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2) Coraline
Author
Publisher
Playaway Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (approximately 3.5 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.
But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.
Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After setting off from the island where he has been leading a solitary existence, thirteen-year-old Martin discovers a village with other children who have been living similarly without any adults, since the grown-ups have all been spirited away.
Author
Series
The mortal instruments volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Suddenly able to see demons and the Shadowhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.
5) Bone Jack
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ash Tyler hopes to make his psychologically scarred father proud by training for his town's Stag Chase, but when he meets the mysterious Bone Jack, dark energies take root and the world as he knows it is upended.
Author
Series
Spirited volume 1
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
First Little Simon edition.
Physical Desc
139 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm,
Language
English
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Description
Eight-year-old Olivia "Liv" Livingston loves her town Pleasant Place, but when her family moves to spooky Gloomsdale, she must learn to adjust to this ghost town where its residents are all from various decades and centuries, the hall monitors are bats, and some students have fangs.
Author
Publisher
Yonder, an imprint of Restless Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
232 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"One rainy night, Kazu sees a strange figure in a white kimono sneak out of his house--was he dreaming? Did he see a ghost? The next day at school, the very same person is sitting in his class--and all his friends are convinced that the ghost-girl Akari has been their friend for years. If that isn't weird enough, Kazu learns that his house is in the exact location of an ancient temple called Kimyo, which, legend has it, could bring the dead back to...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
301 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
xi, 241 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on dark fantasy and the fairy tale as well as horror and wild humor, ten acclaimed authors pay homage to the gothic tale in wide-ranging stories of the supernatural and surreal.
10) City of ashes
Author
Series
The mortal instruments volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Clary continues trying to make sense of the swiftly changing events and relationships in her life as she becomes further involved with the Shadowhunters and their pursuit of demons and discovers some terrifying truths about her parents, her brother Jace, and her boyfriend Simon.
Author
Series
Edinburgh nights volume 1
Language
English
Description
Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghost talker, and she now speaks to Edinburgh's dead - carrying messages to the living - but when she learns someone is bewitching children she investigates and discovers an occult library, a taste for hidden magic, and a wealth of Edinburgh's dark secrets.
12) Rebel undercover
Author
Series
The forgotten five volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A group of supernatural kids faces off against a corrupt politician and the supernatural adults he has recruited to aid him in his misdeeds"--
Author
Series
Will Wilder volume 3
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Will Wilder uses the Amulet of Power to get on the Perilous Falls football team, he attracts dark forces that shadow townspeople, disturb graves, and lull many into a stupor.
Author
Series
The book of storms volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
324 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Danny thinks he's left magic and mystery behind, but Sammael, a creature of terrible imagination, refuses to let him go. A strange new girl, Cath, enters Danny's world, bringing with her a message: Danny's cousin Tom has sold his soul to Sammael. It's up to Danny and Cath to find Tom and stop Sammael, who seeks to destroy humankind once and for all"--
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Silver Springs, Arizona, her mother's stories of the monstrous La Llorona are thrilling but unbelievable to science-loving Paola until she and her best friends Dante and Emma take a walk through a cactus field near the Gila River.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarah, her Chicago cousin Janie, brainy brother Ellis, and his best friend, Jasper, investigate a tragic event in their small Southern town's history.
17) City of Glass
Author
Series
The mortal instruments volume 3
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Still pursuing a cure for her mother's enchantment, Clary uses all her powers and ingenuity to get into Idris, the forbidden country of the secretive Shadowhunters, and to its capital, the City of Glass, where with the help of a newfound friend, Sebastian, she uncovers important truths about her family's past that will not only help save her mother but all those that she holds most dear.
Author
Series
The mortal instruments volume 4
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
As mysterious murders threaten the new peace between Shadowhunters and Downworlders, only Simon, the Daylighter vampire, can help bring both groups together.
Author
Series
Zombie problems volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When August DuPont, eleven, leaves his eccentric Aunt Hydrangea's crumbling mansion for the first time ever, he meets family, makes a friend, and attracts a zombie.
20) Very rich
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Rupert, from a very large, very poor family, accidently becomes part of an eccentric rich family's life beginning at Christmas, and soon sees that wealth is not everything.