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A thrilling new adventure story inspired by Irish folklore from Sophie Kirtley. Perfect for fans of Sophie Anderson's The House with Chicken Legs, Amy Wilson's A Girl Called Owl and Aisha Bushby's A Pocketful of Stars

A sapphic YA romance murder mystery from BookTok sensation and queenof gothic fantasy, Rosie Talbot.

A magical bottle. Chaos unleashed. Friends whose special abilities may not be enough. It was a routine spring day of wandering around and getting into harmless mischief until 15-year-old Jedidiah Wilson uncovered a bottle etched with scratches that look like they were once words. When Jed goes against his better judgement and opens the cork on the bottle, he unleashes a chaos that threatens the entire world and its history. Now Jed and his 64-year-old, no-longer-imaginary friend Mavis must enlist the help of the Magic People and their special abilities to bind up the magic again. Can they live with their own pasts while they save the world's future?

A cryptic map. An evasive gift-giver. A gathering of powers. When a mysterious peddler shows up at the Wilson's vacation cabin, Jed, Charlie, and Mavis are thrust into an adventure through history. Tasked with unraveling the secrets in a map the peddler gave Mavis, the three friends and the community of magic people they know must decide if saving the few is worth risking it all. Is changing the past reason enough to risk the future?

A tree that sends people through time. A 12-year-old boy with powers. His adventure could mean freedom... Jedidiah Wilson has always wanted to get out of his hometown, but time traveling with his imaginary friend Mavis hadn't been part of the plan. When the anxious, brilliant kid and his 63-year-old friend meet a village of people with special powers, they are whisked into an adventure across time and space to help save the village's children from a man who wants to control them. Using his ability to see secrets and his talent for the classic bait-and-switch, Jed helps the villagers set their plan for freedom in motion...with Mavis's assistance of course. Will Jed and Mavis be a help to their new friends, or will they just get in the way?

I didn't expect to meet a grieving ghost or her dead mother. But then, I didn't expect to find out my town had been the site of a lynching, a lynching that had left my friend Sarah motherless and had made her a victim of murder as well. Their deaths aren't ancient history, though, not when one man who was a witness still holds sway in our small town. My friends and I have truth on our side, but will that be enough to keep us safe? If only telling the truth didn't come so hard to so many.

It's not every day a ghost curls up in your lap . . . But when little Henrietta decides I'm trustworthy and introduces me to her teacher, Charlotte, I find myself wrapped up in the story of their murders. Before long, my friends and I are saving a building, solving a murder, and telling the stories that a lot of people in our small town would rather be left untold. Our best hope for ourselves and for Henrietta and Charlotte is that the truth really will set us free.

Ghosts just don't show up for anybody. So when I meet the spirit of a former slave named Moses, I know he needs my help.But I didn't expect to be taking on half of my town, or the powerful men who seem to run everything and have done so for years. Secrets are being uncovered, and some people would do anything to keep them buried, no matter who gets hurt. I'll need the help of history and friends I can trust if I want to save Moses' graveyard and protect his legacy. If only everyone believed it was one worth protecting... A historical ghost story with no scares beyond the ones in our actual history.

Uh-oh! Ghost's bum won't behave! It looks like he needs a new bum. . . and one little boy knows just how to help. Can our boy help Ghost in time to make this the best Halloween ever?

I am vengeance. Fury. Power.Seventeen-year-old pirate Aster Oberon faces a stunning new reality, gifted with magical ability that she's struggling to master. Worse, both she and Will-the Nightweaver who has captured her heart-have been cursed. In mere weeks, they will become ferocious Underlings, creatures forced to serve the evil Queen Morana. The only way to break the curse is by procuring Morana's blood.To track down the cure, Aster teams up with both Will and Titus, the infuriatingly handsome prince of the Eerie who secretly aims to overthrow his royal family's tyrannical reign. The trio's journey takes them to Castle Grim where danger is around every corner, and no one is who they seem.Between deadly dinners, extravagant balls, and shifting desires toward Will and Titus, Aster will have to keep her daggers at the ready and determine who she can trust before the ticking clock of her curse runs out.Layered with devastating revelations and twisty romance, this heart-pounding sequel to Nightweaver will leave readers racing toward the truth about Aster and her destiny.

A collection of jaunty and mischievously unsettling poems for middle-grade readers from award-winning poet Shannon Bramer and artist Cindy Derby, who brought us Climbing Shadows (NCTE Notable Poetry Book and Verse Novel, shortlisted for the Rocky Mountain Book Award).Shannon's twenty-eight poems in Nightmare Jones send delightful shivers down the spine. Written in a variety of styles and forms, they encompass magic realism and influences from fairy tales, folklore and ghost stories, alongside more contemporary explorations of unusual creatures, misunderstood monsters and commonplace human fears (both ridiculous and sublime!). Cindy Derby's evocative line and watercolor illustrations inhabit these weird and wonderful works with her characteristic flair for the strange and witchy wonders of the world.In these poems what makes a person scared might also make them sad, or even make them laugh, as Bramer writes from a place of wonder, empathy, curiosity and reverence for the deep dark woods we all have inside us. If you've ever wanted to spend some time in a witch's garden or wondered what spiders do with our worries, this is the poetry book for you!Key Text Featuresdialogueepigraphillustrationspoemsrecipestable of contentsvignettesCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.2Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.4Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone

Knives Out meets Belladonna in this gorgeously gothic queer YA horror and dark romance about an inherited estate, murderous relatives, and a garden with a taste for blood, from the New York Times bestselling author of Don't Let the Forest In and The Boy Who Steals Houses. Sixteen-year-old Evander lives like a ghost in the forgotten corners of the Hazelthorn Estate, taken in by his reclusive billionaire grandfather when he was a child after his older siblings tried to kill him.  When his grandfather dies, Evander inherits the entirety of his estate. There's just one catch: he must choose a guardian from his scheming, backstabbing relatives to care for Hazelthorn until he turns eighteen. All of them are suspects in his grandfather's murder and Evander is forced to enlist the help of the gardener's daughter, his childhood enemy, to solve it. But as his family's dark secrets unravel, Hazelthorn's garden is overgrowing. Vicious vines crawl through the house, moss bleeds though the walls, and poisonous mushrooms flourish beneath the floorboards. Evander needs to find out what he's really inheriting before the garden demands to be fed.

A gripping, genre-blending YA horror about what happens when a Haitian American girl uses her previously hidden zombie abilities to exact revenge on the wealthy elites who've caused her family pain.

Tim and Gerry found the strange house quite by chance. The windows were boarded up and it looked mysterious and exciting. But was it deserted? When Tim and Gerry see a face at the window of a boarded up house in Wimbledon, London, they decide to investigate...

Carnegie Medal winner Tanya Landman delivers a terrifyingly enthralling and truly accessible retelling of Bram Stoker's legendary Gothic horror novel.