Stephen King
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
"In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents--telekinesis and telepathy--who got to this place the same...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories. An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher--for that world or ours." --
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident...
Author
Series
Bill Hodges volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far--a book about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in Mr. Mercedes" --
""Wake up, genius." So begins King's instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn't published a...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt in front of his house when a shadow falls over him. He looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later, who with his beautiful wife, will transform the church and the town. The men and boys are a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls, with the Reverend Jacobs--including Jamie's sisters and mother. Then tragedy...
7) It
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 70
Language
English
Description
An eleven-year-old boy is found in a town park, hideously assaulted and murdered. The fingerprints (and later DNA) are unmistakably those of the town’s most popular baseball coach, Terry Maitland, a man of impeccable reputation, with a wife and two daughters. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland coached, orders an immediate and public arrest. Maitland is taken to jail, his claim to innocence scorned. Maitland has a foolproof alibi, with...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of short works is comprised of pieces that previously appeared in "The New Yorker," "Playboy," and "McSweeney's," in a volume that includes such tales as "The Gingerbread Girl" and "N."
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
After his police trooper father is killed in an auto accident, young Ned Wilcox starts investigating a mysterious vintage vehicle, kept locked in the station barracks, in the hope of uncovering the sinister secrets surrounding it.
Author
Series
The dark tower volume 5
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 37
Language
English
Description
Along with his companions, gunslinger Roland endeavors to reach and save the Dark Tower, a quest that is challenged by the evil wolves of Thunderclap, who are abducting the children of the residents of a town in the tower's shadow.
11) Song of Susannah
Author
Series
The dark tower volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
While Jake, Father Callahan, and Oy struggle to free Susannah Dean, whose body is possessed by a demon-mother named Mia, Roland and Eddie find themselves swept by magic to East Stoneham, Maine, in the summer of 1977.
12) Wizard and glass
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 4
Language
English
Description
While Roland the Gunslinger and his companions leap between worlds, he relates his experiences with the elusive, powerful emotion of love in a journey into his own past
13) If It Bleeds
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
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...
14) Dreamcatcher
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
20 compact discs (23 hrs.)
Language
English
15) End of watch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Mr. Mercedes (winner of the Edgar Award) and Finders Keepers--In End of Watch, the diabolical "Mercedes Killer" drives his enemies to suicide, and if Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney don't figure out a way to stop him, they'll be victims themselves. In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something has awakened. Something evil. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator...
Author
Series
Bill Hodges trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging...
Author
Series
Gwendy's button box trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
171 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson takes the stairs up the cliffside to Castle Rock, Maine, she encounters a mysterious stranger, who calls out to her wanting to talk.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Prolific author Stephen King presents a collection of four new novellas. In the story 1922, a man plunges into the depths of madness when his wife attempts to sell off the family home. A mystery writer, who was beaten and raped while driving home from her book club, plots her revenge in Big Driver. Diagnosed with a deadly cancer, a man makes a deal with the devil in Fair Extension. And in A Good Marriage, a woman discovers her husband's darker side...
20) Cell: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mayhem and violence are unleashed around the world when a pulse from a mysterious source transforms all cell phone users into homicidal maniacs, and only a small band of "normies" who avoided the technological attack can stop the rampage.