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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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Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, bring raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy--an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace...
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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...
3) Whichwood
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Laylee, thirteen, is nearly worn out from washing and packaging corpses for the Otherwhere and being shunned by villagers when two strangers, Alice and Oliver, arrive determined to help.
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"When Jake Green opens a mysterious box containing a severed finger, he accidentally summons a grim reaper intent on dragging him to the Eternal Void (yes, it's as fatal as it sounds). Now Jake is running for his life. Luckily, he has a knack for talking to ghosts, which just might help him survive long enough to reach the Embassy of the Dead and plead his case. With the help of a prankster poltergeist and a dead undertaker, Jake dodges fearsome undead...
7) The encyclopedia of preserved people: pickled, frozen, and mummified corpses from around the world
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An encyclopedia of facts about preserved people from around the world, including Egyptian mummies, bog bodies, Einstein's brain, and the Ice Man.
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Death walks into Charlie Hernandez's life. At least, the dead do, starting with a mysterious young calaca who corners him at school, dropping cryptic hints about trouble brewing in the 305. With the League of Shadows focused on repairing fractured alliances and tracking gathering armies, this one is up to Charlie to solve. Not even teenage journalist Violet Rey can figure out how a sudden rooster infestation, earthquakes, missing persons, and a pet-napping...
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When the doctors told his mom that Alex Sennefer's life couldn't be saved, she refused to believe them. Instead, she uses one of the Lost Spells of the Egyptian Book of the Dead to bring Alex back, and it works. Unfortunately it also brings back five mummy Death Walkers, bent on revenge, and it falls to Alex and his best friend, Ren, to stop them after his mother disappears.
10) Dead boy
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Eleven-year-old Crow Darlingson has been dead for two years, forced to stay in the house with his overprotective mother except when he can sneak out, but new neighbor Melody Plympton offers a chance at friendship and, perhaps, getting his life back.
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Investigates a fatal fire at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus in 1944 Hartford, Connecticut. Describes how a massive fire burned the circus tent down within minutes, killing 167 people. Presents evidence for the cause of the fire, as well as for the possible identity of the body of a young girl that was found in the rubble, allowing readers to draw their own conclusions.