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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The year is 1922, and young Nick Carraway moves to the village of West Egg, where he discovers that his neighbor is the eclectic millionaire Jay Gatsby. As he and Gatsby become acquainted, Nick is thrown into a world full of dazzling parties, unrequited love, and unchecked idealism. Gatsby, surrounded by riches, yearns for the love of a woman who chose another man. He waits for her every night, using a green light at the end of his dock to call out...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Language
English
Formats
Description
Clara Solberg's world shatters when her husband and their four-year-old daughter are in a car crash, killing Nick while Maisie is remarkably unharmed. The crash is ruled an accident - until the coming days, when Maisie starts having night terrors that make Clara question what really happened on that fateful afternoon. Tormented by grief and her obsession that Nick's death was far more than just an accident, Clara is plunged into a desperate hunt for...
3) Trouble
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In order to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, Henry sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog, but on their trek they encounter the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring Franklin.
4) Uh-oh Max
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Max gets in trouble after speeding up a ramp, all of his Trucktown friends try to help out.
Author
Series
Silver Springs (Brenda Novak) volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a near-fatal accident leaves her with a debilitating facial scar, a once-promising Hollywood starlet retreats to her producer's Silver Springs estate to house sit where she discovers she has a handsome new roommate.
6) Lost boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a near-fatal car accident, twelve-year-old Ryder's mother needs an operation they cannot afford and while a new friend tries to raise funds, Ryder travels with a grouchy, disabled neighbor, from Yankee Stadium to Turner Field seeking the major league baseball player who might be Ryder's father.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Mathilda (Tilly), fourteen, and Ruth Anne (Roo), sixteen, are sisters and best friends in Connecticut, but when Roo crashes her car while texting she is confined to a hospital bed with "locked-in syndrome," aware of her surroundings, but apparently comatose--and Tilly must find a way to communicate with her sister, while dealing with her own sense of guilt.
9) A new name
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Murray Van Rensselaer's car swerved to avoid an oncoming truck, his life, and the life of his childhood sweetheart, came crashing down. Now he's a man on the run, determined to erase his past with a new name.
Author
Publisher
TOR Teen
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Waking up in the hospital with her best friend's face in the aftermath of a car accident, Liv navigates disturbing criminal and murderous secrets while trying to reconcile her feelings for a boy she loves from the perspectives of two different lives.
11) Untwine: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Identical twin teenagers Giselle and Isabelle Boyer have always been inseparable, and expected to stay that way even though their Haitian American parents are separating--but when when the entire family is caught in a car crash, everyone's world is shattered forever.
13) A brighter dawn
Author
Series
Amish memories volume 1
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"When Ivy Zimmerman's Mennonite parents are killed in a tragic accident, her way of life is upended. As she grows suspicious that her parents' deaths weren't an accident, she gains courage from her Amish great-grandmother's time in pre-war Germany in 1937. With the inspiration of her great-grandmother, Ivy seeks justice for her parents, her sisters, and herself"--
14) Trespasser
Author
Series
Mike Bowditch novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stumbling on a case that suggests that a man convicted of murder seven years earlier may have been framed, game warden Mike Bowditch ignores warnings by local authorities and risks his relationship with his girlfriend to conduct a secret investigation.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a massive highway collision outside London, panicked survivors share their experiences and backgrounds while anxiously awaiting help, including a bridegroom who hopes to get to the church on time, and a young woman in premature labor.
16) The current
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the dead of winter, outside a small Minnesota town, state troopers pull two young women and their car from the icy Black Root River. One is found downriver, drowned, while the other is found at the scene--half frozen but alive. What happened was no accident, and news of the crime awakens the community's memories of another young woman who lost her life in the same river ten years earlier, and whose killer may still live among them. Determined to...
17) Dream spinner
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Still reeling from the car accident that killed her father and left her disfigured, Jori travels into a living tapestry of dreams, woven by a spider named Arachnea, that has trapped both her sister and two schoolmates.
18) Everlost
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this eerie and atmospheric novel, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Neal Shusterman explores questions of life, death, and what might lie in between.
Nick and Allie don't survive the car accident—and their souls don't exactly get where they're supposed to go. Instead, they're caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with all the things...
Nick and Allie don't survive the car accident—and their souls don't exactly get where they're supposed to go. Instead, they're caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with all the things...
Author
Series
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Language
English
Description
"Frank Sawyer is a wanderer, thriving on the adventure of hitchhiking with no thought for where he'll end up. His untethered ways have landed him in some perilous situations, and after his recent involvement in solving a deadly mystery, he's ready to hit the open road to visit his former mission companions on a whim. When he arrives in a small California town, Sawyer finds himself in the midst of what seems to be a rash of runaway teenagers. But with...
20) The accident
Author
Publisher
Text Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Looks at how the lives of three teenagers are forever changed by a car accident, highlighting how the random actions of life can have profound significance.
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