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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
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In 1999, Stephen King began to write about his craft -- and his life. By midyear, a widely reported accident jeopardized the survival of both. And in his months of recovery, the link between writing and living became more crucial than ever. Rarely has a book on writing been so clear, so useful, and so revealing. On Writing begins with a mesmerizing account of King's childhood and his uncannily early focus on writing to tell a story. A series of vivid...
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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...
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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) 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.
5) Pet sematary
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
"When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic rural town of Ludlow, Maine, this new beginning seems too good to be true. Yet despite Ludlow's tranquility, an undercurrent of danger exists here. Those trucks on the road outside the Creeds' beautiful old home travel by just a little too quickly, for one thing ... as is evidenced by the makeshift pet cemetary in the nearby woods. Then there are the warnings to Louis, both...
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Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
"Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a timeless collection of chillingly scary tales and legends, in which folklorist Alvin Schwartz offers up some of the most alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and supernatural events of all time." -- Amazon.
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Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
"Scary Stories 3 is a timeless collection of chillingly scary tales and legends, in which folklorist Alvin Schwartz offers up some of the most alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and supernatural events of all time." -- Amazon.
8) 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...
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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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Description
A young woman discovers an ancient book and a cache of old letters in her father's library, and thus begins her adventurous quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, a search that will span continents and generations, and a confrontation with the darkest powers of evil.
11) Dracula
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 1020L
Language
English
Description
"A true masterwork of storytelling, Dracula has transcended generation, language, and culture to become one of the most popular novels ever written. It is a quintessential tale of suspense and horror, boasting one of the most terrifying characters ever born in literature: Count Dracula, a tragic, night-dwelling specter who feeds upon the blood of the living, and whose diabolical passions prey upon the innocent, the helpless, and the beautiful. But...
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...
13) The shining
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
What of the penetrating cold terror of an old hotel, a haunted place of seductive evil with a malevolent will of its own--and a five-year-old boy of innocent beauty whose mind mirrors the nightmarish secrets of its past?
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Description
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking....
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A collection of some of the most influential stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe, the master of tales of the mysterious and macabre. From the eerie incantations of “The Raven” to the persistent fright of “The Tell-Tale Heart,” his stories and poems are unforgettable explorations of the darker side of life that still offer lessons and insight into human behavior today, making them an integral component of just about any library.
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...
17) If it bleeds
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"The four never-before-published novellas in this collection represent horror master King at his finest, using the weird and uncanny to riff on mortality, the price of creativity, and the unpredictable consequences of material attachments. A teenager discovers that a dead friend's cell phone, which was buried with the body, still communicates from beyond the grave in 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone,' which reads like a Twilight Zone episode infused with an...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 43
Lexile measure
960L
Language
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...
19) Christine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 30
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
"It's love at first sight for high school student Arnie Cunningham when he and his best friend Dennis Guilder spot the dilapidated 1958 red-and-white Plymouth Fury for sale--dubbed "Christine" by its original cantankerous owner--rusting away on a front lawn of their suburban Pennsylvania neighborhood. Dennis knows that Arnie's never had much luck in the popularity department, or really taken an interest in owning a car...but Christine quickly changes...
20) A map of days
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Miss Peregrine volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Description
Jacob Portman is back in Florida and this time Miss Peregrine, Emma, and their peculiar friends are with him, but when he finds a secret underground bunker owned by his grandfather Abe, Jacob is thrust into a new adventure.
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