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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.4 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Slip behind the bleak walls and vacant windows of Netflix's reimagining of the mansion of doom in this collection of works by Edgar Allan Poe that inspired the limited series "The Fall of the House of Usher". From well-loved classics like "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" to lesser-known gems such as "Tamerlane" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," these tales and poems have stood the test of time, haunting readers for nearly two hundred years....
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Series
Asylum novels (Madeleine Roux) volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
Ricky Desmond has been through all this before. If he could just get through to his mother, he could convince her that he doesn't belong at Brookline. From the man who thinks he can fly to the woman who killed her husband, the other patients are nothing like him; all he did was lose his temper just a little bit, just the once. But when Ricky is selected by the sinister Warden Crawford for a very special program--a program that the warden claims will...
3) Asylum
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Series
Asylum novels (Madeleine Roux) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
"Three teens at a summer program for gifted students uncover shocking secets in the sanatorium-turned-dorm where they're staying--secrets that link them all to the asylum's dark past"--
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The body of a woman found in front of Nordby City Hall has a message for Emma Frost carved into the skin. Behind this ruthless murder stands a ghostly figure that likes to play childish games. Soon, this killer brings a reign of terror to the small Danish Island and especially to the life of Emma Frost. While Emma's personal life is in a mess, she also has to hunt down a cruel predator who seems to be targeting people with serious mental illnesses....
6) Scarecrow
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English
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Jack and his dad are runaways. Jack's father recently turned whistleblower, revealing the truth about the illicit dealings of some powerful people. Realising that he and Jack might be in danger, Dad drives them to a remote shooting lodge in the Scottish Highlands, where they intend to lay low. In the cornfield beside the lodge stands a scarecrow. When Jack witnesses something incredible, he begins to realise that it is no ordinary scarecrow - it is...
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YOU MEET THE NICEST PEOPLE IN THE LOBBY OF A PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL. The author of Dead Connection proves that what goes on in our minds just may be the scariest thing of all.
Ben Mander's junior year is derailed when his mentally ill mother erupts in the school office. Visiting her in the psych hospital, Ben meets Marco, who also has a mentally ill mother. Marco tells a story that turns Ben's idea of reality upside down. Soon, the story begins to...
8) The dogs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Cameron is used to moving at a moment's notice because he and his mother are always running away from his supposedly violent father, but he is disturbed by their latest refuge, a creepy, deserted farmhouse, haunted by bloodthirsty dogs--and when he sees a boy hiding in the barn, and finds an old picture of the same boy, he starts wondering about the possibility of human ghosts.
9) Brightwood
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
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When her mother disappears and a menacing stranger tries to claim her home, Brightwood Hall, for himself, Daisy must use her wits, courage, and help from her imaginary friends to survive.
10) Windsong
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English
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Windsong is a novel of the supernatural and suspense, with well-drawn characters, deep emotion and heart-stopping action. When final year school student Kirsty's young sister Karen, dies in an accident, she blames herself and is inconsolable. She falls into depression after a suicides attempt and is under psychiatric care. But then she discovers that the ghost of her sister is hovering around the place she met her death. Kirsty find a precarious kind...
11) The dead house
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Told through journal entries, a psychotherapist's notes, court records, and more, relates the tale of Carly, a teen who was institutionalized after her parents' death but released to Elmbrige High School, where she is believed to have a second personality or soul named Kaitlyn, and/or be possessed by a demon.
12) Nightingale
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June Hardie is everything a young woman in 1951 shouldn't be: independent, rebellious, a dreamer. June longs to travel, to attend college and to write the dark science fiction stories that consume her waking hours. Her mother grooms her to be a perfect little homemaker while her father pushes her to marry his business partner's domineering son. When June resists, she's committed to Burrow Place Asylum. Suburbia isn't the only prison for different...
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