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A Properly Unhaunted Place

William Alexander - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

From National Book Award-winning author William Alexander comes a wryly humorous story about two kids who try to save their town by bringing back its ghosts.Rosa Ramona Daz has just moved to the small, un-haunted town of Ingot - the only ghost-free town in the world. She doesn't want to be there....
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Out to Get You: 13 Tales of Weirdness and Woe

Josh Allen - Holiday House
Format: Hardcover

Thirteen ordinary kids. Thirteen ordinary towns. Danger lurks around every corner!"Wonderful and weird, compelling and unsettling." - Gary Schmidt, two-time Newbery Honor authorGet ready for a collection of thirteen short stories that will chill your bones, tingle your spine,...
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Tales from the Haunted Mansion: Volume I: The Fearsome Foursome

Amicus Arcane - Disney Press
Format: Print book

Welcome, foolish mortals, to Disney Press' spookiest chapter book series yet: "Tales from the Haunted Mansion" Based on the attractions from the Disney Parks, each new book tells the story of one of the Haunted Mansion's 999 ghosts. With eerie illustrations throughout and a beautiful...
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The Night Gardener

Jonathan Auxier - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller, The Night Gardener is a Victorian ghost story with shades of Washington Irving and Henry James. More than just a spooky tale, it's also a moral fable about human greed and the power of storytelling.The Night Gardener follows two abandoned...
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Out of the Wild Night

Blue Balliett - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Ghosts are alive on the island of Nantucket. You can hear them in the wind and in the creaks of the old homes. They want to be remembered. And, even more, they want to protect what was once theirs. The ghosts have chosen a few local kids to save the island against the adults who would do it harm....
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Doll Bones

Holly Black - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

Discover the Newbery Honor winner Doll Bones, from Holly Black, the cocreator of the Spiderwick Chronicles. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book. A School Library Journal Best Book. A BOOKLIST Editor's Choice Books for Youth. A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book. A NYPL "100 Titles...
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The Forgotten Girl

India Hill Brown - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

"This ghost story gave me chill after chill. It will haunt you." -- R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps"Do you know what it feels like to be forgotten"On a cold winter night, Iris and her best friend, Daniel, sneak into a clearing in the woods to play in the freshly...
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The Dead Boys

Royce Buckingham - ‎G.P. Putnams Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In the desert town of Richland, Washington, there stands a giant sycamore tree. Horribly mutated by nuclear waste, it feeds on the life energy of boys that it snags with its living roots. And when Teddy Matthews moves to town, the tree trains its sights on its next victim.

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Strange Star

Emma Carroll - Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Library Binding

From the critically acclaimed author of In Darkling Wood comes a spine-tingling novel inspired by Frankenstein with more than a hint of mystery and suspense.One stormy June evening, five friends meet at Villa Diodati, the summer home of Lord Byron. After dinner is served, they challenge...
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Frightmares: A Creepy Collection of Scary Stories

Michael Dahl - Stone Arch Books
Format: Print book

What if you only had one hundred words to warn humanity of a deadly danger? What if your favorite sci-fi movie suddenly turned into a real-life worst nightmare? What if a girl you've never seen before keeps showing up in photos on your cell phone? What if you hear a knocking sound in the middle...
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Frightmares 2 : more scary stories for the fearless reader

Michael Dahl - Stone Arch Books
Format: Print book

What if a monster lived inside your mailbox? What if your school had a cursed locker that made its owners go missing? What might happen if you wandered down a silent, dark, mazelike alleyway? What if you rode on a haunted roller coaster? In each of the tales in this book, people are afraid....
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The Ghost Road

CHARIS COTTER - Tundra Books (NY)
Format: Hardcover

Ghosts, a family curse, buried secrets -- and two girls who have to figure it all out. A new book from an acclaimed author, for fans of Coraline, Doll Bones and The Night Gardener. For the first time, Ruth is heading to Newfoundland to stay with family she's never met instead of spending...
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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 Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

The original hardcover edition of a perennial favorite, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which has sold more than one million copies and is the only novel to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal. Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place - he's the only living resident...
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Book 1: The Howler

Johanna Gohmann - Spellbound
Format: Hardcover

Ava's father is so proud to reopen Ursula's Funland. But when creepy incidents threaten to shut down the park, Ava is determined to save the park for her dad. Will she be able to find the ghost haunting the Howler roller coaster and convince it to leave?
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The Hanging Hill: A Haunted Mystery

Chris Grabenstein - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Mr. Lemoncellos Library comes a series of spine-tingling mysteries to keep you up long after the lights go out.How serious is stage fright? At the Hanging Hill Playhouse, it can kill you. After narrowly escaping a malevolent spirit...
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All the Lovely Bad Ones

Mary Downing Hahn - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

Travis and his sister, Corey, can't resist a good trick - so when they learn that their grandmother's sleepy Vermont inn has a history of ghost sightings, they decide to do a little "haunting" of their own. Scaring the guests proves to be great fun, and before long, the inn is filled...
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The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story

Mary Downing Hahn - Clarion Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

When Ashley discovers a turn-of-the-century doll it is just the first of several puzzling events that lead her through the hedge and into a twilight past where she meets Louise, an ailing child whose beloved doll has mysteriously disappeared.
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The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall

Mary Downing Hahn - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Florence boards the crowded horse-drawn coach in London, she looks forward to a new life with her great uncle and aunt at Crutchfield Hall, an old manor house in the English countryside. Anything will be better, she thinks, than the grim London orphanage where she has lived...
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The Girl in the Locked Room: A Ghost Story

MARY DOWNING HAHN - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

Ghost story master Mary Downing Hahn unrolls the suspenseful, spine-chilling yarn of a girl imprisoned for more than a century, the terrifying events that put her there, and a friendship that crosses the boundary between past and present. A family moves into an old, abandoned house. Jules's...
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One for Sorrow: A Ghost Story

Mary Downing Hahn - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

Against the ominous backdrop of the influenza epidemic of 1918, Annie, a new girl at school, is claimed as best friend by Elsie, a classmate who is a tattletale, a liar, and a thief. Soon Annie makes other friends and finds herself joining them in teasing and tormenting Elsie. Elsie dies...
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Took: A Ghost Story

Mary Downing Hahn - Harcourt
Format: Print book

"Folks say Old Auntie takes a girl and keeps her fifty years - then lets her go and takes another one." Thirteen-year-old Daniel Anderson doesn't believe Brody Mason's crazy stories about the ghost witch who lives up on Brewster's Hill with Bloody Bones, her man-eating...
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Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story

Mary Downing Hahn - HMH Books for Young Readers; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback

Twelve-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their seven-year-old stepsister, Heather. Ever since their parents got married, she's made Molly and Michael's life miserable. Now their parents have moved them all to the country to live in a house that...
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Ghost Hunt: Chilling Tales of the Unknown

Jason Hawes - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

An exciting new middle grade collection of spooky paranormal investigations based on REAL ghost hunts from stars of the TV show Ghost Hunters, the number one reality show on cable television! In a lush, thick volume, Ghost Hunt will feature multiple stories dramatized with cliff hangers...
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Dying to Meet You (43 Old Cemetery Road)

Kate Klise - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

This giggly ghost story, the first installment of the award-winning 43 Old Cemetery Road series, explores forgiveness, what it means to be a family, and opening ones heart. When I. B. Grumply moves into the old Victorian mansion on 43 Old Cemetery Road, all hes looking for is some peace...
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Billy Bones: Tales from the Secrets Closet

Christopher Lincoln - Little, Brown
Format: Print book

Deep within High Manners Manor, Billy and his skeleton parents live in the Secrets Closet, where they're in charge of filing all the secrets and lies of the unscrupulous Biglum family. Then Billy meets Millicent, Sir Biglum's niece who has been recently orphaned. Together, Billy...
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Escape from the Haunted Warehouse

Anson Montgomery - Chooseco LLC
Format: Print book

This book is different from other books. You and YOU ALONE are in charge of what happens in this story. There are dangers, choices, adventures, and consequences. YOU must use all of your numerous talents and much of your enormous intelligence. The wrong decision could end in disaster...
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Lost Boy

Linda Newbery - David Fickling Books
Format: Hardcover

New house, new school, new friends–but Matt Lanchester knows it won’t all be that easy when he moves to the town of Hay-on-Wye. Almost as soon as he arrives, he is drawn into a mystery when he sees a roadside memorial marked by a little wooden cross with the initials M.L. carved...
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Guys Read: Thriller

Jon Scieszka - Walden Pond Press
Format: Hardcover

A body on the tracksA teenage terroristA mysterious wish-granting machineThe world's worst private detectiveThe second volume in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading is chock-full of mystery, intrigue, and nefarious activity. Featuring some of the best writers around, and compiled...
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Goosebumps: The Campfire Collection

R. L. Stine - Scholastic
Format: Hardcover

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When the Ghost Dog Howls

R L Stine - Scholastic
Format: Paperback

Take a little Horror home with you!Twelve-year-olds Andy and Marnie had an awesome week in HorrorLand-despite their freaky encounter with Murder the Clown and the zombie mob. Then they think they've won big when they get a FREE souvenir from HorrorLand's Chiller House-and they're...
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23 Crow's Perch

Jason Strange - Stone Arch Books
Format: Book

Henry is a little creeped out by his new apartment. For one thing, the previous tenants died a few weeks before he moved in. For another, there's a gas leak somewhere in the building and the smell is starting to seep into his clothes. Just when Henry thinks things couldn't...
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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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The Ghost in the Glass House

Carey Wallace - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

In a 1920s seaside town, Clare discovers a mysterious glass house in the backyard of her new summer home. There she falls in love with Jack, the ghost of a boy who can’t remember who he was before he died. Their romance is a haven for her from the cruel pranks of her society...
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Dollhouse Murders, the

Betty Ren Wright - Live Oak Media
Format: Audiobook

The attic is always a great place to look for nuggets of one's family history, but when 12-year-old Amy explores her great-grandparents' attic, she uncovers clues to a chilling family secret.
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