All Things Scary: Ghost Stories
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Always October
by
Bruce Colville Details
When sixth grader Jake Doolittle finds a baby on the doorstep and his mother decides to keep it, those words are more than just an expression. Instead, they perfectly describe the way his new little brother, LD, sprouts pointy ears, thick fur, and fangs in moonlight.
Ghost Town
by
Phoebe Rivers Details
Sara Collins is a normal twelve-year-old girl with an abnormal secret: She is psychic. She's had her abilities for as long as she can remember, but she doesn't like to talk about them. She hopes that if she ignores them, they might go away. Sara wants nothing more than to have a normal life, and to her, "normal" doesn't include anything paranormal. But Sara's life is about to be turned upside down, because she's moving across the country with her dad to an old shore town in New Jersey.
Ghoulish Song
by
William Alexander Details
When the music of a bone flute given to her by a goblin separates Kaile's shadow from herself, her family believes she has died and become a ghoul, and Kaile must set out to prove that she still lives.
Grave Secrets
by
Annette Cascone Details
Amanda maintains a pet cemetery in her backyard where she buries her dead pets, but when she and her friends prepare to bury a dead squirrel they find a grave with a doll in it, a discovery with links to a scary elderly neighbor.
Monsters On the March
by
Derek Kent Details
Charles and the students of Scary School are forced to contend with the angry armies of King Zog and Captain Pigbeard after Zog's toad-faced daughter, Princess Zogette, falls for Charles and decides to follow him back to school.
Splendors and Glooms
by
Laura Amy Schlitz Details
The master puppeteer, Gaspare Grisini, is so expert at manipulating his stringed puppets that they appear alive. Clara Wintermute, the only child of a wealthy doctor, is spellbound by Grisini's act and invites him to entertain at her birthday party. Grisini accepts and makes a splendidly gaudy entrance with caravan, puppets, and his two orphaned assistants.
When Clara vanishes that night, suspicion of kidnapping falls upon the puppeteer and, by association, his assistants--Lizzie Rose and Parsefall.
The Graveyard Book
by
Neil Gaiman Details
After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.
The Seer of Shadows
by
Avi Details
In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when Horace accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn. Lexile Level: 720
The Whispering House
by
Rebecca Wade Details
When the Price family moves into Cowleigh Lodge while their home is being repaired, fourteen-year-old Hannah discovers that the ghost of a girl who died there at age eleven wants help unraveling the mystery of her 1877 death.
Truth or Dare
by
P.J. Night Details
When Abby Miller confesses her crush on Jake during a game of Truth or Dare and then receives a text message warning her to stay away from him, she starts suspecting that her stalker is a ghost, and not a jealous classmate.
Updated 04/25/2013
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