Neil Gaiman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When a middle-aged man returns to his childhood home in Sussex, England, for a funeral he remembers frightening childhood memories relating to the neighbor girl who promised to protect him from the darkness unleashed by a suicide at the pond at the end of their street.
3) Anansi boys
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Neil Gaiman returns to the territory of his masterpiece, American Gods to once again probe the dark recesses of the soul.
God is dead. Meet the kids.
Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn't know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother. Now brother Spider is on his doorstep—about to make
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Series
Interworld novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After mastering the ability to walk between dimensions, sixteen-year-old Joey Harker and his fellow InterWorld freedom fighters embark on a mission to maintain peace between the rival powers of magic and science who seek to control all worlds.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The View from the Cheap Seats brings together... more than sixty pieces of his outstanding nonfiction. Analytical yet playful, erudite yet accessible, this cornucopia explores a broad range of interests and topics, including (but not limited to): authors past and present; music; storytelling; comics; bookshops; travel; fairy tales; America; inspiration; libraries; ghosts; and the title piece, at turns touching and self-deprecating, which recounts...
6) Neverwhere
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Richard Mayhew, a young businessman living in London, helps an injured girl and finds his life changed when he leaves reality and enters the city's underground world of sewers and abandoned subway stations--a world in which the girl he helped is someone of power and nobility.
7) Coraline
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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.
10) Cinnamon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The parents of pearl-eyed princess Cinnamon offer a reward to anyone who can help their daughter speak, a plea answered by an exotic tiger who arrives at the palace, armed with knowledge of the world.
Author
Series
Chu books volume 3
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Chu the panda goes to the beach!"--
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author’s “hilarious . . . idiosyncratic . . . delightful” and definitive companion to a global phenomenon (Publishers Weekly).
Douglas Adams’s “six-part trilogy,” The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy grew from a blip of a notion into an ever-expanding multimedia universe that amassed an unprecedented...
Douglas Adams’s “six-part trilogy,” The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy grew from a blip of a notion into an ever-expanding multimedia universe that amassed an unprecedented...
13) Marvel 1602
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Strange happenings begin to occur at the court of Elizabeth I in 1602 including witchbreed sightings and men with superhuman powers; and at the center of the chaos is Virginia Dare, a young girl who recently arrived from the new world.
14) InterWorld
Author
Series
Interworld novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
At nearly fifteen years of age, Joey Harker learns that he is a Walker, able to travel between dimensions, and soon joins a team of different versions of himself, each from another dimension, to fight the evil forces striving to conquer all the worlds.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom.
16) M is for magic
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven stories that involve strange and fantastical events.
Author
Series
Chu books volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On the first day of school, a young panda learns about the special things his animal classmates can do.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
This supernatural mystery set in the world of Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos features a brilliant detective and his partner as they try to solve a horrific murder.
The complex investigation takes the Baker Street investigators from the slums of Whitechapel all the way to the Queen's Palace as they attempt to find the answers to this bizarre murder of cosmic horror!
From the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, Nebula...
The complex investigation takes the Baker Street investigators from the slums of Whitechapel all the way to the Queen's Palace as they attempt to find the answers to this bizarre murder of cosmic horror!
From the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, Nebula...
20) Crazy hair
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bonnie encounters all sorts of exotic animals and marvelous things inside a man's crazy hair.