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Author
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
374 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ghosts are said to wander along the rooftops above New Orleans? Royal Street, the dead allegedly sing sacred songs in St. Louis Cathedral, and the graveyard tomb of a wealthy madam reportedly glows bright red at night. Local lore about such supernatural sightings, as curated by Jeanne deLavigne in her classic Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans, finds the phantoms of bitter lovers, vengeful slaves, and menacing gypsies haunting nearly every corner of...
2) Afterworlds
Author
Series
Afterworlds volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy's novel, slips into the "Afterworld" to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide, as both face many challenges and both fall in love.
3) Step Closer
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length tales that will keep even the bravest FNAF player up at night. . . . Isolation can open up a void. Pete lashes out at his younger brother in the wake of his parents' divorce, falling prey to a gruesome curse. Kasey struggles with the lengths she'll go to survive on the streets after stealing a pair of unusual novelty glasses. Samantha and her sister,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents three novella-length tales of horror following three friends, Angel, Hudson, and Sergio, who cannot seem to shake a string of bad luck.
5) Blackbird
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A collection of three novellas explores what happens when the past takes on a life of its own.
6) Into the Pit
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
193 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of three novellas explores what happens when three friends make wishes at a pizzeria and get more than they asked for.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Sixty seconds. Seven floors. Three rules. One gun.
Will's older brother, Shawn, has been shot. Dead. Will feels a sadness so great he can't explain it. But in his neighborhood there are THE RULES: No. 1: Crying. Don't. No matter what. No. 2: Snitching. Don't. No matter what. No. 3: Revenge. Do. No matter what.
But bullets miss. You can get the wrong guy. And there's always someone else who knows to follow the rules.
8) Prankster
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
194 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Standing up for yourself can be hard... Jeremiah decides he's done being the butt of his coworker's jokes at their small game studio. Joel is counting the days until he can quit his family's garden center and hit the road to a new life. Aimee finally works up the courage to ditch her loud-mouthed, annoying friend at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. But when it comes to Five Nights at Freddy's, even the most well-meaning actions can reap horrible consequences....
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
244 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Act in haste, repent at leisure... After losing his friend in a terrible accident, Edward can't spend his money fast enough on a happy companion guaranteed to keep his friend's memory alive. Mott quickly flushes his brother's creepy new pets, but the creatures have other plans. Eager to put her classmates in their place, homecoming queen Jessica doesn't stop to double-check her homework... reprogramming a defunct animatronic.
In this tenth volume,...
10) Bunny Call
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When left in darkness, rage festers. Years of frustration with his family culminate in a loathsome vacation for Bob, who plots a sinister prank to frighten his wife and kids. Matt redirects the residual anger over his many failed relationships into a video game, and ends up birthing the horrible consequences. In room 1280 of Heracles Hospital, something evil is keeping a man alive, a man with gruesome burns all over his body and an iron will to live....
11) Fetch
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After years of being kicked around, Greg, Alec, and Oscar are ready to take control of their lives. Greg decides to put the controversial science he's been studying to the test. Alec launches a master plot to expose his golden sister for the spoiled brat he knows she is. And Oscar, ever the miniature grown-up his mom needs him to be, decides to take something he wants... even though he knows it's wrong. But as these three will learn, control is a...
12) Catacomb
Author
Series
Asylum volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
On a road trip to visit Jordan's uncle, Dan, Abby and Jordan notice that someone appears to be following them. Then Dan starts receiving phone messages from someone he didn't expect to hear from again - someone who died last Halloween.
13) Contagion
Author
Series
Dark Matter volume 1
Publisher
Charlesbridge Teen
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
409 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A deadly, mysterious epidemic is sweeping the country, and young kidnap victim Callie is one of the few who survived infection, only to be sacrificed by her captors at a secret lab working with antimatter; her older brother Kai is desperate to find out what happened to her--his best hope lies with Shay, the girl who last saw Callie alive, and together they will seek answers, even if it means evading soldiers and crossing the quarantine zone.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
319 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the widowed master of an elegant house in Victorian-era London slips slowly into madness and his tyrannical housekeeper takes on more power, a ghostly presence distracts a teenaged maidservant with clues to a deadly secret.