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Author
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
374 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ghosts are said to wander along the rooftops above New Orleans? Royal Street, the dead allegedly sing sacred songs in St. Louis Cathedral, and the graveyard tomb of a wealthy madam reportedly glows bright red at night. Local lore about such supernatural sightings, as curated by Jeanne deLavigne in her classic Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans, finds the phantoms of bitter lovers, vengeful slaves, and menacing gypsies haunting nearly every corner of...
2) Afterworlds
Author
Series
Afterworlds volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy's novel, slips into the "Afterworld" to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide, as both face many challenges and both fall in love.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
319 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the widowed master of an elegant house in Victorian-era London slips slowly into madness and his tyrannical housekeeper takes on more power, a ghostly presence distracts a teenaged maidservant with clues to a deadly secret.
4) Fetch
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After years of being kicked around, Greg, Alec, and Oscar are ready to take control of their lives. Greg decides to put the controversial science he's been studying to the test. Alec launches a master plot to expose his golden sister for the spoiled brat he knows she is. And Oscar, ever the miniature grown-up his mom needs him to be, decides to take something he wants... even though he knows it's wrong. But as these three will learn, control is a...
5) Contagion
Author
Series
Dark Matter volume 1
Publisher
Charlesbridge Teen
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
409 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A deadly, mysterious epidemic is sweeping the country, and young kidnap victim Callie is one of the few who survived infection, only to be sacrificed by her captors at a secret lab working with antimatter; her older brother Kai is desperate to find out what happened to her--his best hope lies with Shay, the girl who last saw Callie alive, and together they will seek answers, even if it means evading soldiers and crossing the quarantine zone.
6) Deception
Author
Series
Dark Matter volume 2
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
358 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
""Believing that she is a carrier of the deadly disease they are calling the "Aberdeen flu," Shay has surrendered herself to the authorities and along with other survivors becomes an unwilling test subject in the effort to find a cure; but when the lab is attacked she and a few of the others with the strongest supernatural abilities escape, and her boyfriend Kai is determined to find her, while ghostly Callie, the true carrier, will atone for her...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Three sisters, drowned as witches in Sparrow, Oregon, in the 1800s, return each summer for revenge but Penny, seventeen, is determined to stop them to save the boy she loves.
Two centuries ago, in the town of Sparrow, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town. For a brief time each summer the sisters return, stealing the bodies of three girls...