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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
Collects twelve short stories by Stephen King on the theme of relationships, including new stories and previously released material such as "The Gingerbread Girl," "The Things They Left Behind," and "The Cat from Hell."
2) Neverwhere
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Richard Mayhew, a young businessman living in London, helps an injured girl and finds his life changed when he leaves reality and enters the city's underground world of sewers and abandoned subway stations--a world in which the girl he helped is someone of power and nobility.
3) Jaws
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
With the 1974 publication of the novel Jaws and the release a year later of the film based on the book, an American cultural phenomenon was born. Today, the remarkable bestseller by Peter Benchley still towers as a thrilling classic of suspense, drama, and the eternal conflicts of man against nature ... and man against himself. As the movie continues to broadcast all over the world, entire generations may know the Jaws story only through its cinematic...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four friends' association with a mentally handicapped boy with supernatural abilities leaves them with special gifts that come in handy when they unite as adults for an annual hunting trip in Maine and find themselves in the middle of an alien invasion.
6) I am legend
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the complete novel, "I Am Legend," about Robert Neville, the last living man on an Earth in which every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire; and includes ten additional short horror stories.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Civilization doesn't end with a bang or a whimper. It ends with a call on your cell phone. What happens on the afternoon of October 1 came to be known as the Pulse, a signal sent though every operating cell phone that turns its user into something...well, something less than human. Savage, murderous, unthinking-and on a wanton rampage. Terrorist act? Cyber prank gone haywire? It really doesn't matter, not to the people who avoided the technological...
9) Harvest
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Second year surgical resident Abby DiMatteo stumbles onto a horrifying conspiracy when a wealthy patient who has just had a heart transplant becomes ill and Abby, in trying to treat the woman, discovers the donor records have been falsified.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
First published in a 1839 edition of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, The Fall of the House of Usher is the story of the declining physical and psychological health of the residents of the House of Usher-and the way in which the house itself reflects that. Gothic in theme and style, the story is an exemplar of Poe's philosophy of composition, which dictates that literary works should be short, methodological, and have a unity of effect wherein all the...
14) Misery
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
A bestselling author is held captive in a wheelchair, made drug-dependent, and locked in his room by an angry nurse who demands he bring her favorite character back to life.
15) Thunderhead
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist Nora Kelly discovers unbelievable riches and inescapable death when she comes into possession of a mysterious letter written by her father, who vanished sixteen years earlier, in which he divulges the location of the legendary Quivira, the Anasazi Indians' lost city of gold.
16) Reliquary
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
A sequel to "The Relic" which has NYPD Lt. D'Agosta, Natural History Museum curator Margo Green, and a host of returning characters involved in a new investigation spurred by the discovery of the decaptiated remains of a New York socialite and a sharp increase in the decapitation rate among the city's underground homeless.
18) Haven
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
After a head injury brings on nightmares involving girls being tortured and murdered, Emma Rayburn contacts her estranged sister, Jessie, a psychic investigator.
19) Midnight
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Four people are drawn together when they come to investigate strange deaths and discover dark secrets at Moonlight Cove.
Author
Series
(Dean Ray),Frankenstein volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2005
Language
English
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