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133.1 COH Cohen, Daniel, 1936-. Ghost in the house. 1st ed. New York : Cobblehill Books, c1993. Includes nine stories about some of the best known haunted houses in the world, including the Octagon in Washington, D.C., and the Weir house in               Edinburgh, Scotland.

133.1 WIL Williams, Gurney, 1941-. Ghosts and poltergeists. New York : Watts, 1979. Reports experiences with ghosts and poltergeists, questions their validity, and explains what to               do if one sees a ghost.

152.4 SZP Szpirglas, Jeff. Fear this book : your guide to fright, horror, & things that go bump in the night. Toronto : Berkeley, Calif. : Maple Tree Press ; Distributed in the U.S. by               Publishers Group West, c2006. Contains a collection of               facts and details on a number of scary things such as                ghosts, monsters, spiders and snakes, and vampires and horror movies.

398.2 ROB Roberts, Bruce, 1930-. America's most haunted places. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1976. Fifteen ghost stories associated with historically important locations in the United States including Fort Ticonderoga, Gettysburg, Harper's Ferry, and the Comstock Lode.

398.25 SCH Schwartz, Alvin, 1927-. Scary stories to tell in the dark. New York : HarperCollins, c1981. Stories of ghosts and witches, "jump" stories, scary songs, and modern-day scary stories.

398.25 SCH Schwartz, Alvin, 1927-. Scary stories 3 : more tales to chill your bones. New York : HarperCollins, c1991. A collection of traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, haunts, superstitions, monsters, and horrible scary things.

398.25 SCH Schwartz, Alvin, 1927-. More scary stories to tell in the dark. New York : HarperCollins, c1984. More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, "jump" stories, and scary songs.

808 ECK Ecke, Wolfgang, 1927-. The face at the window. 1st American ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1979. A collection of detective stories in which the reader determines the culprit. Solutions to the mysteries are included.

808 HIT Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-. Alfred Hitchcock's monster museum. [New York] : Random House, 1965. Slime / Joseph Payne Brennan -- The king of the cats / Stephen Vincent Benet -- The man who sold rope to the Gnoles / Idris Seabright -- Henry Martindale, great Dane / Miriam Allen DeFord -- Shadow, shadow on the wall / Theodore Sturgeon -- Doomsday deferred / Will F. Jenkins -- The young one / Jerome Bixby -- The desrich on Yandro / Manley Wade Wellman -- The Wheelbarrow boy / Richard Parker -- Homecoming / Ray Bradbury. A collection of twelve stories about monsters, each written by a different author.

808 RAN The Random House book of ghost stories. 1st Random House ed. New York : Random House, 1991, c1990. A collection of               seventeen ghost stories by authors including Eleanor Farjeon, Joan Aiken, Walter R. Brooks, and Leon Garfield.

808.8 MCK McKissack, Pat, 1944-. The dark-thirty : Southern tales of the supernatural. 1st Knopf Paperback ed. New York : A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1998, c1992. A collection of               ghost stories with African-American themes, designed to be                told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable.

FIC Avi Avi, 1937-. The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle. New York : Orchard Books, c1990. Thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle, the only passenger on a voyage from England to America in               1832, must take serious matters into her own hands when she learns that the captain is murderous.

FIC CAM Cameron, Eleanor, 1912-. The court of the stone children. [1st ed.]. New York, : Dutton, [1973]. Aided by the journal of               a young woman who lived in nineteenth-century France, Nina solves a murder mystery dormant since the time of Napoleon.

FIC CAR Carey, M. V. The mystery of the wandering cave man. New York : Random House, c1982. Three young sleuths investigate the disappearance of a caveman's bones from a museum and uncover skulduggery at a science foundation.

FIC CAR Carey, M. V. Alfred Hitchcock and the three investigators in The mystery of the sinister scarecrow. New York : Random House, c1979. The theft of some mutant army ants by a scarecrow leads the Three Investigators to the solution of two daring crimes in the art world.

FIC DIX Dixon, Franklin W. Footprints under the window. New York : Grosset & Dunlap, 1965. Frank and Joe uncover a plot to               steal a vital top-secret instrument of the space program.

FIC DOY Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930. The adventures of Sherlock Holmes. New York : Morrow, c1992. A collection of Sherlock Holmes mystery adventures, including "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Red-headed League," and "The Adventure of the Speckled               Band.".

FIC ECK Ecke, Wolfgang. The bank holdup. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice Hall, 1982. Twelve mystery cases for readers to               solve, with solutions provided in the back of the book.

FIC EVA Evansen, Virginia Besaw. The flea market mystery. New York : Dodd, Mead, c1978. A robbery at a senior citizens' co-op sends Nancy and Tomás Pérez from the Los Olivos flea market to a boardwalk arcade in a search for the thieves of their grandparents' handcrafted goods.

FIC FUN Funke, Cornelia Caroline. The Thief Lord. New York : Scholastic, [2003]. Orphaned brothers Prosper and Bo, having run away from their cruel aunt and uncle, decide to               hide out in Venice where they fall in with the Thief Lord, a                thirteen-year-old boy who leads a crime ring of street children.

FIC HAM Hamilton, Virginia, 1936-2002. Sweet whispers, Brother Rush. New York : Philomel Books, c1982. Fourteen-year-old Tree, resentful of her working mother who leaves her in charge of               a retarded brother, encounters the ghost of her dead uncle and comes to a deeper understanding of her family's               problems.

FIC HAM Hamilton, Virginia, 1936-2002. The house of Dies Drear. New York : Macmillan, [1968]. An African-American family moves into a house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves and soon come to believe that their new home is possessed by               the spirit of a murdered abolitionist, Dies Drear.

FIC HAM Hamilton, Virginia, 1936-2002. The mystery of Drear House : the conclusion of the Dies Drear chronicle. 1st ed. New York : Greenwillow Books, c1987. A black family living in the house of long-dead abolitionist Dies Drear must decide what to do with his stupendous treasure, hidden for one hundred years in a cavern near their home.

FIC HIT West, Nick. Alfred Hitchcock and the three investigators in The mystery of the nervous lion. New York, : Random House, [1971]. Hired to discover why a wild-animal farm's tame lion has become unpredictably nervous, three young detectives begin an investigation that uncovers a smuggling operation.

FIC HOE Hoeye, Michael. No time like show time : a Hermux Tantamoq adventure. New York : Putnam's, c2004. Watchmaker-mouse Hermux Tantamoq enters the exciting and somewhat shady world of show business to investigate a mysterious blackmailer at               the Varmint Theater.

FIC HOE Hoeye, Michael. The sands of time : a new Hermux Tantamoq adventure. New York : Speak, 2003. Despite fierce opposition from mouse supremacists and other residents of               Pinchester, three mice team up with an old chipmunk to prove that there existed, long before the time of mice, a Cat Kingdom.

FIC HOE Hoeye, Michael. Time stops for no mouse : a Hermux Tantamoq adventure. New York : Speak, 2003, c1999. When Linka Perflinger, a jaunty mouse, brings a watch into his shop to               be repaired and then disappears, Hermux Tantamoq is caught up in a dangerous search for eternal youth as he tries to               find out what happened to her.

FIC HOO Hoobler, Dorothy. The demon in the teahouse. Sleuth ed. New York : Sleuth Puffin, 2006, c2001. In eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old Seikei, a merchant's son in               training to be a samurai, helps his patron investigate a                series of murders and arson in the capital city of Edo, each of which is associated in some way with a popular geisha.

FIC HOO Hoobler, Dorothy. The ghost in the Tokaido Inn. Sleuth ed. New York : Puffin, 2005, c1999. Fourteen-year-old Seiki, a tea merchant's son who longs to be samurai, attempts to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel.

FIC HOO Hoobler, Dorothy. In darkness, death. New York : Sleuth/Puffin, 2005, c2004. In eighteenth-century Japan, young Seikei becomes involved with a ninja as he helps Judge Ooka, his foster father, investigate the murder of a samurai.

FIC HOO Hoobler, Dorothy. A samurai never fears death : a samurai mystery. New York : Sleuth/Philomel, c2007. Returning home to investigate the possible connection of his family's tea shop with smugglers, Seikei, now a samauri in               eighteenth-century Japan, becomes involved in murder at a                local puppet theater and saving the life of his sister's                accused boyfriend.

FIC KEE Keene, Carolyn. The hidden staircase. Facsim. ed. Bedford, MA               : Applewood Books, [1991]. Teenage detective Nancy Drew uses her courage and powers of deduction to solve the mysterious happenings in an old stone mansion.

FIC KON Konigsburg, E. L. Up from Jericho Tel.  New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1986. The spirit of a dead actress turns two children invisible and sends them out among a group of colorful street performers to search for a               missing necklace.

FIC KUS Kushner, Donn. Uncle Jacob's ghost story. 1st American ed. New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1986. Paul discovers the story of his Great Uncle Jacob, the black sheep of the family, who believed that the ghosts of two beloved friends followed him when he emigrated from Poland to America.

FIC LEE Lee, Beverly Haskell. The secret of Van Rink's cellar. Minneapolis : Lerner Publications Co., c1979. While searching for the ghost that haunts the house in which their mother is a maid and dressmaker for an English officer's               wife, Sarah and Stephen become secretly involved in the Revolutionary War effort.

FIC MAC MacHale, D. J. The lost city of Faar. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2003. Fourteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon, apprentice to his Uncle Press, a Traveler responsible for solving interdimensional conflict, tries to               locate the legendary lost land of Faar which may hold the key to the survival of the water-covered territory of               Cloral, which stands on the brink of war.

FIC MAC MacHale, D. J. The merchant of death. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2002. Fourteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon, having learned he is a Traveler--someone who can ride "flumes" through time and space, is soon off to               the alternative dimension of Denduron where he teams up with Loor, a girl his age from the warrior-territory of Zadaa, in               an attempt to save the gentle Milago people from slavery.

FIC MAC MacHale, D. J. The Never War. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2003. Fourteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon and Spader from the planet Cloral journey back in               time to 1937 New York City to uncover a plot by the evil Saint Dane.

FIC MAC MacHale, D. J. The reality bug. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2003. Fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon enters a virtual world to defeat the evil Saint Dane and finds himself tempted to leave the real world behind.

FIC NIC Nickerson, Sara. How to disappear completely and never be found. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 2003, c2002. With a swimming medal, the key to a mansion, and a comic book about a half-man/half-rat as her only clues, a               twelve-year-old girl seeks the true story of her father's                mysterious death four years earlier near an island in the Pacific Northwest.

FIC ODE O'Dell, Scott, 1898-1989. The dark canoe. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1968. A sixteen-year-old boy sails from nineteenth-century Nantucket to a remote California bay with his two older brothers and finds himself in mysterious circumstances involving the death of one brother and the strange obsession of the other.

FIC PEA Pearce, Philippa. The way to Sattin Shore. 1st American ed. New York : Greenwillow Books, c1983. When a tombstone with her father's name suddenly disappears from the graveyard, Kate, an English school girl, witnesses the unraveling of a               mystery surrounding the death of her father.

FIC PEC Peck, Richard. The dreadful future of Blossom Culp. New York : Delacorte, c1983. Blossom, not the most popular member of               her freshman class in 1914, travels ahead seventy years, and returns in time to make Halloween a memorable night for her classmates and teachers.

FIC RAS Raskin, Ellen. The Westing game. [1st ed.]. New York : Dutton, c1978. The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.

FIC THU Thurber, James, 1894-1961. The night the ghost got in. Mankato, Minn. : Creative Education, c1983. The brief appearance of               a ghost late at night begins a series of comic misunderstandings during which the narrator's mother throws a shoe through a neighbor's window and his grandfather shoots a policeman.

FIC VAN Van Draanen, Wendelin. Sammy Keyes and the skeleton man. New York : A.A. Knopf, c1998. On Halloween night, seventh grader Sammy stumbles onto a mystery involving a               twenty-year-old family feud and some heirlooms stolen by a                man in a skeleton costume.

FIC VAN Van Draanen, Wendelin. Sammy Keyes and the runaway elf. 1st Knopf paperback ed. New York : A. Knopf, 2000. After a dog she is watching disappears from a city parade and the owner receives a ransom note, thirteen-year-old Sammy must use her detective skills to solve the mystery.

FIC VAN Van Draanen, Wendelin. Sammy Keyes and the Sisters of Mercy. 1st Yearling ed. New York : Dell Yearling, 2001, c1999. Sammy continues to make life with her grandmother interesting as she tries to discover who is stealing from St. Mary's church, befriends a homeless girl, and plays in a               softball tournament against a bitter rival.

FIC VAN Van Draanen, Wendelin. Sammy Keyes and the search for Snake Eyes. New York : Dell Yearling, [2003], c2002. When thirteen-year-old Sammy finds herself with an abandoned baby on her hands, she sets out to find the young mother, who may belong to a gang, and accidentally jeopardizes her position on the softball team.

FIC VAN Van Draanen, Wendelin. Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood mummy. New York : Dell Yearling, [2002], c2001. A Hollywood actress, who had been competing with Sammy's mother for an important role, is murdered, but thirteen-year-old Sammy and her friend Marissa are on the case.

FIC VAN Van Draanen, Wendelin. Sammy Keyes and the art of deception. New York : Dell Yearling, [2005], c2003. Seventh-grade sleuth Sammy Keyes investigates mysterious happenings at a               local art gallery.

FIC VAN Van Draanen, Wendelin. Sammy Keyes and the skeleton man. New York : Dell Yearling, [2005], c1998. On Halloween night, seventh grader Sammy stumbles onto a mystery involving a               twenty-year-old family feud and some heirlooms stolen by a                man in a skeleton costume.

FIC VAN Van Draanen, Wendelin. Sammy Keyes and the hotel thief. New York : Yearling, [2005], c1998. Thirteen-year-old Sammy's               penchant for speaking her mind gets her in trouble when she involves herself in the investigation of a robbery at the "seedy" hotel across the street from the seniors' building where she is living with her grandmother.

FIC VAN Van Draanen, Wendelin. Sammy Keyes and the curse of Moustache Mary. New York : Dell Yearling, [2001], c2000. While celebrating the New Year with a friend, Sammy encounters a               mystery involving an elderly neighbor, a pioneer cabin, and a century-old family feud.

FIC VAN Van Draanen, Wendelin. Sammy Keyes and the psycho Kitty Queen. New York : Yearling, [2006], c2004. When cats begin to               mysteriously disappear in Santa Martina, thirteen-year-old friends Sammy and Holly start snooping around town to find out what is happening.

FIC YEP Yep, Laurence, 1948-. The Mark Twain murders. New York : Four Winds, c1982. In the summer of 1864, a teen-age boy meets reporter Mark Twain in San Franciso after a murder, and agrees to help him get the story.