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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Welcome to the Hall of Horrors, HorrorLand's Hall of Fame for the truly terrifying.
Jack Harmon can't think of anything worse than getting picked on by the bullies at school, until he discovers an even bigger threat. After finding a cell phone, Jack begins to hear a strange voice on the other end. Jack keeps trying to make his new "friend" happy. Now everyone thinks Jack has lost his mind. How can he overcome an something that he can't see but is...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of a doctor. Caring for her family and preserving their everyday life is paramount. And so, when one of her sons, Max, becomes depressed, Mary Beth becomes focused on him, and is blindsided by a shocking act of violence.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A little old lady who is not afraid of anything must deal with a pumpkin head, a tall black hat, and other spooky objects that follow her through the dark woods trying to scare her. The little old lady's fearless attitude and her clever solution as to what to do with the lively shoes, pants, shirt and pumpkin head that are chasing her will enchant young audiences. Great Halloween story. With brilliantly colored, detailed folk art illustrations.
5) False memory
Author
Language
English
Description
Psychological suspense story of the human mind's capacity to torment and destroy itself.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[30] p. : col. ill. ; 22 x 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pepito is afraid of heights. When his brothers and sisters fly off to a new tree, the little bird decides to make his own way there. A big fence, a wide river, and a busy road can't stop him. Pepito is a determined fellow who doesn't realize how brave he truly is.
Author
Series
Messenger of Fear volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The Messenger of Fear brings justice to those who do wrong, creating frightening games where the players earn their redemption--or lose their sanity--and somehow Mara, fifteen, has become his apprentice.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Description
Four men who reunite every year during hunting season in the woods of Maine encounter a disoriented, incoherent stranger who drags the men into a terrifying struggle with a creature from another world, and their only chance for survival lies in their shared past.
Author
Publisher
Harper Arco Iris
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st Spanish ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
Español
Description
A little old lady who is not afraid of anything must deal with a pumpkin head, a tall black hat, and other spooky objects that follow her through the dark woods trying to scare her.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Violet is looking for the boy she fell in love with last summer, the charismatic liar River West Redding, but as she scours the country for him, she begins to wonder who she's really chasing and who she really loves" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
152 pages: color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
Español
Description
Un precioso libro de cuentos basados en historias reales para educar a los más pequeños en la solidaridad. El 3% de la venta del libro se donará a Médicos Sin Fronteras. Dos médicos y una enfermera conocen, en tres países distintos, a tres niños que luchan contra lo que más miedo puede dar en el mundo. Tres aventuras en las que descubrirán la medicina más eficaz que existe contra el miedo. Tres cuentos para despertar la curiosidad, el compromiso...
14) El mal camino
Author
Publisher
B Maxi
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
1.a edición.
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
Una carretera rural del sur de Francia, un hombre surge de la oscuridad y desencadena una serie de extrąos acontecimientos, convirtiendo en una pesadilla las vidas del escritor Bert Amandale y su amigo Chucks Basil, una estrella de rock en horas bajas. Santiago se sirve de un escenario i̕dlico e inquietante, en el coraz̤n de la Provenza, para atraparnos en una historia que se lee compulsivamente y en la que late, de fondo, el destino de unos personajes...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
x, 154 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica's vision of the human experience emerges in complex, unexpected ways--often unsettling, sometimes thrilling, and always profound"--
Author
Publisher
LAKE UNION Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Valencia, a timid debt collector with crippling OCD, is afraid of many things, but the two that scare her most are flying and turning thirty-five. To confront those fears, Valencia's therapist suggests that she fly somewhere-anywhere-before her upcoming birthday. And as Valencia begins a telephone romance with a man from New York, she suddenly has a destination in mind. There's only one problem-he might not actually exist. Mrs. Valentine is an eccentric...
Author
Publisher
Spanish Pubs Llc
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 26 cm
Language
Español
Description
"El protagonista de esta historia está muy asustado. Es de noche, todo está oscuro y algo parece agitarse en las sombras de su dormitorio. Por suerte para él, está acompañado de un valiente lector que, armado con una linterna, lo ayudará a iluminar sus temores y descubrir que aquello que parecía un monstruo son, en realidad, objetos cotidianos. Este divertido libro, lleno de suspense y acompañado por luminosas ilustraciones, introduce a los...
18) The hanging city
Author
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
332 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Seven years on the run from her abusive father, and with no hope of sanctuary among the dwindling pockets of human civilization, Lark is out of options. Her only leverage is a cursed power: she can thrust fear onto others, leaving all threats fleeing in terror. It's a means of survival as she searches for a place to call home. If the campfire myths of her childhood are true, Lark's sole chance for refuge could lie in Cagmar, the city of trolls-a...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In love for the first time, a son's decisions about the future divides his family in this fearless and thought-provoking novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of the 'heart-tugging and emotional' (Romantic Times Book Reviews) Baxter Family books. In the shadow of very great loss, the only way to live with passion is truly, madly, deeply. When eighteen-year-old Tommy Baxter declares to his family that he wants to be a police officer after...
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 audio-enabled book (1 volume (unpaged))
Language
English
Description
"Another hilarious picture book from actor Max Greenfield, author of I Don't Want To Read This Book and This Book Is Not a Present, dedicated to introverts of all ages, about the horrors of reading aloud. Nobody in the world actually enjoys reading aloud, do they? Impossible! After all, any number of terrible things could happen: you might come across a word you don't know how to pronounce. Or get distracted by a volcano eruption and lose your place....
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