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1) If it bleeds
Author
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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Featuring commentary by "Albus Dumbledore," this collection of tales from the world of Harry Potter includes "The wizard and the hopping pot," "The fountain of fair fortune," "The warlock's hairy heart," "Babbitty Rabbitty and her cackling stump," and "The tale of the three brothers."
The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a Wizarding classic, first came to Muggle readers' attention in the book known as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now, thanks to...
Author
Series
Signet classic volume CE 1659
Publisher
New American Library
Language
English
Description
A collection of horror and fantasy fiction by American author Edgar Allan Poe.
5) Frankenstein
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
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...
6) Carrie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carrie was not quite aware that she was possessed of a terrifying power. But it was enough to transform a small, quiet New England town into a holocaust of destruction.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
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...
8) East
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A young woman journeys to a distant castle on the back of a great white bear who is the victim of a cruel enchantment.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.
10) 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...
11) Rose Madder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Formats
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....
Author
Series
Deadtime stories (Reissued) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Adam Riley and his friends find out the truth about urban legends of a half-human monster when they participate in a campout from which kids begin disappearing one by one and Adam discovers ominous hoofprints in the woods.
13) The Talisman
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America - and into another realm.
Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Xander and his family move into an old, abandoned house in the middle of a dense forest outside of a small California town, they discover that not only are some of the rooms portals into other places, but that malevolent forces are at work.
Author
Series
Deadtime stories (Reissued) volume 4
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Katie and her eleven-year old brother Andy Lawrence move to Appleton, and while spending a day sightseeing at the famous Appleton Orchard strange things start happening, starting with their parents turning into appleheads and the town s children are turning into zombies.
16) The Shining
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Torrance's new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he'll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote . . . and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance,...
17) 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"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Since eighth-grader Gabriel Ashe moved into his grandmother's house he has been spending a lot of time playing in the woods with his new friend Seth, but the games Seth invents involve a child-eating monster called the Hunter, and Gabriel is not sure how much is imagination and how much real.
Author
Series
Shadow House volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Four of the orphans who were lured to Larkspur House have made it out of the shadow house alive, but Poppy, Dash, Azumi, and Dylan are still on the grounds of the estate and far from safety--and unless they solve the mystery of what it is that the house wants from them they may never escape.
20) Anansi Boys
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't shake that name, one of the many embarrassing "gifts" his father bestowed - before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlie's life." "Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. Things like the tall, good-looking stranger who appears on Charlie's doorstep, who appears to be the brother he never knew....