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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Originally published in 1864, this Jules Verne classic has wowed generations of readers with its portrayal of an imaginary odyssey into a subterranean wonderland. When Axel deciphers an old parchment describing a secret passage through a volcano to the center of the earth, nothing will stop his eccentric Uncle Lidenbrock from setting out at once. With silent Hans as guide, the two men encounter natural hazards, prehistoric beasts, and other curiosities...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who attains eternal yourh while only his portrait grows old, hidden away in a locked room. Despite the young man's disintegration into a life of crime, his face never reflects the moral decay.
4) Frankenstein
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young scientist has created a living being out of dead flesh and bone. His creation, however, turns out to be a frightful monster! Now, Victor Frankenstein must stop his creation before the monster's loneliness turns to violence. These reader-favorite tiles are now updated for enhanced Common Core State Standards support, including discussion and writing prompts developed by a Common Core expert, an expanded introduction, bolded glossary words and...
5) Dracula
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Since its original publication in 1897, Dracula has spoken aloud some of our deepest cultural anxieties: fear of sexuality, xenophobia, homophobia, and distrust of The Other. Award-winning writer Alexander Chee places these fears in today's context in a fascinating new introduction to the Restless Classics edition, gorgeously illustrated by Kaitlin Chan. One of the most culturally recognizable and pervasive characters ever written, Stoker's Count...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The most beloved and oft-adapted work by Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow follows a love triangle in the New York countryside in 1790. Sleepy Hollow, a supposedly haunted glen on the outskirts of Tarry Town, is home to a particularly ghoulish fiend - the Headless Horseman - who is said to be the specter of a fallen soldier. Ichabod Crane, a schoolmaster from Connecticut, competes with local hero Abraham 'Brom Bones' Van Brunt for the...
8) Werewolf
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The vampire, Wandessa is attacking the town of Dredsad. The villager's only hope lies in a single man, the ravenous Werewolf.
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Strange things have been happening to Mr. Utterson's longtime friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll. The more worried Mr. Utterson becomes, the more he investigates Jekyll's life. His investigations lead him to Mr. Edward Hyde and the story he uncovers is so horrific and terrifying it is unbelievable!
11) Frankenstein
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Graphic novel.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The tale of Dr. Victor Frankenstein and his monstrous creation, written by a young Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Contains a short biography and list of additional works by the original story's author. In graphic novel format.
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," the story of Ichabod Crane, an irritating schoolteacher who falls prey to his own superstitious belief in a terrifying headless horseman.
13) Mummy
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Graphic novel.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color .ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Abel Trelawney is found unconscious, with strange wounds on his wrist, his daughter brings in art historian Robert Wyatt to help, and their investigation leads them to an ancient Egyptian curse.
Author
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel based on the Gaston Leroux classic, in which a disfigured musical genius, living under the Paris Opera House, uses music to win the love of a beautiful opera singer.