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21) The red garden
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Language
English
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A young wounded civil war solider is saved by a passionate neighbor, a woman meets a fiercely human historical character, a poet falls in love with a blind man, and a mysterious traveler comes to town in the year when summer never arrives. At the center of everyone's life is a mysterious garden where only red plants can grow, and where the truth can be found by those who dare to look.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
"Years ago, the haunting of the Overlook Hotel nearly broke young Dan Torrance's sanity, as his paranormal gift known as "the shining" opened a door straight into hell. And even though Dan is all grown up, the ghosts of the Overlook--and his father's legacy of alcoholism and violence--kept him drifting aimlessly for most of his life. Now, Dan has finally found some order in the chaos by working in a local hospice, earning the nickname "Doctor Sleep"...
23) Slither
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 11
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Slither lurks in woods and towns, hunting for human blood, but before he can feast on three lovely sisters, their dying father binds the monster to a bargain.
24) Awakened
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"The star of truTV's hit show Impractical Jokers - alongside veteran sci-fi and horror writer Darren Wearmouth - delivers a chilling and wickedly fun supernatural novel in the vein of The Strain, in which a beautiful new subway line in New York City unearths an ancient dark horror that threatens the city's utter destruction and the balance of civilization itself. After years of waiting, New York's newest subway line is finally ready, an express train...
Author
Series
Scary School volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Charles Nukid and his friends are chosen to be exchange students at Scary School's terrifying counterpart, Scream Academy, where they encounter polter-bears, abominable snowmen, trolls, and the dreaded Ice Dragon.
26) Splintered
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
A descendant of the inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, sixteen-year-old Alyssa Gardner fears she is mentally ill like her mother until she finds that Wonderland is real and, if she passes a series of tests to fix Alice's mistakes, she may save her family from their curse.
28) A little magic
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Language
English
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Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents three of her favorite Irish stories—together in one volume for the first time.
SPELLBOUND
A bewitchingly beautiful lady casts a thousand-year love spell on the man of her dreams—and unleashes a nightmare that only true love can conquer...
EVER AFTER
An ancient star pendant sends an enchanting woman to an otherwordly land—where she introduces a skeptical...
SPELLBOUND
A bewitchingly beautiful lady casts a thousand-year love spell on the man of her dreams—and unleashes a nightmare that only true love can conquer...
EVER AFTER
An ancient star pendant sends an enchanting woman to an otherwordly land—where she introduces a skeptical...
Author
Series
Song of ice and fire volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 45
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
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Description
The kingdom of the royal Stark family faces its ultimate challenge in the onset of a generation-long winter, the poisonous plots of the rival Lannisters, the emergence of the Neverborn demons, and the arrival of barbarian hordes.
30) A quick bite
Author
Series
Argeneau series volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Lissianna Argeneu is a vampire who hates the sight of blood. Yet she feels a different kind of hunger for psychoanalyst Greg Hewitt.
Author
Series
Night Prince volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Rookie vampire Leila's marriage to Vlad--the most famous vampire of all--takes a turn for the deadly when an ancient nemesis of Vlad's threatens to destroy them both.
Author
Series
Jaguar stones volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
With the end of the Mayan calendar fast approaching, 14-year-old Max Murphy and his new friend Lola, the modern Maya girl who saved his life, are racing against time to outwit the 12 Lords of Death. Following the trail of the conquistadors, their quest takes them back to the wild heart of Spain.
With the end of the Mayan calendar fast approaching, fourteen-year-old Max Murphy and his friend Lola, the Maya girl who saved his life in the perilous jungle,...
33) Out of body
Author
Series
Court of angels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Born of an ancient family of clairvoyants, Marley Millet finds that her psychic gift is both unsettling and incredibly dangerous. She never wants to travel again--but the choice is not hers to make. After glimpsing the fates of two missing New Orleans jazz singers, Marley knows she has no choice and must speak up before more women disappear. Flinty cop-turned-writer Gray Fisher, who interviewed both chanteuses before they vanished, takes a special...
Author
Series
Raven cycle volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs. The trick with found things though, is how easily they can be lost.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Beware - zombies ahead!
NYT - Combined Hardcover & Paperback Fiction
Spooky Books for Adults
Spooky Reads for Adults
NYT - Combined Hardcover & Paperback Fiction
Spooky Books for Adults
Spooky Reads for Adults
Description
An account of the decade-long conflict between humankind and hordes of the predatory undead is told from the perspective of dozens of survivors who describe in their own words the epic human battle for survival.
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Language
English
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Description
Sybil and Blake Gregory have established a predictable, well-ordered Manhattan life -- she as a cutting-edge design authority and museum consultant, he in high-tech investments -- raising their teenagers Andrew and Caroline and six-year-old Charlie. But everything changes when Blake is offered a dream job he can't resist as CEO of a start-up in San Francisco. He accepts it without consulting his wife and buys a magnificent, irresistibly underpriced...
37) Blood of elves
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Series
Language
English
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Into a tumultuous time is born a child for whom the witches of the world have been waiting. Ciri, the granddaughter of Queen Calanthe, the Lioness of Cintra, has strange powers and a strange destiny, for prophecy names her the Flame, one with the power to change the world: for good, or for evil.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Rupert cannot resist applying to an advertisement to be a witch's apprentice, but quickly finds himself over his head with the young witch-in-training who desperately needs his help.
39) Coraline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
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Description
In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
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