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"Twelve-year-old Lily moves to a creepy old house in a Florida swamp and finds out that the house isn't empty: it's packed full of the previous occupants' trash, keepsakes, and, Lily begins to suspect, maybe even their ghosts"--

The ultimate gift for young readers who love thrills, chills, and spooky stories, here are three haunting tales from award-winning master of middle grade horror Mary Downing Hahn, together in one ghostly collection. Are you ready for a hauntingly good read? There are scares aplenty in this enticing collection of three of Mary Downing Hahn's most popular books: Took, The Girl in the Locked Room, and The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall. Daniel's little sister disappears in a forest haunted by witches and beasts. Jules is sure that someone-or something-lurks in the upstairs of her new house. Vengeful Spirit Sophia stalks the shadows of a gloomy manor, and dreams of the girl inside. Three of award-winning author Mary Downing Hahn's spookiest tales come together in this gathering of ghosts. Guaranteed to give you goosebumps!

Baby Ryder is very indecisive. She's not sure what she wants to be for her favorite holiday, Halloween. However, she is sure she wants to be unique. With enchanting rhyming text and vivid illustrations, this fun story will make any child happy to celebrate Halloween.

There's a rumor floating around that we read the Mayan calendar wrong. That the end of the world is really going to happen on October 13, 2023, which agrees with the properly translated Cairo calendar. It's not a rumor. When Ash is unwittingly drawn into events leading up to the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy, he wants to do his best to help, but his best might not be good enough. The problem with having an identity crisis is: One minute, you're playing at hero. The next, you're regaining consciousness, covered in blood; with dead bodies strewn all over the place, wondering what just happened. The problem with having the fate of the entire world hanging in the balance is that the only way to know you've won is if everything is still in one piece at the end of the countdown. Will Ash make it in time to prevent the end of everything? What if he fails?

The Zoser Virus has gone global. It's not the first time mindless monsters have invaded France, set up defense positions, and devoured the inhabitants. Evelyn Cross washes up alone on the Marseille coast. What she finds there is not exactly a dream vacation on the French Riviera. To make her way back to Amber, she'll have to resist the dystopian New Order that the greys have raised up from the ashes of the apocalypse and maybe, just maybe, somewhere in the rubble, she'll find love again. Don't miss the chilling finale of Rachel DeFriez's award winning Walking Grey series. Book 3: Grey Daze.

I have to be strong. For my dad. For Evie. For everyone. But, I don't know if I can do this...The Ghost Hunters Society thought they broke the Curse of Culvers Grove. Instead, they find a million new questions. Jacob's spirit is trapped in the locket and now something is calling it home. The group is forced to take the Widow's Locket to Savannah, Georgia to lay the angry spirits to rest, but when they arrive, they discover that anger festers with time and the Hoodoo Princess has had a lot of years to be angry. Absence makes the heart grow...darker...

Sixteen-year-old Sophie Weston's life is turned upside down when her father inherits a dilapidated mansion in the Hamptons and her family leave their life in Brooklyn behind to renovate it. As a child, Sophie regularly visited her great-aunt Poppy and the house's other eccentric inhabitants, but why can she no longer recall her time there clear...

A Bank Street Best Book of 2021Inspired by the children's song "The Ants Went Marching" and involving early math concepts, writer Kim Norman and illustrator Jay Fleck's The Ghosts Went Floating is a spooktacular adventure perfect for Halloween.The ghosts went floating, one by one,BOO-rah! BOO-rah!when Halloween had just begun.BOO-rah! BOO-rah!The ghosts went floating, one by one,so why don't YOU come join the fun?Trick-or-treat with ghosts, skeletons, witches, zombies, and all sorts of cute and creepy creatures in this fun-filled Halloween counting adventure!

Dark magic meets the Wild West in Brad McLelland & Louis Sylvester's The Fang of Bonfire Crossing: Legends of the Lost Causes, second in the rip-roaring middle-grade adventure series filled with scrappy heroes and diabolical villains.Keech Blackwood and his band of fellow orphans demand justice for their fallen families. But the road to retribution is a long and hard-fought journey. After defeating Bad Whiskey Nelson, the man who burned Keech's home to the ground, the Lost Causes have a new mission: find Bonfire Crossing, the mysterious land that holds clues to the whereabouts of the all-powerful Char Stone. Along the way they'll have to fend off a shapeshifting beast, a swarm of river monsters, and a fearsome desperado named Big Ben Loving who conjures tornadoes out of thin air. It's an epic standoff between the Lost Causes and the outlaw Reverend Rose, a powerful sorcerer who would be unstoppable with the Stone in his possession. With the world-and vengeance-hanging in the balance, the Lost Causes are ready for battle.Praise for Legends of the Lost Causes:A Junior Library Guild Selection"This is a fun and exciting story, written with the utmost respect for the Osage culture." -Wah-Zha-Zhi Cultural Center"A rollicking adventure filled with mystery and magic that crackles like a brush fire." -Emma Trevayne, author of The House of Months and Years "Thrilling, dark, and full of heart, this is a Western like none I've ever read. I loved it." -Stefan Bachmann, author of The Peculiar and The Whatnot

*This book was previously published. The author has received her rights back and is republishing the book now*Keep your friends close...and your enemies closer.Rachel Clancy has had to learn the hard way that you can't always trust who you know. Born with a specific set of genes that lets her fight monsters, Rachel has trained her entire life to kill vampires and werewolves. Unprepared for the level of deception and betrayal she faces as she journeys Upwards to battle her enemies, it's not long before Rachel finds herself on a quest that will alter the lives of everyone she knows. Including Rachel's...*This book was previously published and has been extensively re-edited for your enjoyment*

Celebrate the holidays with Teeny Weenies: My Favorite President!David Lubar is the master of the short story for kids. Now he's back with his fourth collection of Teeny Weenies stories, just in time for the winter holidays! Young chapter book readers ages 7 to 10, reluctant readers, and fans of very short stories will be entertained and delighted by these twelve zany tales. Wacky comic book style illustrations by Bill Mayer add to the fun. Don't be a weenie. Read these stories! If you dare!

Desperation drives ordinary townsfolk to make unthinkable choices, unleashing a relentless force that leaves them forever altered. In the eerie embrace of Kip Witch, homecomings become impossible, and the grip of the unknown tightens with an unyielding hold. The haunting fog serves as a harbinger of doom, a malevolent presence that refuses to release its grip.Prepare to immerse yourself in a spine-tingling Halloween tale, where the boundaries between reality and the supernatural blur. "Beware the Fog" is a haunting narrative that will leave you breathless, reminding us that sometimes, when the mists of destiny descend, escape is an elusive dream, and the chilling secrets of a cursed town can never stay hidden.

"One night, I am walking in the forest and what do you think I see?" To find out, have fun reading this ghost story with a happy ending. Try to give your answers to the questions before you turn the page. Your answers can be different or the same. Have fun making up your own stories about a pet ghost.

In his fiction debut--and the start of a new series--celebrated illustrator K.G. Campbell brings a touch of Tim Burton to this singularly strange and wonderful story about a lonely boy whose life is about to get a whole lot more complicated when a zombie follows him home.August DuPont has spent his whole life inside a dilapidated house with his aunt Hydrangea. His lonely existence ends abruptly with the arrival of an invitation to meet an aunt--and cousins--he didn't even know existed. When Aunt Orchid suggests that August attend school with his cousins, it's a dream come true. But August has scarcely begun to celebrate his reversal of fortune when he is confronted by a small problem on his way home. So begins an adventure filled with a wild child, a zombie, a fabled white alligator, and an unimaginable family secret.