CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 4, 2011
"An irresistible read: This book sings. (Fantasy. 8-12)"
CHILDREN'S
Released: Dec. 1, 2010
"Chock-full of authentic Japanese demons and gleefully entertaining. (Ghost story. 9-11)"
When she was a little girl in Osaka, Miku Takeshita was totally normal, except for having a zashiki-warashi—a child-ghost in her house.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 2010
"Hahn is a master of the supernatural tale, and her legions of fans will revel in this chilling volume, reminiscent of Dickens and Poe. (Gothic fiction. 9-12)"
Ever since her parents drowned in a boating accident when she was five, 12-year-old Florence has led a wretched life at Miss Medleycoate's Home for Orphan Girls in London.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 30, 2008
"Closer in tone to American Gods than to Coraline, but permeated with Bod's innocence, this needs to be read by anyone who is or has ever been a child. (Fantasy. 10 & up)"
CHILDREN'S
Released: April 1, 2008
"This tale proves that the time-honored ghost story, capably researched, well-paced and fusing the Gothic elements of mystery, madness and romance, can still thrill in the hands of a skilled craftsman. (Fiction. 8-12)"
In 1870s New York, at the intersection of scientific advances in photography and post-Civil War superstition, sentimentality and mourning, Horace's father apprentices him to a spirit photographer.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 2006
"Light and likable. (Fiction. 9-12)"
Tom is hard-pressed to behave normally around his parents and at school when his Invisible Friend Grey Arthur places an ad in the ghostly Daily Tell-Tale for ghosts who want to become invisible allies to human children.
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