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Children's and Middle Grade Novels in Spanish and English/Novelas juveniles en español e inglés
Scary Books for Tweens
Scary Stories for Kids
Scary Books for Tweens
Scary Stories for Kids
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After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.
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Twelve-year old orphan Emma Casey lives by a haunted graveyard in her Tennessee town, giving tours, and helping her brother and Granny Blue with the family bakery, and waiting for the destiny dream of her ancestors--but when it comes it shows her only a key, and she finds that she must solve a ghostly mystery that has haunted her town for generations.
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"Sid Jones loves hanging out in the graveyard with her best friend Zen they are desperate to see a real-life ghost! But when Sid accidentally summons a 300-year-old pirate from the dead, it opens the door to the halfway house a magical inn full of lost souls from across the ages, all trapped there by a sinister landlord. There are more ghosts that Sid could ever have imagined and they're all sure Sid is there to save them! (Sid's sure there's been...
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Katia and Victoria are sisters and scholarship students at a private boarding school. While Victoria tries to fit in, Katia is unapologetic about her quirks, even though their classmates tease her. After a big fight, Katia runs away from school. And when Victoria goes looking for her, she accidentally tumbles into the underworld of a nearby graveyard. It's inhabited by ghosts and a man named Nikola, who's preparing a sinister spell that's missing...
11) The bone garden
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Irréelle is a girl made of dust and bone and the imagination of her magical creator, Miss Vesper. Miss Vesper turns out to be a cruel creator, and all Irréelle's efforts to please her fall short. Finally, after mistakenly destroying a new, horrifying creature Miss Vesper just brought to life, Irréelle flees to underneath the graveyard, where she must discover the source of Miss Vesper's magic at the risk of undoing the magic that holds herself...
14) The fear zone
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When five kids are invited to a cemetery at midnight, they think it's just a prank. When they find a grave-stone that instructs them to dig up a grave, they think it's just a joke, but it's no joke, an evil force is unleashed--a force that takes the shape of their worst fears, a shark in the water, ghost in the walls, nightmare of being buried alive, snake about to strike, and a sinister clown waiting in the woods. Once these fears are released, they...
17) The zombie zone
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Reports of zombies and grave-robbers alarm the people of a Louisiana swampland village, but Ruth Rose, Josh, and Dink begin to suspect that the supernatural may not be the cause of the eerie occurrences.
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Dylan's hobby is getting interesting gravestone rubbings from the old cemetery, and he thinks that one from Dr. Naper, Cedarville's own Dr. Frankenstein, would be the perfect addition to his class history project--so which of three possible endings will you choose for Dylan?
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Taking a shortcut through the Greenfield Cemetery, the Aldens stumble across a local superstition which maintains that visitors are required to leave gifts or suffer the wrath of a malevolent ghost, a suspicious tradition that prompts the children to expose the truth.