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Skeleton Hiccups

Margery Cuyler - McElderry
Format: Print book

Skeleton has the hiccups. hic, hic, hic Ghost tries to help. hic, hic, hic But nothing works. hic, hic, hic Then ghost gets an idea.... hic, hic, hic HOORAY!
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Pumpkin Trouble

Jan Thomas - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Did that pumpkin just quack?
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One Spooky Night: A Halloween Adventure

Kate Stone - Accord
Format: Print book

Intricately cut pages and shadowy sheets of vellum come together in this tale of a little monsters moonlit stroll through the woods to a creepy old house and a festive, fold-out finale full of Halloween cheer.In One Spooky Night, intricately cut pages are overlaid with shadowy vellum to create...
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Shivery Shades of Halloween

Mary McKenna Siddals - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A rollicking, rhyming Halloween romp - in every color! What color is Halloween? Why, it's as green as an "eerie glow, evil grin, vile brew, clammy skin," as white as "cobwebs clinging, a misty trail, a skull, a spook, a face gone pale . . ." Children will learn...
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Trick ARRR Treat: A Pirate Halloween

Leslie Kimmelman - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Hardcover

Charlotte Blue-Tongue, Peg-Leg Pete, Glass-Eyed Gabby, and their friends swashbuckle through the streets demanding loot and treasure from their neighbors in this Halloween pirate tale. As their world transforms from neighborhood to pirate's lagoon, they shout, "We be pirates. TRICK...
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Seven Orange Pumpkins board book

Stephen Savage - Dial Books
Format: Print book

"A spooky good time"- Kirkus ReviewsA rhyming Halloween counting board book sure to delight the youngest trick-or-treatersNow in a board book edition for the youngest reader, join a sneaky spider, a wily witch, a silly scarecrow, and other favorite spooky creatures as seven orange...
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Not Very Scary

Carol Brendler - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Melly is a brave little monster who is not afraid of anything. She loves surprises, and when her fun-loving cousin invites her over for a big surprise, Melly excitedly sets out for a visit. On her way, she notices skittish skeletons, a coal-black cat, and even ghoulish goblins following...
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Ghost in the House

Ammi Joan Paquette - Candlewick Press
Format: Hardcover

Boo! Watch out for this rollicking, cumulative counting book for a Halloween treat that's more playful than scary.There's a ghost in the house,In the creepy haunted house,On this dark spooky night all alone.When a little ghost goes slip-sliding down the hallway, he suddenly hears...a...
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Zombie in Love

Kelly DiPucchio - Atheneum Books for Young Readers; Repackage edition
Format: Hardcover

Mortimer is looking for love. And hes looking everywhere! Hes worked out at the gym if only his arm wouldnt keep falling off. Hes tried ballroom dancing lessons but the ladies found him to be a bit stiff. Hes even been on stalemate.com. Hows a guy supposed to find a ghoul? When it seems...
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The Graves Family

Patricia Polacco - Philomel Books
Format: Print book

The Graves family has just moved to Union City, and they definitely don't fit in. With giant spiders in the living room, a voracious Venus flytrap named Phoebe in the kitchen, and a secret laboratory in the basement, the neighbors are afraid to visit! Except for Seth and Sara Miller,...
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My Haunted House

Angie Sage - Katherine Tegen Books/Harper Trophy
Format: Paperback

This house is not for saleAraminta Spookie lives in a wonderful old haunted house, but her crabby aunt Tabby wants to move. Aunt Tabby is determined to sell their house - Araminta has to stop her!With the help of a haunted suit of armor named Sir Horace, a ghost named Edmund, and a lot of imagination,...
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Dying to Meet You

Kate Klise - Harcourt Children's Books
Format: Print book

Ignatius B. Grumply moves into the Victorian mansion at 43 Old Cemetery Road hoping to find some peace and quiet so he can crack a wicked case of writer's block. But 43 Old Cemetery Road is already occupied by eleven-year-old Seymour, his cat Shadow, and an irritable ghost named Olive....
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Captain Awesome vs. the Spooky, Scary House

Stan Kirby - Little Simon
Format: Hardcover

Captain Awesome and Nacho Cheese Man must protect their town from a haunted house in this Halloween-themed adventure.The town of Sunnyview is ready for Halloween, and Eugene McGillicudy and Charlie Thomas Jones can hardly wait to go trick-or-treating! But when the boys encounter a spooky...
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It Creeps!

Dotti Enderle - Magic Wagon
Format: Book

Malcolm and his best friend Dandy arent like other 10-year-old boys. Malcolm would rather avoid his older sister, experiment in his lab, and read his science magazines than play sports. In one magazine, he comes across an advertisement for an Ecto-Handheld-Automatic-Heat-Sensitive-Laser-Enhanced...
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The dreadful fate of Jonathan York : a yarn for the strange at heart

Kory Merritt - Andrews McMeel Publishing
Format: Print book

Discover the horrible fate of Jonathan York as he sets out on his journey through a spooky forest with an alarming party of travelmates! " ... [a] hair-raising tribute to the life-changing power of stories . . . Merritt shows both a knack for evocative phrasing ... and a deft hand...
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Eglantine: A Paranormal Adventure (Allie's Ghost Hunters series: Case 1)

Catherine Jinks

Allie Gebhardt thought sharing a room with her younger brother Bethan was bad enough, but sharing a room with a ghost proves to be down right frightful. In this deliciously spooky tale, Allie's family is haunted by Eglantine Higgins, the ghost of a young girl who used to live in their house....
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The Screaming Staircase

Jonathan Stroud - Disney-Hyperion Books
Format: Print book

A sinister Problem has occurred in London: all nature of ghosts, haunts, spirits, and specters are appearing throughout the city, and they aren't exactly friendly. Only young people have the psychic abilities required to see-and eradicate-these supernatural foes. Many different Psychic...
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Castle Hangnail

Ursula Vernon - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

From the creator of Dragonbreath comes a tale of witches, minions, and one fantastic castle, just right for fans of Roald Dahl and Tom Angleberger.When Molly shows up on Castle Hangnail's doorstep to fill the vacancy for a wicked witch, the castle's minions are understandably dubious....
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The Wizard of Dark Street: An Oona Crate Mystery

Shawn Thomas Odyssey - EgmontUSA
Format: Hardcover

**A 2012 Edgar Award nominee** and **A 2011 Agatha Award Nominee** Oona Crate was born to be the Wizard's apprentice, but she has another destiny in mind.Despite possessing the rare gift of natural magic, Oona wants to be a detective. Eager for a case to prove herself,...
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The Poe Estate

Polly Shulman - Listening Library (Audio)
Format: Audio Compact Disc - Unabridged

This is a mind-bending, rousing adventure celebrating classic ghost and horror stories, by the author of The Grimm Legacy and The Wells Bequest. Sukie's been lonely since the death of her big sister, Kitty - but Kitty's ghost is still with her. At first that was comforting, but now Kitty's...
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Count Karlstein

Philip Pullman - Listening Library
Format: Audio CD

Now in paperback, a spooky and funny middle-grade thriller from the author of The Golden Compass. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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The Clumsy Ghost and Other Spooky Tales

Sean Barrett - Naxos Audiobooks
Format: Audio CD

In this entertaining anthology of seven new ghost stories, written especially for Naxos AudioBooks, we meet all kinds of phantoms in different situations: a kind hearted but accident-prone spectre unwittingly upsetting a family home; ghosts in Ancient Egypt, on board a pirate ship, in the making...
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