18 books like All the lovely bad ones
Gespensterjäger im Feuerspuk
Het spookt in hotel De Strandparel. Werk aan de winkel voor de spokenjagers Hedwig Kummelsap, Tom Tomsky en Hugo MES (Matig Eng Spook). Al snel blijkt dat het om een GROBLISPO (Griezelig Onverslaanbaar BLIksemSPOok) gaat. Vanaf ca. 8 jaar.
Shares: Hotels, Ghosts, Children's fiction
Eloise
Eloise is a little girl who lives at The Plaza Hotel in New York. She is not yet pretty but she is already a Person. She is interested in people when they are not boring. If you take her home with you, you will always be glad you did.
Shares: Hotels, Behavior, Children's fiction
Six Haunted Hairdos
With the help of their favorite teacher, two rival clubs, the all-boy Copycats and the all-girl Tattletales, stop trying to out-do each other long enough to help the ghosts of a baby elephant and a herd of mastodons that appear near their small Vermont town.
Shares: Vermont, Ghosts, Children's fiction
Pollyanna
An abridged version of the tale of orphaned, eleven-year-old Pollyanna, who comes to live with austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, bringing happiness to her aunt and other members of the community through her philosophy of gladness. Pollyanna knows the secret to finding a smile -- even when really bad things happen. From the moment she arrives in Beldingsville, she shares her Glad Game with everyone…
Shares: Vermont, Conduct of life, Children's fiction
Fourth Grade Rats
A fast, fun, friendship read from the Newbery-award winning author of Maniac Magee.
Fourth graders are tough. They aren't afraid of spiders. They say no to their moms. They push first graders off the swings. And they never, ever cry.
Suds knows that now that he's in fourth grade, he's supposed to be a rat. But whenever he tries to act like one, something goes wrong. Can Suds's friend Joey teach…
Shares: Behavior, Conduct of life, Children's fiction
The Mystery of the Singing Ghost
While helping fix up the old house their cousins have bought, the Aldens hear stories about its being haunted and find evidence suggesting that there may be a ghost there.
Shares: Haunted houses, Brothers and sisters, Ghosts, Children's fiction
This Book Is Haunted
This book's "not too scary" ghost host tells five spooky stories.
Shares: Haunted houses, Ghosts, Children's fiction
Lo strano caso del fantasma al Grand Hotel
In het deftigste hotel van Rokford dwaalt een spook rond in een harnas. Speurneus Teus vraagt Geronimo of hij hem wil helpen bij het oplossen van dit griezelige raadsel. Voorlezen vanaf ca. 7 jaar, zelf lezen vanaf ca. 9 jaar.
Shares: Hotels, Ghosts, Children's fiction
The princess and the dragon
When a princess who behaves like a dragon meets a dragon who behaves like a princess, there are unexpected results.
Shares: Behavior, Brothers and sisters, Children's fiction
Silly Sally
A rhyming story of Silly Sally, who makes many friends as she travels to town--backwards and upside down.
Shares: Behavior, Children's fiction
Rotten School #6 - The Heinie Prize
Is Belzer a loser?Just because he wears T-shirts that say I need a Tutor and Ask Me About My Allergies?Just because he picks scabs off his knees and eats them?Belzer's parents think he's a loser. They want to take him out of Rotten School. Every year Mrs. Heinie awards the Heinie Prize to the Most Outstanding Fourth Grader. Bernie Bridges wants Belzer to win the Heinie. Then his parents will have…
Shares: Behavior, Conduct of life, Children's fiction
Class Clown
Lucas Cott, the most obstreperous boy in the third grade, finds it very hard to turn over a new leaf when he decides to become the perfect student.
Shares: Behavior, Conduct of life, Children's fiction
The Haunting
Fifteen-year-old Lia comes from a long line of courageous women, dating back to a Civil War survivor who single-handedly saved her Louisiana plantation house, Graymoss, from destruction. But Graymoss is haunted by a terrible evil.With clues from a diary and Favorite Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Lia, who doesn't feel as if she's inherited any family genes of courage, must figure out what--or who--the…
Shares: Haunted houses, Ghosts, Children's fiction
Georgie
Feeling unwanted in his New England home when the step he has been creaking is nailed down, Georgie the ghost decides to leave.
Shares: Haunted houses, Ghosts, Children's fiction
Long Way Down
A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds’s “tour de force” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) novel in verse takes place in sixty potent seconds: the time it takes a kid to go down an elevator—and decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother.Will’s…
Shares: Conduct of life, Brothers and sisters, Ghosts, Children's fiction
There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom (Cascades)
Shares: Behavior, Conduct of life, Children's fiction
Ungifted
The word gifted has never been applied to a kid like Donovan Curtis. It's usually more like Don't try this at home. So when the troublemaker pulls a major prank at his middle school, he thinks he's finally gone too far. But thanks to a mix-up by one of the administrators, instead of getting in trouble, Donovan is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction (ASD), a special program for gifted…
Shares: Behavior, Conduct of life, Children's fiction
Wait till Helen comes
Molly and Michael dislike their spooky new stepsister Heather but realize that they must try to save her when she seems ready to follow a ghost child to her doom.
Shares: Brothers and sisters, Ghosts, Children's fiction