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Author
Publisher
Lippincott
Pub. Date
[c1981]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The iconic anthology series of horror tales that's now a feature film!
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a timeless collection of chillingly scary tales and legends, in which folklorist Alvin Schwartz offers up some of the most alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and supernatural events of all time.
Available for the first time as an ebook, Stephen Gammell's artwork from the original Scary Stories
...Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A collector of obscure and macabre artifacts, unscrupulous metal band musician Judas Coyne is unable to resist purchasing a ghost over the Internet, which turns out to be the vengeful spirit of his late girlfriend's stepfather.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Ali spends the summer with her aunt and cousin at the family's vacation home, she stumbles upon a secret that her mother and aunt have been hiding for over thirty years.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murder of a recently returned local who hid a tragic past, librarian Carrie Singleton, aided by library ghost Evelyn and the bushy-tailed Smoky Joe, finds her efforts complicated by her celebrity stepdad's latest production.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Ginny is unhappy when her family moves from Chicago to upstate Michigan for the summer; her father has a job restoring a 1930s mansion, but there are rumors about Woodmoor and the forest next to it: rumors about strange mutant creatures; Ginny, an aspiring mystery writer, is soon half convinced that the rumors are true, because something or someone is haunting the house--and she plans to investigate, with the help of Will, the older boy who lives...
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Bells that ring themselves. Record players that turn on an play music to empty rooms. Ghosts that can climb out of wardrobes... Maggie Holt doesn't believe in these things, even though they are the details of the story that made her family famous. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved to Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent twenty days there before fleeing in the dead of night, an...
12) Bridge of souls
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Cassidy Blake and her ghostly friend, Jacob, have survived the ghosts of Edinburgh and Paris, but New Orleans is a haunted city in a class by itself, and that is the current stop for her parents' TV show; but there is something a lot scarier than ghosts here: the Emissary of Death is after Cassidy, and to defeat it she will need the help of the Society of the Black Cat and she will also be faced with a terrible choice--lose one of her two friends,...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Laurel Gray Hawthorne's life seems neatly on track--a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in suburban Victorianna--until everything she holds dear is suddenly thrown into question the night she is visited by the ghost of a her 13-year old neighbor Molly Dufresne.
14) The uninvited
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Anna and Alex's mother dies a mysterious death. Late, Anna returns home to her sister and best friend, Alex, after a stay in a mental hospital. Her recovery is jeopardized thanks to her aloof father and the presence of a ghost in their home. The sisters are confronted with terrifying nightmares, ghostly visions, and deadly consequences when they begin to investigate their father's cruel new fiancee.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Nola Trenholm is hopeful for a fresh start in the Big Easy but must deal with ghosts from her past-as well as new ones-in this first book in a spin-off series of Karen White's New York Times bestselling Tradd Street novels. After a difficult detour on her road to adulthood, Nola Trenholm is looking to begin anew in New Orleans, and what better way to start her future than with her first house? But the historic fixer-upper she buys comes with even...
16) Hank the Clank
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
1996, c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hank the ghost and his fiendish cohorts try to find a friend who will not be scared of them.
17) Ghost girl
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Zee Puckett loves ghost stories. She just never expected to be living one. It all starts with a dark and stormy night. When the skies clear, everything is different. People are missing. And Zee is seeing frightening things: large, scary dogs that talk and maybe even . . . a ghost. When she tells her classmates, only her best friend Elijah believes her. Worse, mean girl Nellie gives Zee a cruel nickname: Ghost Girl. But whatever the storm washed up...
18) The ghost sitter
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When she realizes that her new house is haunted by the ghost of a ten-year-old girl who used to live there, Charlotte tries to help her find peace.
19) The dead path
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
After the death of his wife, Nicholas Close becomes haunted, literally, by ghosts. Torn by guilt and fearing for his sanity, he returns home to Tallong, Australia, and becomes entangled in a disturbing series of disappearances and murders--both as a suspect and as the next victim of the malignant evil lurking in the heart of the woods.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A ghost is making a mess of the library at Castlerock, and Echo's old friend, the librarian, is about to lose his job so it is up the Echo and the Bat Pack to figure out what the ghost is looking for and restore peace to the Castle.