18 books like Kit's Wilderness
The ghost wore gray
Nina ("Nine") Tanleven and her best buddy Chris Gurley are having a hard time. The play that led to them meeting a ghost and unraveling a mystery has ended. Now the rest of the summer looms ahead, looking dull after their great adventure.Luckily, Nine's dad gets a job designing the restoration of an old – and distressingly run down – hotel in the Catskill Mountains. Nine and Chris are more than…
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The Ghost Belonged to Me
In this story set in 1913, Blossom Culp, Alexander Armsworth, adventurer Miles Armsworth, and Blossom's spiritualist mother set out to exorcise a ghost.
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Monstrous devices
Alex, nearly thirteen, flees with his grandfather across snowy Europe to escape the human and mechanical assassins that pursue them, trying to retrieve a powerful object.
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Remember me 3
Someone did not like Shari Cooper writing her stories.
Shari Cooper had died once, and then returned to earth as a Wanderer - a soul who had been given permission to take the place of another soul in a mature body. Shari has regained her memory of her previous life. More than that, she has realized her purpose in returning to mortal life. To write stories for young people to help them understand…
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Cedric himself knew nothing whatever about it. It had never been even mentioned to him. He knew that his papa had been an Englishman, because his mamma had told him so; but then his papa had died when he was so little a boy that he could not remember very much about him, except that he was big, and had blue eyes and a long mustache, and that it was a splendid thing to be carried around the room…
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Christina's Ghost
Christina's summer in a spooky, isolated Victorian house with her grumpy uncle turns into a ghostly adventure.
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Meltdown
Fourth in a gripping, action-packed sequence of thrillers about Danny and Fergus Watts, from the bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero, Andy McNab, and Robert Rigby, veteran of many successful TV screenplays. Ideal for adventure-seeking readers.A lethal new drug with devastating side effects, known as Meltdown, is threatening to destabilize society. Dudley knows that the security services have to…
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The Headless Ghost
Everyone knows about Hill House. It's the biggest tourist attraction in town. That's because it's haunted. Haunted by the ghost of a thirteen-year-old boy. A boy with no head! Duane and Stephanie love Hill House. It's dark. And creepy. And totally scary. Still, they've never actually seen the ghost. Until the night they decide to go on a search. A search for his head...
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The house of the nightmare, and other eerie tales
CONTENTS:
1 - FROM IMAGINATION
The House Of The Nightmare by Edward Lucas White
The Hauntings At Thorhallstead by Allen French
His Own Number by William Croft Dickinson
Gabriel-Ernest by Saki
Hand In Glove by Elizabeth Bowen
Mr. Fox (traditional english tale) by Anonymous
Curfew by L.M. Boston
John Bartine's Watch by Ambrose Bierce
The Monkey's Paw by W.W.Jacobs
My Grandfather, Hendry Watty by…
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Gus was a friendly ghost
A ghost and a mouse have a summer house all to themselves while the folks are away for the winter.
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The Time of the Ghost
From Publishers Weekly
Published in Great Britain in 1981 and available here for the first time, this gripping novel serves up often giddily hilarious fantasy that nonetheless deals unflinchingly with some ugly issues. At least twice in the course of the multi-layered narrative, the heroine has not the faintest idea who she is?a powerful metaphor for the novel's underlying theme of alienation…
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The Watch House
While spending the summer with her old nurse on the north English coast, a teen-age girl discovers that her presence in the nearby Watch House, a museum containing relics of shipwrecks and rescues, releases a powerful and evil ghost.
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Snakes And Ladders (Bananas)
Banana Storybooks series. This title a Red Bananas level.
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Wolven
Twelve-year-old Nat, with help from family, friends, and his "pet" Woody, a wolf that turns into a boy, must face werewolves that have been altered as part of a dastardly plan.
A boy who lives with his eccentric grandparents near a strange, apparently cursed wood longs for a dog, but the strange creature finally found by his grandfather hardly fits his image of the perfect pet, and it grows…
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The haunted house
Choose from 9 possible endings in this interactive book from the bestselling Choose Your Own Adventure series, now for 5- to 8-year-old readers!Filled with colorful illustrations, these books for little kids make reading together extra fun. But be careful!!! The choices YOU make might put you face to face with a hungry crocodile!
Your dog—and best friend—Homer has run into a spooky haunted…
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The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed
Nina Tanleven, six grader, and her best friend, Chris discover the tower room with its big brass bed and grieving little girl ghost.
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A Greyhound of a Girl
"Mary O'Hara is a sharp and cheeky twelve-year-old Dublin schoolgirl who is bravely facing the fact that her beloved Gran is dying. But Gran can't let go of life, and when a mysterious young woman turns up in Mary's street with a message for her Gran, Mary gets pulled into an unlikely adventure"--
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Amber Cat (First Book)
While recovering from chicken pox, Robin and his friends are drawn into his mother's story about the adventures she and her friends had years ago with an unusual girl who mysteriously appeared on the nearby beach.
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