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The Haunted Mountain: a Story of Suspense
(age 8-11) by Mollie Hunter fantasy ... traditions ... spooky Catalog: After angering the fairy creatures of the Highlands, a stubborn Scot is thirteen years bringing an end to their terrible revenge against him. |
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Help! I'm Trapped! Series (age 8-11) by Todd Strasser spooky ... humor Jake Sherman has a normal life...until his body is switched! title: Help I'm Trapped in My Gym Teacher's Body |
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The Johnny Dixon Mysteries (age 8-11) by John Bellairs magic ... spooky ... mystery Thirteen-year-old Johnny Dixon joins Professor Childermass to take on the forces of evil...both natural and supernatural. title: Secret of the Underground Room title: The Eyes of the Killer Robot title: The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt title: The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull |
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Tree Girl
(age 8-11) by T. A. Barron survival ... identity ... spooky ... fantasy Nine-year-old Anna lives by the sea with a grumpy old fisherman. She yearns to discover the truth about her past. If only she could get to the far side of the forest where she was found as a baby. However, she's been told the forest is haunted by tree ghouls--the same ghouls that probably killed her mother. |
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The Ghost of Windy Hill
(age 8-11) by Clyde Robert Bulla historical ... mystery ... spooky Catalog: A professor with a reputation for being unafraid of ghosts moves with his family into a house that is supposed to be haunted but his children find the neighbors more mysterious than the house. |
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STI |
The Goodbumps Series (age 8-11) by R. L. Stine spooky ... adventure Spooky, scary adventures, sure to amuse you. title: The Knight in Screaming Armor |
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In Summertime it's Tuffy
(age 8-11) by Judie Angell humor ... spooky Eleven-year-old Tuffy and her friends make a voodoo doll at summer camp and use it to put a spell on the Head Counselor. |
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CHE |
The Would-Be Witch
(age 8-11) by Ruth Chew mystery ... spooky Two children are convinced that the owner of the nearby antique shop is a witch. |
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Hey Dad, Get a Life!
(age 8-11) by Todd Strasser family ... spooky When a supernatural presence begins doing favors for Kelly and her younger sister Sasha, they realize that the ghost of their dead father has returned to watch over them. |
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Goosbumps Series (age 8-11) by R. L. Stine mystery ... spooky The Goosbumps mystery series will chill you to the bone! title: The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena title: Attack of the Jack-o'-Lanterns title: Attack of the Mutant title: Bad Hare Day title: The Barking Ghost title: Calling All Creeps! title: The Cuckoo Clock of Doom title: The Curse of Camp Cold Lake title: The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb title: Egg Monsters From Mars title: Ghost Camp title: The Ghost Next Door title: The Girl Who Cried Monster title: How I Got My Shrunken Head title: It Came From Beneath the Sink! title: Legend of the Lost Legend title: Let's Get Invisible! title: Monster Blood title: My Hairiest Adventure title: A Night in Terror Tower title: Night of the Living Dummy title: One Day at HorrorLand title: Piano Lessons Can Be Murder title: Welcome to Camp Nightmare title: Welcome to Dead House title: The Werewolf of Fever Swamp |
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I Will Make You Disappear
(age 8-11) by Carol Beach York spooky ... magic Two young girls, spending a vacation with their family in a gloomy house, begin to play at witchcraft. |
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WRI |
The Secret Window
(age 8-11) by Betty Ren Wright mystery ... spooky Catalog: Meg is afraid to tell anyone when her dreams literally start coming true, but she needs help before she can learn to use her gift of seeing into the future. |
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Revenge of the Dolls
(age 8-11) by Carol Beach York spooky ... mystery Alice, Trissy and their cousin Paulie are visitors in the dark old house of Aunt Sarah and faded, middle-aged Cousin Grace. It's a grim house, filled with shadows, and Aunt Sarah matches it -- old, bitter, silent, wrapped up in the crude and ugly dolls she has devoted herself to making. They talked to her, she said. The girls never dared to touch Aunt Sarah's dolls, but Paulie was different. He threw one in the fire, as the other dolls watched with their glittering button eyes. Now Aunt Sarah was making another doll just like him. "It's for Paulie," she said. A master of suspense and mood relates one of her most chilling tales in this story of three children and their brush with the madness of an evil old woman and the little dolls that do her bidding. |
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Christina's Ghost
(age 8-11) by Betty Ren Wright mystery ... spooky Christina's summer in a spooky, isolated Victorian house with her grumpy uncle turns into a ghostly adventure. |
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The Ghost Witch
(age 8-11) by Betty Ren Wright spooky Jenny and her mother are all set to move into old Miss Nagle's mansion when Jenny discovers the house is haunted. |
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The Peanut Butter Poltergeist
(age 8-11) by Ellen Leroe spooky ... family Eleven-year-old M.J. seeks revenge on his obnoxious stepsister by faking evidence of a poltergeist in their summer cottage, only to face the horror of what seems to be more real than he imagined. |
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Mystery of the Sassafras Chair
(age 8-11) by Alexander Key spooky ... mystery A sassafras chair, whose wood seems to take on properties of the dead carpenter, aids a boy in revealing a murderer and a thief. |
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Ghosthunters Series (age 8-11) by Cornelia Funke humor ... spooky Nine-year-old Tom Tomsky can't catch a break: He's a klutz, his sister Lola pretty much hates his guts, and--this is a big "and"--he just found a ghost camping out in his cellar. Lucky for Tom his grandma's best friend just happens to be the world's foremost ghosthunter. Under her expert tutelage, Tom learns the tools of the trade--which just happen to include buckets of graveyard dirt--and soon finds he has to face down not just the ASG (Averagely Spooky Ghost) in the basement but the IRG (Incredibly Revolting Ghost) in town. All while keeping the nettlesome Lola off his trail.... title: Ghosthunters and the Incredibly Revolting Ghost title: Ghosthunters and the Gruesome Invincible Lightning Ghost title: Ghosthunters and the Totally Moldy Baroness title: Ghosthunters and the Muddy Monster of Doom! |
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The Great Ghost Rescue
(age 8-11) by Eva Ibbotson humor ... adventure ... spooky Humphrey is a small ghost with a big problem. His family has lost their home, and they're off to find a new haunting ground. But soon Humphrey and his parents discover that ghosts all over the country are being turned out as dank castles are converted to cheerful tourist hotels. Humphrey knows something must be done to help the homeless ghosts. And with the help of a sympathetic schoolboy named Rick, maybe he can do something to aid all the ghosts of England after all. . . . |
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The Ghosts of Mercy Manor
(age 8-11) by Betty Ren Wright family ... spooky Catalog: Gwen goes to stay with a foster family, and sees the ghost of a young girl who hides a terrible secret. |
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The Ghost Comes Calling
(age 8-11) by Betty Ren Wright mystery ... spooky Catalog: While vacationing at a spooky cabin on Perch Lake, nine-year-old Chad tries to clear the name of Tim Tapper, the cabin's ghostly inhabitant, who was blamed for a truck accident in the 1930s. |
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The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
(age 8-11) by Penelope Lively historical ... fantasy ... magic ... spooky A 17th-century sorcerer materalizes and tries to make a modern boy his apprentice, and this troublesome spirit has to be exorcised from James' ancient cottage. |