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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
This volume is a collection of 14 short stories written by Stephen King. These tales that include the much-touted Internet-download phenomenon, "Riding the Bullet"; "The Little Sisters of Eluria," a Dark Tower prequel; the novella-length title story; and "L.T's Theory of Pets," King's personal favorite within the group, which was previously available only in audio. Not only do the action-based plots and engaging narratives hold up well within the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
By her own account she's an old Yankee bitch, Dolores Claiborne: foul temper, foul mouth, foul life. Folks on Little Tall island have been waiting thirty years to find out just what happened on the eerie dark day her husband, Joe, died-the day of the total eclipse. The police want to know what happened yesterday, when rich, bedridden Vera Donovan, the island's grande dame sans merci and Dolores's longtime employer, died suddenly in her care. With...
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Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison Guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile, but he's never seen anything like John Coffey--a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its...
5) Misery
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"The four never-before-published novellas in this collection represent horror master King at his finest, using the weird and uncanny to riff on mortality, the price of creativity, and the unpredictable consequences of material attachments. A teenager discovers that a dead friend's cell phone, which was buried with the body, still communicates from beyond the grave in 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone,' which reads like a Twilight Zone episode infused with an...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
Left with a sixth sense as a result of two accidents and a five year coma, John Smith wanted to remain a private person and was reluctant to use his talent. Then he meets a local politician whom he senses to be malevolent and dangerous and realizes that ony death can keep him from becoming President of the United States.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 43
Language
English
Description
The basis for the 2006 TNT miniseres--now available on DVD--King's bestselling short-story collection also features Dolan's Cadillac, soon to be released as a major motion picture starring Christian Slater and Wes Bentley.
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Series
Green mile volume pt. 1
Publisher
Signet Book
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
13) The long walk
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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. One hundred boys are selected each year to enter a grueling 450-mile marathon walk. The game is simple: maintain a steady walking pace of four miles per hour without stopping. Three warnings and you're out--permanently. The winner will be awarded whatever he wants for the rest of his life; but...
14) Misery
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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