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1) A shining
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"A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and ultimately finds himself stuck at the end of a forest road. It soon grows dark and begins to snow. But instead of searching for help, he ventures, foolishly, into the dark forest. Inevitably, the man gets lost, and as he grows cold and tired, he encounters a glowing being amid the obscurity. Strange, haunting and dreamlike, A Shining is the latest...
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Hall-Lore-Ween contains a collection of fun Halloween adventures and poems that the whole family can enjoy. With three short stories and four poems all themed around the spooky season, there is truly something for everyone. From the mind of Josh Spero and special guest author K.K. Davis, these tales aim to personify the very spirit of Halloween. Hosted by Jacko, the three-eyed Jack-o-Lantern, each story tells a unique tale about overcoming adversity...
3) Diavola
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"Anna has two rules for the annual Pace family destination vacations: tread lightly and survive. It isn't easy when she's the only one in the family who doesn't quite fit in. Her twin brother Benny goes with the flow so much he's practically dissolved, and her older sister Nicole is so used to everyone--including her blandly docile husband and two kids--falling in line that Anna often ends up in trouble for simply asking a question. Mom seizes every...
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IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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"The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn't fit among them. For Violet Hart-whose family is about to move into the house on Katydid Street-very little felt like it fit anymore. Like their old home, suddenly too small since her mother remarried and the new baby arrived. Or Violet's group of friends, which, since they started middle school, isn't enough for Violet's best friend, Paige. Everything...
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"A captivating collection of ghost stories from "one of the most gifted writers working today" (New York Times), Night Side of the River is as ingeniously provocative as it is downright spooky. In this delightfully chilling collection, the iconic Jeanette Winterson turns her fearless gaze to the realm of ghosts, interspersing her own encounters with the supernatural alongside hair-raising fictions. Lifting the veil between the living and the dead,...
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"Angels Demons And Strange Experiences" Part 1, 2, Collects Both Volumes, I Talk About Old Paranormal Investigations And New Ones All They Way Back To My Childhood When Some Of These Very Strange Experiences First Happened To Me And I Never Forgot Them, And also Five of my favorite Poems. "Raven's Call" "Glowing Darkness" "Where Darkness Looms" "A Crow's Heart" And "Black Crow Cries" I Hope You Enjoy These True Stories As Much I Enjoyed Writing Them,...
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"In "Dark Academia and the Lesbian Masterdoc," a millennial English professor finds viral fame on TikTok, but her newfound notoriety could wreck her already unstable life. In "Patriots' Day," a man having an affair finds himself caught up in larger currents of anti-Asian violence. Throughout the collection, an array of loners and artists--a young poet haunted by the ghost of Oscar Wilde, a home brewer and wife during lockdown, a boy with wings--struggle...
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"Across Italy there are many half-empty towns, nearly abandoned by those who migrate to the coast or to cities. The beautiful, crumbling hilltop town of Becchina is among them, but its mayor has taken drastic measures to rebuild - selling abandoned homes to anyone in the world for a single Euro, as long as the buyer promises to live there for at least five years. It's a no-brainer for American couple Tommy and Kate Puglisi. Both work remotely, and...
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Hank Zipzer volume 10
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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Teased by the school bully because of his Halloween costume, underachieving Hank, with the help of his friends, exacts revenge by creating the scariest and grossest haunted house ever and inviting the bully to visit.
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Sophia, a middle-aged woman living in a cozy little home, begins to experience strange occurrences such as doors opening and closing on their own and footsteps in empty rooms. She seeks the help of a local paranormal investigator and learns that her home is indeed haunted. Sophia discovers that the ghost is a woman named Alice who had lived in the house many years ago and had died tragically. With the help of the investigator, Sophia tries to appease...
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"Ford and Neuland are paranormal mercenaries--one living, one undead; one of them kills the undead, the other kills the living. When a job goes bad in New York, they head west to wait for the heat to cool down. There, a young woman named Tilda Rosenbloom hires them on behalf of wealthy landowner, Shepherd Mansfield, to track and kill a demon haunting a mansion in remote northern California.As Ford and Neuland investigate the creature they uncover...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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The girls (and dog) of G.H.O.S.T. Squad are asked by a bride to investigate a haunted church, where a spirit has supposedly been playing the church's organ, messing with tapestries, and scaring churchgoers. The girls have to figure out why the ghost is haunting the church and help it move on in time for their client's wedding. Includes information about paranormal researchers, a "real" haunted cathedral, and reading comprehension questions.
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"An atmospheric gothic mystery that beautifully brings the ancient Cornish countryside to life, Armstrong introduces heroine Ruby Vaughn in her Minotaur Books & Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning debut, The Curse of Penryth Hall. After the Great War, American heiress Ruby Vaughn made a life for herself running a rare bookstore alongside her octogenarian employer and house mate in Exeter. She's always avoided dwelling on the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
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Ghost: Thirteen Haunting Tales to Tell is a ghost story collection for middle schoolers.
Featuring the only true ghost stories in existence (as the book itself will tell you), readers discover 13 eerie encounters that are perfect for sharing-if they dare.
With tales about a finger against the inside of a mirror, a wooded area where the trees look back, and a basement door blocked by a brick wall so thick it stifles the screams from below, this...
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Je suis une nécromancienne. Une créature apte à réveiller les morts. Ce pouvoir est d'autant plus terrifiant que je ne le maîtrise pas.
Et certains de mes alliés s'en méfient.
Car on me dit puissante. Dangereuse. Capable des plus grands cataclysmes.
À bien y penser, ils ont peut-être raison de me craindre.
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Judy Lang, age nine, is spending the summer vacation at her grandparents' house in the country. Strange occurrences-toys mysteriously appearing, a strange voice beckoning to her, and finally the unlikely presence of a girl her own age. Judy listens in horror to the tales her new friend, Suzy, tells her about the people she was forced to live with-until that arrangement abruptly changed. Judy chooses to help Suzy deal with her impossible situation...
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Housecat trouble volume 2
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When Buster, Nova and Chauncey find a lost stray they take to the streets to find its old owner, but this strange cat turns out to be a ghost, and reuniting him with his lost owner is going to be a lot harder than they thought.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
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In this not-so-scary ghost story from Jacqueline Davies, bestselling author of the Lemonade War series, quirky, tool-wielding Alice Cannoli-Potchnik begins to repair the dilapidated mansion next door-only to discover the old house is home to ghosts, and they need mending, too!
Home is where the heart is. But can a house have a heart of its own?
Ten-year-old Alice is moving for the eleventh time.
She's lived in so many houses, each more broken...
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Step into a world of delightful absurdity with this collection of ridiculous ghost stories! Within the pages of this book, you'll encounter spine-tingling tales filled with hilarious twists and mind-boggling scenarios. From haunted rubber ducks to mischievous spirits with a penchant for baking banana bread, each story will leave you in stitches while simultaneously giving you chills. With a perfect blend of the supernatural and the absurd, this collection...
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