Stephen King
1) Revival
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt in front of his house when a shadow falls over him. He looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later, who with his beautiful wife, will transform the church and the town. The men and boys are a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls, with the Reverend Jacobs--including Jamie's sisters and mother. Then tragedy...
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Language
English
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Description
"You like it darker? Fine, so do I," writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life--both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King...
3) Firestarter
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
You are about to meet the sweetest, most irresistible little girl you've ever known--8-year-old Charlie McGee. She's everything that a proud father like Andy McGee could want--and all that he can fear. For Charlie was born with the most destructive power a human being has ever commanded--and somehow she must be saved from both herself and from those in high places who want to use her as their weapon.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Stephen King ghost story in the grand tradition, Riding the Bullet is the ultimate warning about the dangers of hitchhiking.
A college student's mother is dying in a Maine hospital. When he hitches a ride to see her, the driver is not who he appears to be. Soon the journey veers off into a dark landscape that could only be drawn by Stephen King.
A college student's mother is dying in a Maine hospital. When he hitches a ride to see her, the driver is not who he appears to be. Soon the journey veers off into a dark landscape that could only be drawn by Stephen King.
5) Misery
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.
6) Roadwork
Author
Language
English
Description
What happens when one good-and-angry man fights back is murder—and then some.
Bart Dawes is standing in the way of progress. A new highway extension is being built right over the laundry plant where he works—and right over his home. The house he has lived in for twenty years, where he has made love with his wife, played with his son. They want to tear it down, leveling his memories and destroying his past. But before the city
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Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Language
English
Description
In an ultraconservative America of the not-too-distant future when America has become a police state, the annual marathon is the ultimate sports competition, a deadly contest of endurance and determination. One hundred boys are selected each year to enter a grueling 450-mile marathon known as "The Long Walk." The game is simple: maintain a steady walking pace of four miles per hour without stopping. If you break the rules, you get three warnings,
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her violent husband, disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of Joe Claiborne thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera's physical and mental decline and of her loyalty to an employer who has become emotionally demanding in recent years.
10) Mutt dog!
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 510L
Language
English
Description
A lonely dog finally finds a home after he makes friends with a woman who works at a homeless shelter.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In 1947, Andy Dufresne, an established banker, is wrongly imprisoned at Shawshank prison in Maine, for the murder of his wife and her secret lover. Andy faces many struggles that happen within the prison walls, but manages to have a great friendship with a man named, Red.
12) Desperation
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 30
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Several cross-country travelers--including a writer, a family on vacation, and a professor and his wife--end up in the little mining town of Desperation, where a crazy policeman and evil forces compel them to fight for their lives.
14) Three
Author
Publisher
Holiday House / Neal Porter Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Three, a homeless three-legged dog, skips and hops about the city until he befriends a little girl who accepts him as he is.
16) Dreamcatcher
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 36
Lexile measure
880L
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
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories, several on group behavior. The story, Low Men in Yellow Coats, deals with the way group behavior can affect people for the worse, the title story is on a college woman who saves a fellow student from such behavior, while in Blind Willie a man atones for group behavior in the Vietnam War.
18) The dead zone
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
After awakening from a four and a half year-long coma, a simple teacher finds himself irreparably altered -- both blessed ... and cursed -- with precognative visions of the future. Driven by his altruistic nature, he decides to use his newfound powers to prevent tragic events yet to happen. But as word of his unique ability leads to unwanted fame, the gift he hoped to share with humanity inevitably separates him from it.
Left with a sixth sense as...
19) Rose Madder
Author
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
"After surviving fourteen years of hell in a violently abusive marriage, Rosie Daniels has finally summoned the courage to flee for her life. But leaving her husband Norman for a new city and a new start is a very daunting prospect. It's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder, and with good reason--Norman's a police officer with the instincts of a predator, a force of relentless terror and savagery...a man almost mythic in his monstrosity....
20) Bag of bones
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 32
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
On falling in love with a woman half his age, novelist Michael Noonan of Maine is drawn into a custody battle for the woman's daughter. The father-in-law, a nasty millionaire, is trying to take the girl away and to complicate matters malevolent spirits are at work. Part love, part ghost story.
