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Lexile/Reading Level
750L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Realistic

Historical Time Period
Contemporary
Topic
Baseball | Death and Loss | Sports
Main Character
Girl(s)
Award-Winning Book
Judy Lopez Honor | Judy Lopez Memorial Award
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook

Girl Who Threw Butterflies, The , by

Author: Cochrane, Mick

For an eighth grader, Molly Williams has more than her fair share of problems. Her father has just died in a car accident, and her mother has become a withdrawn, quiet version of herself.

Molly doesn’t want to be seen as “Miss Difficulty Overcome”; she wants to make herself known to the kids at school for something other than her father’s death. So she decides to join the baseball team. The boys’ baseball team. Her father taught her how to throw a knuckleball, and Molly hopes it’s enough to impress her coaches as well as her new teammates.

Over the course of one baseball season, Molly must figure out how to redefine her relationships to things she loves, loved, and might love: her mother; her brilliant best friend, Celia; her father; her enigmatic and artistic teammate, Lonnie; and of course, baseball.

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Lexile/Reading Level
690L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Realistic

Topic
Death and Loss | Family Relationships | Homeschool | Immigration
Main Character
Girl(s)
Award-Winning Book
Carnegie Medal in Literature | Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for Jugendbuch | for Kinderbuch
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook

My Name Is Mina (Skellig 0.5)

Author: Almond, DavidPart of a Series: Skellig

There’s an empty notebook lying on the table in the moonlight. It’s been there for an age. I keep on saying that I’ll write a journal. So I’ll start right here, right now. I open the book and write the very first words: My name is Mina and I love the night. Then what shall I write? I can’t just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I’ll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or a beast does, just like life does. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line?

And so Mina writes and writes in her journal, and through her stories and poems there grows an opus of her life – her lessons, her loves, her beliefs, her mum, her dad, her thoughts and her dreams.

In this stunningly designed book, David Almond revisits Mina before she has met Michael, before she has met Skellig, in what is a thought-provoking and extraordinary prequel to his best-selling debut novel, Skellig.

From the winner of the Whitbread Children’s Book Award the Carnegie Medal and the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Award comes the extraordinary prequel to the award-winning Skellig.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical | Romance

Historical Time Period
Victorian Era
Date
1800s
Topic
Death and Loss | Marriage and Divorce | Romance
Geographic Region
England | Europe
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Book | Ebook

Cry of the Peacock

Author: Christensen, V.R.

An illustrious marriage, a fortune, a position of wealth and influence. These are the dreams and ambitions of any Victorian woman of sense. Or are they? Perhaps not for Arabella Gray. The death of Abbie’s father, the overseer of a large country estate, leaves her without means or resources, without, even, a place to live. Her landlords, in an extraordinary display of charity, invite her to live at Holdaway Hall. But the invitation is as puzzling as it is generous. Why are the Crawfords, who have never paid her any notice before, so concerned with her wellbeing now? It’s a question the younger Crawford brothers would like to have answered as well. Certainly Miss Gray is a mercenary upstart. Certainly their brother is mad for fancying himself in love with her. Such a union would make them a laughing stock. They mean to put a stop to it, but when they learn that her past is closely—even disturbingly—connected with their own, they are brought up short, forced to ask themselves some very hard questions. As Abbie herself soon learns, there is a great mystery at the heart of her landlords’ extraordinary offer. Everything she has ever dreamt of might be hers for the taking, but is the price worth it? More than her happiness alone rests upon her decision. If she refuses Ruskin Crawford’s offer of marriage, will she be able to live with the consequences? If she does, will she be able to live with herself? In the end, all must ask themselves some very hard questions. What does it mean to be a man or woman of honor and integrity? What does it mean, after all, to be a gentleman? And what, exactly, is the price of a woman’s heart?

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Civil War
Date
1800s
Topic
Aftermath of War | Death and Loss
Geographic Region
Maine | United States - America
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Book | Ebook

Heart of a Lie, The

Author: North, Meg

At the end of a long, hard day’s work, Esther can stand in the barn doorway and survey her beautiful Perry Farm with a sense of contentment. She lost her father in the Civil War, and she, her mother and her sister are three women alone. Yet she could not be happier with her hands in the soil and her heart in the land. She plans to marry a handsome farm-hand and rule over her little kingdom like a queen.

Yet dark days are ahead. With deepest sorrow, she loses her mother to the wracking coughing disease of tuberculosis. Esther and her sister Lara suddenly face a crushing debt on their farm, too mountainous to overcome. A greedy neighbor shoves a mortgage deed in front of Esther, forcing her to sign. What will happen to her? How will she take care of Lara? With no home or family, the Perry sisters are orphaned and alone.

On the final afternoon of owning her farm, Esther greets a strange guest. The haughty woman and her grand carriage are out of place in a farm town like Bayview, Maine. She introduces herself as Lucia Curtis and informs them she is their aunt. Esther and Lara are shocked – their mother never mentioned a sister. Aunt Curtis has an incredible proposal: she will take the Perry girls to Portland, Maine and give them a place to live for six months.

Farewell to Perry Farm, and a new life awaits Esther and Lara in Portland. There will be cousins to meet, an uppity social circle to move amongst, and a handsome architect proclaimed as the most eligible bachelor in the city. Yet Aunt Curtis has her own plans for Esther. Will Esther be able to overcome her sorrows and find a new happiness in Portland? Can she attract Henry Vallencourt’s admiration before he makes an ill match? And what of her mysterious uncle and the secrets behind the locked bedchamber?

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Dark Ages
Date
1200s
Topic
Death and Loss | Revenge | Sultan(s) | Traitors | War
Geographic Region
Europe | Spain
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Book | Ebook

Sultana’s Legacy: A Novel of Moorish Spain (Sultana #2)

Author: Yarde, Lisa J.Part of a Series: Sultana

In thirteenth-century Moorish Spain, the Sultanate of Granada faces a bleak future, as a tyrant seizes control. Fatima, the daughter of a Sultan, and her devoted husband Faraj have enjoyed years of peace and prosperity. Now, a power-hungry madman claims the throne. He murders almost everyone Fatima holds dear. His reign fractures a weakened Sultanate, under siege from Christian kingdoms to the north and Moorish dynasties in the south. Fatima must preserve the legacy of her forefathers at all costs. She risks everything, even the love and trust of her husband. Amidst treachery and intrigue, she stands alone against her adversaries, determined to avenge terrible losses. Can she survive the test of divided loyalties and shocking betrayals?

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 7-12 Grade

Genre/Category
Fiction | Realistic

Historical Time Period
Contemporary
Date
2000s
Topic
Christian | Death and Loss | Friendship
Geographic Region
United States - America
Main Character
Girl(s)
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook

Mixed Bags (Carter House Girls #1)

Author: Carlson, MelodyPart of a Series: Carter House Girls

When her mom died, DJ had to move in with her grandmother, internationally famous ’60s fashion model Katherine Carter. Now Mrs. Carter’s opened a boarding home for young ladies, and DJ—who would rather wear her basketball team uniform than haute couture—is just sure they’ll all be unbearable fashion snobs. One by one, the girls arrive and begin to figure out how to fit into this new family, getting to know each other and forming friendships. Sure, there’s an aspiring diva or two, but before long, the Carter House girls are dating, fighting, laughing, shopping, sharing clothes, purses, shoes … and their deepest secrets. DJ may not turn into the perfect little lady her grandmother has in mind, but one thing’s for certain—with all these new “sisters,” her life will never be the same!

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical | Romance

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1920s
Topic
Babies | Choices | Death and Loss | Loss of a Child
Geographic Region
Australia | Oceania
Main Character
Family
Award-Winning Book
Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Literary Fiction and Newcomer | Other Awards | Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook

Light Between Oceans

Author: Stedman, M.L.

After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.

Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tom’s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them.

M. L. Stedman’s mesmerizing, beautifully written novel seduces us into accommodating Isabel’s decision to keep this “gift from God.” And we are swept into a story about extraordinarily compelling characters seeking to find their North Star in a world where there is no right answer, where justice for one person is another’s tragic loss.

The Light Between Oceans is exquisite and unforgettable, a deeply moving novel.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adults

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Early Modern
Date
1700s
Topic
Death and Loss | Widows | Women's Rights
Geographic Region
Massachusetts | United States - America
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Book | Ebook

Widow’s War (Satucket #1)

Author: Gunning, Sally CabotPart of a Series: Satucket

Married for twenty years to Edward Berry, Lyddie is used to the trials of being a whaler’s wife in the Cape Cod village of Satucket, Massachusetts—running their house herself during her husband’s long absences at sea, living with the daily uncertainty that Edward will simply not return. And when her worst fear is realized, she finds herself doubly cursed. She is overwhelmed by grief, and her property and rights are now legally in the hands of her nearest male relative: her daughter’s overbearing husband, whom Lyddie cannot abide. Lyddie decides to challenge both law and custom for control of her destiny, but she soon discovers the price of her bold “war” for personal freedom to be heartbreakingly dear.

Includes the fascinating “story behind the story” of The Widow’s War, a map of colonial Brewster, and a driving tour of the village of Satucket.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical | Mystery

Historical Time Period
Rennaisance
Date
1500s
Topic
Death and Loss | Dukes | Mystery | Romance
Geographic Region
Europe | Italy
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Book | Ebook

Second Duchess

Author: Loupas, Elizabeth

A rich, compelling historical novel-and a mystery of royal intrigue.

In a city-state known for magnificence, where love affairs and conspiracies play out amidst brilliant painters, poets and musicians, the powerful and ambitious Alfonso d’Este, duke of Ferrara, takes a new bride. Half of Europe is certain he murdered his first wife, Lucrezia, the luminous child of the Medici. But no one dares accuse him, and no one has proof-least of all his second duchess, the far less beautiful but delightfully clever Barbara of Austria.

At first determined to ignore the rumors about her new husband, Barbara embraces the pleasures of the Ferrarese court. Yet wherever she turns she hears whispers of the first duchess’s wayward life and mysterious death. Barbara asks questions-a dangerous mistake for a duchess of Ferrara. Suddenly, to save her own life, Barbara has no choice but to risk the duke’s terrifying displeasure and discover the truth of Lucrezia’s death-or she will share her fate.

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Lexile/Reading Level
1080L Recommended for 5-12 Grade

Genre/Category
Biographies | History | Nonfiction

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1980s
Topic
British History | Death and Loss | Princess
Geographic Region
Europe | United Kingdom | Wales
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Book

Princess Diana (DK Biography)

Author: Mattern, JoannePart of a Series: DK Biography

Perfect for book reports or summer reading, DK’s acclaimed Biography series tackles one of history’s most inspiring and colorful women: Princess Diana.

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