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The August House Book of Scary Stories : Spooky Tales for Telling Out Loud
An anthology of spooky stories drawn from folklore, local history, and the storytellers' imaginations, and divided into the categories Just Desserts and Lessons Learned, Ghostly Guardians, Dark Humor, Urban Legends and Jump Tales, and Fearless Females.
144 p. 2009
Children's Fiction Book AUGUST
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Beware! R.L. Stine Picks His Favorite Scary Stories.
A selection of unsettling stories by such authors as Ray Bradbury, Patricia McKissack, Jack Prelutsky, William Sleator, Edward Gorey, Roald Dahl, Jane Yolen, Alvin Schwartz, Shel Sliverstein and Mr. Stine himself.
214 p. 2002
Children's Fiction Book BEWARE!
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Bites : Scary Stories to Sink Your Teeth Into
This collection of spine-tingling tales by some of today's best writers includes stories about vampires who want something more valuable than blood, dead werewolves that don't stay dead, and more.
115 p. 2009
Children's Fiction Book BITES
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The Book of Ghosts
A collection of classic ghost stories adapted from such legendary writers as, Edgar Allen Poe, Washington Irving, and Oscar Wilde.
140 p. 2009
Children's Fiction Book BOOK
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Half-minute Horrors
An anthology of very short, scary stories by an assortment of authors and illustrators including Chris Raschka, Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Jack Gantos, and Lane Smith.
141 p. 2009
Children's Fiction Book HALF
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Seriously Spooky Stories
There are thrills and chills galore in this spine-tingling collection of stories about ghosts, ghouls, and haunted happenings. Young readers will shiver with delight at stories by favorite writers such as Ruskin Bond, Adele Geras, and Tony Ross.
160 p. 2007
Children's Fiction Book SERIOUS
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Allison, Jennifer
Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator
During the summer before ninth grade, intrepid Gilda Joyce invites herself to the San Francisco mansion of distant cousin Lester Splinter and his thirteen-year-old daughter, where she uses her purported psychic abilities and detective skills to solve the mystery of the mansion's boarded-up tower. First of the books about Gilda Joyce.
321 p. 2005
Children's Fiction Book ALLISON
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Anderson, M. T.
The Game of Sunken Places
When two boys stay with an eccentric relative at his mansion in rural Vermont, they discover an old-fashioned board game that draws them into a mysterious adventure.
260 p. 2004
Children's Fiction Book ANDERSON
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Avi
Something Upstairs
When 12-year-old Kenny Huldorf moves to Providence, Rhode Island, he quickly discovers that his attic bedroom is haunted! Night after night Kenny watches as glowing smoke rises from the floor to sculpt the form of a troubled spirit. The ghost--a teenage slave named Caleb--summons Kenny back in time to correct a century-old injustice. Kenny soon finds that his fate is entangled with Caleb's murder. Will he be able to right the wrong? Or will he remain forever trapped in history?
140 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book AVI
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Blythe, Daniel
Shadow Breakers
After moving from London to what seems like a dull seaside town, twelve-year-old Miranda is recruited by a group of friends from school to help identify and stop the evil that is shadowing Miranda and causing weird events in town.
247 p. 2013
Children's Fiction Book BLYTHE
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Bruchac, Joseph
Skeleton Man
After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange "great-uncle," Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even for her life. Sequel: The Return of Skeleton Man.
114 p. 2001
Children's Fiction Book BRUCHAC
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Carman, Patrick
Things That Go Bump in the Night
3:15 means several things. It's a time when things go bump in the night. A place where spooky stories find a home. A feeling . . . that chill running down your spine. Step into the world of 3:15 and you'll meet Cody Miller, whose greed leads to a grave mistake; Emma Franklin, who learns that not all childhood fears are foolish; Dylan Smith, who should know better than to show off his snowboarding skills on a haunted mountain; and more.
148 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Castro, Adam-Troy
Gustav Gloom and the People Taker
Fernie What, an adventurous young horror fan, moves into the house across the street from the dark mansion of a mysterious boy whose residence is haunted by evil shadows.
226 p. 2012
Children's Fiction Book CASTRO
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Charles, Veronika Martenova
Don't Open the Door
Having been warned not to open the door for anyone while Mom goes to help a neighbor, the three boys try to outdo each other by telling scary stories about strangers at the door. By the time they have finished, they have scared themselves under the bed. Stories in this book come from Bohemia, the Guyanas, and Peru and are based on the universal theme of not opening the door to strangers.
2007
Easy Reader CHARLES
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Coville, Bruce
The Monsters of Morley Manor
Anthony and his younger sister discover that the monster figures he got in an unusual box at an estate sale are alive, but they have no way of knowing that the "monsters" will lead them on fantastical adventures to other worlds in an effort to try to save Earth.
224 p. 2001
Children's Fiction Book COVILLE
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DeFelice, Cynthia C.
The Ghost of Fossil Glen
Allie knows it's not her imagination when she hears a voice and sees in her mind's eye the face of a girl who seems to be seeking her help. First of the Allie Nichols books.
167 p. 1998
Children's Fiction Book DEFELICE
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Delaney, Joseph
Revenge of the Witch
Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties. For years, Old Gregory has been the Spook for the county, ridding the local villages of evil. Now his time is coming to an end. But who will take over for him? Thomas Ward is the last hope. But will he learn the difference between a benign witch and a malevolent one? And what will happen if Thomas accidentally frees Mother Malkin, the most evil witch in the county? Book 1 of The Last Apprentice.
344 p. 2005
Children's Fiction Book DELANEY
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Drago, Ty
The Undertakers : Rise of the Corpses
When the living dead invade Philadelphia, Will Ritter and a group of teenage resistance fighters, known as the Undertakers, are the only ones that can see them to stop the invasion.
465 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book DRAGO
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Fleischman, Paul
Graven Images : Three Stories
A collection of three stories about a child who reads the lips of those who whisper secrets into a statue's ear; a daydreaming shoemaker's apprentice who must find ways to make the girl he loves notice him; and a stone carver who creates a statue of a ghost.
116 p. 2006
Children's Fiction Book FLEISCH
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Fleming, Candace
On the Day I Died : Stories from the Grave
In a lonely Illinois cemetery one cold October night, teen ghosts recount the stories of their deaths in different time periods, from 1870 to the present, to sixteen-year-old Mike, who unknowingly picked up a phantom hitchhiker.
199 p. 2012
Children's Fiction Book FLEMING
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