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1) Elsewhere
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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Description
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."
3) Everwild
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Nick, known as the dreaded "chocolate ogre," is trying to find all the children in Everlost and release them from the limbo they are in, while Mikey and Allie have joined a band of skinjackers and are putting themselves in danger by visiting the world of the living.
5) Everlost
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ricky Fallon was contemplating suicide when he slipped and fell, only to find himself a Cupid in the afterlife, but between the bad boss, a pink bodysuit, and attacks from shadowy entities called Suicides, he is not feeling much love.
Author
Series
Dead serious volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Annabel Craven is receiving texts from a ghost girl named Harper who begs Anna to help her rejoin the living.
10) Maybe
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
You are more amazing than you even know. With striking, realistic illustrations, it's a reminder that you were meant for incredible things. And maybe, just maybe, you will exceed your wildest dreams.
Author
Series
Gifted clans volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Riley Oh ventures into the Spiritrealm, where she hopes to convince Saint Heo Jun to become the new patron god of the Gom clan and restore their healing powers.
12) The After-room
Author
Series
Apothecary series volume 3
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Teenagers Janie and Benjamin continue to explore the secrets of the Pharmacopoeia while Benjamin risks everything to find a way to connect with his father.
13) The afterwards
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When her best friend, Ness, dies suddenly, Ember finds a way into the Afterworld, determined to bring Ness back.
15) The ever after
Author
Series
May Bird trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Lonely and shy, ten-year-old May Ellen Bird has no idea what awaits her when she falls into the lake and enters a world few people have ever seen, the Ever After, home of ghosts and the Bogeyman.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When Naho received a letter from her future self, it told her she needed to save the life of a boy in her class, Kakeru. At first Naho had to shoulder this burden alone, until her friends stepped in with their own revelations! Beyond the journey of Naho and Kakeru, what happens next for Naho's friends, now that they're living in this brand-new timeline?
17) Someday, maybe
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Someday, Maybe is an inventive and inspiring picture book that imagines the exciting jobs, discoveries, and innovations that children dream of for their futures. With self-driving cars and commercial launches to space, the future has arrived! And so have the jobs of the future, from intergalactic rock bands with riffing robots to doctors with X-ray glasses. Children have always dreamed of what they will grow up to become, and with Someday, Maybe the...
18) Ghost and bone
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Oscar Grimstone is cursed with killing things at a touch, and can also transform into a ghost, but a journey to the city of ghosts may lead him to discover his true identity.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Beyond takes place in some sort of afterlife. You don't know much when you begin, save that you're dead and that you've ended up in a room that includes a door, a window, and a table with some books. You need to get out, so you try the door. And then the window. And then you finally turn to the books--and when you open them, you're pulled into the worlds of those pages. Could these fictional worlds hold the key to your escape? Or is there more...
20) Bone Hollow
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Gabe was on top of his guardian's roof, trying to rescue her prize chicken and worrying about his dog, Ollie, when the tornado struck, and after that he was dead, though it takes some time for him to realize it; but somehow he is still tied to this world and generally only those who are close to death can actually see him (although there is a bit of a panic when he shows up at his own funeral)--and in that he discovers his new mission in "life:" helping...
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