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Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, "jump" stories, and scary songs.
2) If it bleeds
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"The four never-before-published novellas in this collection represent horror master King at his finest, using the weird and uncanny to riff on mortality, the price of creativity, and the unpredictable consequences of material attachments. A teenager discovers that a dead friend's cell phone, which was buried with the body, still communicates from beyond the grave in 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone,' which reads like a Twilight Zone episode infused with an...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her violent husband, disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of Joe Claiborne thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera's physical and mental decline and of her loyalty to an employer who has become emotionally demanding in recent years.
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Dollanganger family series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Young Bart, son of Chris and Cathy who spent their adolescence locked in an attic, trembles on the edge of madness.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"They say that a ghost witch lives in the woods, up on Brewster's Hill. They say her companion, Bloody Bones, has a pig skull for a face and stands taller than a man, his skeleton gleaming white in the moonlight. They say that the witch takes young girls, and no one ever sees them again. Daniel doesn't believe the stories about the witch or her beast. He figures the kids on the bus are just trying to scare him, since he's new. But when his sister,...
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Miss Peregrine volume Related works
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Presents an illustrated edition of the fantastical book featured in the Miss Peregrine series that includes unusual fairy tales about wealthy cannibals, a fork-tongued princess, and the origins of the first ymbryne.
8) Rose Madder
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
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"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....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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When Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, Elsa's greatest adventure begins. Her grandmother's instructions lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs, and old crones but also to the truth about fairy tales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other.
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy--as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers...
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After befriending mysterious newcomer Lizzy Palmer, Shadyside High student Michael begins suffering terrible losses tied to a decades-old betrayal.
11) The Fallen
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Series
Enemy series (Charlie Higson) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"First the sickness rotted the adults' minds. Then their bodies. Now they stalk the streets of London, hunting human flesh. The Holloway crew are survivors. They've fought their way across the city and made it to the Natural History Museum alive--just barely. But their fight will never end while the Enemy lives, unless there's another way... The kids at the museum are looking for a cure. All they need are medical supplies.To get them they must venture...
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English
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"A sister and brother ... pull off to the side of the road after hearing a young boy crying for help from beyond the tall grass. Within minutes they are disoriented, in deeper than seems possible, and they've lost one another. The boy's cries are more and more desperate"--Container.
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Court of thorns and roses volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
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Feyre returns to the Spring Court on a reconaissance mission about the invading king. As a spy, the future of the entire kingdom may rely on her ability to play her part perfectly, and her decisions about who to trust and which allies are best will decide the outcome of the coming war.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Desperate to stop her beloved from marrying another, sixteen-year-old Evangeline Fox strikes a deal with the mythic Prince of Hearts leading her down a dangerous path that may ultimately end in her destruction.
Raised in her father's curiosity shop, Evangeline Fox grew up on legends about immortals, like the tragic Prince of Hearts. She knows his powers are mythic, his kiss is worth dying for, and that bargains with him rarely end well. When Evangeline...
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Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"At the top of the stairs there are four secrets hidden. Blond, beautiful, innocent, and struggling to stay alive... They were a perfect family, golden and carefree - until a heartbreaking tragedy shattered their happiness. Now, for the sake of an inheritance that will ensure their future, the children must be hidden away out of sight, as if they never existed. Kept on the top floor of their grandmother's vast mansion, their loving mother assures...
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Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
There are plenty of chills in this compilation of four separately published books of scary stories: The stranger on the stairs, The doll that waved goodbye, The voice in the boys' room, and The phantom on the phone.
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Series
Wolf gift chronicles volume 1
Language
English
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A young reporter on assignment is attacked and bitten by an unknown beast in rural Northern California and begins a terrifying but seductive transformation into a being with a dual nature, both man and wolf.
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Series
Middlemist trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Lady Gemma Ashbourne seemingly has it all. She's young, gorgeous, and rich. Her family was Anointed by the gods, blessed with incredible abilities. But underneath her glittering fȧade, Gemma is deeply sad. Years ago, her sister Mara was taken to the Middlemist to guard against treacherous magic. Her mother abandoned the family. Her father and eldest sister, Farrin--embroiled in a deadly blood feud with the mysterious Bask family--often forget Gemma...
19) Just so stories
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Twelve stories about animals, insects, and othr subjects include "How the Camel Got His Hump," "the Butterfly That Stamped," and "How the Alphabet Was Made."
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Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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"Posters plastered across the thirteen kingdoms are saying that Briar Rose has been murdered--and the four Princes Charming (Prince Liam, Prince Frederic, Prince Duncan, and Prince Gustav) are the prime suspects. In a desperate attempt to clear their name, they discover that Briar's murder is just one part of a nefarious plot to take control of all thirteen kingdom--a plot that will lead to the doorstep of an eerily familiar fortress for a final showdown...