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394.2 BAR Barth, Edna. Witches, pumpkins, and grinning ghosts : the story of Halloween symbols. New York : Seabury Press, [1972]. Explains the origins of and relates stories associated with familiar Halloween symbols.

394.2 GLO Glovach, Linda. The little witch's Halloween book. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [1975]. Step-by-step instructions for a variety of Halloween activities, foods, costumes, and festivities.

394.2 HIN Hintz, Martin. Halloween : why we celebrate it the way we do. Mankato, Minn. : Capstone Books, c1996. Discusses the history and origin of Halloween, and examines Halloween symbols, the tradition of trick or treat, the pumpkin, and more.

398.2 MAT Matthews, John. The Barefoot book of giants, ghosts and goblins : traditional tales from around the world. New York : Barefoot Books, 1999. A cross-cultural anthology of folk tales carefully chosen to terrify and tantalize young readers. The mystery and magic of the stories are beautifully realized by evocative and enchanting watercolors.

398.2 SAN San Souci, Robert D. Short & shivery : thirty chilling tales. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1987. A collection of thirty short and spooky tales from the folklore of               Russia, Virginia, Ireland, Canada, and other areas of the world.

398.25 SAN San Souci, Robert D. A terrifying taste of short & shivery : thirty creepy tales. New York : Delacorte, [2000], c1998. A collection of scary traditional tales from all over the world, including "Apparitions" from Germany, "The Hundredth               Skull" from Ohio, and "The Ogre's Arm" from Japan.

398.25 YEP Yep, Laurence, 1948-. The man who tricked a ghost. Mahwah, N.J.               : Bridgewater Press, c1993. Sung, a brave man who is not afraid of ghosts, meets one on a dark road and tricks it               into revealing its secret weakness.

793.8 BAK Baker, James W., 1926-. Halloween magic. Minneapolis : Lerner Publications Co., c1988. Directions for ten magic tricks with a Halloween theme.

808 LIV Lively, Penelope, 1933-. Uninvited ghosts and other stories. 1st ed. New York : E.P. Dutton, 1985, c1984. A Martian comes to stay -- The disastrous dog -- Uninvited ghosts -- The dragon tunnel -- Time trouble -- Princess by mistake -- A flock of gryphons -- The great mushroom mistake.-

808 YOL The haunted house : a collection of original stories. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c1995. Somewhere a puppy cries / Mary K. Whittington -- The paperdoll ghost / Anna Grossnickle Hines -- Biscuits of glory / Bruce Coville -- The gourmet ghost / Janet E. Gill -- And the lights flickered / Barbara Diamond Goldin -- Night Wolves / Jane Yolen -- The train room / Gary Hines. A collection of seven ghost stories all taking place in the same haunted house.

970.01 Pittman, M.                      Pittman, Margaret Brown, 1914-. The mystery of who discovered the Americas. New York : Morristown, N.J. : C.P.I. ; distributed by Silver Burdett Co., 1979. Highlights the migration of people from Asia to North America and the subsequent "discovery" of the continent by Irish monks, Norsemen, and Christopher Columbus.

985.3 McConnell, L.                     McConnell, Lorraine F., 1949-. Machu Picchu : mystery city of               the Incas. New York : Morristown, N.J. : Contemporary Perspectives ; distributed by Silver Burdett Co., c1979. Describes the discovery in 1911 of the Peruvian ruins called Machu Picchu and presents the various theories of the function of this city in the ancient Inca civilization.

FIC ADL Adler, David A. Cam Jansen, the mystery of the U.F.O.  New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Puffin Books, 2004.

FIC ADR Adrian, Mary, 1908-. The fireball mystery. New York : Hastings House, c1977. Three children hunt for a meteorite they saw fall from outer space but run into some unexpected complications.

FIC BAB Babbitt, Natalie. Kneeknock Rise. [1st ed.]. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1970]. Everyone else in the village is afraid of the creature who supposedly dwells at               the top of Kneeknock Rise but young Egan investigates for himself.

FIC BAG Baglio, Ben M. Horse in the house. New York : Scholastic, [2001], c1997. Mandy and James investigate reports that a               campsite where riding stables once stood is haunted by a                ghostly horse and rider.

FIC BON Bond, Ann Sharpless. Adam & Noah and the cops. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1983. Adventure and mystery find Adam and Noah when they become involved with a stolen boat, drug smugglers, a runaway horse, and a woman about to give birth on the top of a twenty-story building with a broken elevator.

FIC BRI Brittain, Bill. The mystery of the several sevens. 1st ed. NewYork : HarperCollins, c1994. Mr. Merlin, a wizard disguised as a substitute teacher, magically transports two fifth graders to a fairyland where they must solve a riddle to               find out who has stolen the seven dwarfs' bag of diamonds.

FIC BUL Bulla, Clyde Robert. The ghost of Windy Hill. New York : Crowell, 1968. A professor with a reputation for being unafraid of ghosts moves with his family into a house that is supposed to be haunted but his children find the neighbors more mysterious than the house.

FIC CHR Christopher, Matt. Skateboard tough. 2nd paperback ed. New York : Little, Brown, c1991. When Brett's skateboarding abilities dramatically and inexplicably improve after using the Lizard, a skateboard mysteriously unearthed in his front yard, his friends start to wonder if the skateboard is               haunted.

FIC CHR Christopher, Matt. The hockey machine. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, c1986. Abducted by a "fan" and forced to               become a member of a professional junior hockey team, thirteen-year-old star center Steve Crandall quickly realizes that he must play not only to win but to survive.

FIC COR Corbett, Scott. The trouble with diamonds. Rev. ed. New York : E.P. Dutton, c1985. After Jeff Adams gets a summer job at a               country inn, his first duty is to help the owner trap a                suspected jewel thief.

FIC COR Corbett, Scott. The hangman's ghost trick. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, c1977. Kevin and Kerby go to scary Bald Mountain at night to search for a rare mystery ingredient that would guarantee the prize in a cookie contest.

FIC COR Corcoran, Barbara. You're Allegro dead. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum, 1981. Two girls stumble upon things at their recently reopened camp that make them believe someone has been living there during the years the camp was deserted.

FIC DIC Dicks, Terrance. The Baker Street Irregulars in the case of the missing masterpiece. 1st ed. New York : Elsevier/Nelson Books, 1979, c1978. When an early painting by Constable is               stolen from a private collector, four English children decide to solve the crime.

FIC EST Estes, Eleanor, 1906-1988. The Alley. 1st Harcourt Young Classics ed., 1st Odyssey Classics ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, 2003, c1964. Ten-year-old Connie, who lives in               the Brooklyn neigborhood called The Alley, investigates a                burglary with her friend Billy Maloon.

FIC FIF Fife, Dale. The sesame seed snatchers. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1983. Ten-year-old Mike and his best friend form "The Two Guys Private Eyes" detective agency and discover how sesame seeds are mysteriously disappearing from Silas Newton's Wild Red Raspberry Jelly Factory in San Francisco.

FIC FLE Fleischman, Sid, 1920-. Jim Ugly. 1st ed. New York : Greenwillow Books, c1992. The adventures of twelve-year-old Jake and Jim Ugly, his father's part-mongrel, part-wolf dog, as they travel through the Old West trying to find out what really happened to Jake's actor father.

FIC GOD Godden, Rumer, 1907-. Mr. McFadden's Hallowe'en. 1st ed. New York : Viking Press, 1975. A young girl and her pony befriend a dour farmer on the Scottish border.

FIC HAS Hass, E. A. Incognito Mosquito flies again! New York : Random House, c1985. The mosquito detective tells a class of FBI agents of his exploits and encounters with such insect offenders and notables as Russian Cagey Bees, Goldfungus, Mikhail Baryshnimoth, and Gnat King Cole. Sequel to               "Incognito Mosquito, Private Insective.".

FIC HIL Hildick, E. W. (Edmund Wallace). The case of the four flying fingers. New York : Macmillan, c1981. While unwittingly helping a master burglar, a group of children runs afoul of               the McGurk Detective Organization.

FIC HIL Hildick, E. W. (Edmund Wallace), 1925-. The case of the invisible dog. 1st American ed. New York : Macmillan, 1977. The McGurk Organization's four young detectives match wits with a nine-year-old scientific genius to unravel the mystery of the "invisible dog.".

FIC HOW Howe, Deborah. Bunnicula : a rabbit-tale of mystery. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1979. Though scoffed at               by Harold the dog, Chester the cat tries to warn his human family that their foundling baby bunny must be a vampire.

FIC LIV Lively, Penelope, 1933-. The ghost of Thomas Kempe. New York : Dutton, 1973. The ghost of a seventeenth-century sorcerer emerges as a poltergeist and attempts to make young James his apprentice.

FIC MAR Martin, Patricia Stone. Timid Timothy and the Halloween ghost. Vero Beach, FL : Rourke Publications, c1986. Timid Timothy, so-called by his older brother because he is worried about scary things, tangles with a "ghost" on Halloween. Includes a craft project to make ghost pencils.

FIC PAR Parish, Peggy. Hermit Dan. New York : Macmillan, c1977. Intrigued by stories of local pirates and buried treasure, three children decide to find out the truth about Hermit Dan and his ancestors.

FIC PRY Pryor, Bonnie. Marvelous Marvin and the pioneer ghost. New York : Morrow Junior Books, c1995. Marvin enlists the help of               his twin sister Sarah and Ernie, the biggest boy in the fourth grade, to solve a mystery involving a ghostly figure and the polluting of his favorite stream.

FIC QUA Quackenbush, Robert M. Piet Potter's first case. New York : McGraw-Hill, c1980. A boy detective uses a blank sheet of               paper, a key, and a subway map to help a neighbor solve a                puzzling message in a will.

FIC ROB Roberts, Willo Davis. The minden curse. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum, 1978. When Danny goes to a small village to live with his aunt and grandfather, it soon becomes apparent that he and his dog are afflicted with the Minden Curse.

FIC ROY Roy, Ron, 1940-. The falcon's feathers. New York : Random House, c1998. Josh and his two friends look for the person who stole a peregrine falcon from its nest.

FIC SCH Schulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe), 1922-2000. It's a mystery, Charlie Brown. New York : Random House, c1975. Sally is at               her wit's end due to a science project. She steals a bird's               nest hoping to end her problems but only succeeds in                creating more.

FIC WAR Warner, Gertrude Chandler, 1890-1979. Mystery ranch. Chicago : Whitman, c1986. Eccentric Aunt Jane needs help on her ranch so the Aldens, affectionately known as the boxcar children, get help from a private detective.

FIC WAR Warner, Gertrude Chandler, 1890-1979. Blue Bay mystery. Niles, Ill. : Whitman, c1989. The Alden children find an unusual mystery when they spend a vacation on a supposedly deserted South Seas Island.

FIC WAR Warner, Gertrude Chandler, 1890-1979. The lighthouse mystery. Morton Grove, Ill. : Whitman, c1991. In this story of the boxcar children, the Aldens get involved in questions about a boy's unusual behavior after they rent a lighthouse.