Daniel Kraus
Author
Language
English
Description
"Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool's errand--to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it's a long shot, but Jay feels it's the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad's death by suicide the previous year. The dive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very real jeopardy, made infinitely worse by the arrival of...
2) Rotters
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Joey's life takes a very strange turn when his mother's tragic death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father he has never known, and who is the town pariah.
3) Scowler
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the midst of a 1981 meteor shower in Iowa, a homicidal maniac escapes from prison and returns to the farm where his nineteen-year-old son, Ry, must summon three childhood toys, including one called Scowler, to protect himself, his eleven-year-old sister, Sarah, and their mother.
4) Bent heavens
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Two years after the disappearance of her father, seventeen-year-old Liv and her friend capture an alien in the Iowa countryside, and instead of turning him over to the authorities, they choose a different path.
Author
Series
Teddies saga volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Buddy wakes up in a garbage dump and, after finding other teddy bears there, becomes their leader as they embark on a perilous journey to fulfill their destiny.
Author
Series
Teddies saga volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Forced to watch one of their own being destroyed, the remaining teddies, who are thrust back into a world that doesn't want them, decide to return to the place they were created to finally learn why they were thrown away.
Author
Publisher
Raw Dog Screaming Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The definitive story of "the most exhaustively documented haunting in history," including interviews with every living survivor of the tragedy. The employees of Burger City were a family. They loved one another. At least, at the beginning.
Author
Series
Teddies saga volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt Books and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When the teddies head back into the dangerous world to seek the secrets of their creation, they discover that the founder of Furrington Industries, known as the Suit, is on trial, and while at the courthouse, they learn the true, incendiary reason the teddies were thrown away.
13) Blood sugar
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-141
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
At the end of Yellow Street, in a ruined junkyard of a house, an angry outcast hatches a scheme to take revenge for all the wrongs he has suffered. With the help of three alienated neighborhood kids, he plans to hide razor blades, poison, drugs, and broken glass in Halloween candy and use the deadly treats to maim or kill dozens of innocent children. But as the clock ticks closer to sundown, will one of his helpers--an innocent himself, in his own...
Author
Series
Graveyard Girls volume 1
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
As the 100th anniversary of the electrocution of the town's most infamous killer approaches, an anonymous text message lures five twelve-year-olds to the cemetery, inspiring the first meeting of the Graveyard Girls and setting the stage for a terrifying tale from Whisper that they will never forget.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the novel of the idea that inspired the motion picture. An other-worldly fairy tale set against the backdrop of the Cold War-era United States circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of silence and isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment.
1962. Elisa Esposito-- mute her whole life-- works as a janitor...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When ordinary teenager Jim Lake Jr. stumbles upon a mystical amulet on his way to school one morning, he inadvertently discovers an extraordinary secret civilization of mighty trolls beneath his small town of Arcadia. Suddenly destined to play a crucial role in an ancient battle of good and evil, Jim is determined to save the world, right after gym class.
18) Trollhunters
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everything changes for San Bernardino teenage suburbanite Jim Sturges when a 45-year old mystery resurfaces, threatening the lives of everyone in his seemingly sleepy town. Soon Jim has to team up with a band of unlikely (and some un-human) heroes to battle the monsters he never knew existed.
Author
Publisher
Umbriel Editores
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"'La forma del agua' esta ambientada en la ciudad de Baltimore en plena Guerra Fria, en el centro de investigacion aeroespacial Occam, al que hace poco ha llegado un ser tan extraordinario como potencialmente valioso: un hombre anfibio capturado en el Amazonas. Lo que sigue es una emotiva historia de amor entre este ser y una de las mujeres de la limpieza en Occam, quien es muda y se comunica con la criatura por medio del lenguaje de signos"--Amazon.com....
20) Wrath
Author
Publisher
Union Square and Co
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In a future much nearer than you think, where scientific experimentation is exploited for commercial profit, unwisely under-supervised cutting-edge technology creates a menace that threatens the very fabric of human existence. Sammy, a lab rat instilled with human genes and supersized intelligence, escapes into the world outside the lab where he, aware of humankind's cruelty in the name of science, has the potential to sire a rodent army capable of...