Kirby Heyborne
Author
Language
English
Description
"Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool's errand--to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it's a long shot, but Jay feels it's the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad's death by suicide the previous year. The dive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very real jeopardy, made infinitely worse by the arrival of...
2) Rotters
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Joey's life takes a very strange turn when his mother's tragic death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father he has never known, and who is the town pariah.
Grave robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It's true that Leonardo da Vinci did it. Shakespeare wrote about it, and the resurrection men of nineteenth-century Scotland practically made it an art. But none of this matters to Joey Crouch, a...
3) Scowler
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a 1981 meteor shower in Iowa, a homicidal maniac escapes from prison and returns to the farm where his nineteen-year-old son, Ry, must summon three childhood toys, including one called Scowler, to protect himself, his eleven-year-old sister, Sarah, and their mother.
Author
Series
Teddies saga volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When Buddy wakes up in the middle of a garbage dump, he is filled with a certain awareness: He's a teddy bear; he spent time at a Store waiting for his future to begin; and he is meant for the arms of a loving child. Now he knows one more thing: Something has gone terribly wrong. Soon he finds other discarded teddies--Horace, Sugar, Sunny, and Reginald. Though they aren't sure how their luck soured, they all agree that they need to get back to the...
Author
Series
Teddies saga volume 2
Language
English
Description
Forced to watch one of their own being destroyed, the remaining teddies, who are thrust back into a world that doesn't want them, decide to return to the place they were created to finally learn why they were thrown away.
Author
Language
English
Description
A murdered teen is resurrected to walk the earth for centuries in this sweeping historical epic in the spirit of The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, from the author of Rotters and Scowler. Twenty minutes after his murder on the shores of Lake Michigan in 1896, seventeen-year-old Zebulon Finch awakens, resurrected to suffer an eternity upon the planet. But of all people... why him? Is it because he was...
7) Trollhunters
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"You are food. Those muscles you flex to walk, lift, and talk? They're patties of meat topped with chewy tendon. That skin you've paid so much attention to in mirrors? It's delicious to the right tongues, a casserole of succulent tissue. And those bones that give you the strength to make your way in the world? They rattle between teeth as the marrow is sucked down slobbering throats. These facts are unpleasant but useful. There are things out there,
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