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• It's Watching

  Currie, Lindsay,

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  After attempting to prove the existence of a famous ghost for their school newspaper, Josie, Jackson, and Alison begin to receive sinister memes on their phones and must uncover the truth behind the terrifying messages before time runs out.

• Doll Bones

  Black, Holly

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  Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.

• City of Ghosts

  Schwab, Victoria,

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  After surviving a near-fatal drowning that gives her the ability to enter the spirit world, Cassidy, the daughter of television ghost-hunters, visits Edinburgh where the encounters with the city's old ghosts reveals the dangers that come with her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Camp Midnight

  Seagle, Steven T,

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  After accidentally boarding the wrong bus, Skye must spend the summer at Camp Midnight, where everyone is a monster, and she tries to keep her human identity hidden before finding it's best to be herself.

• Dead Voices

  Arden, Katherine,

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  Best friends Ollie, Coco, and Brian are ready to spend a relaxing winter break skiing together with their parents at Mount Hemlock Resort. But when a snowstorm sets in, causing the power to flicker out and the cold to creep closer and closer, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dehaunting

  White, J. A.,

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  Cordelia and her friends discover a way to get rid of all the ghosts that haunt their school, but dehaunting turns out to be more complicated and dangerous than any of them considered.

• Dread Detention

  Killick, Jennifer,

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  While in Saturday detention, Hallie, Angelo, Gustav and Naira must work together to survive when unspeakable horrors emerge from the shadows and the evil grows stronger by the minute.

• Fearless

  Gonzalez, Mandy,

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  While rehearsing what may be the last show in the Ethel Merman Theater, 12-year-old Monica Garcia and other cast members are locked in and must try to appease a ghost and reverse a curse.

• The Puppet's Payback and Other Chilling Tales

  Hahn, Mary Downing,

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  From ghost story master Mary Downing Hahn, an assortment of eerie short stories to thrill and chill young readers.

• How They Croaked

  the Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous

  Bragg, Georgia

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  Over the course of history, men and women have lived and died. In fact, getting sick and dying can be a big, ugly mess—especially before the modern medical care that we all enjoy today. This relays all the gory details of how 19 world figures gave…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Killer Harvest

  Krovatin, Christopher,

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  Marcus, Kris, and Angie, the "problem" kids at school, together with their families are in Gentle Valley for the harvest festival—but there is no real harvest here, just a sick corn maze with an old evil lurking at the center.

• The Jumbies

  Baptiste, Tracey

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  Corinne La Mer claims she isn’t afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her, and certainly not jumbies. They’re just tricksters made up by parents to frighten their children. Then one night Corinne chases an agouti all the way into…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Scary Stories for Young Foxes

  Heidicker, Christian McKay,

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  When Mia and Uly are separated from their litters, they discover a dangerous world full of monsters. In order to find a den to call home, they must venture through field and forest, facing unspeakable things that dwell in the darkness: a zombie who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Small Spaces

  Arden, Katherine,

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  After 11-year-old Ollie's school bus mysteriously breaks down on a field trip, she has to take a trip through scary woods and must use all her wits to survive.

• Dead Girl's Diary

  Alexander, K. R., 1986-

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  All her life, Kara's been told she was born in the city she's lived in all her life. But she's always felt that wasn't quite right, just as she's had flashes of thoughts that didn't seem to be her own. Now that she's twelve, those thoughts are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crooked Hills. Book 1

  Bunn, Cullen,

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  Crooked Hills is the most haunted town in America. It's just the news that Charlie needs to salvage his forced vacation to the middle of nowhere. If he's got to take a family trip to visit relatives, at least he'll see some ghosts. But the hauntings…Read moreRead more of this annotation