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Coraline

Neil Gaiman
Format: Book

The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring.... In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close.The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find...
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The Doll's Eye

Marina Cohen - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Print book

All Hadley wants is for everything to go back to the way it used to be -- back when she didn't have to share her mother with her stepfather and stepbrother. Back when she wasn't forced to live in a musty, decomposing house. Back when she had a life in the city with her friends. As Hadley...
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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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The Nest

Kenneth Oppel - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

Steve just wants to save his baby brother:but what will he lose in the bargain This is a haunting gothic tale for fans of Coraline, from acclaimed author Kenneth Oppel (Silverwing, The Boundless) with illustrations from Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen. For some kids summer is a sun-soaked...
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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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Revenge of the Witch (The Last Apprentice)

Joseph Delaney - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover

Capturing witchesBinding boggartsDriving away ghostsFor 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? Twenty-nine apprentices have tried-some floundered, some fled, some failed...
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