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1) It
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 70
Language
English
Formats
Description
An eleven-year-old boy is found in a town park, hideously assaulted and murdered. The fingerprints (and later DNA) are unmistakably those of the town’s most popular baseball coach, Terry Maitland, a man of impeccable reputation, with a wife and two daughters. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland coached, orders an immediate and public arrest. Maitland is taken to jail, his claim to innocence scorned. Maitland has a foolproof alibi, with...
2) Night Shift
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of twenty stories of horror and nightmarish fantasy that transform everyday situations into experiences of compelling terror in the worlds of the living, the dying, and the nonliving.
3) Misery
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
A collection of short fiction features "L.T.'s Theory of Pets," "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe," and "In the Deathroom," as well as "1408," about a writer whose stay in Room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel turns his life upside down.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 37
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a near-future where women succumb to a sleeping disease and men revert to their primal natures, one mysteriously immune woman struggles to survive in an Appalachian town where she is treated as both a demon and a lab specimen.
6) The shining
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Torrance sees his stint as winter caretaker of a Colorado hotel as a way back from failure, his wife sees it as a chance to preserve their family, and their five-year-old son sees the evil waiting just for them.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Prolific author Stephen King presents a collection of four new novellas. In the story 1922, a man plunges into the depths of madness when his wife attempts to sell off the family home. A mystery writer, who was beaten and raped while driving home from her book club, plots her revenge in Big Driver. Diagnosed with a deadly cancer, a man makes a deal with the devil in Fair Extension. And in A Good Marriage, a woman discovers her husband's darker side...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of short works is comprised of pieces that previously appeared in "The New Yorker," "Playboy," and "McSweeney's," in a volume that includes such tales as "The Gingerbread Girl" and "N."
9) Rose Madder
Author
Language
English
Description
"After surviving fourteen years of hell in a violently abusive marriage, Rosie Daniels has finally summoned the courage to flee for her life. But leaving her husband Norman for a new city and a new start is a very daunting prospect. It's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder, and with good reason--Norman's a police officer with the instincts of a predator, a force of relentless terror and savagery...a man almost mythic in his monstrosity....
Author
Series
Gwendy's button box trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
171 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson takes the stairs up the cliffside to Castle Rock, Maine, she encounters a mysterious stranger, who calls out to her wanting to talk.
11) Holly: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Stephen King's Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly's gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges's partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In King's new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised...
12) Cujo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Outside a peaceful town in central Maine, a monster is waiting. Cujo is a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. One day, Cujo chases a rabbit into a cave inhabited by sick bats and emerges as something new altogether.
Meanwhile, Vic and Donna Trenton, and their young son Tad, move to Maine. They are seeking peace and quiet, but life in this small town is not what it seems. As Tad tries to fend off the terror...
14) Black House
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 41
Language
English
16) End of watch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Mr. Mercedes (winner of the Edgar Award) and Finders Keepers--In End of Watch, the diabolical "Mercedes Killer" drives his enemies to suicide, and if Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney don't figure out a way to stop him, they'll be victims themselves. In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something has awakened. Something evil. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator...
Author
Series
Bill Hodges trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories. An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective...
20) Red rain
Author
Language
English
Description
Travel writer Lea Sutter is on a small island near South Carolina when she barely survives a hurricane. After the storm she discovers two orphaned twin boys--Samuel and Daniel--and decides to adopt them. But when she brings them home to her husband and two other children, Lea's good deed becomes a nightmare.