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1) Ghost boys
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"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--
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The summer camp of Woodcrest Military Institute was always an exciting event to the Mercer boys and Terry Mackson. But when the cadets camped near Rustling Ridge, the boys ran into a series of startling occurrences: a horse stampede, a mysterious fire, the disappearance of a little girl, and most frightening of all, the Ghost of Rustling Ridge, who seemed determined to drive the cadets away. Don and Jim, along with Terry, were appointed to the camp's...
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As millions of boys and girls devoured the early adventures of the “Hardy Boys”, little did the young readers and aspiring sleuths know: the series' author was not Franklin W. Dixon, as the cover trumpeted. It was Leslie McFarlane, a nearly penniless scribbler, who hammered out the first adventures while living in a remote cabin without electricity or running water in Northern Ontario. McFarlane was among the first bestselling ghostwriters and...
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Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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Lying due north of Australia, New Guinea is among the world's largest islands. In 1942, when World War II exploded onto its shores, it was an inhospitable, cursorily mapped, disease-ridden land of dense jungle, towering mountain peaks, deep valleys, and fetid swamps. Coveted by the Japanese for its strategic position, New Guinea became the site of one of the South Pacific's most savage campaigns. Despite their lack of jungle training, the 32nd Division's...
5) Ghost Boy
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Seventh grader Ben Conover sees people no one else can see. When he confides in his best friend, it's not long before smart phones start lighting up with text messages as the air cackles with gossip and he becomes known in school as the 'Ghost Boy'. Home has become a battle ground between his Mum's acceptance and his Dad's disapproval. Ben desperately seeks his father's approval, and wants to be like a regular twelve-year-old. But he doesn't want...
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When you lose your voice, who will speak for you? When it all seems hopeless, how do you get through each day? In the New York Times bestseller Ghost Boy, Martin Pistorius tells the harrowing story of his return to life through the healing power of love and faith.
In January 1988, a happy, healthy twelve-year-old Martin Pistorius came home from school with a sore throat. Soon, he was sleeping all day, refusing meals, and
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Ten-year-old Chloe Sutton arrives on Prince Edward Island from her home in Ontario after the tragic loss of her parents in a car accident. Her Aunt Laverne is a doctor and her only relative able to take her in. Chloe isn't sure what to make of her aunt's big old house on the red cliff overlooking the Northumberland Strait, or the skinny, red-haired and heavily freckled boy who wants to be her friend. Her first night in her new home, Chloe is tormented...
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Martin Pistorius, who lost all his memories after a childhood illness, tells the story of his miraculous reawakening in his memoir, Ghost Boy.
Martin was a sweet, but shy boy. He was a wizard with computers and electronics. He loved his Legos and his dog, Pookie. Martin learned from overheard conversations that his illness began when he came home from school with a sore throat. His condition rapidly deteriorated and he soon could not walk. Within...
9) Dreamland
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Riley Bloom series volume 3
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In Dreamland, the third book in Alyson Noël's beloved young adult series, Riley Bloom's finding that the afterlife can be a lonely place when all you do is focus on work. So she goes to the place where dreams happen, hoping to find a way to contact her sister, Ever. She meets the director, who tells her about the two ways to send dreams. As a Dream Jumper, a person can jump into a dreamer's dream, share a message, and participate. As a Dreamweaver,...
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This is not just a beautiful animal story; it's a beautiful ghost story . . . set in Jamaica. When an almost thirteen-year-old delinquent Jamaican boy died, his soul is denied entry to heaven. To his surprise, the boy ghost learns that only animals are allowed entrance into the Kingdom of God at that time. But most shockingly, the ghost boy also learns that for his soul to enter heaven, he must return to earth and save all the helpless animals . ....
13) Grief Cottage
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2017.
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"After his mother's death, eleven-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great aunt, a reclusive painter with a haunted past. Aunt Charlotte, otherwise a woman of few words, points out a ruined cottage, telling Marcus she had visited it regularly after she'd moved there thirty years ago because it matched the ruin of her own life. Eventually she was inspired to take up painting so she could capture its utter desolation....
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There is a boy who doesn't want to go home. Isaac. This isn't uncommon, as many children don't want to go home. And like many of those children, for Isaac, those reasons are better left unsaid. So he lingers, loiters, and wishes for more time. Any reason to not return home. He finds that reason, in a ghostly boy who reminds him of summer, and he takes an invitation to be anywhere but home.
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Alfred A. Knopf
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[2017]
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Publisher Annotation: Imagine you live with your aunt, who hates you so much she?s going to sell you into a dreadful apprenticeship. Imagine you run away before that can happen. Imagine that you can see ghosts?and talk with the dead. People like you are feared, even shunned. Now imagine . . . the first people you encounter after your escape are a mysterious stranger and a ghost boy, who seem to need you desperately?though you don?t understand who...
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It's finally summer, and for twelve-year-old Aislinn, that means two sweet, uninterrupted weeks at her favourite place in the world-Summerwood Farm. At Summerwood's all-girl horse camp, Aislinn is surrounded by all the things she loves most: her Arabian, Firefly; her best friend, Jill; and her mentor, Grace.
But this year, things are different from day one.
There's a boy at camp, Grace seems tense, and rumours swirl about the stable's land being...
17) Blank Canvas: The Amazing Story of a Woman Who Awoke from a Coma to a Life She Couldn't Remember
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When Marcy Gregg awoke from a coma, 13 years had vanished from her memory.
She was 30 years old; she thought she was still 17. She didn't recognize the man who introduced himself as her husband. She stared at pictures of the three children they said were hers, trying desperately to remember them, but her mind was blank.
Terrified and confused, Marcy did the only thing she could think of: she faked it. She told the doctors she was starting to remember...
18) Hexed
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A young female teacher accepts a live-in job with a woman who wants her to tutor her son. She soon learns that the son is actually dead and the mother is having considerable trouble accepting that fact. She escorts the invisible "ghost" boy in for lessons and expects the teacher to comply with her strange delusion. The teacher plays along..She needs the money... But she soon finds out that the mother isn't a victim of mental illness...there is something...
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Ghost stories from America's oldest city have never been so creepy, fun, and full of mystery! The haunted history of St. Augustine comes to life-even when the main players are dead. Visit the Castillo de San Marcos to help a headless soldier look for a lost wedding ring. Or, spot the ghostly boy dashing among the headstones at Tolomato Cemetery. And, if you visit the St. Augustine Lighthouse, beware of the mischievous spirits who have been known to...
20) The Ghost Isle
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In the Charleston Harbor rests an old abandoned military fort. History and mystery surround Castle Pinckney. And, there's a reason the living call it, The Ghost Isle. Squojo has slipped out of the orphanage, again. While adventurin' with Sash, his ghost-sniffing dog, their destiny will become intertwined with Cheetze, a legendary ghost boy. Together with the help of a Gullah root doctor and her young apprentice, they race against time to solve the...
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