Worst-case Collin by Caprara, Rebecca 

BTSB Prebound(Charlesbridge, 2021)

BTSB #: 185805 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.5 MG Lexile: 680

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Novels in verse Hoarders - Fiction Grief - Fiction Death - Fiction Father-son relationship - Fiction Mathematicians - Fiction Friendship - Fiction

Summary: In the two years since his mother was killed in an automobile crash, Collin has been anticipating further disasters, writing down what to do in the event of an avalanche or mentally practicing the Heimlich maneuver just in case--but the real trouble is that his mathematician father is obsessed with a classic math problem and has a hoarding problem that is spiraling out of control, leaving Collin desperate to hide this chaos from his friends and everyone else, even as he struggles with his own grief.

Year to the day by Benway, Robin 

Paperback(HarperTeen, 2023)

BTSB #: 111757 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   


Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Drunk driving - Fiction Sisters - Fiction Loss (Psychology) - Fiction Grief - Fiction

Summary: Leo can't remember what happened the night of the accident. All she knows is that she left the party with her older sister, Nina, and Nina's boyfriend, East. And now Nina is dead, killed by a drunk driver and leaving Leo with a hole inside her that's impossible to fill. But as she struggles to remember what happened, Leo discovers that East remembers every detail of the accident--and he won't tell her anything about it. How can she move on if she never knows what really happened that night?

Yo no soy tu perfecta hija Mexicana by Sanchez, Erika L. 

PaperbackSPANISH(Vintage Espanol, 2018)

BTSB #: 775634 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 4 UG

Genres: Spanish Language Family Life Multicultural

Subjects: Mother-daughter relationship - Fiction Grief - Fiction Mexican Americans - Fiction Latinos (U.S.) - Fiction Spanish language - Reading materials Chicago (Ill.) - Fiction

Summary: When the sister who delighted their parents by her faithful embrace of Mexican culture dies in a tragic accident, Julia, who longs to go to college and move into a home of her own, discovers from mutual friends that her sister may not have been as perfect as believed. In Spanish.