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81) Skeleton Lode
Author
Series
Sundown Riders volume 6
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
They're ex-cowpunchers looking to strike it rich - and not having much success. When they deliver a wagon of scotch to a shantytown saloon, the bartender drops dead before paying. No sooner do they take over the bar as payment than it is burned to the ground during a brawl. The cloud above Arlo Wells and Dallas Holt has no silver lining... They finally get a break when they receive a message from an old friend, along with a map. It seems the grizzled...
84) Burden Falls
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
"When someone close to Ava Thorn is brutally murdered and Ava becomes the primary suspect, she starts to wonder if ghostly legends surrounding her town might be more fact than fiction"--
85) The good people
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Three women in nineteenth-century Ireland bond over a shared effort to rescue a child from a superstitious community that believes that his trauma-related inability to speak indicates that he is a changeling responsible for a series of misfortunes.
Nóra, bereft after the death of her husband, finds herself alone and caring for her grandson Micheál, who can neither speak nor walk. A handmaid, Mary, arrives to help Nóra just as rumors begin to...
Series
Publications of the Texas Folklore Society volume no. 2
Publisher
Southern Methodist University Press
Pub. Date
[1969]
Language
English
88) Bird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jewel was born on the day her brother Bird died and lives in a house of silence and secrets, but a new boy in her Iowa town may help find the answers Jewel wants despite her Jamaican grandfather's warning that he is a "duppy," a malevolent spirit.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A collection of seventeen original poems about superstitions, including walking under a ladder, breaking a mirror, and knocking on wood. Includes notes about the superstitions.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books of Northern New York
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the spread of infectious diseases and their impact on human populations, from the Black Death in medieval Europe to such modern diseases as AIDS and West Nile virues, as well as the efforts to stop the spread of these diseases.
Author
Series
Roscoe Riley rules volume 7
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
Roscoe is determined to guess the weight of a giant pumpkin in order to win books for his school library and candy for himself, but is overwhelmed by superstitions, especially about a certain black kitten.
Author
Publisher
eBookit.com
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
For as long as I can remember, treasure hunters have been captivated by accounts of the Dutchman Jacob Waltz's life and the whereabouts of his hidden gold mine. Can any tale be more compelling than that long unsolved mystery of millions of dollars of gold lost deep in the Superstition Mountains? In Dutchman and the Devil: The Lost Story I examine the tangled trail of truth and fiction that is Waltz's legacy and tell the tale of a man - and his shadowy...
98) The chain letter
Author
Publisher
Yearling Book
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Livvie isn't superstitious, but when she throws a chain letter in the trash, against her friend Joyce's advice, a streak of bad luck ensues.
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
"A girl in search of a goal and a boy in search of his father accidentally fall in love"--
Jane, a superstitious fangirl, takes a babysitting job to avoid an unpaid internship with her college-obsessed mom. The only problem? She's babysitting the siblings of her new crush, Teo. Teo's friend Ravi hates Jane, and is determined to keep them apart, so Teo's pretty sure his plans for a peaceful summer are shot. His only hope is that his search for his...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Hattie grew up in Brooklyn, so her family's move to a small town in Massachusetts required a lot of adjustments, but by the time sixth-grade starts she has several new friends--but when she somehow invokes the harvest festival jinx, suddenly none of her new friends even recognize her, and she must find a way to break the spell.
