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Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, "jump" stories, and scary songs.
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Ghost stories by Henry James, M.R. James, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Taylor, Oliver Onions, Saki, Elizabeth Bowen, W.F. Harvey, Shirley Jackson, V.S. Pritchett, Muriel Spark, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Marghanita Laski, Ann Bridge, Penelope Fitzgerald, John Cheever, A.S. Byatt, and Philip Graham.
8) Mrs. God
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There was always talk of a hidden secret in Esswood's past, and the Seneschal children were often so pale and sickly, but don't all English manor houses have a few ghost stories to call their own? When Professor William Standish receives the rare honor of an Esswood Fellowship, he is thrilled beyond his wildest ambitions. But something seems slightly off at Esswood House. He hears faint laughter in the halls, the pitter-pattering of small feet in...
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Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Contains haunting stories and scary songs that feature ghosts, monsters, and creepy endeavors, including selections entitled "Old Woman All Skin and Bone," "Cold as Clay," "The Ghost with the Bloody Fingers," and others.
12) Rip Van Winkle
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While hunting in the Catskills, Rip Van Winkle meets some strange looking men who invite him to share a dram with them. Rip Van Winkle falls asleep and wakes up twenty years later to a much-changed world.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable. With an extraordinary gift for suspense, McKissack brings us ten original spine-tingling tales inspired by African-American history and the mystery of that eerie half-hour before nightfall--the dark thirty. "The atmosphere of each selection is skillfully developed and sustained to...
14) Harvest house
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"Deftly leading readers to the literary crossroads of contemporary realism and haunting mystery, Cynthia Leitich Smith revisits the world of her American Indian Youth Literature Award winner Hearts Unbroken. Halloween is near, and Hughie Wolfe is volunteering at a new rural attraction: Harvest House. He's excited to take part in the fun, spooky show--until he learns that an actor playing the vengeful spirit of an "Indian maiden," a ghost inspired...
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Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Tapped from the oral traditions of American folklore, these ghost stories and tales of weird happenings, witches, and graveyards have startling, funny, or surprising endings.
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