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Coraline
by Neil Gaiman
When Coraline attempts to leave her family's new flat, she discovers that she and her family are trapped by a dangerous presence, thus a battle between good and evil must take place in order to break out and set her loved ones free.
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Doll bones
by Holly Black
Playing an endless make-believe game about pirates, mermaids and warriors under the rule of a formidable Great Queen china doll, best friends Zach, Poppy and Alice find their bond tested when Zach is compelled to give up their shared adventures and Poppy begins having dreams about the doll.
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Elizabeth and Zenobia
by Jessica Miller
A shy and neglected girl moves to her father's family home in the aftermath of her mother's abandonment and struggles to be patient with her fearless friend, Zenobia, who becomes increasingly obsessed with solving the mystery of a family member's disappearance.
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Scary stories to tell in the dark
by Alvin Schwartz
Tapped from the oral traditions of American folklore, these ghost stories and tales of weird happenings, witches, and graveyards have startling, funny, or surprising endings
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The jumbies
by Tracey Baptiste
In a spine-tingling tale that is rooted in Caribbean folklore, 11-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.
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The graveyard book
by Neil Gaiman
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
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The Night Gardener
by Jonathan Auxier
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
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Ghosts
by Raina Telgemeier
Having moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis, Cat is disappointed to learn that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, while Maya sets her heart on meeting one.
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Out of the wild night
by Blue Balliett
Mary W. Chase died on Nantucket Island just over one hundred years ago, but she is still there, in the house she once lived in, and she wants to keep it that way--but first she must somehow contact a group of children who are interested in preserving historic homes on the island.
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A tale dark & Grimm
by Adam Gidwitz
In a mischievous and utterly original debut, Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm-inspired tales that have never been more irreverent or subversive, as the siblings learn to take charge of their destinies and become the clever architects of their own happily ever after.
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Skeleton man
by Joseph Bruchac
After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange "great-uncle," Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even for her life.
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Fuzzy mud
by Louis Sachar
Two middle-grade kids take a shortcut home from school and discover what looks like fuzzy mud but is actually a substance with the potential to wreak havoc on the entire world.
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The graveyard book
by P. Craig Russell
A single-volume graphic novel adaptation of the Newbery Award-winning best-seller follows the experiences of a boy being raised by ghosts who must avoid and expose the dangerous killer responsible for his family's deaths.
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The headless ghost
by R. L Stine
Loving Hill House, an enormous tourist attraction that is reputed to be haunted by the ghost of a thirteen-year-old headless boy, Duane and Stephanie decide to search for the ghost's head and get the biggest scare of their lives.
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