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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
Detective Jacob Lev novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A burned-out L.A. detective... a woman of mystery who is far more than she seems... a grotesque, ancient monster bent on a mission of retribution. When these three collide, a new standard of suspense is born. The legend of the Golem of Prague has endured through the ages, a creature fashioned by a sixteenth-century rabbi to protect his congregation, now lying dormant in the garret of a synagogue. But the Golem is dormant no longer. Detective Jacob...
5) The academy
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Tyler High experiences frightening changes after voting to become a charter school.
7) Phantoms
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred and fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California. At first they thought it was the work of a maniac. Or terrorists. Or toxic contamination. Or a bizarre new disease. But then they found the truth. And they saw it in the flesh. It is worse than anything they...
8) The homing
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Karen Spellman returns to the countryside of her childhood to marry her high school sweetheart, unaware that something sinister awaits her.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Intrigued by a series of mysterious attacks on ocean wildlife, a group of scientists stumbles upon evidence of a prehistoric manta ray that has evolved into a dangerous predator and is attacking people on a remote island in the region.
Author
Series
Gone novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Conditions worsen for the remaining young residents of a small California coastal town isolated by supernatural events when their food supplies dwindle and the Darkness underground awakens.
13) Midnight
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Formats
Description
Some strange deaths draw Tessa Lockland and Sam Booker to Moonlight Cove, where they team up with natives Chrissie Foster and Harry Talbot to combat the evil that threatens the community.
14) Dragon Tears
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harry Lyon, a decent cop struggling to remain rational in a crazy world, finds his sanity threatened after being forced to shoot a man and having a homeless stranger chant haunting words at him that predict his own death by dawn.
16) Frenzy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Xander travels through the portals in the King's strange house to visit Uncle Jesse as a boy, he learns that David has died and determines to do whatever it takes, and visit as many worlds as necessary, to change the future.
17) Magic fire
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Mark Charm, a pyromaniac, decides to burn the entire state of California.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Greyson Bennell volunteers to help with the cleanup effort after a massive mudslide devastates his California town, he is not expecting anything but some hard work--but this disaster was caused by a very peculiar storm and he soon realizes that the mud itself is making the other volunteers behave in an ominous manner.
19) Zombie season
Author
Series
Zombie season volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"It's a hard time to be in California. Every scorching summer brings the predictable disaster. Towns evacuated. Property destroyed. Lives on the line. Because every summer, catastrophe begins in the woods. Every summer, zombie season arrives. Joule refuses to evacuate with her mom. She can't leave town while her dad's still missing. He's out there, somewhere, and Joule is going to find him. But what if he's not just lost? What if he's become what...
20) Third strike
Author
Series
Slayer chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Joss is given a mission to eradicate vampires in his home town of Santa Carla, where he will need to protect his family including cousin Henry, who still carries a grudge.