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21) Ghostcloud
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kidnapped and forced to shovel coal underground, in a half-bombed power station, 12-year-old Luke Smith-Sharma keeps his head down and hopes he can earn his freedom from the evil Tabatha Margate. Then one day he discovers he can see things that others can't. Ghostly things. A ghostly girl named Alma, who can bend the shape of clouds to her will and rides them through the night sky. With Alma's help, Luke discovers his own innate powers and uncovers...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this book the author give us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances, in their house, on the roadway, in the market. Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron has spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, a plain, outspoken, independent young woman, she is like a...
23) Magic for sale
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A young boy tracks down an elusive ghost in the hidden rooms of a fantastical magic shop.
Author
Series
Ghost detectors volume 24
Publisher
Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
79 pages : illustrations : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A field trip to the zoo goes bananas when animals break out of their cages and Malcolm is banned from the park, so the boys enlist Mrs. Goolsby's help to zap the ghost setting the animals free.
26) The seekers
Author
Series
Krewe of hunters volume 28
Language
English
Description
"Kerri Wolf has joined the crew of The Seekers, a show that searches for paranormal phenomena, as they explore a supposedly haunted old inn on the road between Philadelphia and Harrisburg. The place is famous for its warm welcome - and infamous for being the site of an ax murder rampage in the 1920s. They've barely begun when a very real dead body is discovered in the basement. As a nonfiction author, Kerri is supposed to be the rational one, but...
Author
Series
House on Tradd Street volume 2
Publisher
New American Library
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to āThe House On Tradd Street,ā when Melanie Middleton was seven years old her mother, Ginnette, left home, abandoning her husband and her daughter. Now, nearly thirty-three years later, Ginnette has returned to Charleston, South Carolina, to confront her past and make amends with the daughter she left behind. Melanie is less than thrilled when her mother reappears in her life and asks for her help in buying back the family home....
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
254 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of two iconic decades... if you dare. Hear shocking plot summaries that invoke devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate! Horror author and vintage paperback book collector Grady Hendrix offers killer commentary and witty insight on these trashy thrillers that tried so hard to be the next Exorcist or Rosemary's Baby. Complete with story summaries and artist and author profiles, this unforgettable...
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The Lake District, 1899. The Earl is dead and cruel Cousin Clarence has inherited everything. Twelve-year-old Lady Agatha Asquith is cast out of Gosswater Hall to live in a tiny, tumbledown cottage with a stranger who claims to be her father. Aggie is determined to discover her real identity, but she is not alone on her quest for the truth. On the last day of the year, when the clock strikes midnight, a mysterious girl of light creeps through the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bells that ring themselves. Record players that turn on an play music to empty rooms. Ghosts that can climb out of wardrobes... Maggie Holt doesn't believe in these things, even though they are the details of the story that made her family famous. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved to Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent twenty days there before fleeing in the dead of night, an...
32) Episode thirteen
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 448 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fade to Black is the newest hit ghost hunting reality TV show. It's led by husband and wife team Matt and Claire Kirklin and features a dedicated crew of ghost-hunting experts. Episode Thirteen takes them to Matt's holy grail: the Paranormal Research Foundation. This crumbling, derelict mansion holds secrets and clues about the bizarre experiments that took place there in the 1970s. It's also, undoubtedly, haunted, and Matt hopes to use their scientific...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Karen White invites you to explore the brick-walked streets of Charleston, where historic mansions house the memories of years gone by and restless spirits refuse to fade away.... With her extended maternity leave at its end, Melanie Trenholm is less than thrilled to leave her new husband and beautiful twins to return to work, especially when she's awakened by a phone call with no voice on the other end--and the...
34) The House
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
AudiseeĀ® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! The old, abandoned house at the end of Grace's street is a local legend. All the neighbors say it's haunted, but every Halloween someone leaves candy on the front porch. Grace and her friends decide to investigate, hoping to find out once and for all if someone-or something-really is haunting the place. But what if there is more to the...
Author
Language
English
Description
What's so perfect about the past for Sybil and Blake Gregory, a successful Manhattan couple with three children who land in San Francisco when Blake impulsively accepts the job of a lifetime as CEO of a start-up? The family moves into a grand, surprisingly affordable Pacific Heights mansion and soon meets the affable Butterfield family, who lived there a century ago. Of course the Butterfields are ghosts, and only the Gregorys can see them, but that...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
219 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meet Ada Goth. She lives in Ghastly-Gorm Hall with her father, Lord Goth, lots of servants and at least half a dozen ghosts, but she hasn't got any friends to explore her enormous, creepy house with. Then one night everything changes when Ada meets s ghostly mouse named Ishmael. Together they set out to solve the mystery of the strange happenings at Ghastly-Gorm Hall. And get alot more than they bargained for.
Author
Series
A Royal Street novel volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Crescent City, with its long and tangled history, its glorious architecture and subtropical allure, along with its inarguably dark past and requisite restless spirits, is a forgiving place. A city with accepting arms for society's lost and hungry souls, and a haven for people like me who'd stumbled and fallen yet managed to pull themselves back up. People who were brave enough to try again in a place known for its extremes, or simply too hardheaded...
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
570 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the Jim Crow South, twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., who can see ghosts, is sent to The Reformatory where boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, while his sister Gloria rallies everyone in Florida to get him out before it's too late.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When her stepfather leaves and her family loses their home to fire, twelve-year-old Chinese-American Monica, or Mo, struggles with anxiety, but the chance to hunt an elephant ghost--and the promise of a new friend--help convince her to live a little more dangerously.