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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"Kurt Vonnegut strips the flesh from bone and makes you laugh while he does it. . . . There are twenty-five stories here, and each hits a nerve ending. These superb stories share Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
4) If it bleeds
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author, legendary storyteller, and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary collection of four new and compelling novellas. Mr. Harrigan Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and the title story If It Bleeds each pulling you into intriguing and frightening places. The novella is a form King has returned to over and over again in the course of his amazing career, and many have been made into iconic films,...
5) Night shift
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Kings first collection of short stories showcases the darkest depths of his brilliant imagination. Here we see mutated rats gone bad (“Graveyard Shift”); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity (“Night Surf,” the basis for The Stand); a possessed, evil lawnmower (“The Lawnmower Man”); unsettling children from the heartland (“Children of the Corn”); a smoker who will try anything to stop (“Quitters, Inc.”); a reclusive alcoholic...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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A collection of more than twenty-five short fictional works follows a theme of the intersections between life and death, perception and reality, and darkness and light.
Includes the Story “How to Talk to Girls at Parties” - Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Nicole Kidman. A24 Film Directed by John Cameron Mitchell also Stars Elle Fanning and Ruth Wilson. “A prodigiously imaginative collection. . . . The best of these clever fantasy metafictions...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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In Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck's beautifully rendered depictions of small yet fateful moments that transform ordinary lives, these twelve early stories introduce both the subject and style of artistic expression that recur in the most important works of his career. Each of these self-contained stories is linked to the others by the presence of the Munroes, a family whose misguided behavior and lack of sensitivity precipitate disasters and tragedies....
8) I, robot
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. With these three, simple directives, Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when...
11) Dubliners
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"This collection of 15 stories provides an introduction to the style and motifs found in Joyce's writing. The stories stand alone as individual scenes of Dublin society and are intertwined by the use of autobiography and symbolism."--
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Imprint
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Presents a collection of six short stories that transports readers to familiar and strange magical lands with haunted towns, hungry woods, talking beasts, and gingerbread golems.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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A collection of short stories explore what it is like to be young and black, centering on the experiences of black teenagers and emphasizing that one person's experiences, reality, and personal identity are different than someone else.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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A collection of eleven short stories, previously published online, that illuminate the life of the enigmatic, flashy, and flamboyant High Warlock of Brooklyn, Magnus Bane, a character in The Mortal Instruments series.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Tsalagi should never have to live on human blood, but sometimes things just happen to sixteen-year-old girls. Making her YA debut, Cherokee writer Andrea L. Rogers takes her place as one of the most striking voices of the horror renaissance that has swept the last decade. Horror fans will get their thrills in this collection – from werewolves to vampires to zombies – all the time-worn horror baddies are there. But so are predators of a distinctly...
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Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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An anthology of ten stories by young adult authors about surprising and unusual collections.
In the tradition of E. L. Konisburg, Kristin O'Donnell Tubb's The Story Collector is a historical fiction middle-grade novel inspired by the real life of Viviani Joffre Fedeler, born and raised in the New York Public Library. Eleven-year-old Viviani Fedeler has spent her whole life in the New York Public Library. She knows every room by heart, except the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Related stories, linked by recurring characters and an interwoven plot, recreate an American foot soldier's experience in the Vietnam War.
Heroic young men carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness.
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