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1) The Cerulean
Author
Series
Cerulean duology volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Sera Lighthaven has always felt as if she didn't quite belong among her people, the Cerulean, who live in the City Above the Sky. She is curious about everything--especially the planet that her City is magically tethered to--and can't stop questioning things. Sera has always longed for the day when the tether will finally break and the Cerulean can move to a new planet. But when Sera is chosen as the sacrifice to break the tether, she feels betrayed...
2) Dagon
Publisher
Studio Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Tells the chilling tale of a fishing village tempted by greed, who evolve into freakish half-human creatures and must sacrifice outsiders to an ancient, monstrous god of the sea.
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Anita Blake takes on a rogue fellow animator who is using human sacrifices to raise the dead and discovers that her only hope of survival lies in depending upon the feared Jean Claude, Master Vampire of the City.
5) Damsel
Author
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A damsel in distress takes on the dragon herself in this epic twist on classic fantasy-a groundbreaking collaboration between New York Times bestselling author Evelyn Skye and the team behind the upcoming Netflix film Damsel, starring Millie Bobby Brown"--
Growing up in the famine-stricken realm of Inophe, Elodie's deepest wish was to help her people survive each winter. When a representative from a rich, reclusive kingdom offers her family enough...
7) The dead one
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Trapped in purgatory between this world and the next, 21-year-old Diego wanders the streets of L.A. in search of a human sacrifice for the vicious Aztec gods that control his soul. However, the sacrifice they want is Maria, his girlfriend.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
"Every seven years, the people of Three Graces send a sacrifice to the woods. The death of their 'best boy' ensures seven years free from disease, blight, and pain. But this year, the Slaughter Moon has risen early, and three, not one, will run into the forest as a sacrifice"--
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Follows the follies of a stressed-out guy in a dead-end job who is told he has a terminal "brain cloud." A zany jillionaire then makes him an offer that gives him a fleeting taste of the good life. In exchange, he must journey to a Pacific Island and leap into a volcano. Is Joe doomed to be the last of the red-hot lovers? Not if the forces of imagination, romantic comedy, and the charm of Ryan in 3 roles as the women in Joe's life have their way.
10) The believers
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A widower and his son move to New York City and become involved with a cultish religion which believes in the sacrifice of children.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
There are a million ways to die in the Rockies -- and a million predators, natural or otherwise. But even a seasoned mountain dweller like Preacher is shocked by the latest horror lurking in the hills. Trappers are being hunted down like animals. Captured. Murdered. Mutilated. Their hearts carved out of their chests. Some of the victims were Preacher's friends. Now two others -- Audie and Nighthawk -- have gone missing. Preacher is determined to track...
12) Given to the sea
Author
Series
Given volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Khosa is destined to be sacrificed to the sea and struggles understand her destiny as the kingdom comes under attack and the ocean threatens to destroy them all"--
Khosa was born to be fed to the sea, to prevent the kind of wave that once destroyed the Kingdom of Stille. She can't be sacrificed until she produces an heir, but human touch repulses her-- except for the touch of the Indiri. Dara and Donil are the last of the Indiri, a native race with...
14) Monstrous
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Latavia is presented as a human sacrifice to an ancient beast, she is determined to do whatever it takes to survive--even if that includes making a deal with the monster and endangering her crush and family.
15) Rose Coffin
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Teased, bullied, and finally humiliated by the girls at school, twelve-year-old Rose Coffin escapes into the mysterious forest where she is immediately captured and taken to the magical world of Eppersett, where she is told that she is special, the one who will save Eppersett from the Abomination with the power of her voice; Rose is thrilled to be wanted--until she finds out that she is wanted not as a singer but as a human sacrifice.
16) On Etruscan time
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
While spending the summer on an archaeological dig near Florence, Italy, with his mother, eleven-year-old Hector meets an Etruscan boy who needs help to foil his treacherous uncle's plan to make him a human sacrifice--1,000 years in the past.
18) The wicker tree
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When two young missionaries head to Scotland, they are initially charmed by the locals in the town of Tressock, and agree to become the local Queen of the May and Laddie for the annual town festival. But the couple is not prepared for the frightening consequences of their decision, and the very disturbing secrets they are about to discover about Tressock's seemingly friendly townspeople.
19) The alcazar
Author
Series
Cerulean duology volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Sera has finally recognized the true power of her Cerulean blood. But in order to return home, she'll need help from Agnes, Leo, and their grandmother, the only person with knowledge about the mysterious island of Braxos, where the Cerulean tether is anchored. Though the journey will be treacherous, Sera will risk anything to see her City again. Meanwhile, the High Priestess's power has reached new heights in the City Above the Sky. And when Leela...