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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Curdie is the son of a miner who, like his father, works deep within the mountains digging for the gold and silver which keep the kingdom a happy and prosperous one. One day an old woman tells him he has been chosen for a very special mission
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Whether writing about encounters with the dead, the near dead, or about the mundane dreads of life, from quitting smoking to yard sales, Stephen King is at the top of his form in the fourteen dark tales assembled in Everything's Eventual. Intense, eerie, and instantly compelling, they announce the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"A flier has [a] forced landing in the Sahara. He is met by the little Prince of Asteroid B612. The Prince tells the flier of his experiences on many planets with men, flowers, and animals--all very quaint and strange--and the conclusion of it all is: 'What is essential is invisible to the eye.'" Library Journal.
Author
Series
Books of Bayern volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
On her way to marry a prince she's never met, Princess Anidori is betrayed by her guards and her lady-in-waiting and must become a goose girl to survive until she can reveal her true identity and reclaim the crown that is rightfully hers.
9) I am legend
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Language
English
Description
Neville is essentially the last man on earth, and the loneliness of his situation is the central part of the story. Matheson is able to communicate Neville's emotional feelings vividly, making him very real. We gradually acquire the story of the deaths of Neville's wife and daughter, essentially experiencing the pain he goes through when these memories overcome him. We watch him drink himself into a stupor as each night finds him besieged in his fortified...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
It's a warm summer's afternoon when young Alice first tumbles down the rabbit hole and into the adventures in Wonderland that have kept readers spellbound for more than 150 years.
Collected here are Lewis Carroll's two classics - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass - in which Alice encounters the laconic Cheshire Cat, the anxious White Rabbit and the terrifying Red Queen, as well as a host of other outlandish and charming...
11) Frankenstein
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Frankenstein: Using parts from corpses, Victor Frankenstein creates a large, man-like creature. Rejected and abused by humans, the creature takes revenge by committing murder. Frankenstein then pursues the creature, determined to kill him or die in the attempt. -- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: When Dr. Henry Jekyll begins to look ill and isolates himself from his friends, they fear for his life. A mysterious evil man named Edward...
12) Odd Thomas
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Odd Thomas, a short order cook at the Pico Mundo Grill, keeps his ability to speak with ghosts a secret from all but his girlfriend, Stormy, and the local police chief who he occasionally helps solve or prevent crime, but his unusual talent leads him and his fellow citizens into big trouble when a strange man comes to town followed by a horde of borachs--ghostly harbingers of mayhem.
13) Rose Madder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
"After surviving fourteen years of hell in a violently abusive marriage, Rosie Daniels finally summons the courage to flee for her life. But leaving her husband, Norman, for a new city and a new start is a very daunting prospect. It's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder, and with good reason - Norman's a police officer with the instincts of a predator, a force of relentless terror and savagery... a man almost mythic in his monstrosity....
14) The Outsider
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories. An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the...
16) The High King
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In the fifth and final book of the chronicles of Prydain, Taran and Prince Gwydion rally an army to stand up to Arawyn, Lord of the Land of death for the ultimate confrontation of the forces of good and evil.
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
It sounds like something's moving in the mummy's tomb. Did the secret chant wake someone?After last year's scary adventure, Gabe's a little nervous about being back in Egypt. Back near the ancient pyramids. Back where he saw all those creepy mummies.Then he learns about an Egyptian superstition. A secret chant that is supposed to bring mummies back to life. Gabe's uncle says it's just a hoax.But now it sounds like something's moving in the mummy's...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Juvenile fiction
Adolescence
This is the second of five chronicles of Prydain in which Taran, the assistant-pig-keeper, longs to enter the world of men, but when he achieves his desire, he finds there is treachery as well as friendship
19) Desperation
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Formats
Description
There's a place alone Interstate 50 that some call the loneliest place on Earth. It's not a very nice place to live. It's an even worse place to die. It's known as Desperation, Nevada. But the nearly deserted Nevada mining town with an enormous haunted mine pit and an abandoned movie theatre where the survivors hang out makes for a striking battleground, and the grisly action rarely flags.
20) Holly: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down. Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the...