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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Holly Gibney (from Stephen King's Bill Hodges trilogy and The outsider) must face her fears and possibly another outsider--this time on her own. In "Mr. Harrigan's Phone," an intergenerational friendship has a disturbing afterlife. "The Life of Chuck" explores, beautifully, how each of us contains multitudes. And in "Rat," a struggling writer must contend with the darker side of ambition. If these stories show King's range, they also prove that certain...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Terror began in January, by the light of the full moon. The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the werewolf's fangs ripping at his throat. The next month there was a scream of agony from the woman attacked in her cozy bedroom. Now scenes of unbelievable horror unfold each time the full moon shines on the isolated Maine town of Tarker's Mills. Only one thing is sure-- when the full moon rises, a paralyzing fear sweeps through...
4) Misery
Author
Language
Español
Description
After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.
Estaba loca, pero él la necesitaba. Paul Sheldon es un escritor que sufre un grave accidente y recobra el conocimiento en una apartada casa, donde vive una misteriosa mujer, capaz de cometer los mayores horrores. Paul tendrá que luchar por su vida. Misery Chastain ha muerto. Paul Sheldon la ha matado. Con alivio y hasta con...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a cross-country, redeye flight from Los Angeles to Boston, ten passengers awaken in Bangor, Maine, to find that the crew and most of their fellow passengers have disappeared. The airport shows no signs of life. Yet they hear "radio static" in the distance. Craig Toomey, an irritable investment banker on the verge of a breakdown, believes it is "The Langoliers," monsters he was afraid of as a child who attack those who waste time. It's mystery...
Author
Series
Green mile volume pt. 1
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The series plots the course of John Coffey, who, after being convicted of murdering two young girls, starts on the first steps of the Green Mile, the passage to the electric chair and a road to revelation.
Author
Series
Green mile volume pt. 6
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
©1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Cold Mountain Penitentiary has seen its share of death through the years, and now it's John Coffey's turn to take that final walk down the Green Mile.
11) Night journey
Author
Series
Green mile volume pt. 5
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
©1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Paul Edgecombe and his fellow guards take a huge gamble by taking convicted killer John Coffey away from Death Row in the dead of night to bring him to the bedside of a woman writhing in torment.
Author
Language
English
Description
Everything's Eventual: Dinky, a pizza delivery boy, gets hired by a stranger for a unique and awesome job. Autopsy Room Four: When Howard wakes up, he is being rolled into an autopsy room. The Little Sisters of Eluria: Roland is a gunslinger in a deserted town and gets ambushed. Luckey Quarter: Darlene receives a quarter for a tip, and lets that quarter take her for a ride. The Road Virus Heads North: an author buys a creepy painting that was painted...
Author
Series
Green mile volume pt. 2
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
©1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A mouse moves into Cold Mountain Penitentiary and breaks up the monotony for the three death row inmates.
19) Carrie
Author
Publisher
Európa Könyvkiadó
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Hungarian
Description
A sixteen-year-old misfit, denied everything by her fanatical mother and abused by her classmates, unleashes her terrifying telekinetic powers on an entire town.
20) Coffey's hands
Author
Series
Green mile volume pt. 3
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
©1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Paul Coffey, the brutal killer of two girls, reveals something extraordinary, and life on the Green Mile will never be the same again.