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Everlost

After Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash they end up in Everlost, a limbo between life and death. Nick feels that he has found a home, but Allie will stop at nothing, even skinjacking, to break free.
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Sadako and the thousand paper cranes

Sadako, hospitalized with leukemia, races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes in an attempt to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
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Probably still Nick Swansen

Nick, a learning disabled sixteen-year-old, copes with his anger and hurt at being labeled a Special Education student while also dealing with dating and the troubling memories of his drowned sister.
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Si decido quedarme

While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death. Presented in Spanish.
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Famous graveyards

Describes cemeteries in different countries and of varying cultures, including Jewish and Mexican.
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If I stay

While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
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Burnt tongues

A collection of transgressive fiction stories by various authors featuring taboo subjects, violence, death, and graphic images.
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The human comedy

Working as a telegraph messenger in California during World War II, fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley gains an understanding of the world and an acceptance of his brother's death.
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Strike three! take your base

Bob and Rex are promising high school baseball players, but their world turns upside down when their father dies suddenly while umpiring a softball game.
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Maniac Magee

2012
An orphaned adolescent boy with a legendary talent for running goes on a journey of self-discovery, leaving his aunt and uncle's unhappy home, bouncing from place to place, and learning about racism and what it means to belong.
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