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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1460L
Language
English
Description
This classic scary story features 101 challenging vocabulary words that everyone going into the 4th grade should know. Definitions are included, as well as word puzzles and games. And the story of Ichabod Crane's wild ride through Sleepy Hollow as he attempts to escape from a terrifying ghost is just plain fun to read!
Author
Series
Macmillan classics volume 22
Language
English
Description
Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is made to repent of his greedy ways by the timely intervention of the ghost of his dead partner, Jacob Marley, and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.
4) Black rose
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Three women meet at a crossroads in their lives, each searching for new ways to grow - and find in each other the courage to take chances and embrace the future. Roz is a woman of independent means who thought love was beyond her, but when romance takes her by surprise, she won't allow anything to keep her from her second chance at happiness.
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Collected and introduced by the...author of The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry--including her own new illustrations for each piece, and a new story by Niffenegger--this is a unique and haunting anthology of some of the best ghost stories of all time. From Edgar Allen Poe to Kelly Link, M.R. James to Neil Gaiman, H. H. Munro to Audrey Niffenegger herself, [this book] reveals the evolution of the ghost story genre with tales going back...
9) Ghost beach
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
Jerry can't wait to explore the dark, spooky old cave he found down by the beach. Then the other kids tell him a story about a ghost who lives deep inside the cave.
Author
Series
Ghosthunters volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
Timid nine-year-old Tom Tomsky reluctantly agrees to help professional ghostbuster Hetty Camomile dispel an IRG (Incredibly Revolting Ghost) from an old house.
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Language
English
Description
Who better to investigate the literary spirit world than that supreme connoisseur of the unexpected, Roald Dahl? Of the many permutations of the macabre or bizarre, Dahl was always especially fascinated by the classic ghost story. As he realtes in the erudite introduction to this volume, he read some 749 supernatural tales at the British Museum Library before selecting the 14 that comprise this anthology. "Spookiness is, after all, the real purpose...
14) The other side
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A collection of five romantic novellas involving ghosts includes J. D. Robb's "Possession in Death," in which Lieutenant Eve Dallas is possessed by a victim who is determined to exact revenge against her killer through Eve.
J. D. Robb's -- Possession in Death: Lieutenant Eve Dallas has always sought justice for the dead, but now, a victim will seek her own vengeance-through Eve.
Mary Blayney -- The other side of the coint: An earl and his countess...
15) Twenties girl
Author
Language
English
Description
When the spirit of Lara's great-aunt Sadie-a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance-mysteriously appears, she has one last request: Lara must find a missing necklace that had been in Sadie's possession for more than seventy-five years, and Sadie cannot rest without it. Never mind that Lara has her own problems--which Sadie could care less about. Will this sparring duo ever find what they're after?
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The ghost story has long been a staple of world literature, but many of the genre's greatest tales have been forgotten, overshadowed in many cases by their authors' bestselling work in other genres. In this spine-tingling anthology, little known stories from literary titans like Charles Dickens and Edith Wharton are collected alongside overlooked works from masters of horror fiction like Edgar Allan Poe and M. R. James.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
GN 750L
Language
English
Description
When their mom remarries, Molly and her brother, Michael, try to make friends with their new stepsister, Heather. But Heather only wants to make trouble for them. She lies and tattles and misbehaves, and somehow they always get the blame. They know she's trying to drive a wedge between her father and their mother so she can have her father all to herself--and it seems to be working. Then, Heather starts playing in the graveyard behind their new house....