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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
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A retelling of the tale in which a kind and well-respected doctor is transformed into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug of his own creation. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
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Strange cases of Sherlock Holmes volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Sherlock Holmes has retired to the Sussex countryside . . . that is, until a most formidable puzzle is dropped upon his doorstep by a certain Colonel Pickering. One Miss Eliza Doolittle, once nothing more than a cockney guttersnipe, has been transformed into a proper lady of London--perhaps even a duchess?--as if overnight. When Col. Pickering recovered from a bout of malaria, he was astounded at the woman before him. Is it possible this transformation...
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Pub. Date
2008
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"Why is the frightening Mr. Hyde a friend of the nice Dr. Jekyll? Who is the evil little man? And why does he seem to ahve power over teh doctor? After a terrible murder, everyone is looking for Mr. Hyde. But he has disappeared. Or has he?"--P. [4] of cover.
6) Frankenstein
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
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Frankenstein: Using parts from corpses, Victor Frankenstein creates a large, man-like creature. Rejected and abused by humans, the creature takes revenge by committing murder. Frankenstein then pursues the creature, determined to kill him or die in the attempt. -- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: When Dr. Henry Jekyll begins to look ill and isolates himself from his friends, they fear for his life. A mysterious evil man named Edward...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Robert Louis Stevenson originally wrote "Dr. Jekyll And Mr Hyde" as a " chilling shocker." He then burned the draft and, upon his wife's advice, rewrote it as the darkly complex tale it is today. Stark, skillfully woven, this fascinating novel explores the curious turnings of human character through the strange case of Dr. Jekyll, a kindly scientist who by night takes on his stunted evil self, Mr. Hyde. Anticipating modern psychology, "Jekyll And...
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
A trip to the Yummy Foods factory turns into trouble for Scooby and the gang. Nice Dr. Jenkins has turned into terrible Mr. Hyde, a monster-man who threates to poison the company's newest cheese dish and change all who eat it into a maniac like him! Can Scooby and the gang save the world from this monster madness? They'll need your help.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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Based on some of literature's horror and science fiction classics, this is the story of a remarkable group of women who come together to solve the mystery of a series of gruesome murders—and the bigger mystery of their own origins.Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents' death, is curious about the secrets of her father's mysterious past. One clue in particular hints that Edward Hyde, her father's former friend and a murderer,...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Opportunity fills the air in 1930s London, but for the young, sensitive, and naive Doctor Robert Jekyll a dark past lurks int he shadows. Jekyll has inherited his grandfather’s curse, and in extreme moments is overcome by an inexplicable power-Hyde. Superhuman and uninhibited, the devilishly alluring Hyde is everything Jekyll isn't...Jekyll struggle[s] to balance the light and dark inside himself as he falls deeper into Hyde's fearsome yet magical...
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Collects four classic horror films, including "House of Wax, " in which a wax sculptor devises a murderous plan to restock his museum; "The Haunting, " in which four individuals travel to a haunted house to study its supernatural phenomena; "Freaks, " featuring a group of carnival performers who inflict revenge on a trapeze artist who mocks them; and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, " the classic tale of one man's disastrous attempts to harness the evil...
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Series
League of extraordinary gentlemen. Main series volume 1
The League of extraordinary gentlemen volume Vol. 1
The League of extraordinary gentlemen volume Vol. 1
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
London 1898. The Victorian Era draws to a close and the twentieth century approaches. It is a time of great change and an age of kstagnation, a period of chaste order and ignoble chaos. It is an era in need of champions. Allan Quatermain, Captian Nemo, Hawley Griffin, Dr. Henry Jekyll, Mr. Edward Hyde, and Mina Murray are thos champions, and together they comprise the League of Extraodinary Gentlemen.
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Series
Pub. Date
2003
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"The beleaguered London of 1898 has barely had time to assess the injuries of recent conflagrations in its lower class districts when a new threat arrives, falling from the upper atmosphere in gargantuan metal cylinders that leading scientists claim have travelled from the planet Mars! Once again a call goes out through the channels of British Military Intelligence to an improbable group of champions: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Allan Quatermain,...
Pub. Date
c2015
Description
The two faces of Dr. Jekyll: "Absorbed in research directed towards freeing the two natures of man, Dr. Jekyll degenerates into Mr. Hyde, a vengeful maniac. While Hyde wants revenge against a gambler whom his wife is in love with, Dr. Jekyll takes steps to do away with his evil self."--Container.
Scream of fear!: "A young wheelchair-bound woman returns to her father's estate to find he's away on business, but she keeps seeing his dead body in various...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2013], c2011.
Description
As the twentieth century approaches, there is a need for a new kind of champion - adventurers not bound by the chaste order that characterizes the stagnant Victorian Era. The enigmatic Campion Bond of British Intelligence has begun a recruiting mission, collecting a menagerie of individuals who can be of value to his superiors due to ... activities that have forced them beyond the pale. But as Allan Quartermain, Mina Murray, Captain Nemo, Dr. Henry...
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