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Psychological Horror
Shattering
Glass by Gail Giles.
The first three
lines from Shattering Glass:
ŇSimon Glass was easy to hate.
I never knew exactly why, there was too much to pick from. I guess, really, we each hated him for
a different reason, but we didnŐt realize it until the day we killed him.Ó
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.2
Summer of
night by Dan Simmons.
Something or
someone is stalking the young people of Elm Haven, Illinois in the summer of
1960. When a long silent bell begins to peal in the middle of the darkest
summer night, the reign of terror starts.
The between :
a novel by Tananarive
Due.
Hilton James,
saved from drowning by his grandmother at the cost of her own life when he was
a boy, is haunted by nightmares thirty years later as a man stalks his wife and
children.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level - 5.7
We have always
lived in the castle by
Shirley Jackson.
Merricat
Blackwood protects her sister, Constance, from the curiosity and hostility of
the villagers after murders occur on the family estate.
The bad seed :
a novel by William March
; with a new introduction by Elaine Showalter.
A reprint of a
1954 thriller that tells the story of little Rhoda Penmark, a child serial
killer.
Tenderness : a
novel by Robert Cormier.
A psychological
thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the
runaway girl who falls in love with him.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.0
What happened
to Lani Garver by Carol
Plum-Ucci.
Lani GarverŐs
arrival on Hackett Island creates quite a stir. The islandŐs residents have never been welcoming to
strangers, but in the case of the mysterious Lani, itŐs even worse - they canŐt
even tell if Lani is a boy or a girl. Popular Claire isnŐt up to tormenting Lani along with
the rest of the high school elite.
With real troubles of her own, Claire reluctantly befriends the
intriguing outcast and becomes marked as well. Within days of LaniŐs arrival, torment turns to tragedy, and
Claire is left wondering just who - or what - Lani was.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.1
The body of Christopher
Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci.
Torey Adams, a
high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and
questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.3
The rag and
bone shop : a novel by
Robert Cormier.
Trent, an ace
interrogator from Vermont, works to procure a confession from an introverted
twelve-year-old accused of murdering his seven-year-old friend in Monument,
Massachusetts.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.7
Shadow people by Joyce McDonald.
They all have a
reason to be angry. Gabriel lost
his beloved brother when a gang of kids murdered him for his leather jacket on
the subway. LydiaŐs father never
lets her do a single solitary thing without his consent - and that means dates,
friends, trips, ANYTHING. Alec
bitterly blames everyone in authority at his former high school for turning him
into a dropout drug additct.
Hollis is short, fat and brilliant, not to mention pissed at all the
people who discount his intelligence based on his appearance. And he knows a way to channel all of
their rage into a single act that will get back at all those people who hurt
them once and for all. Gabe,
Lydia, and Alec are resolved to follow HollisŐs plan to the end. But then innocent Gem accidentally gets
involved in the group when she and Gabe fall for each other. Suddently, Gabe is having a change of
heart. But Hollis wonŐt let anyone
leave the group until their plan is complete. And he will use any means necessary to protect the plan . .
.even murder.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.0
Killing Mr.
Griffin by Lois Duncan.
A joke about
killing the toughest teacher in school, the one who demands the most and gives
the lowest grades, becomes a topic of serious discussion among the boys in the
local hangout.