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Things Hoped For

author: Clements, Andrew
Seventeen-year-old Gwen, who has been living with her grandfather in Manhattan while she attends music school, joins up with another music student to solve the mystery when her grandfather suddenly goes missing.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 62
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770

Hero

author: Lupica, Mike
Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the president's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 87
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730

Confessions Of A Murder Suspect

author: Patterson, James
Tandy Angel is, along with her brothers, a suspect in their parents' murder but having grown up under Malcolm and Maud Angel's perfectionist demands, Tandy decides she must clear the family name no matter what.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770

Remembering Mrs. Rossi

author: Hest, Amy
Although she loves her father, their home in New York City, and third-grade teacher Miss Meadows, Annie misses her mother who died recently.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: death [X], parent and child, new york (n.y.) [X], parent-child relationship

He Sees You When You're Sleeping

author: Clark, Mary Higgins
Sterling Brooks, who lived an unremarkable, self-centered life, is sent by the Heavenly Council back to Earth to help a lonely young girl and prove his worth.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: death [X], salvation, gangsters, witnesses, new york (n.y.) [X]

Behind You

author: Woodson, Jacqueline
After fifteen-year-old Jeremiah is mistakenly shot by police, the people who love him struggle to cope with their loss as they recall his life and death, unaware that 'Miah is watching over them.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 47
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: death [X], grief, interpersonal relations, african americans, new york (n.y.) [X]

Chinese Take Out

author: Nersesian, Arthur
Painter Orloff Trenchant agrees to carve a headstone for a recently deceased restaurateur in the shape of a Chinese takeout box.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: artists, restaurateurs, death [X], new york (n.y.) [X]

Cures For Heartbreak

author: Rabb, M. E
As she navigates adolescence, ninth-grader Mia must deal with her mother' s recent death and her father's illness while she searches for friendship and love in the world around her.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: parent and child, death [X], interpersonal relations, new york (n.y.) [X]

The Night Tourist

author: Marsh, Katherine
Fourteen-year-old Jack Perdu, a prodigy of classical mythology, suffers a near-fatal accident after which he meets Euri, a young ghost who introduces him to New York's ghostly underworld, eight levels below Grand Central Station, where Jack decides to look for his mother who disappeared years earlier.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760

When I Was Older

author: Freymann-weyr, Garret
A new friendship with a boy who is both attractive and intelligent helps fifteen-year-old Sophie sort out her feelings about her younger brother Erhard, who died three years earlier, her self-centered older sister, and her distant father.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670

When We Wuz Famous

author: Takoudes, Greg
When Francisco, gifted student and basketball player from Spanish Harlem, receives a scholarship to a distinguished boarding school, his fellow students view him as an outsider and assume the worst about him.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650

Olivia Kidney And The Exit Academy

author: Potter, Ellen
Twelve-year-old Olivia Kidney and her father move into a Manhattan brownstone that has a lagoon in the living room, hosts visiting strangers in the middle of the night, and is mysteriously close to the spirit world.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: death [X], ghosts, eccentrics and eccentricities, ghost stories, new york (n.y.) [X]

The Twilight Prisoner

author: Marsh, Katherine
In an effort to impress a female classmate, high school sophomore Jack Perdu endangers both of their lives by taking her to New York City's Underworld, where those who died in New York reside until they are ready to move on.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720

Rooftop

author: Volponi, Paul
Still reeling from seeing police shoot his unarmed cousin to death on the roof of a New York City housing project, seventeen-year-old Clay is dragged into the whirlwind of political manipulation that follows.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780

Olivia Kidney Stops For No One

author: Potter, Ellen
Twelve-year-old Olivia Kidney and her father move into a Manhattan brownstone that has a lagoon in the living room, hosts visiting strangers in the middle of the night, and is mysteriously close to the spirit world.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: death [X], ghosts, eccentrics and eccentricities, ghost stories, new york (n.y.) [X]

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