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1) Coraline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy--an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack--who has already killed...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
When his uncle sends him to work at the mysterious Stallery Mansion, twelve-year-old Conrad Tesdinic overcomes his bad karma and discovers in the mansion's winecellar the source of the magic that threatens to pull his world into one of the eleven other parallel universes.
Author
Series
Immortals volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
When she is sent as part of the delegation from Tortall to negotiate a peace treaty with Carthak, fifteen-year-old Daine must use her powers to communicate with animals for more than healing the Carthak emperor's dying birds.
Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
With goblins, trolls, and the house boggart all trying to get them, the Grace children turn to Great Aunt Lucinda for help.
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A collection of five romantic novellas involving ghosts includes J. D. Robb's "Possession in Death," in which Lieutenant Eve Dallas is possessed by a victim who is determined to exact revenge against her killer through Eve.
J. D. Robb's -- Possession in Death: Lieutenant Eve Dallas has always sought justice for the dead, but now, a victim will seek her own vengeance-through Eve.
Mary Blayney -- The other side of the coint: An earl and his countess...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Cats. Jessica's never liked them. Especially not a skinny, ugly kitten that looks like a worm. Worm. Jessica wishes she'd never brought Worm home with her, because now he's making her do terrible things. She's sure she isn't imagining the evil voice coming from the cat, telling her to play mean tricks on people. But how can she explain what's happening? Witches. Jessica has read enough books to know that Worm must be a witch's cat. He's cast a spell...
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Night creatures: Warren's hatred of moving turns to fear when the plants in a neighbor's yard begin to attack. Who am I?: Larry wakes up one morning to find that no one recognizes him, and there is no longer any record of his birth. Cemetery school: Randy and Eric are convinced that supernatural forces are causing their new school to fall apart.
13) Wildwood dancing
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Five sisters who live with their merchant father in Transylvania use a hidden portal in their home to cross over into a magical world, the Wildwood.
15) Heaven and earth
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Now in the second book of her bewitching Three Sisters Island trilogy, she returns to the haunting shores of New England - and to the lives of three passionate, powerful women. Ripley Todd just wants to live a quiet, peaceful kind of life. Her job as a sheriff's deputy keeps her busy and happy, and she has no trouble finding men when she wants them - which, lately, isn't all that often. She's perfectly content, except for one thing: she has special...
16) Ruthless game
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
GhostWalker Kane Cannon is pure male - animalistic, sexual, protective, instinctive - and his past missions have prepared him for anything. But his newest assignment, into a hot zone he never anticipated: the hiding place of Rose Patterson -- a fugitive, an ex-lover, a fellow GhostWalker pregnant with his child. Rose is in flight from the insidious experiments that still haunt her dreams, and from the madman who'd do anything to take her child. Of...
Author
Series
Immortals volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
While in the mystical realms of the gods along with Numair, Daine learns the secrets of her past and the implications for her future as she and Numair are compelled to return to the mortal world of Tortall to help fight against the immortals.
Series
Language
English
Description
"Sookie Stackhouse attracted vampires, werewolves, and various otherworldly creatures. Even fellow authors fell in love with her and Charlaine Harris's "magical and mysterious twist on traditional vampire stories" (Houston Chronicle). And though Sookie's story has come to an end, these tales of her and the characters who populated her world will give you a different perspective on the series you thought you knew ... In "Wing and a Prayer," Rachel...
19) The historian
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discovering a medieval book and a cache of letters, a motherless American girl becomes the latest in a series of historians, including her late father, who investigate the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler.
20) Hawksong
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
In a land that has been at war so long that no one remembers the reason for fighting, the shapeshifters who rule the two factions agree to marry in the hope of bringing peace, despite deep-seated fear and distrust of each other.