Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Weenies short story collections volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Bizarre tales of a teenager going to the school dance with a robot, a Thanksgiving dinner is interrupted by turkeys looking for revenge, and other strange short stories.
Author
Formats
Description
This comprehensive volume of all of Twain's shorter works is representative of his vast humor and wit. "The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain" includes the following tales: "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "The Story of the Bad Little Boy," "Cannibalism in the Cars," "A Day at Niagara," "Legend of the Capitoline Venus," "Journalism in Tennessee," "A Curious Dream," "The Facts in the Great Beef Contract," "How I Edited an Agricultural...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
An illustrated collection of fourteen short stories featuring "dragons and wizards, councilors and mayors, an adventurous tortoise and a monster in a lake, along with plenty of pointy hats and a few magic spells" written when the author was a teenaged newspaper reporter.
Author
Series
Weenies short story collections volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Thirty-three creepy stories about warped technology, revengeful ants, sadistic gym teachers, and other terrifying things. Includes author's notes on how he got his ideas for these stories.
Author
Formats
Description
It was so cold that his spit froze in the air before it hit the ground. He was so far above the Artic Circle that the sun never rose. Seventy below zero, and there was nothing but whiteness in every direction: ice and snow. No trees, no houses, no wood, no warmth.
He had only a few matches and a handful of frozen fingers. And yet, to survive, he had to build a fire...
Jack London's tales of adventure were unsurpassed because London was there. From...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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.
52) Bark : Stories
Author
Formats
Description
A collection of eight short stories includes "Debarking," in which a recently divorced man struggles to hold himself together as the United States prepares to invade Iraq; and "Foes," in which a political argument at a Georgetown fundraiser goes awry.
53) Edgar Allan Poe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Five stories by the nineteenth-century American writer best known for his tales of horror.
Author
Appears on list
Formats
Description
This omnibus volume by one of the South's greatest writers includes stories published prior to 1980. Stories are as good in themselves and as influential on the aspirations of others as any since Hemingway's. The breadth of Welty's offering is finally most visible not in the variety of types--farce, satire, horror, lyric, pastoral, mystery--but in the clarity and solidity and absolute honesty of a lifetime's vision.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Logan is disturbed by a mysterious mumbling voice in the boys' room, but when he finds a cell phone floating in the toilet, and reaches in to retrieve it he is caught in a trap--and that is only one of the chilling stories in this collection.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
If Horrid Henry wins the Frosty Free Snowman Competition, he'll get free ice cream for a year! He'll live on ice cream. He'll sleep in ice cream. He'll bathe in ice cream. Winning wil be easyhis only real competition will be that baby, Perfect Peter. Plus three more stories that go well with ice cream.
Author
Formats
Description
The Gentle Grafter (1907) is a collection of fourteen short stories by American writer O. Henry. Inspired by his experiences as a fugitive and prisoner, these tales follow the escapades of two professional con artists whose humor and storytelling ability illuminate the nature of wealth and crime in early twentieth century America. In "Modern Rural Sports," con-man Jeff Peters recalls a job in a rural Western town where, in need of money, he devised...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
One morning Ella gets an odd text message from a friend, about a strange girl who is showing up in Ella's selfies, and as the messages keep coming the girl with a monkey head keeps getting closer and closer--and that is only one of the chilling tales in this collection of scary stories.