You hold in your hand the key to a shadow world of shivers and screams. Take a step away from the safe, comfortable world you know. Unlock the door to terror. There's always room for one more in... THE NIGHTMARE ROOM Say hi to Luke. Today is not his lucky day. It's the first day of school, and he just got his locker assignment -- locker 13. Lucky 13? Not for Luke... He has just opened the door to... THE NIGHTMARE ROOM
Sam Graves's school is ALIVE This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow In the second book in the series, Sam Graves's friend Lucy disappears into her locker Sam and his friend Antonio follow a trail of clues that leads them through the locker and deep inside the school. Will they find Lucy? Will they learn why the school is ALIVE? Sam and Antonio must rescue Lucy from this scary school before it's too late
For Westwood junior Brynn Cadence, high school drama is taken to a whole new level when she discovers the dead body of a classmate on the football field one Friday night. When she tells the police she saw a masked figure fleeing up the bleachers, they dismiss her and label the death accidental. With no one believing what she saw, Brynn’s internal walls start to go up. But there’s one wall she has no control over—the one that separates her and Kyler Fellan’s gym lockers. That’s right, Brynn opens her locker only to find herself face-to-face with the shirtless abs of the school’s star football player and resident flirt. While not an unwelcome surprise, Brynn knows she should leave her fluttering feelings for Kyler on the locker room floor in order to focus on exposing the truth of her classmate’s death. But Kyler’s top jock status has made him privy to some potentially useful gossip, making him a helpful and trustworthy partner in her investigation. As two find themselves delving deeper into the case, they are inevitably drawn closer to each other—even if that isn’t safe for either of them.
Secrets have a special home at Mount Selwyn High. For years, students have posted their deepest desires and fears in Locker 62. And then this locker is assigned to new girl Maya. She could use the knowledge to help people. Or she could use it to become popular. Maya, who was bullied, who has never been cool, who will do anything to be popular, is now the most powerful girl at school. What will she choose to do next?
When John and Sid enter the middle school building that year they have the feeling that their summer adventures are completely over. That is before their principal offers a field trip to any student who meets certain qualifications. The boys jump at the chance to get out of school, and instantly they are caught up in an adventure beyond their wildest imaginations. After accepting a mysterious book titled The Book of the Dead from the principal, the boys are led to a secret passage in the back of John's locker. Looking at the challenge of a lifetime, they gather up their courage, take the first step, and instantly find themselves wisped away to another place and time. With the book as their guide, and only three days, the boys must overcome impossible situations to solve the mystery of who killed King Tut or never make it back to the middle school again.
On Christmas Day, 1986 a seventy-year-old widow’s body was discovered inside a wheelie bin in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Despite a long and intensive investigation, the police fail to unearth a motive or identify a suspect. Lacking any clues, the police file it as a cold case. Some half a century earlier the Third Reich ramps up its offensive to arrest and deport to the East the Nazi regime’s classification of undesirables. As part of the sweep, a young girl is arrested along with her parents. They are placed in a box car and forced to endure a three-day harrowing train journey. The final stop: Auschwitz. On arrival she is separated from her parents to never see them again and is forced to suffer years of punishing labour, near-starvation and daily horrors. She is freed six years later when the Russian army invades Poland and liberates Auschwitz. Vindicated by her survival she sets out on a journey all the way around the world to Australia, in search of the one person that she blames for her ordeal in Auschwitz. Is that the clue that the police missed in trying to solve the crime?
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In 1973 police officer Danny Lugo opened the door of a South Central Los Angeles liquor store. Within moments he lay dead, murdered with his own gun. Ten years later and just off probation, Officer Brian O'Callahan opened a different kind of door-the door of a long-vacant locker in LAPD's most violent division. Peering into the grey metal coffer, Brian never imagined his life would soon go beyond a cop's domain of flashing lights, piercing sirens, and muzzle flashes. By hanging his uniform in Locker 32 Brian had unknowingly accepted a terrible task. Over the following months Brian demonstrates inexplicable prowess as a police officer and develops a rare alliance with the community. He gains the attention of many, including a vicious criminal who knows how to handle problem cops. _________________________________ Have you ever looked across a band of yellow crime-scene tape and wondered what the two cops on the other side of it were talking about? Or how it feels to pursue a bad guy at blistering speeds with a siren screaming in your ears? Ever seen a pair of police officers jump up from a half-eaten meal and race out of a restaurant? Did you try to imagine where they were headed? Utilizing his twenty-seven years of police work on the streets of Los Angeles, author Gregory Baltad takes you there. His storytelling prowess and imaginative descriptions will have you riding shotgun with some of LAPD's bravest, toughest, and funniest cops. By opening Locker 32, you release a real cop story wrapped in an otherworld thriller.
