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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A cautionary tale wrapped up in a Christmas bow, Charles Dickens' novella, A Christmas Carol, has touched readers for decades with its study of moneylender Ebenezer Scrooge, who on Christmas Eve is forced to examine his bitter, greedy life with help from the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
Through the Ghosts Scrooge sees all of the opportunities he has missed, all the unhappiness he has created, and all the misery and tragedy
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Language
English
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Sorrowful widows, vengeful jezebels, innocent maidens, wronged lovers, former slaves, even the occasional axe-murderess--America's female ghosts differ widely in background, class, and circumstance. Yet one thing unites them: their ability to instill fascination and fear, long after their deaths. Here are the full stories behind some of the best-known among them, as well as the lesser-known--though no less powerful. Tales whispered in darkness often...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy - an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack - who has already killed...
Author
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the legend of Faust and told in alternating timelines, sixteen-year-old Roan arrives at Mill House as a ward and discovers she is connected to an ancient evil secret, while, centuries later, seventeen-year-old Zoey explores the dwelling's ruins and soon realizes she is not alone.
Author
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From that cheerful puff of smoke known as Casper to the hunkiest potter living or dead, Sam Wheat, there is probably no more iconic entity in supernatural history than the ghost. And these are just recent examples. From the earliest writings such as the Epic of Gilgamesh to today’s ghost-hunting reality TV shows, ghosts have chilled the air of nearly every era and every culture in human history. In this book, Lisa Morton uses her scholarly prowess...
Author
Series
Jeremy Marsh volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
As a science journalist with a regular column in Scientific American, Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural and has a real nose for the strange and unusual. A born skeptic, he travels to the small town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, determined to find the real cause behind the ghostly apparitions that appear in the town cemetery. What he doesn't plan on, however, is meeting and falling hopelessly in love with Lexie Darnell, granddaughter...
Author
Series
Mostly ghostly volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
129 p. ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A boy suddenly finds himself haunted by the friendly ghosts of two children while being pursued by an evil being.
9) Hauntings
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, c1997
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the phenomenon of haunting.
Author
Publisher
EDC Pub.]
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
122 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Is there really such a thing as a true ghost story? The strange tales in this book are all based on actual reports by people who believed they had been haunted by ghosts or poltergeists. You can make up your own mind after reading their stories...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rick Scroogeman hates Christmas and he hates being called Scrooge, but everything starts to change when three ghosts visit him, and he realizes this nightmare might be real.
13) Violin: a novel
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The death of Triana's husband marks the beginning of her haunting by the tormented spirit Stefan, a Russian nobleman who died for his music. He gives his stradivarius violin and the gift of his talent to Triana, but she is unaware of the price she must pay for music she loves.
Author
Series
Mostly ghostly volume 4
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
129 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his brother, Colin, takes the pendant in which the ghostly Nicky and Tara's parents may be trapped, Max must follow him to Camp Snake Lake and try to retrieve the pendant before evil ghosts find it.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 183 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folklore, are existentially frightening and meticulously...
Author
Series
Secrets of Droon. Main volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lord Sparr has put Princess Keeah under a spell and the only way Eric, Julie and Neal can help her is to enter the Land of the Lost. But only ghosts live there and if the children don't leave soon, they, too, will turn into ghosts.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A charter boat captain and his first mate uncover a buried treasure off the rocky shores of an isolated Northern California town from a ship that sank 100 years ago. They are not aware of the ship's horrible history and awaken the spirits of the dead. Exactly one hundred years ago, a ship of lepers seeking refuge was betrayed by the town's founding fathers and burned. On this night, the ghosts of the long-dead mariners have returned from their watery...
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