Central Kansas Library System

"After Granny dies, she leaves something behind for everyone in the family. She leaves Father her tuba and Mother her locket. Sister receives her microscope and brother her record collection. But our main character receives something special that unlocks cherished memories of Granny through a world of imaginative play. Through spare prose, award-winning author Heather Smith has crafted a beautiful story about memory, loss and grief, and how we can...

Atlas James has lost her way. In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she's working on a community service program rehabbing trails in the Western Sierras. The only plus is that the days are so exhausting that Atlas might just be tired enough to forget that this was one of her dad's favorite places in the world. Before cancer stole him from her life, that is. Using real names is forbidden on the trail. So Atlas becomes Maps, and with her...

"Neely's monsters don't always follow her rules, so when the little girl under her bed, the man in her closet, and the disembodied voice that shadows her every move become louder, she knows she's in trouble. With a history of mental illness in her family, and the suicide of her older brother heavy on her mind, Neely takes a job as a tour guide in the one place her monsters can't follow--the caverns. There she can find peace. There she can pretend...

Two years after her sister's tragic death, fourteen-year-old Clementine still struggles with overwhelming guilt and grief and feels disconnected from the world around her.

"In 1948, 12-year-old Amil, who is both Muslim and Hindu, struggles to find his place in Bombay, India, until his twin sister suggests he tell his story through drawings meant for their late mother as he tries to find hope and a sense of belonging in a chaotic world"--

A year ago, Gage survived a car accident that killed his best friend, Hunter. Without the person who always brought out the best in him, Gage doesn't know who he is. He likes working as a fry cook and loves his small-town friends and family, but they weren't in the wreck and he can't tell them how much he's still hurting. He just wants to forget all his pain and move on. So when his stepdad shows him a dream job opening in one of his idol's restaurants,...

En la cautivadora secuela de Belladonna, una gran historia con tintes goticos, Signa y Muerte deberan enfrentarse a un enemigo sobrenatural que tiene la intencion de separarlos.Un duque ha sido asesinado. El lord de Thorn Grove ha sido incriminado por ello. Y Destino, el hermano escurridizo de Muerte, se ha instalado en una suntuosa finca cercana. Al parecer, está empeñado en buscar venganza desde que, tiempo atrás, Muerte le quitara la vida a...

Reeling from the death of her cousin, Hannah concocts a risky plan to enroll in her cousin's elite private school and find who gave her the lethal pills, but the deeper Hannah goes the more she risks losing everything. A year ago Hannah MacLaren's cousin and best friend Sophie died of an overdose. Drowning in grief, Hannah became obsessed with one question: Who gave Sophie those pills? She enrolls at her cousin's fancy private school with a new look...