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Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy--an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack--who has already killed...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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When eleven-year-old Iris sneaks out at night to make snow angels, she was not expecting to raise the ghost of Avery Moore, a girl her own age; but bringing to light the segregated and abandoned black cemetery seems like the perfect way to help Avery get the recognition she craves, and it will also be a good idea for the school project about the history of her small North Carolina town, where racial tensions are never far from the surface--only it...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 133
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Series 2000 volume 11
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
117 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spencer Levy hears a terrifying moan--both human and animal--from the direction of the old graveyard
10) Graveyard shakes
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Series
Language
English
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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) It found us
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Language
English
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"Twelve-year-old Hazel Woods has always had an unusual knack for sleuthing. So, when she not-so-accidentally overhears her brother Den planning to sneak into the cemetery at night for an epic game of hide-and-seek, she decides to secretly tag along. This seems like the perfect opportunity to investigate the claims that the cemetery is haunted. But the moment the game ends, Hazel realizes something is very, very wrong. From her hiding spot in the bushes,...
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
206 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Upon moving to her mother's upstate New York home after her gambler father leaves, ninth-grader Elizah just wants to be left alone until she meets Nathaniel in the cemetery where her mother is caretaker, and feels instantly drawn to him.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
100 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the dead middle of summer, the Scarface Detectives investigate their creepiest case yet when a mysterious client sends them to Oak Hill Cemetery, where Loonie Loraine is buried.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When a new book arrives at the library with a secret code written inside, Derek, with the help of his friends, follows the clues from one novel to the next and makes a discovery that may help him get past a terrible loss.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
29 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
An alphabet book, featuring collage art, in which ghosts scare away two children searching for treasure in a graveyard. Each illustration features objects representing a letter or letters of the alphabet.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a lonely Illinois cemetery one cold October night, teen ghosts recount the stories of their deaths in different time periods, from 1870 to the present, to sixteen-year-old Mike, who unknowingly picked up a phantom hitchhiker.
18) Creepers
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
232 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"What begins as a hot and sticky, run-of-the-mill summer day like any other in the remote town of Murmur, Massachusetts, quickly takes a turn for the creepier when Courtney strikes up a conversation with a strange father and daughter with an even stranger story to tell. Her house--they caution her--rests on the original foundation of a house that was put under a three-hundred-year old spell. And it will continue to play an important role in a haunted...
Author
Series
Magnificent Lizzie Brown volume 2
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lizzie is now an established member of Fitzy's Circus, but when the circus arrives in Kensal Green they are plagued by accidents and sickness--and Lizzie needs to put her psychic talents to use to solve the mystery of a graveyard haunted by a devil hound.
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