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"The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. To her parents' despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie's bizarre outbursts and subsequent descent into madness. As their home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism; he believes the vulnerable...
42) Ghost wood song
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Shady Grove inherited her father's ability to call ghosts from the grave with his fiddle, but she also knows the fiddle's tunes bring nothing but trouble and darkness. But when her brother is accused of murder, she can't let the dead keep their secrets. In order to clear his name, she's going to have to make those ghosts sing.
45) Poultrygeist
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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After meeting his demise crossing the road, Chicken comes back as a noisy troublemaking ghost, and knowing that scaring people is bad, decides to transform himself into a friendly ghost.
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Told in three voices, Russ, who wants to save St. Hilaire from The Guild, Willow, an orphan with a secret, and Asher, who wants revenge on the town, all have their own agendas for St. Hilaire.
In the town of St. Hilaire, most residents make their living by speaking to the dead. Russ Griffin has always held his own in the competition, but he knows the ruling body, The Guild, is corrupt. Willow Rodgers is an orphan, raised by The Guild. She's powerful,...
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2011
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From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Skeletons at the Feast, and Secrets of Eden, comes a riveting and dramatic ghost story. In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip, an airline...
49) The broken girls
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2018.
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English
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More than sixty years after one of four friends in a reputedly haunted boarding school goes missing, journalist Fiona Sheridan resolves to learn her sister's fate before a harrowing discovery is made.
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Brrr! Did you feel a shiver down your spine? Crack open this book to read spine-tingling stories about ghosts, ghouls, and more! Young readers will love these ghostly tales, perfectly paced to read alone or share around a campfire. Bonus educational activities teach kids how to tell stories, including key concepts like recognizing emotions, using descriptive language, and more.
52) Creepy Classics
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Some stories are so spooky they can be told again and again–and you'll still get scared! This book is full of timeless terrors from Dracula to Dr. Jekyll. Fact boxes throughout the book introduce readers to history, geography, famous authors and more. Plus, extra online content includes sharable activities for even more fun.
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Animal antics can be silly and cute, but did you know they can be spooky, too? Learn real animal facts while reading fun and frightening stories about beasts that go, “Boo!” Featuring frightful facts, chilling illustrations, and real-life safety tips, this book will keep kids interested without keeping them up all night. The backmatter features additional recommended reading, plus a link to downloadable activities.
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Grab a flashlight and learn all about the creatures who live in the woods. Short stories about mythical monsters like Bigfoot and Frankenstein are sure to keep readers on their toes! This monster-iffic title is full of real facts about tall tales from Switzerland to the Himalayas. Printable activities encourage kids to draw and describe their very own monster.
55) Haunted Places
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Take a spooky trip around the world! Early learners will encounter real facts about cemeteries, haunted hotels, and more as they travel through this collection of hair-raising tales. Illustrations help tie new words to the text, and bonus online activities teach kids how to imagine and write about their very own haunted house.
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Dive into the chilling world beneath the ocean's surface! Young readers will explore weird and watery topics like the Bermuda Triangle and Loch Ness Monster in this scary story collection. Shocking sea tales from around the world are just spooky enough to delight little learners. After reading the book, download even more activities including a sharable pirate ship coloring page and letter-writing prompt to a fictional ocean creature.
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Disney Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
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248 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"Beware reader! What you are holding is no ordinary book. This book contains scary stories -- thrilling and chilling tales that feature the worst Disney villains. Maybe you've heard of a cave full of wonders where no one escapes alive? Or a huntsman carrying a princess's heart back to an evil queen? Don't forget the horseman who lost his head -- literally. Something strange happens once you start reading. You might feel like you are in the story....
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"The queen of beach reads" (New York Magazine) delivers another immensely satisfying page-turner in this tale about a summer of scandal at a storied Nantucket hotel.
After a tragic fire in 1922 that killed 19-year-old chambermaid, Grace Hadley, The Hotel Nantucket descended from a gilded age gem to a mediocre budget-friendly lodge to inevitably an abandoned eyesore -- until it's purchased and renovated top to bottom by London billionaire, Xavier...
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"Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Wall. In 2017, inspired in part by Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw," the acclaimed English novelist John Lanchester published a ghost story in The New Yorker. "Signal" was a sensation among readers and was featured on public radio-and it was the first short story of any kind Lanchester had ever written. Since then he's written several more eerie stories of contemporary...
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