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"Everything seemed to be changing at once. But sometimes, Violet tells herself, change is okay. That is, until Violet sees her new room. The attic bedroom in their new house is shadowy, creaky, and wrapped in old yellow wallpaper covered with a faded tangle of twisting vines and sickly flowers. And then, after moving in, Violet falls ill -- and does not get better. And soon, Violet starts to suspect that she might not be alone in the room at all"--...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Corazon yearns to finally start training as a babaylan (a mystical healer and spirit guide) under her powerful guardian, Aunt Tina. As soon as her magic awakens, Corazon plans to bring her parents back from the dead and no longer have to rely on a soul key to allow visits with their ghosts for a few hours every Saturday night. But when a vengeful ghost steals Corazon's precious key, the fragile balance between the human world and the spirit world...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Summoned by the ghost of Ian, the friend they left for dead, Owen, Madeline, Emerson and Dax must restart the deadly game they never finished in order to bring Ian home, entering into a hell-scape of Japanese underworlds where they must make the ultimate sacrifice" --
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Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 11
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Little Simon edition.
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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Desmond and Andres try to enjoy their day at the local theme park while being pursued by ghosts.
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 10
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Little Simon paperback edition.
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
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"School dances are tricky. Everybody wants to go, but nobody wants to dance. The music is too loud for anyone to talk. Teachers are there watching kids, but telling them to go out and have a good time. Oh, and at Kersville Elementary be careful because you'll have to watch out for ghouls on the dance floor!"--Amazon.com
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Nurse Nellie Lester can't escape death. Fleeing Chicago at the height of the 1918 Spanish flu, she takes a nursing job at a decrepit mansion on a desolate Michigan island, convinced the island holds the secret to her mother's murky past. The only problem? Her dead mother seems to have followed her there. Nightly she's haunted by a ghostly presence that appears in her bedroom. But is it her mother or something more sinister? When the frozen body of...
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Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 34 cm
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English
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"A young girl lives in a haunted house, but she has never seen a ghost. Are they white with holes for eyes? Are they hard to see? Step inside and help the girl as she searches under the stairs, behind the sofa, and in the attic for the ghost"--Amazon.
11) The twisted dead
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Series
Gravekeeper novels volume 3
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
345 pages : 25 cm.
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English
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"Keira is ready for a normal life. Hunted and haunted, all she wants is to put her mysterious past behind her and move forward with her new friends as Blighty Graveyard's groundskeeper. But then she receives an invitation to dinner at the local recluse's crumbling ancestral estate. The mansion is steeped in history that is equal parts complicated and bloody--and at its center is the man who once tried to kill her, now begging for her help. Dane Crispin...
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 12
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Little Simon hardcover/paperback edition.
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kersville has a furry problem: there's dogcatcher on the loose! And he's snatching up every dog he can find, including the ugliest stray you've ever seen ... that Desmond Cole has fallen in love with. But the dogcatcher may have bit off more than he can chew. Could one of the snatched canines be a werewolf?"--Publisher's description
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 2
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Little Simon hardcover edition.
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122 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
After Andres discovers a haunted bike park, he calls best friend Desmond, a ghost investigator.
14) The hollow dead
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Series
Gravekeeper novels volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"To stop a shadowy organization profiting off spectral energy to extend their power and reach, Keira and her friends prepare to fight for the souls of the tormented dead but Keira soon discovers what she doesn’t know about her past may ultimately come back to haunt her"--
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 5
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Little Simon hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When Desmond and Andres go to the Kersville Library for a school assignment, they encounter a ghost who insists they be quiet.
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 6
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Little Simon paperback edition.
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Andres discovers that he has had a monster encounter without knowing it, as strange things start happening in the school cafeteria, he and Desmond investigate.
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 3
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Little Simon hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Desmond and Andres battle beach bullies who also happen to be creepy monsters"--
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 13
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Little Simon hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kersville Elementary School has a problem: there's a very hungry vampire on the loose! But this creature doesn't thirst for blood. Instead, he's been eating the students' homework! Can Desmond Cole stop the monster from turning everyone's work into food for thought?"--
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie's journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort...
20) Calico
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Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"There's a saying in Barstow, California, a decaying city in the scorching Mojave desert... The Interstate here only goes in one direction: Away. But it's the only place where ex-LAPD detective Beth McDade, after a staggering fall from grace, could get another badge--and a shot at redemption. Over a century ago, and just a few miles further into the bleak landscape, a desperate stranger ended up in Calico, a struggling mining town, also hoping for...
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