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Tearjerkers - Stories that will make you weep
A time for
dancing : a novel by
Davida Wills Hurwin.
Samantha and
Julie arenÕt just best friends; theyÕre soul mates. TheyÕve been having sleepovers and dancing ballet
together since they were little.
So when Julie gets cancer, it feels like itÕs happening to Samantha
too. Told in alternating chapters
from both friendsÕ point of view, this book not only provides a frighteningly
real picture of what it is like to watch your best friend go through hell, but
also what it is like to experience first-hand through JulieÕs eyes the stages
of loss - fear, denial, hope and finally painful acceptance that life may be
ending just as it is supposed to be beginning.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.2
Bringing up
the bones by Lara M.
Zeises.
Bridget Edelstein
mourns the loss of her high school boyfriend who died in a car crash, and
rebounds with a new love.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.6
A summer to
die by Lois Lowry
Thirteen-year-old
Meg envies her sister's beauty and popularity. Her feelings don't make it any
easier for her to cope with Molly's strange illness and eventual death.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.3
Where the red
fern grows : the story of two dogs and a boy by Wilson Rawls.
A young boy
living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of
two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.9
Goodbye
doesn't mean forever by
Lurlene McDaniel.As Melissa dies of leukemia, her best friend, Jory Delany,
draws closer to Melissa's family while they struggle to cope with her imminent
death and to replace anger with hope and inspiration.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.6
The lovely
bones : a novel by Alice
Sebold.
Fourteen-year-old
Susie Salmon, the victim of a sexual assault and murder, looks on from the
afterlife as her family deals with their grief, and waits for her killer to be
brought to some type of justice.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.0
Too young to
die by Lurlene McDaniel.
At sixteen
Melissa does not want to face the facts that she is seriously ill. But as her
illness gets worse, she cannot deny the truth.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.2
Till death do
us part by Lurlene
McDaniel.
April Lancaster
and Mark Gianni, a young couple whose lives are shadowed by certain death, meet
in the hospital, fall in love, and determine to marry despite April's
inoperable brain tumor, Mark's cystic fibrosis, and the disapproval of their
families.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.4
Let him live by Lurlene McDaniel.
When candy
striper Megan meets seventeen-year-old Donovan she finds herself getting
involved in his life. He shares with Megan his secret that an anonymous
benefactor has granted him one last wish and that he needs her help.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.0
Six months to
live by Lurlene McDaniel.
Dawn is told she
has acute lymphocytic leukemia and six months to live.
Accelerated Reader Reading Level - 4.6