K. R Alexander
1) Escape
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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"WESTWORLD meets CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY meets JURASSIC PARK, as kids win a chance to enter the place of their dreams -- and find that it quickly turns into a nightmare. It's all anyone talks about, and it's all Cody dreams about. It's the biggest adventure park in the world, and it's more than mere rides and rollercoasters: At ESCAPE, you can do anything you want, be anyone you want, and there are no adults to tell you no. Cody's a nobody,...
2) Follow me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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It's strange enough for Tamal to be the new kid in town. But it's even stranger to be living in the house that everyone wants to avoid, a house with a very deadly history. Nobody wants to talk about what happened ... nobody except the terrifying girl Tamal keeps encountering throughout the house. Tamal's parents can't see her, but he's sure she's there -- and wants something from him. Tamal's family thought this house would be a new start ... but...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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"Josie always liked visiting her grandmother in the countryside. But when her mother loses her job in the city and they're forced to relocate along with Josie's sister, Annie, she realizes she doesn't like the country that much. Especially because Grandma Jeannie has some strange rules: Don't bring any dolls into the house. And never, ever go near the house in the woods behind their yard. Soon though, Josie manages to make friends with the most popular...
4) Scare me
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Every year, the town of Happy Hills holds its haunted house contest. In a spooky old manor, teams of kids come up with new ways to frighten people. The scariest team wins. But this year, all the teams are going to lose. Because this year the house itself has awakened . . . and it won't be happy until it's devoured all the people inside. What started out as a game has turned into something much more deadly.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When five kids are invited to a cemetery at midnight, they think it's just a prank. When they find a gravestone that instructs them to dig up a grave, they think it's just a joke. It's no joke. An evil force is unleashed - a force that takes the shape of their worst fears. Once these fears are released, they won't go away. Not without a fight--"--back cover.
6) Bury me
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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"No one ever leaves Copper Hollow. It's a town with a deadly history . . . but nobody ever talks about it. Kimberly thinks there might be something strange going on. She's not sure what - until the menacing doll appears with two words written across its clothes: BURY ME. Kimberly and her friends try to destroy the doll . . . but every time they think it's gone, it comes back again. Is there any way to rid themselves of the evil once and for all?"--Page...
7) Haunt me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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The tale of a sleepover where a vengeful ghost is the uninvited guest who won't leave ... or let anyone else leave. It was supposed to be a normal winter sleepover. Hot chocolate and pillow forts and scary movies. But Maria's friends had other things in mind. They bring out a board game that is supposed to help you talk to the dead, and Maria wants nothing more than to communicate with her recently deceased sister, Isabella. She gets her wish. Isabella...
8) Vacancy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
A chilling horror story about a spooky hotel where guests do not check out the way they check in.
9) Speak for me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Nomi is afraid of dolls. But even she gives into pressure and winds up with an Emmy doll, which has enough artificial intelligence to help you with your homework, communicate with your firends, and organize your life. Nomi's friend Jenna promises that having an Emmy will make her life easier...and will also make her less of an outsider. At first, this works. Nomi's doll is a good listener and a big help. But then the doll starts getting ideas of her...
10) Darkroom
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
"Beatrice know[s] she doesn't have many followers. Nobody wants to watch her living her ordinary life. But then she stumbles across a new app, Dark(room). Some users say it's super cool. Others say it's super dangerous. Beatrice downloads it and discovers that it allows her to see ghosts everywhere around her"--
11) The Collected
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
It's been five years since Josie squared off against the evil Beryl and her killer haunted dolls. She hasn't talked about it since, and likes to pretend it didn't happen. Too bad she didn't tell her younger sister, Anna. Because Anna is now the one being drawn in to the evil and the evil has some new tricks this time.
12) The Undrowned
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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In too deadly.
In too deep.
Samantha and Rachel used to be friends. But then Rachel betrayed Samantha ... and Samantha decided to make her life a living nightmare.
Then one day, Sam and Rachel found themselves in a fight by a lake.
Samantha pushed Rachel ... and watched as Rachel fell back.
And back.
Into the water. And gone.
No way to save her. No way she could be alive.
The next day, Rachel shows up to school as if nothing happened.
And...
13) The Fear Zone 2
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
They thought the fears were gone.
They thought the nightmares would stop haunting them.
But the five of them were wrong.
They're older now. They're friends. But that friendship can be shattered so easily when life turns scary again.
It was bad enough when it was just clowns and sharks and snakes. Back then, they had to conquer their own fear.
Now ... they have to conquer everyone else's.
14) Gallowgate
Author
Language
English
Description
From bestselling horror master K.R. Alexander, a twisted take on a school for magic where the line between curse and survival is always shifting.
Sebastian Wight is cursed. As a boy with the forbidden ability to traverse the lands of the dead, he must not only harness his newfound powers to fight the monster that stalks him, but also to navigate a creepy world of hunting ghosts and ghouls with his eccentric classmates.
And that's only the start...
15) Possess Me
Author
Language
English
Description
K. R. Alexander is the pseudonym for author Alex R. Kahler.As K. R., he writes creepy middle grade books for brave young readers. As Alex -- his actual first name -- he writes fantasy novels for adults and teens. In both cases, he loves writing fiction drawn from true life experiences. (But this book can’t be real . . . can it?)Alex has traveled the world collecting strange and fascinating tales, from the misty moors of Scotland to the humid jungles...
16) Last laugh
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"What's scarier than a collection of clown dolls in a secret locked room? How about... those clown dolls coming to life. And hunting you down"--