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Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator
Jennifer Allison
During the summer before ninth grade, intrepid Gilda Joyce invites herself to the
San Francisco
mansion of distant cousin Lester Splinter and his thirteen-year-old daughter, and becomes involved with the mystery of the mansion's
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Cold in Summer
Tracy
Barret
At
the beginning of seventh grade Ariadne moves to a
Tennessee
town near a former farming community submerged under a man-made lake and
meets the ghost of a girl from the past.
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That's Ghosts for You
Marianne Carus, editor
A collection of short ghost stories.
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Starry Nights
Judith Clarke
Guilty
over their older brother's drowning and their mother's breakdown,
fourteen-year-old Vida ventures into the occult but it is ten-year-old
Jess who meets the ghost who is trying to help them.
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The Ghost of Cutter Creek
Cynthia
DeFelice
When
Allie is contacted by the ghost of a dog, she and Dub investigate the
surly new boy at school and his father, who may be running a puppy mill,
to see if they are involved.
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The Poltergoose: A
Jiggy McCue Story
Michael Lawrence
After moving to a new house Jiggy is
haunted by the ghost of a goose, and his friends join him in trying to lay
her spirit to rest.
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Johnny
and the Dead
Terry
Pratchett
After twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell suddenly starts seeing and talking to ghosts, he and his friends become involved in a battle to save the local
cemetery
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Ghost Ship
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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One Night in the Doom House
R.L.
Stine
While helping his ghost friends, Nicky and Tara find their parents, he accidentally angers an evil ghost. He embarks on a wild ride across town to keep the vengeful ghost from melting his classmates.
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The
Case of the Graveyard Ghost
Michelle
Torrey
Drake
Doyle and Nell Fossey continue to combine their detective and scientific
investigation skills to solve a variety of cases, involving a noisy
laundry chute, a ruined flower show, and a ghost.
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Princess for a Week
Betty Ren Wright
Roddy thinks he’s spending the
week with a dog but Princess turns out to be a girl!
The two reluctant companions investigate the suspicious activities
happening at a supposedly haunted house.
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Blue Ghost
Marion
Dane Bauer
At
her grandmother's log cabin, nine-year-old Liz is led to make contact with
children she believes may be her ancestors.
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A Ghost Named Wanda
Dan Greenburg
Zack
feels that a supernatural force is at work in his apartment when he
encounters floating television sets, pancakes that flip by themselves, and
a ghost named Wanda.
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Ghost Trap: A Wild Willie Mystery
Barbara Joose
When
Wild Willie's best friend Kyle moves back to the neighborhood the boys
suspect that Kyle's new house is haunted.
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