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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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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...
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Language
English
Description
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...
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Language
English
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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
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...
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Series
Secrets of Droon. Main volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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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.
7) Ghosts
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Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis--and Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, and Maya sets her heart on meeting one.
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Series
Kingdom of Wrenly volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Prince Lucas and his best friend Clara discover a ghost haunting Wrenly Castle.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"When Frankie's mother died and her father left her and her siblings at an orphanage in Chicago, it was supposed to be only temporary - just long enough for him to get back on his feet and be able to provide for them once again. That's why she is not prepared for the day that he arrives for his weekend visit with a new woman on his arm and out-of-state train tickets in his pocket. Now Frankie and her sister, Toni, are abandoned alongside so many...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Cas Lowood, armed with his late father's mysterious athame, set out to kill a ghost known as Anna Dressed in Blood, but what he believes will be a routine task turns deadly when he discovers Anna is unlike any ghost he has ever encountered before.
12) Ghostopolis
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Garth Hale is as good as dead...The only problem is he's still alive. When Garth Hale is accidentally zapped into the ghost world by Frank Gallows, a washed-up ghost wrangler, he discovers that he has special powers. Soon he finds himself on the run from the evil ruler of Ghostopolis, who wants to use Garth's newfound abilities to tighten his grip on the spirit world. After Garth meets Cecil, his grandfather's ghost, the two search for a way to get...
13) Elatsoe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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"Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream. There are some differences. This America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Some of these forces are charmingly everyday, like the ability to make an orb of light appear or travel across the world through rings of fungi. But other forces are less charming and...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Logan, the adopted daugther of reality television ghosthunters, teams up with Ashley to search for missing teens in Snakebite, Oregon, they find themselves falling for each other as they uncover a hidden evil.
16) Horrid
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following her father's sudden death, Jane North-Robinson and her mother are forced to move to the old North house in Maine, where Jane uncovers her family's disturbing secrets.
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Series
Dragon Slayers' Academy volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
While Headmaster Mordred is trying to impress a new student, who he believes to be the first female at Dragon Slayers' Academy, the ghost of one of the school's founders besieges the halls seeking his stolen gold.
18) Afterworlds
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Darcy Patel has put college and everything else on hold to publish her teen novel, Afterworlds. Arriving in New York with no apartment or friends she wonders whether she's made the right decision until she falls in with a crowd of other seasoned and fledgling writers who take her under their wings... Told in alternating chapters is Darcy's novel, a suspenseful thriller about Lizzie, a teen who slips into the 'Afterworld' to survive a terrorist attack....
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English
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Holly Miller doesn't believe in spirits, but the Sugar Maple Inn is filled with guests who do. The TV series in development, Apparition Apprehenders, has descended on Wagtail's annual Halloween festivities to investigate supernatural local legends, and Holly has her hands full showing the ghost hunters a scary-fun time.But the frights turn real when Holly's Jack Russell, Trixie, and kitten, Twinkletoes, find a young woman drowned in the Wagtail Springs...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary W. Chase died on Nantucket Island just over one hundred years ago, but she is still there, in the house she once lived in, and she wants to keep it that way-- but first she must somehow contact a group of children who are interested in preserving historic homes on the island.
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