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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic rural town of Ludlow, Maine, this new beginning seems too good to be true. Despite Ludlow's tranquility, an undercurrent of danger exists here. Those trucks on the road outside the Creed's beautiful old home travel by just a little too quickly, for one thing...as is evidenced by the makeshift graveyard in the nearby woods where generations of children have buried their beloved...
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English
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Lordor Nordstrom created, in his wisdom, not only a lively town and a prosperous legacy for himself but also a beautiful final resting place for his family, friends, and neighbors yet to come. "Resting place" turns out to be a bit of a misnomer, however. Odd things begin to happen, and it starts the whole town talking.--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
As a science journalist with a regular column in Scientific American, Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural and has a real nose for the strange and unusual. A born skeptic, he travels to the small town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, determined to find the real cause behind the ghostly apparitions that appear in the town cemetery. What he doesn't plan on, however, is meeting and falling hopelessly in love with Lexie Darnell, granddaughter...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy--an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack--who has already killed...
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"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns iut into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried but failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a nysterious sanctuary for their true narratives."--Provided...
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English
Description
"Funeral Songs For Dying Girls is a young adult novel about an Indigenous girl who lives on the grounds of a cemetery with her widowed father."--
Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium all her life, close to her mother's grave. With her sixteenth birthday only days away, Winifred has settled into a lazy summer schedule, lugging her obese Chihuahua around the grounds in a squeaky...
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English
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Based on a true story, this debut Civil War novel follows a Southern plantation woman's journey of transforming her home into a hospital for the war.
This debut novel is based on the true story of Carrie McGavock. During the Civil War's Battle of Franklin, a five-hour bloodbath with 9,200 casualties, McGavock's home was turned into a field hospital where four generals died. For 40 years she tended the private cemetery on her property where...
This debut novel is based on the true story of Carrie McGavock. During the Civil War's Battle of Franklin, a five-hour bloodbath with 9,200 casualties, McGavock's home was turned into a field hospital where four generals died. For 40 years she tended the private cemetery on her property where...
Author
Series
Graveyard book (Graphic novels) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Bod is a normal boy and he would be completely normal if he did not live in a graveyard and being raised by ghosts. He wants to attend school but it won't be safe for him to leave the graveyard because the man responsible for killing his family will go after him.
Author
Series
Graveyard book (Graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
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Language
English
Description
Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mystery-and into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the height of its glittering power.
11) The god machine
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Publisher
Archaia Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
2010-
Language
English
Description
Guy Salvatore struggles to make sense of his world after the death of his girlfriend. A strange old man share with Guy a story about the two Gods who took her away, leaving her to wander aimlessly in and out of the dimensional planes known as the "dream worlds."
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Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
University student Mimi and her boyfriend Naoto encounter one chilling mystery after another. There's the enigmatic neighbor woman dressed in black from head to toe--but if she's so odd, why does it seems like there are many others like her? Then, whose eyes track Mimi's movements from the cemetery next door? And why does a bizarre red circle drawn on a basement wall change with each passing day? Nine scary stories that really happened, drawn from...
13) Confetti realms
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Publisher
Mad Cave Studios, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"On Halloween night, when the moon is full, teenagers get up to mischief. But when an encounter with a giant, sentient puppet in a graveyard sends five teens to a mysterious dimension called the Confetti Realms, they must overcome obstacles in their own friendships-and collect the debted teeth owed to the puppet-in order to make their way home. But the allure of staying in a fantasy world is a hard one to beat, and going home to their normal lives...
Author
Series
Graveyard book (Graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy except for the fact that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
Author
Publisher
Sapristi
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Nadie Owens, más conocido como Nad, es un chico normal. Sería del todo normal si no viviera en un cementerio, entre fantasmas que lo educan y lo crían, y si no tuviera un tutor que no pertenece ni al mundo de los vivos ni al de los muertos.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The graveyard book, in which the orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is taken in by the inhabitants of a graveyard as a child of eighteen months and raised lovingly and carefully by the community of ghosts and otherworldly creatures. But Bod must remain in the graveyard, for leaving it could mean his death at the hands of a man named Jack--the man who murdered Bod's family.