Catalog Search Results
1) The outsider
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a boy's brutal murder in Flint City, a local detective is forced to arrest a popular Little League coach who, in spite of an alibi, presents with open-and-shut evidence that is called into question when the suspect's true nature and the realities of the crime come to light.
Author
Language
English
Description
When a bizarre virulent plague breaks out in the world's major cities, causing victims to spontaneously combust, a dedicated nurse resolves to survive until her baby is born and receives protection from a mysterious infected man who uses his fire symptoms to help others.
Author
Language
English
Description
A high school student discovers that her midwestern town falls victim every twenty years to a plague of sentient tornadoes determined to destroy them all and discovers a strange connection with the only person who can stop them, a boy known only as the tornado killer.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
From a master of the short story, a collection that includes stories never before in print, never published in America, never collected and brand new- with the magnificent bones of interstitial autobiographical comments on when, why and how Stephen King came to write each story.
6) Frankenstein
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
At the age of eighteen, Mary Shelley, while staying in the Swiss Alps with her lover Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and others, conceived the tale of Dr. Victor Frankenstein and the monster he brings to life. The resulting book, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a dark parable warning against the risks of scientific...
At the age of eighteen, Mary Shelley, while staying in the Swiss Alps with her lover Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and others, conceived the tale of Dr. Victor Frankenstein and the monster he brings to life. The resulting book, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a dark parable warning against the risks of scientific...
7) Coraline
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1915, Adelaide Henry, after her secret sin killed her parents, sets out for Montana, dragging an enormous steamer trunk that’s locked at all times, to become one of the “lone women” taking advantage of the government’s offer of free land where she hopes to bury her past.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once the center of madness, suicide, mass murder, and whispers of things far worse, the 1800s Gilded Age palace known as the Pendleton, has been re-christened in the 1970s as a luxury apartment building. But now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, and elevators plunge into unknown depths.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Only a week into his job as hall monitor and class protector, Sam Graves and his friends Lucy and Antonio are trying to uncover the secrets of Eerie Elementary, their living and malevolent school--and then Lucy gets eaten by her locker.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A witch called Old Auntie is lurking near Dan's family's new home. He doesn't believe in her at first, but is forced to accept that she is real and take action when his little sister, Erica, is 'took' to become Auntie's slave for the next fifty years.
Author
Language
English
Description
Another visionary novel from the great science fiction writer H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau tackles the thorny issues thrown up when humankind plays God and explores notions of society and identity, bringing the mythical chimera - part human, part animal - into the age of science.
13) White space
Author
Series
Dark passages volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A seventeen-year-old girl jumps between the lines of books and into the white space where realities are created and destroyed--but who may herself be nothing more than a character written into being from an alternative universe"-- Provided by publisher.
17) Cell: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
From international bestseller Stephen King, a high-concept, ingenious and terrifying story about the mayhem unleashed when a pulse from a mysterious source transforms all cell phone users into homicidal maniacs.
There's a reason cell rhymes with hell.
On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and Clayton Riddell, an artist from Maine, is almost bouncing up Boylston...
There's a reason cell rhymes with hell.
On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and Clayton Riddell, an artist from Maine, is almost bouncing up Boylston...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ever since her father was killed, Miranda Crabtree has kept her head down and her eyes up, ferrying contraband for a mad preacher and his declining band of followers to make ends meet and to protect an old witch and a secret child from harm. When the preacher makes an unthinkable demand, it sets Miranda on a desperate, dangerous path, forcing her to consider what she is willing to sacrifice to keep her loved ones safe.
19) Dead silence
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Investigating a strange distress signal, Claire Kovalik and her crew discover a luxury space-liner that vanished 20 years prior and board the vessel to find words scrawled in blood, strange movements and whispers in the dark.
Author
Series
Publisher
Skybound Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Set in the expansive world of Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead series, three different people in China--a rural farmer, an urban military veteran, and a Chinese American grad student--are caught in the typhoon of undead walkers as the virus sweeps over the most populous country in Asia.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request