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From two acclaimed experts in the genre, a brand-new volume of supernatural stories showcasing the forgotten female horror writers from 1852—1923
While the nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley may be hailed as the first modern writer of horror, the success of her immortal Frankenstein undoubtedly inspired dozens of female authors who wrote their own evocative, chilling tales.
Weird Women, edited by award-winning anthologists Lisa Morton and Leslie S....
2) Wild magic
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
670L
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English
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The mage Numair, the knight Alanna, and Queen Thayet enlist thirteen-year-old Daine's help to battle the dreadful immortal creatures that have recently begun to attack the kingdom of Tortall.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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On the hundredth anniversary of the erection of a high school building by an architect considered to be insane, the misdialing of locker combinations may turn the structure into a gateway to hell unless students Dante, Miranda, and Vincent can help historian Dr. Spangler stop it.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
When she is sent as part of the delegation from Tortall to negotiate a peace treaty with Carthak, fifteen-year-old Daine must use her powers to communicate with animals for more than healing the Carthak emperor's dying birds.
5) The swap
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
When seventh-grader Ellie, who is having best-friend problems, and eighth-grader Jack, who is under tremendous pressure from his father, switch bodies and lives, they learn a great deal about themselves and the opposite sex.
6) Ascendant
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Killer unicorn series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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When sixteen-year-old Astrid Llewellyn, now a fully-trained unicorn hunter, joins the quest to discover The Remedy at a laboratory in the French countryside, she begins to question her love for Giovanni, her loyalty to the Cloisters, and even her duty as a hunter.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1110L
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English
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Magical stories set in alternate universes... tales of curses and gifts of healing... a wizard who has lost his powers... and a princess, a troll, and a teenage girl are featured in this diverse collection from Newbery Medalist Robin McKinley In "The Healer," Lily was born mute, but she has so great a natural gift for healing that the local midwife and healer takes her as an apprentice. One evening, riding home, she meets a stranger on the road who...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
710L
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English
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"With the help of some unexpected, and rather ghostly, allies, Lockwood & Co. must battle their greatest enemy yet, as they move ever closer to the moment when the earth-shattering secret of 'the problem' will finally be revealed"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
670L
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English
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"Lockwood & Co. are hired to investigate Edmund Bickerstaff, a Victorian doctor who reportedly tried to communicate with the dead, while Lucy is distracted by urgent whispers coming from the skull in a ghost jar"--
10) Akata warrior
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 690L
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English
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Matured a little by the experience with Ekwensu, Sunny and her friends continue their studies in the Leopard Society, which feels anticlimactic. But the lord of the lakes isn't done with Sunny, and she has to team up with both Leopards and Lambs to travel to the mythical town of Osisi for a final showdown which could destroy humanity.
11) The wish list
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
520L
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English
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Meg Finn is in trouble. She's dead, but not at peace--she's in limbo, her good deeds perfectly balanced against her bad deeds; Heaven or Hell wait, a tip of the scale away. So she's back on Earth trying to tip the scale to the good by helping her last victim, and her former "partner" is also back, trying to force her to tip the scale to the bad.
12) Breakdown
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
500L
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English
Description
High school seniors Maddy and Owen must rely on their love when an evil creature, who has murdered before, kidnaps Maddy's mother and takes her to his cave.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
760L
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English
Description
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.
15) The gathering
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Darkness rising volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Maya suspects there may be a relationship between her paw-print birthmark, her connection with wild animals, and strange events occurring in her tiny Vancouver Island community, where a medical research facility harbors big secrets.
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Madison Avery novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Spunky teen Madison, though technically dead, uses a stolen amulet to retain the illusion of a body and help her in the struggle between Light and Dark reapers.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
"A terrible crime forces Lockwood to turn to Lucy for help, setting them on the trail of dark secrets at the heart of London society. Both professionally and personally, their investigation stirs up forces they may not be able to control..."--
19) Immortal
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Immortal series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Falling in love with the mysterious Sebastian, Evie Johnson, a scholarship student at the Wyldcliffe Abbey School, is haunted by a sisterlike figure that seems to be sending her a warning.
20) Frenzy
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Dreamhouse Kings volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
Description
When Xander travels through the portals in the King's strange house to visit Uncle Jesse as a boy, he learns that David has died and determines to do whatever it takes, and visit as many worlds as necessary, to change the future.
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