Michael Dahl
Author
Series
Hocus pocus hotel volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Charlie Hitchcock, the smartest kid at school, gets a note from the school bully, Tyler Yu, demanding a meeting he fears the worst--but it turns out that Tyler wants him to solve the mystery of the missing magician at the Abracadabra Hotel.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A scientist on Krypton realizes that his world faces total destruction and sends his son into space, and when the child's rocket lands in a Kansas cornfield, the baby is discovered by a farmer and his wife, who learn of the boy's strange powers.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Tokyo, Ren has met with three other teenagers who have the dragon birthmark, but the public has learned that the dragonborn exist and teams of hunters are searching for them--and not all of Ren's new friends are what they seem to be.
Author
Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thirty years ago, Brainiac shrank the city of Kandor and sealed it inside an unbreakable glass container. The evil supercomputer is still exploring the universe, collecting cities from hundreds of planets. Superman must stop Brainiac from bottling up Metropolis, and then save Kandor--the last remnant of his home planet"--Unedited summary from book.
Author
Series
Hocus pocus hotel volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tyler Yu, school bully, is convinced that there is a ghost stealing things at Abracadabra Hotel, and he enlists the help of Charlie Hitchcock to solve the mystery.
9) Wolves
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Simple text and full-color photographs provide a brief introduction to wolves.
12) Dead wings
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taj has discovered that he's growing wings. He straps them down to hide them, but what if the wings are only the beginning? What kind of beast will he grow into? Taj seeks help from his cousin, the only person he can trust. But his cousin has a terrible secret too.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carlos works on a fishing boat in the middle of the sea. After a storm, he spots a woman clinging to driftwood. The woman's friends are lost, maybe swallowed by the ocean. But the woman says it was no storm that capsized her ship, it was a monster!
14) Dragon cowboy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A teenage cowboy is working at a ranch for the summer. His father said it would be good for him. One night, the horses begin to snort in fear and a strange teenage boy appears where a fire-breathing shadow once stood. The cowboy is afraid, until he sees that the stranger's birthmark is dragon-shaped, just like his.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Noor and Farah, searching for food, find themselves in a crumbling library. But when Noor shouts, the sound is heard by three soldiers who patrol the old building. The soldiers are angry, and the two girls are scared. That all changes when Noor opens her mouth.
17) Stowaway monster
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boy, who has a birthmark in the shape of a dragon on his arm, stows away on a ship to North America, but when his birthmark begins to sting, the boy discovers a crewman with a dragon tattoo and some curious cargo.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Livia wears a small porcelain hand around her neck, all that is left of a doll that once belonged to her grandmother, but on the first night at summer camp the hand comes alive and terrifies an envious cabinmate--and there are plenty of chills in five other stories in this collection.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six-year-old Brandon hates to go up the stairs to bed because there is always a man sitting there, a man only he can see, but tonight he closes his eyes and makes the climb with his mother watching, and then he hears his mother scream--and that is only one of the stories in this collection about all-too-real fears.