The Doll’s Eye
By Marina Cohen M Fiction Cohen This book alternates between two stories, both are two girls living in the same house only 100 years apart. In the present: Hadley’s mother has just remarried and has moved Hadley from their apartment in the city to the new house she will share with her stepfather, Ed and her younger step brother Isaac. Hadley is not very happy to have to share her mom’s attention when it had just been the two of them for so long. Shortly after moving in Hadley discovers a dollhouse that is an exact replica of her house including the garage and the above apartment. There is a family of wooden dolls and including one that looks exactly like the women that goes by Granny that lives in that apartment on their property. While trying to settle into the house Hadley becomes increasingly annoyed with Isaac when the dolls began to change positions inside the dollhouse. Hadley also discovers a lone, single doll's eye. 100 years ago into the past Althea has just arrived to the house with her father. He works all day and her mother has been bedridden since their arrival from Boston so Althea has only the housekeeper to keep her company. The housekeeper tells her about kobolds - a house spirit that can help out with the chores if you can catch one. Althea vows to catch one and sets out a trap. The longer Hadley stays in the house she discovers that her dolls are changing positions inside the dollhouse. She starts making wishes for things, which soon spirals out of control. Similar to Althea as she tries to catch the kobold. You may wish for things without thinking that carefully about it. What if all your wishes really did come true? As they say...be careful what you wish for. |
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods
By Hal Johnson M Fiction Johnson Meet the Snoligoster, who feeds on the shadows of its victims. The Hodag, like a spiny-backed bull-horned rhinoceros. The Hoop Snake, which can chase prey at speeds of up to 60 miles per hour and then, with one sting of its tail, cause it to turn purple, swell up, and die (From Amazon.com) There are glow in the dark pictures in this book!! BUT BEWARE! These are frightening tales. This book features 20 chilling tales from the North American wilderness. Hal Johnson has updated and revised the tales compiled by William T. Cox in 1910. |
The Swallow: A Ghost Story
By Charis Cotter M Fiction Cotter In 1960s Toronto, two girls retreat to their attics to escape the loneliness and isolation of their lives. Polly lives in a house bursting at the seams with people, while Rose is often left alone by her busy parents. Polly is a down-to-earth dreamer with a wild imagination and an obsession with ghosts; Rose is a quiet, ethereal waif with a sharp tongue. Despite their differences, both girls spend their days feeling invisible and seek solace in books and the cozy confines of their respective attics. But soon they discover they aren't alone--they're actually neighbors, sharing a wall. They develop an unlikely friendship, and Polly is ecstatic to learn that Rose can actually see and talk to ghosts. Maybe she will finally see one too! But is there more to Rose than it seems? Why does no one ever talk to her? And why does she look so... ghostly? When the girls find a tombstone with Rose's name on it in the cemetery and encounter an angry spirit in her house who seems intent on hurting Polly, they have to unravel the mystery of Rose and her strange family... before it's too late (From Goodreads.com). Click here to discover more books by Charis Cotter http://www.chariscotter.ca/index.php/books/ |
Something Upstairs
By Avi M Fiction Avi When 12-year-old Kenny Huldorf moves to Providence, Rhode Island, he soon discovers that his attic bedroom is haunted by the ghost of a teenage slave named Caleb. Before long, Caleb summons Kenny back in time, where Kenny finds himself entangled in Caleb's murder and deeply troubled by the century-old injustice. Ultimately, it is up to Kenny to solve Caleb's murder or remain forever trapped in history (From Amazon.com). This book is not for the faint of heart, enter if you dare! |
Seven Dead Pirates
By Linda Bailey
M Fiction Bailey
Arghh! Be careful matey!
Lewis Dearborn is a lonely, anxious, "terminally shy" boy of eleven when his great-grandfather passes away and leaves Lewis's family with his decaying seaside mansion. Lewis is initially delighted with his new bedroom, a secluded tower in a remote part of the house. Then he discovers that it's already occupied -- by the ghosts of seven dead pirates. Worse, the ghosts expect him to help them re-take their ship, now restored and on display in a local museum, so they can make their way to Libertalia, a legendary pirate utopia. The only problem is that this motley crew hasn't left the house in almost two hundred years and is terrified of going outside. As Lewis warily sets out to assist his new roommates -- a raucous, unruly bunch who exhibit a strange delight in thrift-store fashions and a thirst for storybooks -- he begins to open himself to the possibilities of friendship, passion and joie de vivre and finds the courage to speak up (From Amazon.com)
By Linda Bailey
M Fiction Bailey
Arghh! Be careful matey!
Lewis Dearborn is a lonely, anxious, "terminally shy" boy of eleven when his great-grandfather passes away and leaves Lewis's family with his decaying seaside mansion. Lewis is initially delighted with his new bedroom, a secluded tower in a remote part of the house. Then he discovers that it's already occupied -- by the ghosts of seven dead pirates. Worse, the ghosts expect him to help them re-take their ship, now restored and on display in a local museum, so they can make their way to Libertalia, a legendary pirate utopia. The only problem is that this motley crew hasn't left the house in almost two hundred years and is terrified of going outside. As Lewis warily sets out to assist his new roommates -- a raucous, unruly bunch who exhibit a strange delight in thrift-store fashions and a thirst for storybooks -- he begins to open himself to the possibilities of friendship, passion and joie de vivre and finds the courage to speak up (From Amazon.com)