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4) Ferris
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2024.
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English
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During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.
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"Alice's world is falling apart. Her parents are getting a divorce, and they've cancelled their yearly cottage trip--the one thing that gets Alice through the school year. Instead, Alice and her mom are heading to some small town where Alice's mom will be a live-in nurse to a rich elderly lady. The house is huge, imposing, and spooky, and everything inside is meticulously kept and perfect--not a fun place to spend the summer. Things start to get weird...
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"After one hundred years of being a vampire, it's time for Eleonora to have her Birthnight...All Leo has to do is hunt down and kill her first prey...After all, who will miss an orphan...But an accidental fire causes more death and destruction...Instead of killing one carefully selected victim, she's created several ghosts from the orphanage residents. And one sinister specter, the Orphanmaster, is poised to terrorize the living residents in a nearby...
10) Speculation
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English
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2023 Summer Reading Challenge: Read A Book With A Human Who Doesn't Look Or Live Like You
Children's Fantasy Books
New Children's Books March 2023
Children's Fantasy Books
New Children's Books March 2023
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In 1962, ten-year-old Winna Cole discovers a pair of magical spectacles that reveal both the friendly ghosts of her African American ancestors and a dangerous family curse.
11) Riley's ghost
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Locked in the science closet after hours by the cool girls who have rejected her, Riley escapes to discover that all the school doors are locked, the phones are dead, and the lights aren't working, and as she roams through the building seeking a way out, she starts to suspect that she isn't alone.
14) Comanche
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"In 1887 near the tiny Texas town of Comanche, a posse finally ends the murderous career of The Piney Woods Kid in a hail of bullets. Still in the grip of blood-lust, the vigilantes hack the Kid's corpse to bits in the dead house behind the train depot. The people of Comanche rejoice. Justice has been done. A long bloody chapter in the town's history is over. The year is now 2016. Comanche police are stymied by a double murder at the train depot....
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"In American Ghost, Hannah Nordhaus traces the life, death, and unsettled afterlife of her great-great-grandmother Julia, from her childhood in Germany to her years in the American West with her Jewish merchant husband. As she traces the strands of Julia's life, Nordhaus uncovers a larger tale of how a true-life story becomes a ghost story and how difficult it can sometimes be to separate history and myth"--
16) The spirit glass
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Books By And About Asian Americans And Pacific Islanders
If You Like Percy Jackson
New Children's Books September 2023
If You Like Percy Jackson
New Children's Books September 2023
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Corazon Lopez looks forward to her eleventh birthday, when she can finally be trained in wielding babaylan magic and use it to bring her parents back to life.
19) Storm
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Dying in a freak natural disaster that wiped out the whole town, Frankie, who has anger issues, becomes a ghost and learns that when you are born with a storm inside you, you need to let it out.
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