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361) School freezes over!
Author
Series
Eerie Elementary volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A heavy snowstorm traps the students inside Eerie Elementary, a living, breathing monster brought to life by mad scientist, Orson Eerie--soon the school begins to freeze from the inside out, and Sam, Lucy and Antonio must find a way to get the heat back on before all the students freeze to death, while facing the truth that Orson Eerie is even more powerful and dangerous than they realized
362) Shadowlands
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rory, a girl in witness protection, thinks the serial killer she turned in has found her and is killing people around her. But as she investigates, she discovers a dark, disturbing truth about her new hometown"--
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Schools may lock up for the night, but class is in session for an entirely different set of students. In the Nightschool, vampires, werewolves, and weirns (a particular breed of witches) learn the fundamentals of everything from calculus to spell casting. Alex is a young weirn whose education has always been handled through homeschooling, but circumstances seem to be drawing her closer to the Nightschool. Will Alex manage to weather the dark forces...
364) Howl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When no one in the small town of Merritt, Florida, believes that he was attacked by a monster, fifteen-year-old Virgil Knox fears the monster will return to finish him off, or worse--that he is becoming a monster himself
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until the evening when two detectives show up at her front door. A high school girl has vanished from Erika's quiet suburban neighborhood. The police suspect the worst--murder. And Erika's teenage son, Liam, was the last person to see the girl alive. Erika has always sensed something dark and disturbed in her seemingly perfect older child. She wants to believe he's innocent, but as the evidence mounts,...
366) Full dark, no stars
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prolific author Stephen King presents a collection of four new novellas. In the story 1922, a man plunges into the depths of madness when his wife attempts to sell off the family home. A mystery writer, who was beaten and raped while driving home from her book club, plots her revenge in Big Driver. Diagnosed with a deadly cancer, a man makes a deal with the devil in Fair Extension. And in A Good Marriage, a woman discovers her husband's darker side...
Author
Series
Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 168
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work Dracula, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.
Author
Series
Familiar novels volume 1
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
From the universally acclaimed, genre-busting author of House of Leaves comes a new book as dazzling as it is riveting . . . A page-turner from start to finish, ranging from Southeast Asia to Mexico to Venice, Italy, and Venice, California, with characters as diverse as a therapist-in-training whose daughters prove far more complex than her patients, an ambitious East-L.A. gang member hired for violence, two scientists on the run in Marfa, Texas,...
Publisher
No Exit Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"The ghost of a poor Afghan returns to haunt the doctor who once amputated his hand. A mysterious and malignant force inhabits a room in an ancestral home and attacks all who sleep in it. A man who desecrates an Indian temple is transformed into a ravening beast. A castle in the Tyrol is the setting for an aristocratic murderer's apparent resurrection. In the stories in this collection, horrors from beyond the grave and other dimensions visit the...
370) In a glass Grimmly
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Companion to: A tale dark & Grimm
Frog joins cousins Jack and Jill in leaving their own stories to seek a magic mirror, encountering such creatures as giants, mermaids, and goblins along the way. Based in part on fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen
371) The glass demon
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Lin and her family move to an ancient German castle for a year while her medievalist father searches for the famed Allerheiligen glass--lost stained glass windows that are said to be haunted by a terrifying demon--she becomes involved in a horrific murder mystery
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Farrah Turner is one of two Black girls in her country club community, and the only one with Black parents. Her best friend, Cherish Whitman, adopted by a wealthy white family, is something Farrah likes to call WGS--White Girl Spoiled. With Brianne and Jerry Whitman as parents, Cherish is given the kind of adoration and coddling that even upper-class Black parents can't seem to afford--and it creates a dissonance in her best friend...
373) Havoc
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Everyone knows the rumors--if you gather the right things and say the right words, you'll be taken to Malice, a world that exists within a terrifying comic book. Seth managed to escape from Malice, but it meant leaving his best friend, Kady, trapped there. And he's not sure whether he should try to take down the Malice comic from his own world or go back with an artifact he thinks can help from within. He is sure that he's desperate to save Kady....
Author
Series
Eerie Elementary volume 4
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
For the first time in years Eerie Elementary is planning a science fair, which may not be a good idea in a school which is alive and out to get the students--but when Sam and his friends find a book of experiments that contains all of Orson Eerie's notes, it may turn out to be the key they need to finally understand the mad scientist
Author
Series
Nightschool volume 1
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Schools may lock up for the night, but class is in session for an entirely different set of students. In the Nightschool, vampires, werewolves, and weirns (a particular breed of witches) learn the fundamentals of everything from calculus to spell casting. Alex is a young weirn whose education has always been handled through homeschooling, but circumstances seem to be drawing her closer to the Nightschool. Will Alex manage to weather the dark forces...
Author
Series
Locke and Key volume 2
Publisher
IDW Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The three Locke children - survivors of a horrific home invasion that claimed their father - have just begun to rebuild their lives when little Bode discovers a key with incredible power
378) Charlotte's Story
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"The Fall of 1957 in southern Virginia was a seemingly idyllic, even prosperous time. A young housewife, Charlotte Bliss, lives with her husband, Hasbrouck Preston "Press" Bliss and their two young children, Eva Grace and Michael, in the gorgeous Bliss family home. On the surface, theirs seems a calm, picturesque life, but soon tragedy befalls them -- a series of shocking deaths, with apparently simple explanations. But nothing is simple if Bliss...
379) Bram Stoker
Author
Series
Twayne's English authors volume TEAS 343
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Bram Stoker.
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Schools may lock up for the night, but class is in session for an entirely different set of students. In the Nightschool, vampires, werewolves, and weirns (a particular breed of witches) learn the fundamentals of everything from calculus to spell casting. Alex is a young weirn whose education has always been handled through homeschooling, but circumstances seem to be drawing her closer to the Nightschool. Will Alex manage to weather the dark forces...
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