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Vampire chronicles volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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In Anne Rice's extraordinary fifth novel of "The Vampire Chronicles", irresistible antihero Lestat encounters his most dangerous adversary--the mysterious being Memnoch, who claims to be the Devil. Ushered through the realms of Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell, Lestat must finally decide if he can believe in the Devil or God--and which, if either, he will serve.
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Vampire chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 32
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English
Description
Stories of rockstar Lestat, beautiful twins haunted by a gruesome tragedy, and Akasha are intertwined, as Akasha, Queen of the Damned, mother of all vampires, has been awakened from her 6,000 year sleep by Lestat and puts into motion a plan to save mankind from itself and to make all the myths of the world real by elevating herself and her chosen son/lover to the level of the gods.
3) Night shift
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
760L
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English
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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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 41
Lexile measure
860L
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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...
6) 'Salem's Lot
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
860L
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English
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Product Description: Upon its initial publication in 1975, Salem's Lot was recognized as a landmark work. The novel has sold millions of copies in various editions, but it wasn't until Centipede Press published a special limited edition in 2004 that King's masterpiece was brought to brilliant and eerie life. With the addition of fifty pages of material deleted from the 1975 manuscript as well as material that has since been modified by King, an introduction...
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Lexile measure
890L
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English
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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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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."
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
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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."
10) The troop
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Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip. This year, something is waiting in the darkness. Something wicked.... An intruder stumbles upon their campsite like a wild animal. He is shockingly thin, disturbingly pale, and voraciously hungry. Within his body is a bioengineered nightmare, a horror that spreads faster than fear. One by one, the boys will do things no person could...
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Ramses the damned volume 1
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English
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Doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell his insatiable hungers, Ramses the Damned turns up in Edwardian London as Dr. Ramsey and begins a romance with heiress Julie Stratford, but his cursed past again propels him toward disaster.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 26
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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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 43
Lexile measure
960L
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English
Description
A wrong turn on a lonely road lands a wayward couple in Rock and Roll Heaven, Oregon, where there's no escaping the free nightly concert….A novelty toy becomes an unexpected and terrifying instrument of self-defense….An ex-con pieces together a map to unearth a stolen million dollars-but at what price?...A private investigator in Depression-era Los Angeles is finding his life unraveling as he discovers the shocking truth of who he really is….A...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
470L
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English
Description
After being put back to sleep and abandoned in an old museum, Slappy is brought to life by a curious girl on a school trip. Out for revenge, Slappy uses his powers to raise an army of creatures from the exhibits. But when the museum closes, Slappy and his new friends are locked inside with Arragatis, an ancient mummy with his own plan for revenge. It's dummy versus mummy as Slappy faces his most dangerous and frightening opponent yet! Can Slappy defeat...
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Vampire chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 34
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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...
16) Positive
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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...
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The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the werewolf's fangs ripping at his throat. The next month there was a scream of ecstatic agony from the woman attacked in her cozy bedroom. Now scenes of unbelievable horror unfold each time the full moon shines on the isolated Maine town of Tarker's Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next. But one thing is sure. When the full moon rises, a paralyzing fear sweeps through Tarker's...
18) Gerald's game
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 21
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English
Description
Jessie is trapped: during an ill-fated S&M game, she kicks her husband and induces a fatal coronary. She is handcuffed to the bed in a lakeside cabin in the middle of nowhere, with no means of escape. Voices in her head force her to confront a buried childhood trauma.
19) Bunny
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"Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become one. But everything...
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Vampire chronicles volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 27
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English
Description
Armand recounts his life starting with the ruined city he lived in as a child, and while he is there, he meets the great vampire Marius who makes him choose between the life he knows, and the mystery and immortality of the life of a vampire.
The vampire's story, from his boyhood in Kiev, his enslavement to a vampire masquerading as a Venetian painter, and his dedication to his two mortal children.
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