother dies, and an attempt to use her untrained magic to heal her mother’s grief yields tragic consequences, Sylvie leaves in search of a teacher. Accompanied...
91) Book of the dead
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When the doctors told his mom that Alex Sennefer's life couldn't be saved, she refused to believe them. Instead, she uses one of the Lost Spells of the Egyptian Book of the Dead to bring Alex back, and it works. Unfortunately it also brings back five mummy Death Walkers, bent on revenge, and it falls to Alex and his best friend, Ren, to stop them after his mother disappears.
92) Just like that
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With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students...
94) Bang
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Sebastian Cody did something horrible, something no one--not even Sebastian himself--can forgive. At the age of four, he accidentally shot and killed his infant sister with his father's gun. Now, ten years later, Sebastian has lived with the guilt and horror for his entire life. With his best friend away for the summer, Sebastian has only a new friend--Aneesa--to distract him from his darkest thoughts. But even this relationship cannot blunt the pain...
95) After Eli
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After the death of his older brother, Daniel Anderson became engrossed in recording details about dead people, how they died, and whether their deaths mattered but he is eventually drawn back into interaction with the living by two unexpected friends, Walter and Isabelle.
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"The world has turned upside down for Thad and Ari Glavan, the bastard twins of Sundraille's king. Their mother was murdered. The royal family died mysteriously. And now Thad sits on the throne of a kingdom whose streets are suddenly overrun with violence he can't stop. Growing up ignored by the nobility, Ari never wanted to be a proper princess. And when Thad suddenly starts training Ari to take his place, she realizes that her brother's ascension...
97) The rough patch
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Farmer Evan and his dog do everything together and, especially, in the garden but when his dog passes away Evan lets his garden fill with weeds until a pumpkin vine brings new hope.
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"Tamarind has never met her Indian mother, Chinty, who died shortly after she was born. But when her father remarries, Tamarind is sent to India to stay with the family she has never met, in their atmospheric ancestral home--a huge mansion high in the Himalaya mountains. Her arrival in India brings culture shock, secrets, and unanswered questions: What is the tension between her father and the family, and why will no one talk about her mother? Instead...
99) The epidemic
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"Quinlan McKee has spent her life acting as other people. She was a closer a person hired to play the role of the recently deceased in order to give their families closure. Through this process, Quinn learned to read people and situations, even losing a bit of herself to do so. But she couldn't have guessed how her last case would bring down her entire world. The only person Quinn trusts is Deacon, her best friend and the love of her life. Except...
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Imagina un mundo en el que una organizaci̤n avisa a las personas de la inminencia de su muerte. Imagina que ha empezado la cuenta atr̀s. Imagina c̤mo vivir̕as tu vida. en solo un d̕a. ¿Estar̕as preparado para decir adi̤s? Al final mueren los dos es un canto a la fuerza arrolladora de la vida, que transformar̀ para siempre tu forma de comprender el tiempo, la amistad y el amor.