Stephen King
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation...An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. The case seems ironclad, especially when Anderson...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis' parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents - telekinesis and telepathy - who got to this place the same...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher--for that world or ours"-- Provided by publisher.
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has...
5) End of watch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A ... suspenseful closing volume--Brady Hartsfield, the Mercedes killer, ... returns to diabolically drive his victims to suicide in this last, ... installment starring the ever more winning Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney"-- Provided by publisher.
In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something evil has awakened. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator of the Mercedes Massacre, has been in the clinic for five years in a vegetative state....
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[c1987]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Once Upon a Time, There Was Terror...
The Eyes of the Dragon
A tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures, of dragons and princes and evil wizards, here is epic fantasy as only Stephen King could envision it.
A kingdom is in turmoil as the old King Roland dies and its worthy successor, Prince Peter must do battle to claim what is rightfully his. Plotting against him is the evil Flagg and his pawn,
Author
Series
Bill Hodges trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"Wake up, genius." So begins Kings instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasnt published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real...
Author
Series
Bill Hodges trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From a master of the short story, a collection that includes stories never before in print, never published in America, never collected and brand new- with the magnificent bones of interstitial autobiographical comments on when, why and how Stephen King came to write each story"-- Provided by publisher.
12) Billy Summers
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
"When Billy Summers was twelve years old, He shot and killed his mother's boyfriend after he kicked Billy's sister to death. At 17, he enlisted in the army. At 18, he was a sniper in Iraq and involved in the deadly battle to recapture Fallujah. For nearly twenty years, he's worked as a paid assassin. He's a good guy in a bad job, and he wants out. He takes on a very complicated, very lucrative job that he hopes will be his last. He's got a perfect...
13) Cell
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
A single pulse is simultaneously transmitted through every cell phone on the planet. After the pulse, an unspeakable transformation occurs. People everywhere begin devolving into inhuman killing machines--and civilization as we know it grinds to a halt in a terrifying riot of violence. It falls to a small group of survivors to turn the tables and take back the streets--or die trying.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
cp2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
This collection of short works is comprised of pieces that previously appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Playboy, and McSweeney's, in a volume that includes such tales as ""The Gingerbread Girl"" and "N."
15) Mutt dog!
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A lonely dog finally finds a home after he makes friends with a woman who works at a homeless shelter.
17) Piglet and Papa
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Piglet's beloved father chases her away after she plays too rough, all of the barnyard animals try to make her feel better, but Piglet is still afraid that her father no longer loves her.
18) Piglet and Mama
Author
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Piglet cannot find her mother, all of the barnyard animals try to make her feel better, but Piglet wants nothing but Mama.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While Piglet waits for his fun-loving Granny to visit, he impresses the other farm animals with some of the skills she has taught him, such as balancing and turning somersaults.