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1) Neverwhere
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
A man goes to the aid of woman pursued by assassins and discovers an alternative City of London, a subterranean, medieval world populated by "people who fell through the cracks" from the real city above. A fantasy tale, replete with demons and wizards. By the author of The Sandman.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Jekyll is a kind and respected man. His friends cannot understand his companionship with the wicked, mysterious Mr. Hyde, who seems to have come from nowhere and yet has a terrible hold on the doctor. Even as Hyde commits crimes that shock all of London, no one can guess how -- or why -- the two men are so close. Only at the very end of this gripping tale is the incredible truth revealed." - back cover.
3) Anno-Dracula
Author
Series
Anno Dracula volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an alternate history of the nineteenth century, Queen Victoria has married Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula, leading to a reign of horror, while, in Whitechapel, Silver Knife, a murderer of vampire girls, threatens the new regime.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 450L
Language
English
Description
Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious-during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. More than a hundred years later, this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes his evil, inner persona-the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde-has lost none of its ability to shock. Its realistic police-style narrative...
5) The dead
Author
Series
Enemy series (Charlie Higson) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a disease turns everyone over sixteen into brainless, decomposing, flesh-eating creatures, a group of teenagers head to London. Ed, Jack, Bam and the other students at Rowhurst School learn more about the Disaster, and meet an adult who seems to be immune to the disease.
7) The beetle
Author
Language
English
Description
"First published in 1897, Richard Marsh's classic work of gothic horror, The Beetle, opens with Robert Holt, an out-of-work clerk seeking shelter in an abandoned house. He comes face to face with a fantastical creature with supernatural and hypnotic powers; a creature who can transform at will between its human and beetle forms and who wrecks havoc when he preys on young middle-class Britons. Featuring an introduction by bestselling author Chelsea...
8) The fear
Author
Series
Enemy series (Charlie Higson) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In London, after a worldwide sickness infects adults, turning them into zombie-like creatures, DogNut and his crew embark on a deadly mission to find missing friends, as hungry, bloodthirsty grownups lie in wait.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A book so iconic that its title is synonymous with split personalities, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, was first released in 1886. The story of a virtuous Dr. Jekyll who mistakenly creates an alter ego of unadulterated evil serves as an examination of the duality of human nature and the battle between good and evil. Full of mystery and fright, this story has remained popular for more than a century....
10) Soulless
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire -- and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate....
Author
Language
Español
Description
Robert Louis Stevenson fue uno de los gigantes de la novela de aventuras, pero tambi©♭n fue uno de los grandes conocedores de la mentalidad humana, por lo que tarde o temprano escribir©Ưa un cl©Łsico eterno como El extraño caso del doctor Jekyll y el señor Hyde. Como testigo lócido de la Revolucóđn Industrial en el Reino Unido, Stevenson reflexiona sobre los l©Ưmites de los m©♭todos y la ©♭tica cient©Ưfica, y sobre todo, de una...
12) The end
Author
Series
Enemy series (Charlie Higson) volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The final battle ensues between Saint George's army of sickos and the army of London kids"--
13) The enemy
Author
Series
Enemy series (Charlie Higson) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the wake of a devastating disease, everyone sixteen and older is either dead or a decomposing, brainless creature with a ravenous appetite for flesh. Teens have barricaded themselves in buildings throughout London and venture outside only when they need to scavenge for food.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Liv Silver, fifteen, has lived in six countries in eight years and she and her sister yearn for a real home and normalcy, but soon after moving in with her mother's boyfriend in London, Liv's dreams turn bizarre, filled with talking stone statues, mysterious corridors, and strange rituals conducted by four boys who happen to be her new classmates.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young woman in London faces the prospect of a deadly thank you in return for an act of selfless generosity. She is Mary Jago who donates her bone marrow to save the life of a man she does not know. As her grandmother puts it, some people dislike those who have done them a service.
Author
Language
English
Description
An author-preferred edition of the story of Richard Mayhew, who discovers an alternate city beneath London, reconciles inconsistencies between the U.S. and U.K. versions, reinstates previously cut scenes, and incorporates the Neverwhere tale "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back."
18) Zom-B baby
Author
Series
Zom-B volume 5
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Language
English
Description
"Grateful for the company of The Angels, B nevertheless questions their mission to eradicate the living dead from the face of the earth, and encounters a horror beyond imagining"--
19) Just dreaming
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The course of dream travel never did run smooth-at least, not in Liv Silver's experience. Able to visit other people's dreams (whether they want her to or not), Liv has solved mysteries, unearthed difficult truths, fought madmen, and escaped life-threatening peril, all from the comfort of her own bed. But Liv's troubles are just beginning... A rocky romance, a malicious blogger with a hidden identity, a wedding, and a classmate (or two) dead-set...
20) The sacrifice
Author
Series
Enemy series (Charlie Higson) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
The sickness destroyed everyone over the age of fourteen. All across London diseased adults are waiting, hungry predators with rotten flesh and ravaged minds. Small Sam and The Kid, have survived, safe with Ed at the Tower of London, but Sam is desperate to find his sister. Their search for Ella means Sam and The Kid must cross the forbidden zone into something more terrifying than any of the horror they've suffered so far.
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