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Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks tells a story that begins with a school bus accident. Using four different narrators, Banks creates a small-town morality play that addresses one of life's most agonizing questions: when the worst thing happens, who do you blame?
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Series
Amara Alvarez volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
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Three years ago, a collision between a fast-moving freight train and a school bus full of kids led to devastation and grief on an unimaginable scale. But a fresh clue leads San Antonio police detective Amara Alvarez to the unlikely conclusion that one of the children may still be alive. If she's correct, everything law enforcement believes about the accident is a lie. With time running out, Amara must convince others--and herself--that despite all...
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Can a person really disappear for good by going off the grid? And what happens when vanishing is no longer an option? Sarah Keller is a single mother to five-year-old Zoe, living quietly in Oklahoma, She's also a skip tracer, an expert in tracking people who've gone on the lam to avoid arrest, prosecution, or debt - pinpointing their location to bring them to justice. When a school bus accident sends Zoe to the ER, their quiet life explodes. Zoe's...
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"In the Portland suburb of West Knoll, Delta and her friends were the pretty, popular elite of the high school. That was fifteen years and a whole lifetime ago. Even then, backstabbing and betrayal erupted among the women in the group, a trio of which are now gathered around a hospital bed. And most of it revolved around the man lying close to death before them. To Delta, it feels as if a nightmare unfolds every time they get together. It started...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"A warm, funny and keenly perceptive novel about the lifecycle of one family -- as the kids become parents, grandchildren become teenagers, and a matriarch confronts the legacy of her mistakes. When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days, decades years earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she'd been to her three, now-grown...
8) Small spaces
Author
Series
Small spaces quartet volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"After eleven-year-old Ollie's school bus mysteriously breaks down on a field trip, she has to take a trip through scary woods, and must use all of her wits to survive. She must stick to small spaces"--
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for the school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer in a horrific accident. His father, Abed, gets word of the crash and rushes to the site. The scene is chaos-the children have been taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank; some are missing, others cannot be identified. Abed sets off on an odyssey to learn Milad's fate. It is every...
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"Meet Goldy Bear: a bright, opinionated, inventive caterer who whips up gastronomical delights for a living - but whose personal life has become a recipe for disaster. Blame it on her abusive ex-husband Dr. John Richard Korman, aka the Jerk, who has taken to driving slowly by her house, phoning just to hang up, and in general making some pretty tasteless threats. Or on the mounting monthly bills that have taken a huge bite out of her strained budget....
11) Blink once
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
West, a high school senior with everything going for him until an accident leaves him paralyzed, connects with Olivia, a patient in the hospital room next to his, who seems to understand his dreams and nightmares but who has a secret.
12) The Only Human
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Description
With THE ONLY HUMAN, internationally acclaimed bestselling author Rick Mofina takes young readers on a white-knuckled, heart-pounding thrill ride across New York City.Thirteen-year-old Tyler Price is struggling with his parents’ divorce as he pinballs between their apartments in Manhattan. One day after school a troubled old man sits next to him on a city bus. His voice filled with fear, the man says, “the awakening” has begun, and reveals that...
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Since her husband Eddie's death in a boating accident eight months ago, Alice Glendenning has struggled to make ends meet while waiting for the insurance company to pay up. When Alice takes a job as a real estate agent, she makes a new friend, Charlie Hobbs from whom she is supposed to try to buy his waterfront land for a developer. Things quickly become a nightmare for Alice when her two children, Ashley and Jamie, aren't on the school bus home one...
14) Her deadly touch
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Series
Detective Josie Quinn thriller volume 12
Pub. Date
2021
Description
"On her first day back with the Denton PD after a major trauma, Detective Josie Quinn is on the hunt for a missing woman, Krystal Duncan, the mother of one of five children killed in a devastating school bus crash. Hours later, Josie finds Krystal's body beside her daughter's grave, her lips sealed together forever with wax. Forensics match the wax to one of the candles lit in memory of the sweet little souls who died, giving Josie her first lead...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Forensic Anthropologist Emma Graves knows about the dead. But can the dead help her remember why she's still alive? When You Are Lost... Emma Graves was only eight years old when a tragic school bus accident shattered the rural community where she grew up. When the bus was discovered the driver was dead and Emma, her older sister and her sister's best friend were missing. A frantic search through the cold, dark woods in the surrounding area began....
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
After several high school students avoid being involved in a deadly plane crash, death hunts them down and they must find a way to survive; after being saved from a major highway accident by a girl's premonition, a group of strangers find themselves fated to die one by one; death seeks out a group of students after they escape a deadly rollercoaster ride; a group of young friends cheat death when they abandon their day at the speedway, but now they...