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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22cm
Language
English
Description
In the old house on a hill, where the city meets the rainforest, Yejide’s mother is dying. She is leaving behind a legacy that now passes to Yejide: one St Bernard woman in every generation has the power to shepherd the city’s souls into the afterlife. But after years of suffering her mother’s neglect and bitterness, Yejide is looking for a way out.
Raised in the countryside by a devout Rastafarian mother, Darwin has always abided by the...
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A wacky graveyard adventure combines funny-bone-tickling poems with silly grim illustrations, and serves as an introduction to poetry.
Author
Series
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
183 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Riley crosses a bridge into the afterlife, she is summoned before The Council and paired up with a teacher, Bodhi, who returns to Earth with Riley and helps her learn her new role as a Soul Catcher on her first assignment to capture the boy who has been haunting a castle in England.
5) Spellbinder
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
372 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Belladonna Johnson, who lives with the ghosts of her parents in the north of England, teams up with an always-in-trouble classmate to investigate why all of the ghosts in the world have suddenly disappeared.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
303 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For 2,000 years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every...
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Erin and her friends from college, now in their mid-twenties, are shaken by the death of Silas, one of their own. They are plunged into a waking nightmare when they take a pill Silas learned of that allows them to see-and interact with-ghosts"--
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
When a tornado strikes fifty years after another killed many teens in tiny Mercer, Illinois, some of the dead unite with misfits Brenna, Joshua, and Callie to seek peace.
Author
Series
Wells of sorcery trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
366 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Isoka, an eighteen-year-old ward boss in the great port city, Kahnzoka, is sent on an impossible mission to steal Soliton, a legendary ghost ship, or her sister will be killed.
Author
Series
Cainsville volume 2
Publisher
Dutton
Physical Desc
448 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Estranged from Gabriel when his past comes to light, Olivia Taylor-Jones receives a sinister warning in the form of a murder victim dressed to look like her and struggles to learn the truth about the victim, the role of her new home, and her susceptibility to old enemies.
13) House of Hollow
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange. As children, they disappeared on a Scottish city street only to return a month later with no memory of what had happened to them or where they’d been. More troubling, their appearance began to change: their blue eyes now black, their dark hair now white. And as they grew older, odd, eerie occurrences seemed to follow in their wake. People find them disturbingly intoxicating, unbearably...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's sweltering in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Temperance Brennan, still recovering from neurosurgery following an aneurysm, is battling nightmares, migraines, and what she thinks might be hallucinations when she receives a series of mysterious text messages, each containing a new picture of a corpse that is missing its face and hands. Immediately, she's anxious to know who the dead man is, and why the images were sent to her. An identified corpse...
17) Day of the Dead
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Day of the Dead sounds like it should have a morbid, depressing tone. But the Latin American holiday is really focused on love and remembrance. Yes, people gather in cemeteries, but for dancing and decorating graves! This book shows kids a holiday that honors the lives of lost loved ones.
18) Rooms
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After Richard Walker dies, his estranged family arrives at his estate for their inheritance, while long-dead former residents bound to the house observe the family and reminisce about their past lives--until the two worlds collide.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on new research, interviews, and a fresh supply of material from the Grateful Dead archives, author Peter Richardson recounts the band's colorful history, adding new insight into everything from the acid tests to the band's formation of their own record label.