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Star rating for Not quite a ghost
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Publisher:
HarperCollins Childrens Books
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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Star rating for Sisters
Lexile measure:
GN: Graphic Novel 290L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning companion to Smile! Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years, but when a baby brother enters the picture and later, something doesn't seem right between their parents,...
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Star rating for The dead romantics
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
Description:
"Ghost meets The Bold Type in this sparkling adult debut about a disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has some ghosts of her own, from nationally bestselling author Ashley Poston. Florence Day is a ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem-after a terrible break-up, she no longer believes in love. It's as good as dead. When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man,...
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Star rating for The night gardener
Lexile measure:
690L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
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Star rating for The phantom of the opera
Lexile measure:
870L
Language:
English
Description:
During Christine's childhood, which is described retrospectively in the early chapters of the book, her father tells her many stories featuring an 'Angel of Music', who, like a muse, is the personification of musical inspiration. On his deathbed, Christine's father tells her that from Heaven, he will send the Angel of Music to her. Christine is eventually given a position in the chorus at the Paris Opera House. Not long after she arrives there, she...
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Star rating for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories
Lexile measure:
1460L
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Collection of four stories of strange and unexplainable circumstances. A headless horseman haunts Sleep Hollow. At least that's the legend in the tiny village of Tarrytown. But scary stories won't stop the town's new schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane, from crossing through the Hollow, especially when the beautiful Katrina lives on the other side. Will Ichabod win over his beloved or discover that the legend of Sleepy Hollow is actually true? Also, Rip Van...
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Star rating for Library mouse
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Series:
Library Mouse volume 1
Lexile measure:
NC: Non-Conforming 760L
Language:
English
Description:
Sam, a shy but creative mouse who lives in a library, decides to write and illustrate his own stories which he places on the shelves with the other library books but when children find the tales, they all want to meet the author.
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Star rating for Practical magic
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
For most adults, fairy tales are among the childish things we've put away. Alice Hoffman, however, feels differently. Practical Magic starts out as a tale of Gillian and Sally Owens, two orphaned girls whose aunts are witches--of a mild sort. For the past two centuries, Owens women have been blamed for all that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town, ever since their ancestor arrived, rich, independent, and soon accused of theft: "And then one...
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Star rating for Rosie Revere, engineer
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 780L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
A young aspiring engineer must first conquer her fear of failure.
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Star rating for Doll bones
Author:
Lexile measure:
840L
Language:
English
Description:
Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.
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Star rating for The cabin at the end of the world
Language:
English
Average Rating:
2.9 stars
Description:
"The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts gives a new twist to the home invasion horror story in a heart-palpitating novel of psychological suspense that recalls Stephen King's Misery, Ruth Ware's In a Dark, Dark Wood, and Jack Ketchum's cult hit The Girl Next Door"--
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Star rating for On the run
Language:
English
Description:
Horse handler and former CIA agent Grace Archer turns to the father of her child for help for the first time in eight years when the Middle Eastern magnate who wants her dead finds her at the Alabama horse farm where she has been hiding.
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Star rating for Blunt impact
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Language:
English
Description:
A twisting forensic thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author, “quite simply, one of the best storytellers around” (Tess Gerritsen).
 
Forensic scientist Theresa MacLean is puzzled by the questionable death of a female construction worker at a Cleveland building site. A witness to the death—a young girl nicknamed Ghost—may be able to help. Ghost says the woman was pushed by someone...
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Star rating for Bleeding edge
Language:
English
Description:
It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as there was at the height of the tech bubble, but there's no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what's left.
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Star rating for The secret of snow
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"When Sonny Dunes, a SoCal meteorologist whose job is all sunshine and seventy-two-degree days, is replaced by a virtual meteorologist that will never age, gain weight or renegotiate its contract, the only station willing to give the fifty-year-old another shot is the very place Sonny's been avoiding since the day she left for college, her northern Michigan hometown ... To distract herself from the memories she's spent her life trying to outrun, Sonny...
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Star rating for How to catch a witch
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Language:
English
Description:
When the Halloween Witch opens a magical portal and lets in all the Halloween creatures, the Catch Club Kids set up a trap to catch and creatures and send them back.
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Star rating for The ghost of the Mary Celeste
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
"A captivating, atmospheric return to historical fiction that is every bit as convincing and engrossing as Martin's landmark Mary Reilly. In 1872 the American merchant vessel Mary Celeste was discovered adrift off the coast of Spain. Her cargo was intact and there was no sign of struggle, but the crew was gone. They were never found. This maritime mystery lies at the center of an intricate narrative branching through the highest levels of late- nineteenth-century...
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Star rating for All the beauty in the world
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
"A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard"-- "Only a few select people enjoy unrestricted access to every nook and cranny of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and among them are the guards who keep a watchful eye on the two-million-square-foot treasure house. For Bringley, the Museum was a temporary refuge that became his home away from...

19. Sunny

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Star rating for Sunny
Series:
Track volume 3
Lexile measure:
700L
Language:
English
Description:
Sunny, the Defenders' best runner, only runs for his father, who blames Sunny for his mother's death, but with his coach's help Sunny finds a way to combine track and field with his true passion, dancing.
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Star rating for Denis Ever After
Author:
Pub. Date:
2018
Lexile measure:
620L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:

Written by award-winning author Tony Abbott and perfect for fans of The Ethan I Was Before and The Thing About Jellyfish, this bittersweet middle grade novel follows the ghost of Denis Egan as he teams up with his living twin brother to solve the mystery of his death.

Denis Egan is dead.

He's okay with that. It's been five years since he died, and the place where souls go is actually pretty nice.

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