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Green, Tim

Summary: After a near-fatal car accident, twelve-year-old Ryder's mother needs an operation they cannot afford and while a new friend tries to raise funds, Ryder travels with a grouchy, disabled neighbor, from Yankee Stadium to Turner Field seeking the major league baseball player who might be Ryder's father.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GRE

McGlothlin, Kristin

Summary: "Catalynd Jewett Hamilton has always lived a peaceful life with her family on their old farmstead at the top of Sourland Mountain in New Jersey. But after she and her mother get in a bad car accident, Cat ends up in a wheelchair with two broken legs and her mom begins to suffer from depression. With her older brother leaving for college, Cat has to take charge and guide her family back to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bird Upstairs Books 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MCG

Shusterman, Neal.

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHU

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHU

Geron, Eric

Summary: After meeting his demise crossing the road, Chicken comes back as a noisy troublemaking ghost, and knowing that scaring people is bad, decides to transform himself into a friendly ghost.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GER

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GER

Johnson, Terry Lynn

Summary: "Thirteen-year-old Karma lives with her family at their raptor conservation center in Montana. When she has to take her beloved bird, Stark, the gyrfalcon she rescued, back to its owner, she's sorely disappointed. But things get worse when a car accident leaves her father and brother trapped. It's up to Karma--and a runaway boy named Cooper who ends up by her side--to survive the wilderness and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JOH

Gorman, Zac

Summary: It's a typical night in the town of Raven Brooks. Eleven-year-old Regina relaxes at home, her father and stepmother on a date while her older stepsister Pris babysits. But when an emergency alert comes over the airwaves, the two must grab their things and head out of town - a flash flood is coming, cellphone towers are down, and they are on their own. And to make things worse, a freak car...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 GOR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 GOR

Danticat, Edwidge

Summary: Identical twin teenagers Giselle and Isabelle Boyer have always been inseparable, and expected to stay that way even though their Haitian American parents are separating--but when the entire family is caught in a car crash, everyone's world is shattered forever.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION DAN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DAN

Sonneborn, Scott

Summary: It is the day after Christmas and Christmastown highway is jammed with elves coming back to the North Pole after their day off, so when one of the sleighs falls through a crack in the highway ice, one of the South Police, who are penguins, comes to the rescue.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2015

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SON

Vinuesa, Victoria

Summary: Mia has had a heart condition her whole life. She's not afraid of dying but something has always stopped her from her biggest fear: tracking down her biological mother in Spain...until now. Before her next surgery, Mia wants to meet the woman who gave her away once and for all. Kyle has always been the life of the party...that was until the car accident that killed his best friend. Since then...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2024

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VIN

Geron, Eric

Summary: From a debut picture-book author and a #1 New York Times best-selling illustrator, a wry take on "Why did the chicken cross the road?" that gives a whole new meaning to "the Other Side." Cock-a-doodle-BOO! It's punny. It's spooky. It's a meta picture book that puts a fresh spin on an old joke and elevates chicken comedy to ghastly new levels. A little spring chicken crosses the road but quickly...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG GER

De la Cruz, Melissa

Summary: Eighteen-year-old Spencer Sandoval goes to dangerous lengths to uncover the truth about a fatal car crash and its relation to her school's honor roll.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DE L

Key, Watt

Summary: Adam says he can't remember where he was for the two months he went missing in a Florida swamp. That's not true. He does remember. The truth: He was driving with his parents, and the car crashed when his father swerved to avoid colliding with a giant Sasquatch-like creature standing in the highway. Haunted by his parents' disappearance and hounded for claiming to have seen Bigfoot, Adam sets...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KEY

Kamal, Sheena

Summary: "Love and violence. In some families they're bound up together, dysfunctional and poisonous, passed from generation to generation like eye color or a quirk of smile. Trisha's trying to break the chain, channeling her violent impulses into Muay Thai kickboxing, an unlikely sport for a slightly built girl of Trinidadian descent. Her father comes and goes as he pleases, his presence adding a layer...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Teen, an imprint of Penguin House Canada Young Readers 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KAM

McNicoll, Sylvia

Summary: "Hallie, dying to know whether her crush likes her, runs across a mall parking lot with her cell phone blocking her vision as 82-year-old Susan is backing out. The freak accident appears to cost both of them their lives. It's all Susan's fault, right? What business does she have still being behind the wheel at her age? The two find themselves transported to a strange fairground, and argue back...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dundurn Press 2018

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Scieszka, Jon.

Summary: When Max gets in trouble after speeding up a ramp, all of his Trucktown friends try to help out.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2009

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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN SCI

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN SCI

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR Green Scieszka 2009

Malawista, Kerry L.

Summary: "In 1970, thirteen-year-old Jody Moran wants pierced ears, a kiss from a boy, and more attention from her mother. It's not fair. Seems like her mother is more worked up about the Apollo 13 astronauts, who may not make it back to earth safely. As it happens, the astronauts are spared a crash landing, but Jody is not, for three days after splashdown, her mother dies in a car accident. Now, Jody...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Fitzroy Books 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAL

Thomas, Jodi

Summary: "A small-town Texas Christmas story, where hearts are lost, love is found, and family always brings you back home. Griffin Holloway is desperate: the Maverick Ranch has been in his family for generations, but lately, it's a money pit. He'd sooner marry one of his horses than sell the ranch. Marriage, though, could be a solution. If he can woo a wealthy bride, he might save the ranch -- just in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC THO

Summary: A chance car accident introduces the Henderson family to the real-life Bigfoot, who is anything but a ferocious monster. He quickly becomes a true friend of the family. They're soon in a race against the clock to return "Harry' to his natural environment before the authorities capture him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Harry

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAR

Rice, Luanne

Summary: Mathilda (Tilly), fourteen, and Ruth Anne (Roo), sixteen, are sisters and best friends in Connecticut, but when Roo crashes her car while texting she is confined to a hospital bed with "locked-in syndrome," aware of her surroundings, but apparently comatose--and Tilly must find a way to communicate with her sister, while dealing with her own sense of guilt.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Point 2016

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION RIC

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