The beloved author of Because of Winn-Dixie has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real love story about a girl, a ghost, a grandmother, and growing up. It's the summer before fifth grade, and for Ferris Wilkey, it is a...
Ghost stories
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Author:DiCamillo, KateSummary: - Author:Lockhart, E.Summary:
A windswept private island off the coast of Massachusetts. A hungry ocean, churning with secrets and sorrow. A fiery, addicted heiress. An irresistible, unpredictable boy. A summer of unforgivable betrayal and terrible mistakes. Welcome...
- Author:Plante, Marie-ChantalSummary:
Elliott est un jeune garçon tout à fait normal… à cela près qu’il communique avec les esprits. Quand il apprend que sa capacité le place au premier rang d’une guerre qui se tiendra entre les esprits du bien et ceux du mal, il refuse d’y...
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Author:Lashner, WilliamSummary:Elizabeth Webster is happy to stay under the radar (and under her bangs) until middle school is dead and gone. But when star swimmer Henry Harrison asks her to tutor him in math, it's not linear equations Henry really needs help with-it...
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Author:Bloomfield, DacciaSummary:A great love comes with bells... Flip is an unemployed writer with a heart of gold and limited social skills--he's also very much in love. And you? You're invited to witness the carnage' . It's a story we're all familiar with: just as...
- Author:White, J. A.Summary:
Cordelia Liu's first year at Shadow School was a success. But her second year is already different. Ghosts are refusing to move on, the teachers are acting weird, and Cordelia's best friends, Benji and Agnes, aren't as...
- Author:Fox, AngieSummary:
Southern belle Verity Long is back in business—as a ghost hunter. Now all she has to do is visit the town's creepiest mansion and exorcise a family of vengeful spirits. Piece of cake. After all, ghosts love her and need her... that is...
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Author:Kingsbury, KateSummary:Melanie West and her grandmother, Liza, open a bed-and-breakfast inn on the Oregon coast replete with a friendly ghost, one very real skeleton in the closet, and a freshly dead body on the beach. It seems someone doesn't appreciate...
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Author:Stocks, CassieSummary:WINNER OF THE 2013 Stephen Leacock Award for Canadian Humour Writing!
Twenty-seven-year-old Frieda Zweig is at an impasse. Behind her is a string of failed relationships and half-forgotten ambitions of being a painter; in front...
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Author:Doyle, BrianSummary:Winner of the Governor General's Award and the Mr. Christie's Book Award. In this award-winning paean to country life we find Hubbo O'Driscoll, whom we first met in Easy Avenue, now living in the lower Gatineau with his guardian aunt...
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Author:Torres, J.Summary:Chirp and his friends Squawk and Tweet love going on adventures together. Today, they've traded in their playhouse for the Old West. They are the brave sheriffs of a deserted ghost town! But is the town deserted? Wait... did that cactus...
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Author:Toogood, DeborahSummary:Matt Simmons has two weeks left of summer before starting grade six. He wants to enjoy that time with his best friends, Danny and Emma, but has to include his younger cousin Adam who is visiting. Trapped on a sandbar in the middle of...
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Author:Jacobs, W. W., Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, Crawford, F. Marion, Hichens, Robert, James, M. R.Summary:As a Cambridge medieval scholar, Montague Rhodes James was steeped in the esoteric lore of the Middle Ages, and he applied that scholarship to his stories. This collection also includes four stories not by James to place his work in the...
- Author:Mott, A. S.Summary:
A fun-filled follow up to the best-selling CAMPFIRE GHOST STORIES, these spine-chilling tales of the paranormal are designed to be read aloud to entertain your next fireside gathering: An eccentric man tries in vain to prove to his...
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Author:Butcher, KristinSummary:Sixteen-year-old Bailey is working at her first summer job, as a cabin girl at a fly-in fishing camp at Witch Lake. She struggles with the job at first but enjoys hearing the stories of the area, including the legend of a local ghost....
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Author:Brook, AllisonSummary:Librarian Carrie Singleton is building a haven, but one of her neighbors is misbehavin'. Can resident spirit Evelyn help Carrie catch the culprit who made her a ghost?
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Author:Côté, GenevièveSummary:Wanting a dog for his birthday but instead receiving a pet ghost named Fluffy, young Bob becomes frustrated by his ghost companion's disobedience and inclination to eat everything in sight.
- Author:Taylor, William B.Summary:
Alex Tinsdill never thought a simple DNA test would lead to a $250 million inheritance and Cove Point Manor, a massive estate built during the Gilded Age on the Gold Coast of Long Island, New York. Alex's inheritance doesn't come...
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Author:Harmon, J. A.Summary:Sometimes love is stronger than death. Former foster child Gabriel Jacobs is determined to make something of his life. Easygoing and more comfortable in a pair of old sweats than the Brooks Brothers suits he will have to wear when he...
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Author:Gaetz, DayleSummary:Rusty, Katie and Sheila are sent out of town with Rusty's grandparents to keep them out of trouble. This time the trio is in historic Barkerville, a gold rush town with a secret. After witnessing what they take to be a ghost in the...
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