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Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. MceElderry Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After his triumph over a ghost collector and a doctor who does no good, Tom Golden thinks life is finally...well, golden. Grey Arthur and his ghostly crew have happily settled into their roles as Invisible Friends while Tom has made a new human friend with Pick-Nose Pete. But when one friendly ghost is overly enthusiastic about his duties, the TV show Exceedingly Haunted Homes of England is called in to investigate. A hysterical fear of ghosts takes...
Author
Publisher
Lantana
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"There are stories that are as different from one another as the plumages of birds. But the story of this tale was something else: no one had ever read it! It lived hidden in a dark corner of the library. Every time a reader approached, he curled its spine, repeating: "I'm a phantom, no one sees me, I'm a phantom"--BTCat.
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English
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"A thrilling psychological horror debut about a woman who is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes haunted, no matter the cost... You can survive anything. That's what Margaret tells herself when the walls of her house start to drip blood every September. She's learned how to live with it...and the other terrifying apparitions that have made the sprawling Victorian house she and her husband bought four years ago turn from a dream...
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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.
7) The Odds
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of Begonia, who was abandoned at a retirement home when she was a baby. You might think that's the worst thing that could happen to someone, but for Bug, the worst is yet to come. You see, Swamp Root Manor isn't just any old house. It's alive, it's haunted, and everyone in it is...a little bit Odd. Everyone except Begonia. And while she's waiting for her Oddity to arrive, the manor is running out of money, thanks in no small part...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Open the door....Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play Witching Night, she may finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. When she stumbles across Hill House on a weekend getaway upstate, she is immediately taken in by the mansion, nearly hidden outside a remote village. It's enormous, old, and ever-so eerie--the perfect place...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"One two, the Caretaker's coming for you. Three-four, you'll breathe no more. Five-six, you'll float like sticks. Seven, eight, you'll meet your fate. Rafael Fuentes isn't easily scared. He loves writing ghost stories, reading scary books, and entertaining his friends with terrifying tales he creates on the spot. Rafa has come up against enough real-life scary situations that fictional hauntings seem like no big deal. Rafa's incarcerated mom is being...
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English
Description
"Francine Thwaite has lived all her fifty-five years in her family's ancestral home, a rambling Elizabethan manor in England's Lake District. No other living soul resides there, but Francine isn't alone. There are ghosts in Thwaite Manor, harmless and familiar. Most beloved is Bree, the mischievous ghost girl who has been Francine's companion since childhood. When Francine's estranged sister, Madeleine, returns to the manor after years away, she brings...
12) Accidental ghost
Author
Series
Soul catcher volume episode 1
Publisher
Books by Elle
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Every day is Halloween for Tania since she learned she had the unique gift of harvesting souls. It was never her dream, more something that she literally fell into. She barely has enough time to breathe, taking a full load of classes and moon lighting as a harvester, when her paranormal studies professor inadvertently drops a case on her lap that she can't resist. It's her chance to go on a mission alone without her ghostly instructor from the other...
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Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Bella Gubbins has just moved to a new home in a new town. She’s not happy about this. And she’s about to be even less happy when she finds out that the school she’ll be attending is haunted by an old man who stalks the corridors. Who is he? What does he want? And why is he intent on terrifying some of the kids? The tip, tap of his walking stick announces his arrival. You can run. You can hide. But there’s no getting away from the master....
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Calista Wynn will lose her ability to speak with the dead on her thirteenth birthday. And with only a few weeks left, children have started going missing. When Calista meets The Tall Lady--an angry spirit with a grudge against Calista, her family, and the entire town--she knows she's found the ghost responsible for the disappearances. It's up to Calista, the only one who can see The Tall Lady, to stop her. If she doesn't, Calista...
15) The spirit glass
Author
Publisher
Disney, Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Corazon yearns to finally start training as a babaylan (a mystical healer and spirit guide) under her powerful guardian, Aunt Tina. As soon as her magic awakens, Corazon plans to bring her parents back from the dead and no longer have to rely on a soul key to allow visits with their ghosts for a few hours every Saturday night. But when a vengeful ghost steals Corazon's precious key, the fragile balance between the human world and the spirit world...
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Series
Publisher
Blanket's Mountain Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"DJ is an outside cat who enjoys an easy-going life but when he's beset by a sense of danger he sets out on a quest to discover the cause of his distress. He's confronted by a ghost that tells a tragic tale of abduction and murder which happened only a year ago in his own territory. The murderer fled the area and was never caught but now he's returned and it's only a matter of time before history repeats itself. DJ takes it upon himself to prevent...
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
An American family moves to England, to the infamous Canterville Chase, the ancestral home that́s been haunted for 300 years by the ghost, of Sir Simon de Canterville. When Sir Simon and the familýs teenage daughter Virginia start plotting together to get her family back to New York, she discovers that Sir Simon has been cursed to be bound to the estate. After she uncovers the beautiful and tragic love story of Sir Simońs beloved wife, Virginia...
Author
Publisher
Harpercollins Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Cara Tang doesn't want to be haunted. Look, the dead have issues, and Cara has enough of her own. Her overbearing mother insists she be the "perfect" Chinese American daughter--which means suppressing her ghost-speaking powers--and she keeps getting into fights with Zacharias Coleson, the local golden boy whose smirk makes her want to set things on fire. Then she stumbles across Zach's dead body in the woods. He's even more infuriating as a ghost,...