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Questioneers (Chapter books) volume 3
Publisher
Amulet Books
Language
English
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Iggy is delighted when Ada Twist's Aunt Bernice inherits a mansion featuring his favorite architectural periods, but unless the Questioneers can find its missing antiques, the house may be lost forever. Includes information about Art Deco and Art Nouveau, facts about unusual cats, a recipe for ice cream, and a biographical note on Ida B. Wells.
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Nancy Drew diaries volume 16
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English
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Nancy's classmate, Willa, needs her help. Willa is convinced something is terribly wrong with her friend Izzy, but everyone has dismissed Willa's concerns, saying it's just teen angst. But Willa thinks it's more than that; she thinks Izzy is possessed.
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Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Language
English
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"Maria likes to be alone with her thoughts. She talks to animals and objects, and generally prefers them to people. But whilst on holiday she begins to hear things that aren't there-- a swing creaking, a dog barking-- and when she sees a Victorian embroidered picture, Maria feels a strange connection with the ten-year-old, Harriet, who stitched it. But what happened to her? As Maria becomes more lost in Harriet's world, she grows convinced that something...
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Series
Wishbone mysteries volume 2
Language
English
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Wishbone and his friends try to find out what is causing the mysterious happenings in the old 1930s clubhouse that Joe wins in a raffle.
10) Amity
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Publisher
Egmont USA
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English
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"Two teens narrate the terrifying days and nights they spend living in a house of horrors"--
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43 Old Cemetery Road volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, children's book author, I.B. Grumply, gets more than he bargained for when he rents a quiet place to write for the summer.
12) Coraline
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Language
English
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Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
13) The spooky book
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Publisher
Walker & Co
Language
English
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In a dark house, Andrew gets scared while reading a spooky book in which a girl is reading a spooky book in a scary house.
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Bad girls don't die novels volume 1
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English
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When fifteen-year-old Lexi's younger sister Kasey begins behaving strangely and their old Victorian house seems to take on a life of its own, Lexi investigates and discovers some frightening facts about previous occupants of the house, leading her to believe that many lives are in danger.
16) Spirit hunters
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Spirit hunters volume 1
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English
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"Harper doesn't trust her new home from the moment she steps inside, and the rumors are that the Raine family's new house is haunted. Harper isn't sure she believes those rumors, until her younger brother, Michael, starts acting strangely. She knows that the memories she's blocking will help make sense of her brother's behavior and the strange and threatening sensations she feels in this house, but will she be able to put the pieces together in time?"--Provided...
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Publisher
Tundra Books
Language
English
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"Lewis Dearborn is a lonely, anxious, "terminally shy" boy of eleven when his great-grandfather passes away and leaves Lewis's family with his decaying seaside mansion. Lewis is initially delighted with his new bedroom, a secluded tower in a remote part of the house. Then he discovers that it's already occupied -- by the ghosts of seven dead pirates. Worse, the ghosts expect him to help them re-take their ship, now restored and on display in a local...
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Katherine Tegen Books, a imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
First edition.
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English
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The Haunting of Hill House meets Get Out in this chilling YA psychological thriller and modern take on the classic haunted house story from New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson! --
Marigold is running from ghosts. The phantoms of her old life keep haunting her, but a move with her newly blended family from their small California beach town to the embattled Midwestern city of Cedarville might be the fresh start she needs. Her mom has...
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Series
Amulet (Kazu Kibuishi) volume 2
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Emily and her brother Navin head for Kanalis to find an antidote for the poison that is killing their mother.
Emily and Navin's mother is still in a coma from the arachnopod's poison, and there's only one place to find help: Kanalis, the bustling, beautiful city of waterfalls. But when Em, her brother, and Miskit and the rest of the robotic crew aboard the walking house reach the city, they quickly realize that seeking help is looking for trouble,...
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