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1) Frankenstein
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
A monster created by scientist Victor Frankenstein from parts of corpses and brought to life develops loathing for himself and hatred for his creator as he learns to think for himself.
2) Frankenstein
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Español
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- Este audiolibro está narrado en Español neutral."¡Despiadado creador! Me has dado sentimientos y pasiones, pero me has abandonado al desprecio y al asco de la humanidad."La historia del joven científico Victor Frankenstein y su "demoníaca criatura" propicia un extraordinario relato de terror y aborda temas fundamentales de la naturaleza humana vigentes en la sociedad actual. El monstruo, compuesto por trozos de cadáveres cosidos, ante el profundo...
3) Frankenstein
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Appears on list
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Eager science student Victor Frankenstein uses body parts of the dead to bring a creature to life. Although initially excited that his experiment is a success, Frankenstein becomes horrified at the grotesque being that stands before him and flees. Angered by the rejection, The Monster retaliates by taking the lives of those dearest to Frankenstein. The decision to play God torments both Frankenstein and The Monster he created until the end of their...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship... and horror.
5) Frankenstein
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Deutsch
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Der Roman erzählt die Geschichte des jungen Schweizers Viktor Frankenstein, der an der damals berühmten Universität Ingolstadt einen künstlichen Menschen erschafft.
6) Frankenstein
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English
Description
"There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand." Pushing the limits of science and morality in his search for acceptance and purpose, Victor Frankenstein unleashes on the world a creation that he cannot control. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's gothic novel, A. S. Peterson (The Battle of Franklin) adapts the tale for the stage and creates an experience that will leave you pondering your own sense of belonging...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Being a monster isn't all frightening villagers and sucking blood. Monsters have their trials, too. Poor Frankenstein's cupboard is bare, Wolfman is in need of some household help, and it's best not to get started on Dracula's hygiene issues. What could be scarier?
Nineteen hilarious poems delve into the secret lives of the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Bigfoot, Godzilla, and others. In a range of styles that pay homage to everyone from Charles...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
No one ever said it was easy being a monster. Take Frankenstein, for instance: He just wants to marry his undead bride in peace, but his best man, Dracula, is freaking out about the garlic bread. Then there's the Headless Horseman, who wishes everyone would stop drooling over his delicious pumpkin head. And can someone please tell Edgar Allan Poe to get the door already before the raven completely loses it? Sheesh. In a wickedly funny follow-up to...
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English
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For centuries, we've toyed with our creature companions, breeding dogs that herd and hunt, housecats that look like tigers, and teacup pigs that fit snugly in our handbags. But, what happens when we take animal alteration a step further, engineering a cat that glows green under ultraviolet light or cloning the beloved family Labrador? Science has given us a whole new toolbox for tinkering with life. How are we using it?
In Frankenstein's Cat, the...
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English
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Produced by George Edwards, Frankenstein was a radio series adapted from Mary Shelley's novel The Modern Prometheus. The story was about Baron Victor Frankenstein, a genius yet mad scientist who thinks that he can create a living man from dead bodies. When the show ended in 1932, it had a total of 13 episodes.
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English
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"Beware, for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
Mary Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus in 1818, which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet, and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother the philosopher and feminist activist Mary Wollstonecraft.
Shelley's...
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English
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Welcome to Monstros City! Where monsters live and mobsters rule! Detective Terry Todd (Daniel Roebuck, "Matlock", "The Fugitive", "The Munsters") is missing and presumed dead. His daughter, Detective Terri Todd (Debbie Rochon), new to the police force, has vowed to find out what happened to him. When a mad scientist brings Todd back to life, combining him with the bodies and spirits of three notorious dead gangsters, and calls her new creation "Frankie",...
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English
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Long before 1984, Star Wars, or The Hunger Games, Victorian authors imagined a future where new science and technologies reshaped the world and universe they knew. The great themes of modern science fiction showed up surprisingly early: space and time travel, dystopian societies, even dangerously independent machines, all inspiring the speculative fiction of the Victorian era. In Frankenstein Dreams, Michael Sims has gathered many of the very finest...
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English
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley with The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and commentary by Alison Larkin - 200th anniversary audio edition.
This chilling tale of a gruesome monster unleashed into the world by an unthinking scientist was first conceived in 1818 by nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley on a dark, rainy night on Lake Geneva. Lord Byron and Percy Shelley challenged their friends to see who could come up with the most horrifying...
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English
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In the dying days of 1850, the young detective Charles Maddox takes on a new case. His client? The only surviving son of the long-dead poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and his wife Mary, author of Frankenstein.
Charles soon finds himself being drawn into the bitter battle being waged over the poet's literary legacy. When a chance discovery raises doubts about the death of Shelley's first wife, Harriet, he starts to question whether she did kill herself-or...
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English
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"From USA Today bestselling author of The Hating Game Sally Thorne comes something a little unexpected... a historical rom-com that imagines Victor Frankenstein's sheltered younger sister, and her attempts to create the perfect man. For generations, every Frankenstein has found their true love and equal, unlocking lifetimes of blissful wedded adventure. Clever, pretty (and odd) Angelika Frankenstein has run out of suitors and fears she may become...
17) Frankenstein
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Series
Publisher
Manga Classics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Obsessed with natural philosophy, the young Victor Frankenstein succeeds in creating life from its basic elements--and abandons the newborn monstrosity in terror when he cannot bear to look at it. The rejected creature vanishes, and Victor attempts to forget what he has done... But the monster survives. It learns. Deprived of everything, fated to forever be alone, it has nothing left but revenge."--Back cover.
18) Frankenstein
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Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A ghastly green figure with bolts in its neck lurches toward a helpless victim. It's Frankenstein! Popular culture transformed Mary Shelley's infamous character into a cartoonish caricature. In fact, many people are surprised to learn that Frankenstein isn't the name of the fictional monster at all, but the name of its creator, Victor Frankenstein. It's time to revisit this gothic tale through the eerie pages of this beautifully illustrated graphic...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After a chemical spill in Dr. Frankenstein's lab, Rapunzel's hair has grown to extreme lengths . . . and it's alive! But her long locks weren't the only thing animated that stormy night. A lightning strike also shocked life into a clay figure. Now Frankenstein is locking the two away, promising to cure Rapunzel while secretly plotting to use his creations to become famous. Can Rapunzel and her friend ever escape the mad scientist's tower? Experience...
20) Frankenstein
Author
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2009?]
Language
English
Description
A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.