Blossom Culp and the Sleep of Death
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Why does the ghost hate Rachel so much?
Charlie and his cousin Rachel are having trouble getting along. Everyone thinks she's perfect, including Rachel! She's even going to be the Sunbonnet Queen in the town's big parade.
No one thinks Charlie's perfect.
So when Charlie...
| Author | Jeannette Franklin Caines |
| ISBN | 0064430561 |
this was such a sweet story about a little girl and her aunt going to visit some relatives and they make so many pit stops along the way just to spend quality time together. they bring maps to help them chart their course (this takes place in the 80's) and stop at roadside markets to buy "all the junk we like"...
| Author | Vivian Vande Velde |
| ISBN | 0761451544 |
Ghost of a Hanged Man: Vivian Vande Velde
Hook: What got me really interested in the book was the cover of the book: I really enjoy horror books, so seeing the cover got me really intrigued into reading it, especially since it involved a man who turned into a ghost.
Summary: There was a...
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| ISBN | 0440424852 |
Legit props to Snyder for giving the book this title. You know these kids are going to be kidnaped and the fact that the first half of the book is just a travelogue about the family moving to Italy really ramps up the tension. Every time they go on a picnic, or their parents leave for work, you think . . . this...
| Author | Elizabeth Honey |
| ISBN | 1863738584 |
In the tradition of the great detective novels, Henni keeps a journal of the events on Stella Street, recounted with a battalion of zany, 11-year-old truths and insights. When the Phonies move into 45 Stella Street, the neighborhood is in for a shake-up, explains Henni. Former occupant Auntie Lillie's...
| Author | Patricia A. McKillip |
| ISBN | 0689704518 |
This book isn’t really quite what you’d expect if you know McKillip’s other work; it’s for a younger audience, and it feels like a different sort of story altogether. It’s more like… Famous Five, with ghosts; it’s not the total magic of The Forgotten Beasts of Eld or Winter Rose. It’s...
| Author | Maggie Prince |
| ISBN | 0618331247 |
Something is not right in Emily’s new house in the historic London neighborhood of Hound Hill. And something is not quite right with Emily. Encountering hints to her home’s haunted past, she begins to experience distressing symptoms: a headache, a fever, extreme thirst, hallucinations, and,...
For country-bred cousins Cecelia Rushton and Katherine Talgarth, something extraordinary is afoot besides the constant whirl of Regency balls - something Young Ladies of Quality rarely come in contact with: magic. Oh, not the mere love spells used by country folk, but real sorcery capable of thwarting...
| Author | Robert Westall |
| ISBN | 0590416928 |
Maggi Adams loves her dad. He hasn't been the same since her mom died. Nothing has been the same. Maggi knows they need a change, and she definitely knows they need to get far away from the horrid woman their dad hired to clean the house while he's working. She's just too forward....and common. Her dad doesn't...
| Author | Sarah Rayne |
| ISBN | 0727883631 |
Fosse House, home of the reclusive Luisa Gilmore, harbours curious secrets - secrets that stretch back almost a century, to the ill-fated Palestrina Choir in its remote Belgian convent.
When Oxford don Michael Flint travels to the house to trace the origins of the long-dead Choir, he is at...
| Author | Peter Delacorte |
| ISBN | 0671023241 |
While in Paris, Gabriel Prince, a somewhat jaded but charming writer of high-end travel guides, is offered the chance of a lifetime -- a trip through time. There's only one hitch: the left-wing owner of the time machine, quantum physicist Jasper Hudnut, wants Gabriel to perform an errand. Gabriel must...
| Author | Ann Pilling |
| ISBN | 0006754260 |
Colin and Prill were looking forward to a holiday of fun and adventure in Ireland. It would have been perfect if only they hadn't had to drag along their cousin Oliver. But Oliver, it turns out, isn't their biggest problem. Almost from the moment they arrive, Colin feels sick from an awful smell, so powerful...
The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull
| Author | John Bellairs |
| ISBN | 0142402656 |
When Johnny Dixon and his friend Professor Childermass discover an old heirloom clock, the terror begins. The professor suddenly vanishes, and Johnny is left to solve the mystery--alone.
Inside the clock Johnny discovers a miniature room, a room exactly like the one in which a murder took...
| Author | Willo Davis Roberts |
| ISBN | 0689713878 |
Pack up and leave? "Tonight," when Megan has just one week of school to go until vacation? Megan is used to moving. After all, she's moved a dozen times in her twelve years. But this time is different. They are leaving in the middle of the night, and Megan won't even have a chance to say good-bye to her best...
Herstory : Women Who Changed The World
| Author | Deborah Gore Ohrn |
| ISBN | 0670854344 |
Women have long have been portrayed as sitting on the sidelines of history. Now 150 biographic sketches shed new light on such familiar figures as the Bronte sisters and Clara Barton, while revealing the rarely studied yet remarkable achievements of women warriors. Historical essays place these...
| Author | Pete Hautman |
| ISBN | 0689819145 |
Jack Lund figures a good day is when his dad's too drunk to beat up his mom.
For Jack, Bogg's End is the end. The end of the turbulent, see-saw years of watching his father go on the wagon and fall right back off again. Once it took two years, but the inevitable inevitably happened. Now it's just...
| Author | Catherine Jinks |
| ISBN | 1741146585 |
Allie Gebhardt thought sharing a room with her younger brother Bethan was bad enough, but sharing a room with a ghost proves to be down right frightful. In this deliciously spooky tale, Allie’s family is haunted by Eglantine Higgins, the ghost of a young girl who used to live in their house. After mysterious...
The Ghost in the Bell Tower
| Author | Francine Pascal |
| ISBN | 0553158937 |
When the Wakefield kids are invited to their aunt Helen's country inn, Steven and Jessica are determined to use the eerie old mansion to scare their sister, Elizabeth, into believing in ghosts. But no matter what Steve and Jessica do, logical Elizabeth always figures out their tricks. Thn things start...
