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Colfer, Eoin |
YA FIC COLFER |
| Meg Finn is in trouble. She's dead, but not at peace--she's in limbo, her good deeds perfectly balanced against her bad deeds; Heaven or Hell wait, a tip of the scale away. So she's back on Earth trying to tip the scale to the good by helping her last victim, and her former "partner" is also back, trying to force her to tip the scale to the bad. |
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| The Sledding Hill |
Crutcher, Chris |
YA FIC CRUTCHER |
| Billy, recently deceased, keeps an eye on his best friend, fourteen-year-old Eddie, who has added to his home and school problems by becoming mute, and helps him stand up to a conservative minister and English teacher who is orchestrating a censorship challenge. |
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| If I Stay |
Forman, Gayle |
YA FIC FORMAN |
| While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weights whether to live with her grief or join her family in death. |
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| Heavenly Village |
Rylant, Cynthia |
J FIC RYLANT |
| Undecided souls who have died while they are not quite ready to go to heaven find themselves in the halfway place known as the Heavenly Village. |
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| The Lovely Bones |
Sebold, Alice |
YA FIC SEBOLD |
| The Lovely Bones unfolds from heaven where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case. |
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| Everlost |
Shusterman, Neal |
YA FIC SHUSTERMAN |
| When Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash, they end up in Everlost, or limbo for lost souls, where although Nick is satisfied, Allie will stop at nothing--even skinjacking--to break free. |
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Sleator, William |
J FIC SLEATOR |
| Not long after learning that he was adopted, eleven-year-old Peter is hit by a car and then given several chances to alter events that could lead to his death. |
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| Afterlife |
Soto, Gary |
YA FIC SOTO |
| A senior at East Fresno High School lives on as a ghost after his brutal murder in the restroom of a club where he had gone to dance. |
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| Generation Dead |
Waters, Daniel |
YA FIC WATERS |
| When dead teenagers who have come back to life start showing up at her high school, Phoebe, a goth girl, becomes interested in the phenomenon, and when she starts dating a "living impaired" boy, they encounter prejudice, fear, and hatred. |
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| Elsewhere |
Zevin, Gabrielle |
YA FIC ZEVIN |
| After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live." |
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