F MCE	Benjamin Franklinstein Lives! (age 8-11) by Matthew McElligott humor ... school ... spooky ... science fiction Publisher comments: Victor Godwin's orderly life is upended when he discovers that Benjamin Franklin never actually died-- he was put into suspended animation and hidden away for more than 200 years in Victor's basement! After an accident reawakens Ben, Victor must not only help him adjust to the modern world but also help him overcome a slight flaw--when Ben runs low on energy, he turns into a rampaging monster desperately hungry for electricity! All this while trying to take first place in the school science fair. With one of history's preeminent scientists helping out, what could go wrong?
F SNY	The Magic Nation Thing (age 8-11) by Zilpha Keatley Snyder magic ... mystery ... spooky Publisher comments: Abby O'Malley is a girl who likes things to make sense. School makes sense, and her best friend Paige makes sense (most of the time), but Abby's flighty mother never makes sense. Abby's mom seems to think that she and Abby are descended from a line of witches, and that they have special powers—psychic powers that don't make sense at all. The problem is, Abby knows that she can do certain things that other people can't. Sometimes, when she holds an object in her hand, she's overpowered by sounds and pictures that show where the owner is and what he or she is doing. Abby thinks of this as her "magic nation," because that is what her kindergarten teacher told her it was called. Now 11, Abby has an inkling that her teacher may have been saying it was her "imagination," which unfortunately, she knows it is not. Now some things are happening in her mother's detective agency—cases where Abby's magic nation thing might come in handy. But does Abby want to admit that such a sensible girl could have such an unsensible power?
F GRE	Secrets of Dripping Fang Series (age 8-11) by Dan Greenburg humor ... adventure ... spooky Publisher comments: Nobody wants to adopt the Shluffmuffin twins. Wally's feet stink something awful, and Cheyenne is allergic to everything. Then why are the Mandible sisters so eager to take them home? And what sort of old maids would choose to live in a place called Dripping Fang Forest, where zombies wander the woods singing "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and ten-foot-long glowing slugs want to suck the feet right off your ankles? Would it seem ungrateful of Wally to point out the Mandible sisters' extra arms? Or to question their all-chocolate, all-the-time menu? Or, um, to venture into the cellar, where the twins have been told to NEVER, EVER, EVER go? Yeah, perhaps that last bit was a mistake. Now there's nothing left for the Shluffmuffins to do but run--run for their lives! title: The Onts title: Treachery and Betrayal at Jolly Days title: The Vampire's Curse title: Fall of the House of Mandible title: The Shluffmuffin Boy Is History title: Attack of the Giant Octopus title: Please Don't Eat the Children title: When Bad Snakes Attack Good Children
F HUN	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.
F STR	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 a Professional Wrestlers Body title: Help I'm Trapped in My Gym Teacher's Body title: Help I'm Trapped in My Lunch Lady's Body title: Help I'm Trapped in My Sister's Body title: Help I'm Trapped in Obedience School title: Help I'm Trapped in My Principal's Body title: Help I'm Trapped in an Aliens Body title: Help I'm Trapped in the First Day of School title: Help I'm Trapped in My Teacher's Body
F CRE	Pleasing the Ghost (age 8-11) by Sharon Creech illness/loss ... humor ... spooky ... family Ever since his father died, Dennis has been seeing ghosts. Lots of ghosts. They blow in on the breeze, visit for a while, and fly off again. But one night the ghost of his Uncle Arvie floats in the window. And Arvie wants to do more than chat. Together, they find a lost love letter, finish a special painting, and dig up buried treasure...all for Arvie's widow, Julia. Dennis loves having his uncle around again, but there's still one ghost he's longing to see. Perhaps on the next ghost wind . . .
F BEL	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 Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost title: The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull
F BAR	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.
F BUL	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.
F TAN	The Haunted Playground (age 8-11) by Shaun Tan fantasy ... spooky Publisher comments: Gavin is obsessed with hunting for treasure with his metal detector. He finds the perfect spot a huge, sandy playground. Then he meets a bunch of kids who have a mysterious treasure hunt of their own. Gavin gets the feeling they want him to stay . . . forever.
F COV	Monster of the Year (age 8-11) by Bruce Coville humor ... spooky Catalog: Michael and his friend Steve decide to launch a "Monster of the Year" contest, setting the stage for one of the creepiest beauty pageants ever.
F STI	The Goodbumps Series (age 8-11) by R. L. Stine spooky ... adventure Spooky, scary adventures, sure to amuse you. title: The Scream of the Haunted Mask title: The Knight in Screaming Armor
F ANG	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.
F 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.
F STR	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.
F ENR	Gone-Away Lake (age 8-11) by Elizabeth Enright spooky ... adventure Summer has a magic all its own when Portia and her cousin Julian discover adventure in a hidden colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy lake. sequel: Return to Gone-Away
F STI	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: Be Careful What You Wish For title: The Beast from the East title: The Blob that Ate Everyone title: Calling All Creeps! title: Chicken Chicken title: The Cuckoo Clock of Doom title: The Curse of Camp Cold Lake title: The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb title: Deep Trouble title: Don't Go to Sleep! title: Egg Monsters From Mars title: Ghost Beach title: Ghost Camp title: The Ghost Next Door title: The Girl Who Cried Monster title: Go Eat Worms! title: The Haunted Mask title: The Headless Ghost title: The Horror at Camp Jellyjam title: How I Got My Shrunken Head title: How to Kill a Monster title: I Live in Your Basement! title: It Came From Beneath the Sink! title: Legend of the Lost Legend title: Let's Get Invisible! title: Monster Blood title: Monster Blood II title: Monster Blood III title: My Best Friend is Invisible title: My Hairiest Adventure title: A Night in Terror Tower title: Night of the Living Dummy title: Night of the Living Dummy III title: One Day at HorrorLand title: Phantom of the Auditorium title: Piano Lessons Can Be Murder title: Return of the Mummy title: Say Cheese and Die! title: The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight title: Stay Out of the Basement title: Vampire Breath title: Welcome to Camp Nightmare title: Welcome to Dead House title: The Werewolf of Fever Swamp title: Why I'm Afraid of Bees title: You Can't Scare Me!
F KIN	A Treasury of Spooky Stories (age 8-11) by Kin folklore ... short stories ... spooky A collection of modern and traditional stories about ghosts and other spooky things, by such authors as Margaret Mahy, Judith Gorog, and Virginia Hamilton.
F CHR	Favor for a Ghost (age 8-11) by Matt Christopher animals ... friendship ... spooky When the ghost of his friend Billy returns to beg him to move the grave of his former dog next to his own, Lenny tries to find a way to fulfill the request despite the opposition of the dog's second owner.
F YOR	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.
F WRI	Crandall's Castle (age 8-11) by Betty Ren Wright mystery ... spooky Catalog: Charli's impulsive uncle, Will Crandall, decides to buy the town's abandoned, possibly haunted castle and fix it up as a bed-and-breakfast, but Charli and Sophia, a clairvoyant orphan who has come to stay with the Crandall family, know his plan is somehow dangerous.
F WRI	The Phantom of Five Chimneys (age 8-11) by Betty Ren Wright mystery ... spooky Catalog: Daisy has to stay with a friend at a beach house for two weeks, but it isn't boring when she finds a grisly discovery in a cave.
F WRI	A Ghost in the House (age 8-11) by Betty Ren Wright mystery ... spooky Catalog: Strange things happen when twelve-year-old Sarah is alone in the house with Great Aunt Margaret, who appears to be the victim of a ghost seeking revenge for a death in the past.
F WRI	The Ghost in Room 11 (age 8-11) by Betty Ren Wright school ... mystery ... spooky Catalog: When his family moves to a small town near Milwaukee, Matt's efforts to fit into his new fourth-grade class are complicated by his poor spelling and his encounter with the ghost of one of the school's former teachers.
F WRI	Ghosts Beneath Our Feet (age 8-11) by Betty Ren Wright mystery ... spooky Catalog: During a summer in an abandoned mining town, Katie's relationship with a rebellious stepbrother improves as they probe the past to find out why there seem to be ghosts, literally, beneath their feet.
F WRI	The Ghost of Ernie P. (age 8-11) by Betty Ren Wright mystery ... spooky Catalog: After a freak accident kills Ernie and cuts short his Top Secret Plan, his friend Jeff is haunted by Ernie's ghost and pushed toward carrying out the plan.
F WRI	A Ghost in the Window (age 8-11) by Betty Ren Wright mystery ... spooky Catalog: A man who died in a car crash after allegedly stealing $50,000 from a bank, tries to communicate with the family through Meg's dreams. Sequel to "The Secret Window."
F 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.
F YOR	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.
F WRI	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.
F WRI	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.
F LER	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.
F KEY	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.
F FUN	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!
F GRE	The Hound of the Baskervilles (age 8-11) by Marie Greenwood spooky ... mystery In this adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's famous book, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson travel to the bleak wastes of Dartmoor to solve the mystery surrounding the late Sir Charles Baskerville and a ghostly hound.
F IBB	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. . . .
F COV	How I Survived My Summer Vacation (age 8-11) by Bruce Coville humor ... spooky Spending the summer at Camp Haunted Hills should be full of adventure, right? Well, the campers get more than they bargained for when very spooky things start happening. Is the place really haunted, or is all the funny business created by the filmmaker who owns the camp? sequel: Some of My Best Friends are Monsters
F BAG	Animal Ark Hauntings Series (age 8-11) by Ben M. Baglio adventure ... animals ... spooky Mandy and James continue their Animal Ark adventures, but with a spooky twist. title: Stallion in the Storm title: Cat in the Crypt title: Dog in the Dungeon title: Colt in the Cave title: Foal in the Fog title: Hound on the Heath title: Wolf at the Window
F PAR	Clara and the Hoodoo Man (age 8-11) by Elizabeth Partridge spooky ... illness/loss ... family ... historical When Clara meets the hoodoo man on Red Owl Mountain, she knows she should just take little Bessie by the hand and leave. Momma has always warned Clara that the hoodoo man can put a fix on you. The next day, Bessie becomes dangerously sick. Is it Clara's fault? Is it hoodoo? Based on a true story, this is a vivid picture of rural life in turn-of-the-century Tennessee.
F HOW	The Celery Stalks at Midnight (age 8-11) by James Howe spooky ... mystery ... humor Chester the cat is more than ever convinced that Bunnicula is a vampire when there is a harvest of white vegetables on the morning after the night that Bunnicula was probably wandering through the neighborhood.
F HOW	Howliday Inn (age 8-11) by James Howe humor ... mystery ... spooky Harold and Chester are sent to the Chateau Bow-Wow when the Monroe family goes on vacation. When a French poodle involved in a messy love triangle disappears, Chester and Harold enter the crime-detection business. sequel: Return to Howliday Inn
F WRI	The Ghost of Mercy Mannor (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.
F WRI	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.
F WRI	A Ghost in the Family (age 8-11) by Betty Ren Wright mystery ... spooky Catalog: While visiting his friend Jeannie's eccentric Aunt Rosebud in a boarding house that may be haunted, ten-year-old Chad comes across a mystery involving a missing diamond bracelet.
F WRI	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.
F WHI	Real Mummies Don't Bleed: Friendly Tales for October Nights (age 8-11) by Susan Whitcher traditions ... short stories ... spooky A collection of five scary stories, featuring the Egyptian underworld's intrusion into a Halloween costume contest and other strange goings-on.
F BAU	Ghost Eye (age 8-11) by Marion Dane Bauer animals ... friendship ... spooky Purrloom Popcorn, an exotically beautiful cat with one blue eye and one gold eye, receives his first real love from a lonely girl and an array of ghost cats.
F WRI	Princess for a Week (age 8-11) by Betty Ren Wright princesses ... spooky ... mystery Catalog: When a confident girl named Princess arrives to spend a week at Roddy's house, she encourages him to help her investigate the suspicious activities happening at a supposedly haunted house.
F WRI	The Ghost of Popcorn Hill (age 8-11) by Betty Ren Wright adventure ... friendship ... spooky Catalog: Martin and Peter love their family's new cabin until they hear ghostly laughter in their room at night.
F LIV	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.
F FLE	The Midnight Horse (age 8-11) by Sid Fleischman adventure ... spooky ... magic On a coach bound for Cricklewood, the orphan boy Touch caught his first glimpse of the haunt named The Great Chaffalo. According to rumor, he was once a famous magician who could turn a pile of straw into a horse. Now, Touch needs the ghost's help in order to escape his wicked great-uncle. So, with an armload of straw and a determined spirit, Touch makes his plea to The Great Chaffalo, and, magically, a horse appears! But can magic save Touch when his great-uncle's schemes grow even more villainous?

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