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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
970L
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English
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Artist Basil Hallward is greatly impressed by Dorian Gray's physical beauty when he paints his portrait. Basil becomes strongly infatuated with Dorian, believing that his beauty is responsible for a new mode in Basil's art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new kind of hedonism, Lord Henry suggests that the only thing worth pursuing in life is beauty, and the fulfilment of the senses. Dorian...
2) Ghost story
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"In the sleepy town of Milburn, New York, four old men gather to tell each other stories--some true, some made-up, all of them frightening. A simple pastime to divert themselves from their quiet lives. But one story is coming back to haunt them and their small town. A tale of something they did long ago. A wicked mistake. A horrifying accident. And they are about to learn that no one can bury the past forever"--
4) Whispers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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Hilary Thomas knew terror as a child, but never anything like this. He is hunting her with a sick desire more terrifying than hatred could ever be. And he is in her house again. He is on the stairs, and he can't be stopped. Hilary killed him once and he keeps coming back. Again and again.
5) The mask
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A beautiful young girl appears out of nowhere. A teenager with no past, no family--no memories. Carol and Paul were drawn to her. She was the child they'd never had. Most mothers would die for such a darling little angel. And that's what frightened Carol most of all...
6) Phantoms
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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A story of disaster and suspense that strikes deep fear throughout its journey to the chilling truth - perfect for fans of the Odd Thomas series and Clive Barker. 'Not just a master of our darkest dreams, but also a literary juggler'.
7) Darkfall
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Penny cannot tell her father about the horrible things under her bed. One night she poked under her bed with a baseball bat and it was yanked out of her hand.Her father doesn't notice because he is embroiled in a series of mystifying murder cases. the corpses punctured with dozens of tiny wounds, the bodies found in locked rooms with no way in or out.
8) The tomb
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Repairman Jack, who is hired to fix dangerous situations, tries to stop a cursed necklace from releasing demons on the city and in the process realizes Gia's daughter, Vicky, is the piece of jewelry's main target.
9) Strangers
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They were strangers. A handful of people from different backgrounds, living in different towns and cities across America, that had nothing in common--except fear. They were victims. Cold and stark, an unknown terror gripped their dreams and turned their days into living nightmares. They were chosen and they could not escape. Deep in the heart of a sprawling desert, a dark memory called out to them drawing them to the Tranquility Motel--where the terrifying...
10) Swan song
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In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, earth's last survivors have been drawn into the final battle between good and evil, that will decide the fate of humanity: Sister, who discovers a strange and transformative glass artifact in the destroyed Manhattan streets ... Joshua Hutchins, the pro wrestler who takes refuge from the nuclear fallout at a Nebraska gas station ... and Swan, a young girl possessing...
11) Watchers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 28
Lexile measure
1000L
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English
Description
Two creatures, the end result of experiments in genetic engineering and enhanced intelligence, escape from a government laboratory and bring either doom or a touching new kind of love to those they encounter.
Out of a government laboratory so sinister and secret that its very name cannot be whispered and into the life of certain good and evil people come two escaped creatures, one murderous and one benign and both "changed, changed utterly" from...
12) Lightning
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
1090L
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English
Description
"A storm struck on the night Laura Shane was born, and there was a strangeness about the weather that people would remember for years. But even more mysterious was the blond-haired stranger who appeared out of nowhere - the man who saved Laura from a fatal delivery. Years later - another bolt of lightning - and the stranger returned, again to save Laura from tragedy. Was he the guardian angel he seemed to be? The devil in disguise? Or the master of...
13) The bad place
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Frank Pollard is afraid to fall asleep. Every morning when he awakes, he discovers something strange--like blood on his hands--a bizarre mystery that tortures his soul. Two investigators have been hired to follow the haunted man. But only one person--a young man with Down's Syndrome--can imagine where their journeys might end. That terrible place from which no one ever returns. Now repackaged with a new Afterword by the author, this classic Koontz...
14) American psycho
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La novela más infame de Bret Easton Ellis: un clásico contemporáneo que se ha convertido en símbolo de una generación. El sofisticado, inteligente y vanidoso Patrick Bateman trabaja en Wall Street, idolatra al joven magnate Donald Trump, cena en los restaurantes de moda de Nueva York y es capaz de distinguir un traje Armani a cincuenta metros de distancia. También le gusta violar, torturar, asesinar y desmembrar. American Psycho, la novela más...
15) Cold fire
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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In Portland, he saved a young boy from a drunk driver. In Boston, he rescued a child from an underground explosion. In Houston, he disarmed a man who was trying to shoot his own wife. Reporter Holly Thorne was intrigued by this strange quiet savior named Jim Ironheart. She was even falling in love with him. But what power compelled an ordinary man to save twelve lives in three months? What visions haunted his dreams? And why did he whisper in his...
16) Side effects
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“Has everything—a terrifying plot . . . breakneck pace . . . vividly drawn characters.”—John Saul
Kate Bennet. A bright hospital pathologist with a loving husband and a solid future. Until one day her world turns dark. A strange, puzzling illness has killed two women. Now it endangers Kate's closest friend.
Soon it will threaten Kate's marriage.
Her sanity.
Her life.
Kate has uncovered a horrifying...
Kate Bennet. A bright hospital pathologist with a loving husband and a solid future. Until one day her world turns dark. A strange, puzzling illness has killed two women. Now it endangers Kate's closest friend.
Soon it will threaten Kate's marriage.
Her sanity.
Her life.
Kate has uncovered a horrifying...
17) The relic
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human, but the museum's directors plan to proceed with the party celebrating the new exhibition. Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who - or what - is doing the killing--Publisher.
18) Reliquary
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A sequel to "The Relic" which has NYPD Lt. D'Agosta, Natural History Museum curator Margo Green, and a host of returning characters involved in a new investigation spurred by the discovery of the decaptiated remains of a New York socialite and a sharp increase in the decapitation rate among the city's underground homeless.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
470L
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English
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"Danny martin thinks the comic-book superhero, Shrinkman, is the coolest! Shrinkman can shrink to the size of a bug and go places most ordinary people can't But when Danny suddenly starts to shrink, he finds that being small isn't really so super. In fact, it's terrifying. First, he's nearly torn to pieces by his own dog. Then he's in a fight to the death with a grasshopper! Danny Had better find a way to get BIG again - or he will be a little bit...
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