ghosts

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ghosts

Ghost soldier

2001
Alexander, in North Carolina while his father decides whether to remarry and move there, meets the ghost of a Confederate soldier and helps him look for his family.

A Christmas carol

2000
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

The ghost of Lizard Light

1999
Moving from Iowa to a lighthouse cottage in Maine, ten-year-old Jack struggles to live up to his father's high standards and encounters a young ghost who presents Jack with a 150-year-old unsolved sea mystery.

Don't read this!

and other tales of the unnatural
1998
An international collection of ghost stories and spooky tales by such authors as Susan Cooper, Roberto Piumini, and Bjarne Reuter.

A Christmas carol

1997
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.

The haunting

1998
When her mother inherits an old plantation house in the Louisiana countryside, fifteen-year-old Lia seeks to rid it of the evil spirit that haunts it.

The face in the mirror

1998
Joining his estranged father in a professional production of Shakespeare's "Richard III," Jared tries to cope with acting insecurities, his obnoxious half brother, and a theater ghost.

A coming evil

1998
Thirteen-year-old Lisette Beaucaire is resentful when her parents send her from Nazi-occupied Paris in 1940 to live with her aunt in the country, but she barely has time to get bored when she learns the farm is a hiding place for several Jewish and Gypsy children, as well as a ghost from another time of historical conflict who proves to be an invaluable ally.

Zoe rising

1996
Zoe, traveling back to the time when her mother was a child, intervenes in the past in order to save the future.

The Headless Horseman

a retelling of Washington Irving's "The legend of Sleepy Hollow"
1995
A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

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