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2) 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...
4) The Ickabog
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the legend of the fearsome Ickabog spreads terror in the peaceful kingdom of Cornucopia, best friends Bert and Daisy set out to discover the truth and bring happiness back to the kingdom.
5) Jelly
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After the sea levels rise and the world ends, Martha and other survivors are stuck on a giant killer jellyfish, drifting off shore--if boredom does not kill them, maybe their escape attempts will.
Author
Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 5
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
The long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy Jackson's sixteenth birthday unfolds as he leads an army of young demigods to stop Kronos in his advance on New York City, while the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster, Typhon.
8) Forsaken
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the discovery of another human-alien hybrid, this time in a Mexican temple, the Unit 51 paramilitary team must not waiver in its mission to destroy the first creature of this kind that eluded them in Antarctica.
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.
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) Whispering Pines
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When otherworldly forces descend on their town of Whispering Pines, conspiracy theorist Rae, who's searching for her lost father, and Caden, who's haunted by the ghost of his brother, must band together to save their home"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv, the orc barbarian, cashes out of the warrior's life with one final score. A forgotten legend, a fabled artifact, and an unreasonable amount of hope lead her to the streets of Thune, where she plans to open the first coffee shop the city has ever seen. However, her dreams of a fresh start filling mugs instead of swinging swords are hardly a sure bet. Old frenemies and Thune's shady underbelly...
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
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
Bloodsworn volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
514 p.
Language
English
Description
"After the old gods warred and drove themselves to extinction, the cataclysm of their fall shattered the land of Vigrio. Now, power-hungry jarls carve out petty kingdoms, and monsters stalk the shadow-haunted woods and mountains...As whispers of war echoover the plains and across the fjords, fate follows the footsteps of three people: a huntress searching for her missing son, a jarl's daughter who has rejected privilege in pursuit of battle fame,...
Author
Series
The witcher volume Bk.2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Geralt is a witcher: guardian of the innocent; protector of those in need; a defender, in dark times, against some of the most frightening creatures of myth and legend. His task, now, is to portect Ciri. A child of prophecy, she will have the power to change the world for good or for ill--but only if she lives to use it. A coup threatens the Wizard's Guild. War breaks out across the lands. A serious injury leaves Geralt fighting for his life and Ciri,...
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....