ghosts

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ghosts

The hunt for the seventh

2008
Jim moves with his dad and sister to Minerva Hall where a ghostly voice urging him to "find the Seventh" draws him into a sort of macabre treasure hunt for clues to an ancient prophecy that threatens them all.

Slipping

2008
Thirteen-year-old Michael and an unlikely group of allies journey to the river of the dead to help Michael's grandfather release his hold on a ghostly life and, in the process, heal wounds that have kept Michael's father distant.

The legend of Sleepy Hollow

2007
A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

Gilda Joyce

the ghost sonata
2007
Gilda Joyce's best friend Wendy Choy qualifies to compete in an international piano competition in Oxford, England, and Gilda is determined to go as well--as a page turner.

Gilda Joyce, psychic investigator

2005
During the summer before ninth grade, intrepid Gilda Joyce invites herself to the San Francisco mansion of distant cousin Lester Splinter and his thirteen-year-old daughter, where she uses her purported psychic abilities and detective skills to solve the mystery of the mansion's boarded-up tower.

Gilda Joyce

the ladies of the lake
2006
Having earned a scholarship to a private girls' high school, self-proclaimed psychic investigator Gilda Joyce investigates the circumstances surrounding the drowning death of a student whose ghost supposedly haunts the campus.

The intruders

2006
Joel Demetrius is somewhat excited about moving into the home of his new stepfather, but when he and his stepbrother Tim begin having identical nightmares which for Joel run over into the daylight, they decide they must figure out who or what is haunting the house.

The ghost's grave

2005
Apprehensive about spending the summer in Washington State with his Aunt Ethel when his parents get an overseas job, twelve-year-old Josh soon finds adventure when he meets the ghost of a coal miner.

The empty mirror

2004
Thirteen-year-old Nick, whose parents died in the 1918 flu epidemic, must find out why his mirror-image is causing mischief around their New England town and making sure Nick gets the blame.

The place at the edge of the earth

2002
At first unhappy with a new stepfather and a new school on a military base that was once an off-reservation boarding school for Indian children, thirteen-year-old Jenny finds herself changing as she makes two new friends, one the son of the base commander and the other the ghost of Jonah Flying Cloud, who died there in 1880.

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