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1) Sheets
Author
Series
Sheets volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Marjorie Glatt feels like a ghost. A practical thirteen-year-old in charge of the family laundry business, her daily routine features unforgiving customers, unbearable P.E. classes, and the fastidious Mr. Saubertuck who is committed to destroying everything she's worked for"--Provided by publisher.
2) Boo! hiss!
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a boisterous family moves into their old, old house, Ghost and Snake devise a scary and slithery plan to make the family leave until they realize having a noisy, barking, laughing family around isn't so bad.
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this thrilling historical adventure set during World War II, Steve Rogers (AKA Captain America) and his young sidekick, Bucky Barnes, encounter threat like none they've ever seen -- a Ghost Army. The dead of this war and wars past are coming back to life, impervious to bullets, flames, or anything else the Allies can throw at them. The armies rise from the ground in the night and seem to disappear without a trace. How can Cap and Buck fight something...
Author
Series
Simon and Chester volume 1
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Simon and Chester are bored...until they pretend to be detectives.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"Twelve-year-old goblin and witch-in-training Beetle enlists her former best friend, Kat Hollowbones, to help stop Kat's sorceress aunt from demolishing the mall where Beetle's friend Blob Ghost is trapped."--Provided by publisher.
6) Anya's ghost
Author
Language
English
Description
Of all the things Anya expected to find at the bottom of an old well, a new friend wasn't one of them. Especially not a new friend who's been dead for a century. Falling down a well is bad enough, but Anya's normal life might actually be worse. She's embarrassed by her family, self-conscious about her body, and she's pretty much given up on fitting in at school. A new friend - even a dead one - is just what she needs. But Anya's new B.F.F. isn't kidding...
Author
Series
Fitz and Cleo volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Ghost siblings and best friends Fitz and Cleo go to the beach, fly paper airplanes, play baseball, and adopt a cat.
Author
Series
Johnny Boo volume 5
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
What does Johnny Boo do when there's nothing to do?
10) Ghost book
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"July Chen sees ghosts. But her dad insists ghosts aren't real. So she pretends they don't exist. Which is incredibly difficult now as it's Hungry Ghost month, when the Gates of the Underworld open and dangerous ghosts run amok in the living world. When July saves a boy ghost from being devoured by a Hungry Ghost, he becomes her first ever friend. Except William is not a ghost. He's a wandering soul wavering between life and death. As the new friends...
11) Séance tea party
Author
Publisher
RH Graphic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After watching her circle of friends seemingly fade away, Lora is determined to still have fun on her own, so when a tea party leads Lora to discovering Alexa, the ghost that haunts her house, they soon become best friends."--
12) Ghosts
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis. Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, but Maya sets her heart on meeting one.
Author
Series
Johnny Boo volume 3
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Johnny wants big muscles like those of the Ice Cream Monster. He feels apples will help in his endeavor.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown department store.
15) Reported missing
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton reporter volume 13
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Geronimo Stilton's dealt with mummies, ninjas, and pirates, but this may be the first time he's come face to face with... ghosts! Can the scaredy-mouse overcome his fears and get to the bottom of the mystery for a big scoop for his newspaper, The Rodent's Gazette? For help, who's he gonna call? His ghost-bustin' relatives, of course! Geronimo and his family need to travel to a haunted museum in Africa for this globe-trekking, teeth-chattering spooky...
16) Batcat
Author
Series
Batcat volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Batcat loves being all alone in their home on Spooky Island, spending time playing videogames and watching TV. But, when they find themself being haunted by an annoying, ice cream-stealing ghost, they visit the local Island Witch for a spell to remove their ghostly guest permanently.
17) Delicates
Author
Series
Sheets volume 2
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Marjorie Glatt's life hasn't been the same ever since she discovered a group of ghosts hiding in her family's laundromat. Wendell, who died young and now must wander Earth as a ghost with nothing more than a sheet for a body, soon became one of Marjorie's only friends. But when Marjorie finally gets accepted by the popular kids at school, she begins to worry that if anyone learns about her secret ghost friends, she'll be labeled as "a freak who sees...
Author
Series
Johnny Boo volume 1
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Johnny Boo has "boo" power and his pet ghost Squiggle has "squiggle" power. But which is better? And might there be a power that is greater than them both? Wiggle power? Giggle power? Squiggle goes on a quest to learn the secret of twinkle power from the twinkling stars, but doesn't have much luck. Instead, a strange and hilarious secret is discovered about Johnny Boo's hair.
20) Glister
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Strange things happen around Glister Butterworth and her family's English estate, including being forced to type the last novel of a ghostly author found in a haunted teapot.
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