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2022.
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"Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty--with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight--breathes life into tales of family and a community as they struggle with a painful past and an uncertain...
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"Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle,where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is...
3) FIRE EXIT
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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"Utterly consuming. . . . Fire Exit absolutely smolders."—Tommy Orange
The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It's strange: all bloodlooks the same, yet it's different, we're told, in so many various ways and for so many various reasons. But one thing is for certain, I thought: you are who you are, even if you don't know it.
From the...Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Lindy finds a ventriloquist's dummy and has fun learning to make him move and talk. Kris is jealous, and decides to get a dummy of her own. Then nasty evil things begin to happen. No way can a dummy be causing all the trouble. Or is there?
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Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Newly divorced Alison Kerby wants a second chance for herself and her nine-year-old daughter. She's returned to her hometown on the Jersey Shore to transform a Victorian fixer-upper into a charming-and profitable-guest house. One small problem: the house is haunted, and the two ghosts insist Alison must find out who killed them.
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Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 40
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Trina O'Dell is hearing voices in the attic, where her dad's ventriloquist dummies are being stored.
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"It's early October, and hordes of visitors have descended on the tiny, celebrated village of Threadville, Pennsylvania, to attend a Halloween crafts fair, a zombie retreat, and the wedding of Edna Battersby--dear friend to Willow Vanderling, owner of the chic machine embroidery boutique, In Stitches. As a friendly prank for Edna's wedding, Willow and the rest of the Threadville gang have fashioned an overly extravagant hoopskirt, complete with lights...
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Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 31
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Amy's ventriloquist dummy, Dennis, keeps losing his head. So Amy begs her family for a new dummy. That's when her dad finds Slappy in a local pawnshop. Slappy's kind of ugly, but Amy's having fun practicing her new routine. Then horrible things start happening. Horrible, nasty things. Just like what happened the first time. Because there's something odd about Slappy. Something not quite right. Something evil.
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Zed and Gabe are back to their treasure-hunting, literary-sleuthing ways in this spooky new adventure! After some lacklustre cases involving lost books and a missing pet, the two friends have finally come across a mystery worth their attention: the secrets of Glyndebourne Manor, haunted home of a late, great opera designer. Every twenty-five years, the Manor hosts a challenge. You have three days and two nights to solve the puzzles in each room before...
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Series
Living ted volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"After Lisa Marie and her big brother, Vernon, visit a Create-a-Ted store, something unexpected happens. Their teddy bears come to life! And it turns out theirs aren't the only ones... All kinds of stuffed bears--zombies, ghosts, aliens, and more--are suddenly alive and on the loose, and they're not playing nice. Soon there is an army of evil teddy bears creating mayhem all over town! Can Lisa Marie and Vernon save themselves--and the world?"--Back...
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Series
Stone Rabbit volume 6
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While Stone Rabbit, Andy Wolf, and Henri Tortoise are trick-or-treating, zombie dust bunnies are taking over their town.
Series
Night of the living cat volume 2
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Like a cat out of hell The city is overrun by adorable fluffy disease vectors that used to be human...and they want cuddles! Now, with Tsutsumi's allergies as a cat detector, Kunagi is striving to keep his small band of survivors from going feline. But when a peculiar white kitty with a large jewel produces an earsplitting screech, all the cats in the city converge on their location! When their cat energy merges into a massive mystical cat beast,...
Series
Night of the living cat volume 1
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Series
Night of the living cat volume 3
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"EVEN VILLAINS ARE PRECIOUS (WHEN THEY BECOME CATS). The world has fallen under the long shadow of a cat apocalypse. Mankind has been overwhelmed by the power of their fearsome floof, turning into cats one after another. Those few survivors who remain live in a world on the precipice of total collapse. In a new age where cats are everything, is there any future for what's left of mankind?! The absurd tale of kitty-cat armageddon continues!"--
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
Description
"The Walking Dead" depicts a postapocalyptic world filled with relentless violence and death. How would such trauma affect the psyche? Nineteen fascinating essays explore the deep psychological forces that drive the show's action, from the costs of killing and survivor guilt to the consequences of nonstop stress and the struggle to find meaning in tragedy. "The Walking Dead Psychology "helps fans better grasp this compelling fictional universe. Contributors...
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