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1) Night shift
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
King’s first collection of short stories showcases the darkest depths of his brilliant imagination. Here we see mutated rats gone bad (“Graveyard Shift”); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity (“Night Surf,” the basis for The Stand); a possessed, evil lawnmower (“The Lawnmower Man”); unsettling children from the heartland (“Children of the Corn”); a smoker who will try anything to stop (“Quitters, Inc.”); a reclusive...
Author
Series
Vampire chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
"Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force--a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write"--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Signets Belles lettres volume AE 4293
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 34
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Age-old images of fear fuse with the iconography of contemporary American life in this collection of tales from the modern master of horror.
4) Roadwork
Author
Language
English
Description
The city's Highway 784 extension is being constructed right through every aspect of Bart Dawes's existence -- his home, his neighborhood, and the plant where he works. But something's happening inside his head, a complete and irrevocable burnout of the mental circuit breaker that keeps a mild-mannered person like Bart from turning to violent means. He's not about to give up everything without a fight.
5) Misery
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Paul Sheldon, the author of "Misery Chastain" romance series, learns what real misery means when he wrecks his car and becomes the patient of one of his biggest and angriest fans -- held captive in a wheelchair, made drug-dependent, and locked in his room by a nurse who demands he bring her favorite character back to life.
Author
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
A collection of four novellas from Stephen King bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters. This gripping collection begins with "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption," in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge. Next is "Apt Pupil," about top high school student Todd Bowden and his obsession with the dark and deadly past of...
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Series
Language
English
Description
A domestic flight makes an unusual stopover in the land of "The Langoliers; " a writer confronts the reality of his success in "Secret Window, Secret Garden; " after being scolded by "The Library Policeman, " you'll never return a book late again; and once again the community of Castle Rock finds itself besieged by a nasty pooch in "The Sun Dog."
8) 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: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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."
Author
Series
Vampire chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
The story begins in our own time with Lestat, tall, blond, and handsome, a world-renowned rock star. His gifts are timeless, his youth never withers. But he was not always the powerful and famous child of darkness. Before his long earth-encrusted sleep, he was an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-Revolutionary France. It was then that he came face-to-face with the incarnation of evil and the temptations of love that he has ravenously pursued through...
Author
Series
Vampire chronicles volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
In a gripping feat of storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now-classic Interview with the Vampire. Lestat speaks. Vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals. For centuries he has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Lestat is alone. And suddenly all his vampire rationale--everything he has come to believe and feel safe with--is called into question. In...
12) Positive
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Language
English
Description
Years after a plague killed 99 percent of the population, turning them into infectious zombies, Finnegan and his family live in a barricaded New York City. But Finn's sheltered life fractures when his unsuspecting mother falls sick with the zombie disease - latent inside her since before her son's birth. Finn, too, can be infected. If he remains healthy for the last two years of potential incubation period, he'll be cleared. Until then, he must be...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
The first collection of stories Stephen King has published since Nightmares & Dreamscapes nine years ago, Everything's Eventual includes one O. Henry Prize winner, two other award winners, four stories published by The New Yorker, and "Riding the Bullet," King's original e-book, which attracted over half a million online readers and became the most famous short story of the decade. "Riding the Bullet" is the story of Alan Parker, who's hitchhiking...
14) Needful things
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 40
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
The town of Castle Rock, Maine has seen its fair share of oddities over the years, but nothing is as peculiar as the little curio shop that's just opened for business here. Its mysterious proprietor, Leland Gaunt, seems to have something for everyone out on display at Needful Things...interesting items that run the gamut from worthless to priceless. Nothing has a price tag in this place, but everything is certainly for sale. The heart's desire for...
15) Vampire breath
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 49
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
430L
Language
English
Description
Exploring his basement, Freddy and his friend Cara discover a mysterious bottle labeled "vampire breath" and accidentally break it open, unleashing a very thirsty Count Nightwing on the town.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Ned, having taken to hanging out at the barracks of state police Troop D in rural Pennsylvania after the death of his father, Trooper Curtis Wilcox, becomes obsessed with learning the truth about a 1954 Buick Roadmaster--apparently a conduit to the underworld--the squad has had secreted in a locked shed since 1979 when its owner mysteriously disappeared.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 41
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
On a beautiful June day, while walking deep in the woods on her property in Haven, Maine, Bobbi Anderson quite literally stumbles over her own destiny and that of the entire town. For the dull gray metal protrusion she discovers in the ground is part of a mysterious and massive metal object, one that may have been buried there for millennia. Bobbi can't help but become obsessed and try to dig it out ... the consequences of which will affect and transmute...
Author
Series
Vampire chronicles volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
At the center of Anne Rice's new novel is the beautiful, unconquerable Merrick, a child--a witch with the power and magical knowledge of a Medea and a Circe. She is a Mayfair of New Orleans, descendent of a family rich in its French and Spanish past, steeped in the age-old tradition of voodoo. Into this strange and exotic world comes David Talbot, hero, storyteller, adventurer, almost-mortal vampire, a visitor from another realm of the dark world....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her violent husband, disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of Joe Claiborne thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera's physical and mental decline and of her loyalty to an employer who has become emotionally demanding in recent years.
20) Doctor Sleep
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
On highways across America, a tribe of people called the True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless-mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, the True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the steam that children with the shining produce when they are slowly tortured to death. Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel, where he spent one...
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