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21) Frankenstein
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English
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A New Orleans detective investigating a series of horrific murders, and is lead to a mad doctor who has sustained his creature and himself for over 200 years through genetic experimentation.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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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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Español
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A mediados del siglo XVIII, un hombre juega con la idea de la creación de la vida. Es cuando crece y va a la universidad, que lleva a cabo un experimento que helaría la sangre a cualquiera: dar vida a restos de cuerpos que alguna vez respiraron. Asustado por el monstruo que acababa de parir, Frankenstein huye y lo deja solo. La historia se divide en los relatos del creador y su deseo por olvidar su terrible experimento; y la historia del monstruo,...
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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Kat is reluctant to visit her Uncle Vic Frankenstein because of all the rumors about him. People in the small town where he lives say he's a mad scientist like his great-grandfather, Victor Frankenstein, who created a monster that came alive and terrorized the town. But Kat is relieved to find that even though he lives in a dark, old castle-like mansion, Uncle Vic is a quiet, gentle man, a scientist interested in building robots with artificial intelligence....
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The Bailey School Kids take a field trip to a science museum, where they meet Dr. Victor and his hulking assistant, Frank. Secrets lurk behind every door in the spooky old museum. What's Dr. Victor doing in his hidden lab? And, could Frank be Frankenstein's monster - even though he loves to plant flowers?
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Frankenstein journals volume 1
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English
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J.D. discovers that he is the son of Frankenstein's monster, and armed with the Doctor's journal he sets out to find his "relatives"--the descendants and relations of the people whose body parts Doctor Frankenstein used.
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Duke Classics
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English
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Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, was completed by Mary Shelley at the age of 19. She infused this original novel with Gothic and Romantic elements. Scientist Victor Frankenstein creates a large and powerful creature in the likeness of man, but is disgusted by his own creation and he abandons the being to fend for itself. Spawning generations of horror stories in the genre, Frankenstein is a gruesome warning against playing
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A disruption of time and space sends a modern man back two hundred years to confront Dr. Frankenstein's immortal monster in this brilliant reinvention of Mary Shelley's classic tale Some years into the twenty-first century, a newly devised weapon of mass destruction will do far worse than kill; it will disrupt time and space. Suddenly, land, buildings, animals, and people are falling through "timeslips" and being transported briefly back to earlier...
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Crown
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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A gothic horror story that imagines what happens to Frnkenstein's monster after the death of his creator, Victor.
What becomes of a monster without its maker? At the end of Mary Shelley’s classic novel, the creator dies but his creation still lives, cursed to a life of isolation and hatred. Frankenstein’s Monster continues the creature’s story as he’s compelled to discover his humanity, to...
What becomes of a monster without its maker? At the end of Mary Shelley’s classic novel, the creator dies but his creation still lives, cursed to a life of isolation and hatred. Frankenstein’s Monster continues the creature’s story as he’s compelled to discover his humanity, to...
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Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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*International Booker Prize finalist*
“Brave and ingenious.” —The New York Times
“Gripping, darkly humorous . . . profound.” —Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for Redeployment
“Extraordinary . . . A devastating but essential read.” —Kevin Powers, bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for The Yellow Birds
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“Brave and ingenious.” —The New York Times
“Gripping, darkly humorous . . . profound.” —Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for Redeployment
“Extraordinary . . . A devastating but essential read.” —Kevin Powers, bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for The Yellow Birds
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Dr. Victor's assistant at the science museum may — or may not — be Frankenstein's monster in this funny and spooky series from Graphix Chapters.
Get drawn into reading with Graphix Chapters!
Graphix Chapters are ideal books for beginning and newly independent readers aged 6 - 8. With approachable page counts, easy-to-follow paneling, and artwork that supports text comprehension, these engaging stories
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A young trick-or-treater has the best Frankenstein costume ever...if he can make it out the front door! Every time he tries to set foot into the dark and stormy night, his parents interrupt with yet another warm and cozy addition to his costume. But Frankenstein does not wear floppy boots, or a puffy jacket, or a fanny pack. And he especially doesn't wear earmuffs! Will our young Frankenstein be able to break loose from his bundled layers and have...
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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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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the most famous of all science fiction stories whose influence is immeasurable is now seen in all its horror and tragedy. Told from the monster's point of view using the original text, witness the innocent creature brought to life and abandoned by its creator where all it finds is hate and fear. Vowing vengeance, it will not stop at nothing until everything Frankenstein holds dear is destroyed.