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Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Author
Series
Shepherd king novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Elspeth and Ravyn have gathered most of the twelve Providence Cards, but the last, and most important one remains to be found: The Twin Alders. If they are going to find it before the Solstice and cure the kingdom of the dark magic infecting it, they will need to journey beyond the dangerous mist-cloaked forest that surrounds their kingdom. And the only one who can lead them there is the monster that shares Elspeth's head: The Nightmare. And he's...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The "maddog" murderer who is terrorizing the Twin Cities is two things: insane and extremely intelligent. He kills for the pleasure of it and thoroughly enjoys placing elaborate obstacles to keep police befuddled. Each clever move he makes is another point of pride. But when the brilliant Lieutenant Lucas Davenport--a dedicated cop and a serial killer's worst nightmare--is brought in to take up the investigation, the maddog suddenly has an adversary...
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes a suspenseful psychological thriller about a manipulative carnival man who teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society. Del Toro co-wrote the enthralling film with Kim Morgan, based on William Lindsay Gresham's novel.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
For Angel Ahmadi, life is only about one thing: The Ark -- a pop-rock trio of teenage boys who are currently taking the world by storm. Being part of The Ark's fandom has given her everything -- her friendships, her dreams, her place in the world. Jimmy Kaga-Ricci owes everything to The Ark too. He's their frontman -- and playing in a band is all he's ever dreamed of doing. It's just a shame that recently everything in his life seems to have turned...
Author
Series
Stink Moody volume 7
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Stink and his friends try to earn money to buy the latest book in the Nightmare on Zombie Street series and go to the book release party.
Author
Series
Nightmare Club (Annie Graves) volume 2
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jack finds it hard to believe when his parents tell him the weird changes in his older brother, Stephen, are normal for teenagers, and his suspicions are confirmed when pets start disappearing and strange noises come from the attic while Stephen is supposedly away at school.
Author
Series
Disney chills volume 6
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Stuck helping her eccentric aunts in their dusty antique shop, Dawn accidentally awakens Maleficent, who casts a mysterious sleeping spell over the town, forcing Dawn to put an end to this nightmare.
12) Waking nightmare
Author
Series
Hello Neighbor volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
It's been four months since Nicky Roth has seen his best friend and neighbor, Aaron Peterson. Aaron's father, a reclusive theme park designer, told the town that Aaron and his sister Mya are living with a relative far away, but Nicky can't seem to accept it. Plagued by terrifying nightmares of robotic mannequins, rotting theme parks, and a dark basement, Nicky teams up with his friends from school to find out what really happened to Aaron and Mya....
Language
English
Formats
Description
An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson,...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 20
Language
English
Description
"Why is this town called Mother{u2019}s Rest?" That{u2019}s all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. It{u2019}s a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have started small and then turned lethal. Reacher has no particular...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Kingdom of Fantasy volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Geronimo joins the effort to rescue Blossom, Queen of the Fairies, who has been kidnapped by the Queen of the Witches and taken to the Kingdom of Nightmares.
Author
Series
Logan McRae mysteries volume 7
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011, c2012
Language
English
Description
Alison and Jenny McGregor, Aberdeen's own mother-daughter singing sensation, are through to the semi-finals of TV smash-hit Britain's Next Big Star. They've got millions of YouTube hits, everyone loves them-- until their reality-TV dream turns into a real-life nightmare. The ransom demand appears in all the papers, on the TV, and the Internet, telling the nation to dig deep if they want to keep Alison and Jenny alive.
18) Americana
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
At twenty-eight, David Bell is the American dream come true. He has fought his way to the top, surviving office purges and scandals to become a top television executive. David's world is made up of the images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall America's imagination. And then the dream--and the dream-making--become a nightmare. At the height of his success, David sets out to rediscover reality.
19) We are not free
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
Author
Series
Critter club volume 15
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Liz is excited for her sleepover at the museum until she hears some spooky noises that may turn this sleepover into a nightmare.
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