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1) It
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 70
Language
English
Formats
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
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A budding dark sorceress determined not to use her formidable powers uncovers yet more secrets about the workings of her world in the stunning sequel to A Deadly Education, the start of Naomi Novik's groundbreaking crossover series. At the Scholomance, El, Orion, and the other students are faced with their final year--and the looming specter of matriculation, a deadly ritual that leaves few students alive after. El is determined that her group will...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
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Description
Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she's struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she inhabits. Worse, she can't seem to move past the horrors of the war with Hybern and all she lost in it. The one person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred warrior...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. paperback edition.
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Collects short stories following the adventures of magical hero Geralt.
"Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent."--
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When students gather at the nation's top high school jazz competition in San Antonio, Texas, the musicians at Xavier Desmond High, teenagers with strange abilities, start going wayward in their efforts to outplay their rivals.
8) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The Big Friendly Giant (BFG) is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by any of the other giants, she would have soon become breakfast. Sophie and the BFG decide they must stop them once and for all.
Author
Series
Princess in Black volume 4
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A sleepy Princess in Black takes a much-needed vacation and rides her bicycle to the seaside, where she plans to nap in a hammock, but her peace is disrupted by a roaring sea monster.
Author
Series
Scholomance volume 3
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
407 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The one thing you never talk about while you're in the Scholomance is what you'll do when you get out. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. But it's all we dream about: the hideously slim chance we'll survive to make it out the gates and improbably find ourselves with a life ahead of us, a life outside the Scholomance halls. And now the impossible dream has come true. I'm out, we're all out--and I didn't even have to turn into...
Author
Series
Princess in black volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hiding her secret identity as a monster-fighting superhero, Princess Magnolia interrupts her fancy tea with the unsuspecting Duchess Wigtower to stop a big blue monster from endangering her kingdom's goats.
12) The last wish
Author
Series
The Witcher volume 0.5
Publisher
Orbit
Language
English
Description
Geralt de Riv, a witcher, uses his vast sorcerous powers to hunt down the monsters that threaten the world, but he soon discovers that not every monstrous-looking creature is evil, and not everything beautiful is good.
Author
Series
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
89 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Since the Notebook of Doom was stolen Alexander and the other monster hunters of Stermont Elementary have been operating without its assistance and now they are confronted by a large and stinky monster with eight powerful noses that can deliver a slimy sneeze with the power of a cannon--and somehow they must figure out its weakness.
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Who knew there was a problem with not being scared of monsters? The hero of this story knows it--all too well. Because he's not scared, the monsters think he's one of them. And now, they're way too friendly.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Unabridged.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 9 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Simon Frost lives in a curious place, where magic is used by the very best Animists to do wondrous things—like call upon imps, wraiths, and all manner of monsters to right wrongs, deliver justice, and accomplish feats no human could achieve.
Simon Frost is not one of those Animists, though he’s been trying to become one for years.
When a plea arrives from a distant hamlet, preyed upon by an abominable monster, Simon sees the opportunity to finally...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Turn scary to silly with this laugh-out-loud joke book. Hunny and Funny are monster best friends. When Hunny is feeling sad, Funny knows exactly how to cheer up his friend...with laughter!"--
Author
Series
Notebook of doom volume 10
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Alexander keeps seeing monsters he has previously conquered, but every time he gets close they disappear and his friends are beginning to think he is delusional--but when one of their teachers turns into a blob of super-goop right before their eyes they realize the team is dealing with a shape-shifter, and it is after the Notebook of Doom.