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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robert Louis Stevenson originally wrote "Dr. Jekyll And Mr Hyde" as a " chilling shocker." He then burned the draft and, upon his wife's advice, rewrote it as the darkly complex tale it is today. Stark, skillfully woven, this fascinating novel explores the curious turnings of human character through the strange case of Dr. Jekyll, a kindly scientist who by night takes on his stunted evil self, Mr. Hyde. Anticipating modern psychology, "Jekyll And...
3) The Fallen
Author
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...
4) Zom-B baby
Author
Series
Zom-B volume 5
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Grateful for the company of The Angels, B nevertheless questions their mission to eradicate the living dead from the face of the earth, and encounters a horror beyond imagining"--
5) Stardust
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young Tristran Thorn, having lost his heart to the lovely but cold Victoria Forester, leaves the safe English town of Wall and sets out into a strange world on a quest to retrieve a fallen star he has promised to his beloved.
6) Neverwhere
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
A man goes to the aid of woman pursued by assassins and discovers an alternative City of London, a subterranean, medieval world populated by "people who fell through the cracks" from the real city above. A fantasy tale, replete with demons and wizards. By the author of The Sandman.
7) Zom-B City
Author
Series
Zom-B volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
As zombies overrun London, B battles moral dilemmas and a growing sense of hopelessness at every turn.
8) The Enemy
Author
Series
Enemy series (Charlie Higson) volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Following the outbreak of a disease that has turned everyone over the age of sixteen into zombies, a group of young survivors barricade themselves in a store and struggle to survive. Eventually, they are offered a safe haven within Buckingham Palace, but quickly discover that the dangers inside the palace are just as real as those outside it.
9) Blitzcat
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
During World War II a black cat journeys all across war-ravaged England in an effort to track down her beloved master.
10) Zom-B clans
Author
Series
Zom-B volume 8
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"While saving the town of New Kirkham, B's old friend, Vinyl, is kidnapped by the Ku Klux Klan. The Angels are prepared to do what it takes to save him, but B will have to make some very hard decisions about her loyalties"--
11) The Fear
Author
Series
Enemy series (Charlie Higson) volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In London, after a worldwide sickness infects adults, turning them into zombie-like creatures, DogNut and his crew embark on a deadly mission to find missing friends, as hungry, bloodthirsty grownups lie in wait.
12) The End
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In this kids versus zombies book Shadowman, realizing that Saint George's army is headed toward the center of London, has raced ahead to warn the kids of the impending disaster.
13) Frankenstein
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
14) The hunted
Author
Series
Enemy series (Charlie Higson) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The others told Ella that the countryside would be safer than the city. They were wrong. Now Ed wants to assemble a crew and find her, though he has no idea who - or what - they'll meet out there. Or if Ella is even alive...But the sickos are moving as one towards the capital as if being called - and will kill anyone who stands in their way.
15) White crow
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Rebecca moves with her father from London to a small, seaside village, where she befriends another motherless girl and they spend the summer together exploring the village's sinister history.
16) Long Lankin
Author
Series
Long Lankin volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When Cora and her younger sister, Mimi, are sent to stay with their great Auntie Ida in an isolated village in 1958, they discover that they are in danger from a centuries-old evil and, along with village boys Roger and Peter, strive to uncover the horrifying truth before it is too late.
Author
Series
Grim lovelies volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Anouk is forced into a sinister deal with Crown Prince Rennar in order to help her friends, who are trapped in their animal forms, and save Paris from the Coven at Oxford.