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Every day, 13 year old Henry Bats has his usual bowl of Sugar Slugs, helps tend Cobalt Sidewinders at Frank’s Peculiar Pets, and keeps to himself with his comic book collection. Just your typical day in Grimworld, where the sky is always dark and shadows lurk in the streets. What’s not typical is a suspicious Nightspook luring Henry into a cemetery in the middle of the night with the promise of a prized comic book. The Nightspook steals part of Henry's lifespan with a pocket watch, which begins counting down to his death.

The illustrious E6 No. 466 locomotive (“Lundbergh Engine”) is a historic tribute to humanity’s ingenuity, strength, and determination...and she’s making her final journey from Newark to Atlantic City, New Jersey, before her permanent retirement. Within the crevices of her iron body and fiery belly, there is something most peculiar about the Lundbergh Engine. A young passenger, named Tommy, soon discovers that Walter, the train’s conductor, is in possession of a special pocket watch that harbors a strange secret connected with the mysterious occurrences on board the train.

Chi è il misterioso bambino fantasma che tenta di entrare a Villa Decadente alla vigilia della tenebrosa festa di Capodanno Trapassato? Insieme a Mesto, il suo fedele levriero albino, Mortina cerca ogni dettaglio utile a scoprire da dove arrivi il loro nuovo, spettrale amico, in una spassosa indagine che le farà battere il cuore.

Mortina e il suo migliore amico, un levriero albino di nome Mesto, vivono con la zia Dipartita e trascorrono le loro giornate giocando con i fantasmi di Villa Decadente. Un giorno però capita un imprevisto: alcuni bambini del villaggio, amici di Mortina, arrivano alla villa dopo aver ricevuto un misterioso invito, mentre la zia Dipartita scompare nel nulla. C'entrerà qualcosa l'odioso cugino Dilbert che è appena giunto a farle visita?

New York Times best-selling authors Ally Condie and Brendan Reichs team up to co-author this thrilling first book in a darkly suspenseful middle grade series. Everyone in Timbers knows Still Cove is off-limits, with its creepy Beast sightings and equally terrifying legends. But when a bullying incident sends 12-year-old Nico Holland over a cliff and into Still Cove's icy waters, friends Tyler and Emma - and even Opal Walsh, who usually runs with the popular kids - rush to his rescue...and discover a mysterious island hiding in the murky, swirling mists below.

After four years on radio, the characters of Goatshead Castle are now taking the world of literature by storm in this comedic Halloween tale! Starring the witch, known as Samantha V Hutton, who is preparing for her annual Halloween ball, with little to no help from her cousin Amanda, her butler Jeeves, or the Lambton Worm Junior, who all seem more interested in telling their stories. Join the Goatshead Castle gang on this comic Halloween adventure full of ghosts, mysteries, and very peculiar characters with dark deeds in mind. Contains mild language.

Das Zittergespenst Bibbi ist es leid, ständig ängstlich zu sein. Wie gerne wäre es ein mutiges Gespenst! Doch wie soll es das schaffen? Aus lauter Verzweiflung macht Bibbi bei einer Waldhexe einen Kurs für Flaschengeister. Danach scheint alles anders zu werden. Endlich kann sie es ihren Gespensterfreunden zeigen und sogar Wünsche erfüllen. Aber statt Bewunderung handelt sie sich erst mal jede Menge Ärger ein. Bis sie erkennt, dass die Hexe sie hereingelegt hat, muss sie etliche Lektionen lernen. Auch der neueste Streich der "10 kleinen Burggespenster" lässt jedes Zwerchfell vor Freude zittern. Der Erfolg im Kinderzimmer ist garantiert!

Twin brothers discover their new home is also a portal--for an hour a day--to a parallel dimension in this spine-chilling middle-grade adventure, perfect for fans of The Mysterious Benedict Society Twelve-year-old twins Colm and Mal might look identical, but they’re different in just about...

Das kleine Gespenst wird 50 - die musikalische Hörspielinszenierung der neuen Geschichte feiert Otfried Preußlers beliebte Figur! Auch die allerkleinsten Hörer können nun die nächtliche Welt des kleinen Gespensts durchstreifen und gemeinsam mit ihm allerlei Schabernack im Burgmuseum treiben. Als der goldene Taschenwecker des Generals Torsten Torstenson plötzlich verschwindet, beschließt Burgverwalter Finsterwalder, dass der Spuk ein Ende haben muss. Doch so leicht lässt sich ein Gespenst nicht fangen. Es beginnt eine wilde, vergnügliche Jagd durch die ehrwürdigen Hallen von Burg Eulenstein.

After her grampa dies, the last place Libby expects to see him is sitting on the edge of her bed. But that's what happens the night after the funeral. Even more surprising is that Grampa has three important things to tell her: first, that she isn't alone or forgotten - "The dead ain't never that far from the living", he says; second, that she has "the Sight" - the ability to see family members who have died; and third, that there is something special just for her in the lake. Something that could help her and her father - if she can find it.

Fans of Adam Gidwitz and Neil Gaiman will love this middle-grade adventure about two boys, a mysterious, old book with some dark secrets, and a horde of angry demons. Nothing could go wrong, right? When Walter Prairie is struck dead by a bolt of lightning, he's fast-tracked through the Afterlife Academy and assigned as a Guardian Agent to protect a High-Level Target. Walter's HLT, Charlie Dewdle, isn't the most popular kid in school. He's a bit paranormally obsessed. And he has just found an old book that could be used to open the Gateway for demons to wreak havoc on earth.

Ghosts are alive on the island of Nantucket. You can hear them in the wind, and in the creaks of the old homes. They want to be remembered. And, even more, they want to protect what was once theirs. The ghosts seem to have chosen a few local kids to be their messengers - and to help save the island. But in this mystery, the line between those who haunt and those who are haunted is a thin one - and the past and the present must come to terms with one another in order to secure the future.

Bei einem Ausflug entdecken Emily Windsnap und ihr Freund Aaron ein riesiges Segelschiff. Das Seltsame ist: Nur sie können es sehen. Die beiden finden heraus, dass das Schiff schon längst untergegangen und als Geisterschiff zwischen den Welten gefangen ist. Um die Menschen an Bord zu retten, muss Emily sich auf eine gefährliche Reise nach Atlantis begeben. Ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit beginnt! Laura Maire entführt mit ihrer Lesung in die geheimnisvollen Tiefen des Ozeans und in eine Welt voll fantastischer Abenteuer.

Che misteri nasconde il gatto gigante che vaga nelle gallerie sotterranee del metrò, terrorizzando tutti i roditori di Topazia? Geronimo, Tea, Trappola e Pinky scoprono molti indizi inquietanti...

Except Brodie can't move on. Not just yet. As wonderful as his glimpse of the afterlife is, he can't forget the boy he left behind. The boy he loved, and who loved him in return. The boy who's still in danger. So Brodie breaks the rules of heaven. He returns to Earth as a spirit. With the help of two other lost souls - lovable pitbull Tuck and surly housecat Patsy - he is determined to find his boy and to save him. Even if it costs him paradise. Even if he loses his eternal soul. Because it's what a good dog would do.

Against the ominous backdrop of the influenza epidemic of 1918, Elsie, the class tattletale, liar, and thief, claims the new girl at school, Annie, as her best friend. But Annie soon makes other friends as well and finds herself joining them in teasing and tormenting Elsie, who later succumbs to the epidemic and dies. Elsie is not absent from school long, though. She soon returns there as a ghost, ready to reclaim Annie's friendship and to punish all the girls who bullied her.

Det här är den fjärde delen i Katarina Mazettis spännande och mycket populära bokserie om kusinerna Karlsson. Det är höstlov och de fyra kusinerna Humlan, Julia, George och Alex ska för första gången vara tillsammans med sin moster Frida på hennes skärgårdsö på hösten. De tänker sig en mysig vecka med mycket slappande framför brasan med god mat, roliga spel och bra böcker. Men de hinner knappt komma ut till ön innan de får syn på ett spöklikt vitt ansikte i mörkret utanför fönstret.

Det här är den andra delen i Katarina Mazettis nya bokserie om kusinerna Karlsson. Riktigt härliga äventyrsböcker för bokslukarna! De fyra kusinerna är på påsklov på skärgårdsön hos sin excentriska moster Frida. Frida har just köpt fem vombater för att göra om sin ö till en vombatpark! Det kunde ha blivit ett mysigt lov med de gulliga men busiga djuren om det inte plötsligt dök upp objudna gäster på ön. Grabben i graven bredvid" gör just nu ett nytt segertåg i Frankrike, där den sålt i en nästan 700 000 exemplar.

Detta är den tredje boken i Katarina Mazettis nya feelgoodserie för bokslukarna! De fyra kusinerna Humlan 9 år, Julia 12 år, George 11 år och Alex 12 år, samlas ännu en gång några sommarveckor hos sin excentriska moster Frida på hennes skärgårdsö. Frida har hittat några gamla mynt i jorden och har börjat gräva för att se om det kan finnas någon gammal vikingaskatt nedgrävd på ön. När barnen anländer blir de också engagerade i utgrävningen.

Melinda soll eigentlich spuken lernen und alle Bewohner der Burghotels so richtig schön erschrecken - schließlich ist sie ein waschechtes Gespenstermädchen! Doch die Zwillinge Jost und Kurt lassen sich nicht von ihren Spukereien einschüchtern. Zum Glück! Denn als immer mehr seltsame Dinge geschehen und das Hotel kurz vor dem Ruin steht, müssen die drei alle ihre menschlichen und gespenstischen Kräfte zusammennehmen, um das Hotel zu retten.