A Gathering of Ghosts

Bibliography created by the Schaumburg Township District Library

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ALLISON, J.
Gilda Joyce: the Ghost Sonata by Jennifer Allison.
When ninth-grader Gilda travels to an international piano competition in Oxford, England, as page turner for her friend Wendy Choy, she finds adventure investigating why Wendy is being haunted and who is frightening the performers, while enjoying a romance with a British boy and her first kiss.
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ALTER, S.
The Phantom Isles by Stephen Alter.
Three friends and the librarian in a Massachusetts town must help each other to free the ghosts that have been imprisoned in books by a professor on a fantastical island many years ago.
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AREVAMIRP, E.
Fred & Anthony Escape from the Netherworld by Esile Arevamirp.
Fred and Anthony go to the netherworld where they encounter ghosts and monsters, including the ghost writer Esile Arevamirp who then writes their story.
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ARNOLD, L.
Golden and Grey (an Unremarkable Boy and a Rather Remarkable Ghost) by Louise Arnold.
When a downhearted ghost becomes the “invisible friend” of an eleven-year-old boy who is an outcast in his new school, the two help each other find their place in their respective worlds.
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ARNOLD, M.
The Vanishing Gate and the Imposter by Marliese Arnold.
Eleven-year-old Max and his best friend Sophie are hired to help in the gardens of a castle, but soon discover that here is much more to the job than they expected as the entrance to the garden appears and disappears, and the topiary comes to life in unexpected and frightening ways.
MYSTERY
JR-HI
BARRETT, T.
Cold in Summer by Tracy Barrett.
After moving to a former farming community at the beginning of seventh grade, Ariadne meets the ghost of a girl from the past.
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BARROWS, A.
Ivy + Bean and the Ghost that had to Go by Annie Barrows.
Second-graders Ivy and Bean set out to expel the ghost who is living in the girls’ bathroom at their school.
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BAUER, M.
The Blue Ghost by Marion Dane Bauer.
At her grandmother’s log cabin, nine-year-old Liz makes contact with children she believes may be her ancestors.
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BLOOR, E.
Story Time by Edward Bloor.
George and Kate are promised the best education but instead face obsessed administrators, endless tests, and evil spirits when they are transferred to Whittaker Magnet School.
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BURGESS, M.
The Ghost behind the Wall by Melvin Burgess.
Twelve-year-old David sneaks through the ventilation shafts in his London apartment building pulling pranks on his neighbors, which awakens the ghost of a boy with a grudge against the lonely, senile old man who lives upstairs.
MYSTERY
CAPECI, A.
Ghost Train by Anne Capeci.
When Billy finds a burlap sack containing a pistol and a cryptic, threatening note, he and his best friends Dannie and Finn avoid rehearsals for the town’s historical pageant while trying to learn who holds a grudge and is plotting against the railroad.
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COLLIER, J.
The Empty Mirror by James Lincoln Collier.
Orphaned as a baby, Nick realizes something is terribly wrong when he notices that he no longer has a reflection and strange occurrences all over town are being blamed on him.
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DEFELICE, C.
The Ghost of Poplar Point by Cynthia DeFelice.
Prompted by the ghost of a young Seneca Indian girl, twelve-year-old Allie and her friend Dub are determined, despite the opposition of an unscrupulous property developer, that the historical pageant celebrating the founding of their town tells the truth about the fate of the Seneca people who lived there during the Revolutionary War.
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DELANEY, M.
The Great Sockathon by Michael Delaney.
During the summer between fifth and sixth grades, Sabrina hears a voice coming from her town’s 275-year-old balm of Gilead tree and believes it to be the ghost that supposedly haunts it.
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FUNKE, C.
Ghosthunters and the Muddy Monster of Doom! by Cornelia Funke.
With the fate of the world resting on the outcome of his battle against the mud-dripping minotaur, Tom’s final exam is one that is certain to test his combined knowledge in the field and, if he survives rightfully earn him his Ghosthunting Diploma.
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GRIFFIN, A.
Witch Twins and the Ghost of Glenn Bly by Adele Griffin.
When the witch twins, Claire and Luna, accompany their grandparents to Scotland, they enlist the aid of an army of ghosts to help save the castle of their grandmother’s old friend.
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HAHN M.
Deep and Dark and Dangerous: a Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn.
When thirteen-year-old Ali spends the summer with her aunt and cousin at the family’s vacation home, she stumbles upon a secret that her mother and aunt have been hiding for over thirty years.
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IBBOTSON, E.
The Haunting of Granite Falls by Eva Ibbotson.
When twelve-year-old Alex’s Scottish castle of Carra is sold, dismantled, and moved to Texas, the ghosts that raised him from a child have difficulty relocating.
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JENNINGS, R.
Scribble: a Dog Story, a Ghost Story, a Love Story by Richard W. Jennings.
With only his dog Scribble for companionship, a twelve-year-old boy mourns the death of his best friend and tries to understand the meaning of strange, otherwordly visitations from the likes of Sam Walton and Nat King Cole.
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MACPHAIL, C.
Dark Waters by Catherine Macphail.
Col McCann becomes a local hero when he saves a boy from drowning but when his older brother is suspected of a serious crime, Col must decide if he should be loyal to his family or tell the truth about what he saw while under the water.
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MCALLISTER, M.
Ghost at the Window by Margaret McAllister.
Ewan and his parents love the isolated Scottish house they have moved to, but it slips in and out of different times, and Ewan finds he must help a young girl trapped by these time shifts and stuck between life and death.
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METZ, M.
Raven’s Point by Melinda Metz.
An ancient evil has reawakened on a small island off the coast of Rhode Island, eager to cause death and destruction as it has twice before, but three teens face it with their newly-developed supernatural abilities.
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POTTER, E.
Olivia Kidney and the Exit Academy by Ellen Potter.
Twelve-year-old Olivia Kidney and her father move into a Manhattan brownstone that has a lagoon in the living room, hosts visiting strangers in the middle of the night, and is mysteriously close to the spirit world.
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REICHE, D.
Ghost Ship by Dietlof Reiche.
An eighteenth-century figurehead, the journal of a ship’s quartermaster, and supernatural occurrences at a seaside resort lead twelve-year-old Vicki and her friend Peter on a quest to lift a curse and set right a horrible deed committed two hundred and thirty years in the past.
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REISS, K.
Sweet Miss Honeywell’s Revenge: a Ghost Story by Kathryn Reiss.
Just before her mother is to remarry and her stepfamily is set to move in, twelve-year-old Zibby gradually realizes that her antique dollhouse is haunted by ghosts, one of whom is out for revenge.
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RUBY, L.
Lily’s Ghosts by Laura Ruby.
Strange goings-on at her great-uncle’s summer home in Cape May, New Jersey, draw Lily and a new friend into a mystery involving lost treasure, a fake medium, and ghosts of all sizes, shapes, and dispositions.
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SAGE, A.
Frognapped by Angie Sage.
Barry Wizard’s five acrobatic frogs are missing, and Araminta and her best friend Wanda, aided by the spectral Sir Horace, follow the trail to Morris’s Water Wonderland, where something fishy is going on.
MYSTERY
SEABROOKE, B.
The Haunting of Swain’s Fancy by Brenda Seabrooke.
Eleven-year-old Taylor spends the summer with her father and his new family in a historic house in West Virginia and, while contending with hostility from her stepsister Nicole, attempts to solve the mystery of ghosts who haunt the site.
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STINE, R.
Have You Met My Ghoulfriend? by R. L. Stine.
Phears, an evil ghost, wants eleven-year-old Max to help him capture the ghosts of two children whose parents once trapped him.
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JR-HI
WAHL, M.
The Invisible by Mats Wahl.
A Swedish teenager is assaulted and killed, but returns as a ghost to find his killer.
MYSTERY
WARNER, G.
The Ghost in the First Row by Gertrude Warner.
The Aldens investigate the rumors of ghosts, disappearing props and a haunted seat in the Trap-Door Theater.
STORY COLL
WESTALL, R.
Demons and Shadows: The Ghostly Best Stories of Robert Westall by Robert Westall.
A collection of ten of the author's ghostly tales, including "Rachel and the Angel", "The Creatures in the House", and "Graveyard Shift".
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WRIGHT, B.
Crandall’s Castle by Betty Ren Wright.
Charli’s impulsive uncle, Will Crandall, decides to buy the town’s abandoned, possibly haunted castle and fix it up as a bed-and-breakfast, but Charli and Sophia, a clairvoyant orphan who has come to stay with the Crandall Family, know his plan is somehow dangerous.
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YOLEN, J.
The Bagpiper’s Ghost by Jane Yolen.
While in Scotland visiting relatives, thirteen-year-old twins hunting for ghosts in an old cemetery find big trouble when Peter is possessed by the spirit of a man who is determined to keep his twin sister from the man she loves.