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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...
2) Monster
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Bks
Pub. Date
19922]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
229p
Language
English
Description
After her best friend is arrested for gunning down two people at a party, Angela Warner investigates the jailed woman's claims that her victims were actually monsters
Author
Series
Bone witch volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
xvi, 456 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Tea's life, and the fate of the kingdoms, hang in the balance as the Dark grows in her day by day.
5) In the After
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
455 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a post-apocalyptic world where nothing is as it seems, seventeen-year-old Amy and Baby, a child she found while scavenging, struggle to survive while vicious, predatory creatures from another planet roam the Earth.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After he eats the sin of a royal, Taj consumes the guilt of others whose transgressions are exorcised from them by powerful but corrupt Mages and is drawn into a plot to destroy the city.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2018
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The events of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein unfold from the perspective of Elizabeth Lavenza, who is adopted as a child by the Frankensteins as a companion for their volatile son Victor.
Author
Series
These violent delights volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
449 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together when mysterious deaths threaten their city.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Bantam mass market ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
423 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The last of the survivors in Rainbow Falls, Montana, band together to brave the onslaught of the creatures set loose upon the world, discovering the full scope of Victor Frankenstein's nihilistic plan to remake the future.
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Four female mercenaries known as Boneless Mercies, weary of roaming Vorseland, ignored and forgotten until they are needed for mercy killings, decide to seek glory by going after a legendary monster in this reimagining of Beowulf.
12) Frankenstein
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
This book tells the story of a scientist who discovers the secret of generating life from lifeless matter, and puts this knowledge to use by creating a monster being.
13) The heart forger
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
xv, 501 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ending her self-imposed exile with the ability to command the mighty daeva, Tea enacts her revenge against the royals who wronged her and took her true love's life, while being pursued by enemies who wish to use her dark magic for their own ends.
14) The Luminaries
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
294 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Winnie Wednesday, an outcast from the Luminaries, is determined to restore her family's good name by taking the deadly hunter trials on her sixteenth birthday, but when she turns to her former best friend Jay Friday for help, they discover a danger lurking in the forest no one in Hemlock Falls is prepared for"--
15) Beasts of prey
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
474 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old indentured beastkeeper Koffi and seventeen-year-old warrior candidate Ekon forge an unusual alliance and venture into the Greater Jungle to hunt down a monster that has been menacing their city for a century. Includes author's note.
16) Our dark duet
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
ii, 510 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a new monster, who feeds on chaos and brings out its victim's inner demon, emerges from the shadows, Kate finds herself lured home to face a monster she thought she killed, a boy she thought she knew, and a demon all her own.
17) The creeping
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a girls body washes up in a cemetery after a mudslide, seventeen-year-old Stella starts to recall the day twelve years ago when her best friend disappeared, and soon discovers that something dark has been at work in the town for generations.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison; Victor's engineered wife, Erika 5, and her companion Jocko; and the original Victor's first creation, the tormented Deucalion, have all arrived at a small Montana town where their old alliance will be renewed--and tested--by forces from within and without, and where the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered....
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2005
Edition
Bantam Books mass market ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
455 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Victor's latest creations, an army of engineered killers set loose in modern-day New Orleans, begin to exceed his expectations and exhibit logistical and analytical skills, he plans to eliminate the entire race, a plan that backfires into humankind's ultimate nightmare.
Author
Series
Dean Koontz's Frankenstein volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
350 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison; Victor's engineered wife, Erika 5, and her companion Jocko; and the original Victor's first creation, the tormented Deucalion, have all arrived at a small Montana town where their old alliance will be renewed--and tested--by forces from within and without, and where the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered....