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"Twelve-year-old Calista Wynn will lose her ability to speak with the dead on her thirteenth birthday. And with only a few weeks left, children have started going missing. When Calista meets The Tall Lady--an angry spirit with a grudge against Calista, her family, and the entire town--she knows she's found the ghost responsible for the disappearances. It's up to Calista, the only one who can see The Tall Lady, to stop her. If she doesn't, Calista...
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Ten-year-old Alice is moving for the eleventh time. She's lived in so many houses, each more broken than the last, that home to Alice is nothing more than a place you fix and then a place you leave. After all, who needs a permanent home when you're a whiz at fixing things? But when Alice arrives at her new home, she can't take her eyes off the house next door, the stately dark house that hulked in the dimming light. The once-grand mansion, now dilapidated...
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Bee wanted to spend the summer reading Betsy Chillers books and exploring the new spooky theme park with her best friend. Instead, she's spending the summer trapped at Storm Lake with her too loud, too thrifty, and too Indian family. Luckily, Bee finds a place to escape her embarrassment--a magical house across the lake that transforms her into the cool girl she always wanted to be. Maybe cottage life isn't so bad after all! But strange dreams are...
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"Francine Thwaite has lived all her fifty-five years in her family's ancestral home, a rambling Elizabethan manor in England's Lake District. No other living soul resides there, but Francine isn't alone. There are ghosts in Thwaite Manor, harmless and familiar. Most beloved is Bree, the mischievous ghost girl who has been Francine's companion since childhood. When Francine's estranged sister, Madeleine, returns to the manor after years away, she brings...
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Thirteen witches volume 3
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Thirteen-year-old Rosie and the League of Witch Hunters, joined by a gaggle of the world's last ghosts, cross the galaxy in search of the Museum of Imagined Things, the last treasure the Nothing King wants before dragging everything into oblivion.
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Have you heard the tale of the Glue Man? They say he roams the stables late at night, looking for horses. Some people think it's just an urban legend, but they're wrong. I know, because I met him myself once and I was never the same.Come into the stable and I'll tell you what happened…
"Soul Riders Ghost Stories" is a series of personal short stories from the world of Star Stable, where the four Soul Riders Alex, Lisa, Linda, and Anne, tell you...
7) Ghost tamer
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"Aspiring comedian Raely is the sole survivor of a disastrous train wreck. While faced with the intense grief of losing her best friend, she realizes that someone is following her--and has been following her all her life. Trouble is, no one else can see him. For a ghostly tag-along, Casper’s not so bad. He might even be the partner Raely needs to fight the evil spirit hell-bent on destroying her. Raely and her friend must learn why this demonic...
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"Nurse Nellie Lester can't escape death. Fleeing Chicago at the height of the 1918 Spanish flu, she takes a nursing job at a decrepit mansion on a desolate Michigan island. She's convinced the island holds the secret to her mother's murky past. The only problem? Her dead mother seems to have followed her there. Nightly she's haunted by a ghostly presence that appears in her bedroom. But is it her mother or something more sinister? When the frozen...
9) Spooky Tales
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Five scary stories to entertain you of missing people, strangers on the bus, monsters hiding in the dark and world ending events.The Strange day, as told from the point of view of a mom heading to work. After leaving her son alone with her mother she is troubled by the emptiness and lack of people at her job. Traffic is almost nonexistent not to mention the elevator coming down quickly.However, it's in the disturbing call from her scared mother that...
10) Speculation
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In 1962, ten-year-old Winna Cole discovers a pair of magical spectacles that reveal both the friendly ghosts of her African American ancestors and a dangerous family curse.
11) Campfire Stories for Kids: A Collection of Short Spooky and Mystery Tales - Scary Ghost Legends to T
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Do you want scary stories for kids?
Whether you're huddled under the covers with a flashlight, camping out with your family, or having a sleep-over with your friends, you'll love these stories.
In "Campfire Stories for Kids" you will discover:
Haunted houses, creepy ghosts, uninvited guests, and more are waiting for you
Mysterious stories that are great for reading aloud or listening to on dark nights
A simple and engaging writing style suitable...
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"Once upon a time Orla was: a woman, a painter, a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when her husband Nick suggests that their city apartment has grown too small for their lives, she agrees, in part because she does agree, and in part because she is too tired to think about what she really does want. She agrees again when Nick announces with pride that he has found an antiquated Georgian house on the Dorset cliffs--a good house for children,...
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2023.
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"Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie's journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort...
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"A thrilling psychological horror debut about a woman who is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes haunted, no matter the cost... You can survive anything. That's what Margaret tells herself when the walls of her house start to drip blood every September. She's learned how to live with it...and the other terrifying apparitions that have made the sprawling Victorian house she and her husband bought four years ago turn from a dream...
15) Wishing Season
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A moving middle grade story by Anica Mrose Rissi that will appeal to readers who loved The Thing about Jellyfish and Hello, Universe, about the enduring bond between twins: Anders, who has recently died, and Lily, who has to balance her grief and confusion with a brother who isn't quite gone-and how to navigate a world that is moving forward without him.
Of course Anders wasn't lonely in the afterlife. He still, like always, had Lily.
Lily doesn't...
16) The Ghost Job
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Ghosts make the best thieves in this pitch-perfect middle grade adventure from the acclaimed author of Weird Kid. Perfect for fans of Gordon Korman and John David Anderson--and anyone looking for an Ocean's 11-style heist!
Zenith and her friends may be dead-but lucky for them, even getting ghosted wasn't enough to tear them apart.
The four of them were thick as thieves long before an unfortunate lab accident sent them careening into the afterlife....
17) It found us
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Hazel, a twelve-year-old aspiring detective, must decode a series of ominous clues tied to a century-old tragedy to find a missing teenager before it is too late.
18) The Camping Trip
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Whether told around a campfire or with a storm raging outside, ghost stories aren't always just stories. When the power fails in the middle of a storm, Zack and Daniel turn to their father, John Malone, for comfort. Feeling that the boys are old enough to learn the truth about his childhood, John divulges a family secret, one he's kept locked away, a secret that changed John's life forever. In a small Pennsylvania town called Lizardville, Johnny and...
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Christina and the Monster Under Her Bed is a heartwarming children's book that takes young readers on an exciting adventure filled with bravery, friendship, and important life lessons. Join Christina as she embarks on a thrilling journey to confront her fears and discover the truth behind the mysterious noises coming from under her bed.In Chapter 1, readers are introduced to Christina, a little girl who believes there is a monster lurking beneath...
20) Starboard
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"Kirsten Bramble is too famous to have friends. That's what she tells herself, anyway--but with the end of her hit reality TV show barreling toward her, Kirsten's not sure she's ready to say goodbye to her lonely life of fame. Luckily--or unluckily--Kirsten can't help being plunged headfirst into a new adventure when she's dragged on a class trip to visit the SS Great Britain. Because somehow, the ancient ship can speak to her--and she wants Kirsten...
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