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2) Thr3e
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Imagine answering your cell phone one day to a male voice that gives you three minutes to confess you sin. If you don't, the madman, Slater, will blow your car to smithereens. You barely manage to exit heavy traffic and ditch the car when precisely three minutes later, your car blows sky high. The media and police descend on the scene; your world has just changed forever. So begins tghe nightmare that grows with progressively higher stakes. There's...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 25
Description
Sage Singer becomes friends with an old man who is particularly beloved in her community after they strike up a conversation at the bakery where she works. Josef Weber is everyone's favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. One day he asks Sage for a favor, to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses, but then he tells her he deserves to die. Once he reveals his secret, Sage wonders if he is right. Can someone who has committed a truly heinous act...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"At the edge of the Russian wilderness, Vasilisa spends the winter nights huddled near the fire with her siblings, listening to her nurse's fairy tales. She loves the chilling story of Frost, the winter demon, who claims unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him and honor the spirits of house, yard, and forest that protect their homes from evil. After Vasilisa's mother dies, her father goes to Moscow and brings home a new wife. Fiercely devout, city-bred,...
Author
Series
His Dark Materials volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 26
Description
Lyra and Will find themselves at the center of a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by Lyra's father, Lord Asriel. With the help from Iorek Byrnison, the armored bear, and two Gallivespian spies, they must journey to a dark world where no living soul has gone. Meanwhile, Dr. Mary Malone builds an amber spyglass as an assassin hunts her down.
6) Doctor Sleep
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 24
Description
The now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) must save a very special twelve-year-old girl from a tribe of murderous paranormals. On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless; mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 50
Description
The small town of Chester's Mill, Maine, is faced with a big dilemma when it is mysteriously sealed off by an invisible and completely impenetrable force field. With cars and airplanes exploding on contact, the force field has completely isolated the townspeople from the outside world. Now, Iraq war vet Dale Barbara and a group of the town's more sensible citizens must overcome the tyrannical rule of Big Jim Rennie, a politician bent on controlling...
Author
Series
Song of ice and fire volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 63
Description
"Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, the victim of the jealous sorceress who holds him in her evil thrall. But young Robb, of House Stark, still rules the North from...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 25
Description
"When Billy Summers was twelve years old, He shot and killed his mother's boyfriend after he kicked Billy's sister to death. At 17, he enlisted in the army. At 18, he was a sniper in Iraq and involved in the deadly battle to recapture Fallujah. For nearly twenty years, he's worked as a paid assassin. He's a good guy in a bad job, and he wants out. He takes on a very complicated, very lucrative job that he hopes will be his last. He's got a perfect...
10) Revival: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Description
"In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt in front of his house when a shadow falls over him. He looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later, who with his beautiful wife, will transform the church and the town. The men and boys are a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls, with the Reverend Jacobs--including Jamie's sisters and mother. Then tragedy...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 37
Description
Wolves of the Calla continues the adventures of Roland, the Last Gunslinger and survivor of a civilized world that has "moved on." Roland's quest is ka, an inevitable destiny -- to reach and perhaps save the Dark Tower, which stands at the center of everywhere and everywhen. This pursuit brings Roland, with the three others who've joined his quest to Calla Bryn Sturgis, a town in the shadow of Thunderclap, beyond which lies the Dark Tower. Before...
12) Force of nature
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Having hidden the truth about a past colleague's violation, former Special Forces agent Nate Romanowski is targeted by a determined killer who threatens Joe Pickett's life as part of a violent plot.
13) Supernova
Author
Series
Renegades volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 24
Description
"All's fair in love and anarchy... Supernova, the epic conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Marissa Meyer's thrilling Renegades Trilogy finds Nova and Adrian struggling to keep their secret identities concealed while the battle rages on between their alter egos, their allies, and their greatest fears come to life. Secrets, lies, and betrayals are revealed as anarchy once again threatens to reclaim Gatlon City."--provided by publisher.
14) Hades
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Even the love of her boyfriend, Xavier Woods, and her archangel siblings, Gabriel and Ivy, can't keep the angel Bethany Church from being tricked into a motorcycle ride that ends up in Hell. There, Jake Thorn bargains for Beth's release back to Earth. But what he asks of her will destroy her, and quite possibly her loved ones as well.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Description
After Elena Gilbert and vampire brothers Stefan and Damon Salvatore help save their town from a demonic spirit, a new evil arrives and sets its sights on Elena, but this time she will only have one brother to protect her.
16) Monsters of men
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Description
As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best way to achieve peace.
17) Echo
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Daire Santos and her boyfriend, Dace, team up again to find the Richters, a dark family of sorcerers, before they upset the balance between good and evil, and Dace's brother Cade, who forces Daire to confront the horrifying prophecy that brought them all together and claim her true destiny as a Seeker.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 33
Description
"Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. When Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Trained in warrior magic after the murder of her parents, a girl with a star-shaped birthmark is prophesied to be the downfall of a tyrant king, but the boy she falls in love with owes his loyalty to those hunting her.
20) Blood promise
Author
Series
Vampire Academy volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Just days before graduating from St. Vladimir's Academy, guardian-in-training Rose travels to Siberia to drive a stake into the heart of the boy she loves, the monstrous vampire Dimitri.
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