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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