Books You Might Like:
Monsters & Other Creatures
Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis
Stevenson
Presents an
adaptation of the classic story about a respected doctor who creates a potion
that turns him into a vicious criminal.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.4
Meg : a novel
of deep terror by Steve
Alten.
Terror surfaces
from the deep after ocean explorers run afoul of a male and female Carcharodon
megalodon--a gigantic ancestor of the great white shark long believed to be
extinct--alive and well off the coast of Japan.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 8.1
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Victor Frankenstein
has discovered the secret of generating life from lifeless matter, and has
created a monster being by using this terrible power.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 12.4
The dark pond by Joseph Bruchac
After he feels a
mysterious pull drawing him toward a dark, shadowy pond in the woods, Armie
looks to old Native American tales for guidance about the dangerous monster
lurking in the water.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.3
Watchers by Dean Koontz.
Relates the
adventures of two creatures which have escaped from a secret, sinister
government laboratory where experiments in genetic engineering are conducted.
Prowlers by Christopher Golden.
Nineteen-year-old
Jack Dwyer searches for the killer of his best friend and discovers a band of
beasts called the Prowlers, who disguise themselves as humans and feed on them
as well.
Night of the
bat by Paul Zindel.
Teenage Jake
joins his father on an expedition to study bats in the Brazilian rain forest
and finds the project menaced by a giant brain-eating bat.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.4
Loch : a novel
by Paul Zindel.
Fifteen-year-old
Loch and his younger sister join their father on a scientific expedition
searching for enormous prehistoric creatures sighted in a Vermont lake, but it
soon becomes obvious that the expedition's leaders aren't interested in
preserving the creatures.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.4
The doom stone by Paul Zindel.
When
fifteen-year-old Jackson visits his aunt in England, he becomes caught up in a
chase to capture an unknown creature who is stalking and killing people on the
plains surrounding ancient Stonehenge.
Accelerated
Reader--Level 5.2