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Jones, Dan C.

Summary: Thirty-two short stories chosen from the tradition of ghost stories from American Indian cultures across North America, featuring witches, walking dolls, hungry skeletons, skinwalkers, and other supernatural beings.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 JON

Schwartz, Alvin

Summary: More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, "jump" stories, and scary songs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.25 Sch

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCH

Schwartz, Alvin

Summary: Tapped from the oral traditions of American folklore, these ghost stories and tales of weird happenings, witches, and graveyards have startling, funny, or surprising endings.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.25 SCH

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.25 SCH

Schwartz, Alvin

Summary: Walking corpses, dancing bones, knife-wielding madmen, and narrow escapes from death, they're all here in this chilling collection of ghost stories, collected and retold by folklorist Alvin Schwartz. These horrific tales are guaranteed to raise goosebumps. Let the faint of heart beware. Pull up a chair, find a hand to hold, and prepare to be horrified. Includes: Scary Stories to Tell in the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020

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Schwartz, Alvin

Summary: Presents seven easy-to-read ghost stories based on traditional folk tales and legends from various countries.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1993

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SCH

Schwartz, Alvin

Summary: More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, haunts, superstitions, monsters, and horrible scary things.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1991

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCH

Schwartz, Alvin

3 holds on 1 copy

Summary: Stories of ghosts and witches, "jump" stories, scary songs, and modern-day scary stories.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lippincott 1981

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Schwartz, Alvin

Summary: Features twenty-five chilling tales of prophetic dreams, feral children raised by wild animals, swamp creatures, and other terrifying phenomena.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 398.25 SCH

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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.25 SCH

Schwartz, Alvin

Summary: Stories of ghosts and witches, "jump" stories, scary songs, and modern-day scary stories.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1986

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCH

Summary: A collection of traditional tales, with some poems and songs, most on a ghostly theme.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PUFFI 0000

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Galdone, Joanna.

Summary: A strange varmint haunts the woodsman who lopped off its tail.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1977

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O'Connor, Jane.

Summary: A teeny tiny woman, who puts a teeny tiny bone she finds in a churchyard away in a cupboard before she goes to sleep, is awakened by a voice demanding the return of the bone.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1986

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Schwartz, Alvin

Summary: Seven scary stories to tell at night in front of a fire or in the dark, based on traditional stories and folktales from various countries.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1984

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE SCH

Lekas, Gerry

Summary: "This isn't your average travel book--and these aren't your average tourist destinations! Take a wild ride through hidden Windy City history--often dark, sometimes inexplicable, and occasionally glamorous. Meet the gangsters, ghosts, serial killers and celebrities that only Chicago could produce. This journey into eclectic Chicago lore includes: 19 spine-tingling creepy sites (Resurrection...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Black Lyon Publishing, LLC 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.311 LEK

Godfrey, Linda S.

Summary: Explores ghosts and haunted places, local legends, cursed roads, crazy characters, and unusual roadside attractions found in Michigan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Publishing 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 GOD

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 917.74 God

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 977.4 GOD

Konishi, Noriyuki

Summary: "Join Nate as he befriends the Yo-kai of the hit video game Yo-kai Watch! Nate Adams is just an average kid until the mysterious Whisper gives him the Yo-kai Watch. Now he can see what others cannot: Yo-kai of all shapes and forms!"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media LLC 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KON

Barnett, Mac

Summary: Once there was a bridge and a terrible and VERY hungry troll lived underneath it. When the three Billy Goats Gruff decide to clip-clop across the bridge to get to the grassy ridge, the troll is already imagining all the way to prepare a delicious goat dinner. But the troll underestimates those seemingly sweet but oh-so-savvy goats!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BAR

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BAR

Weso, T. F. Pecore (Thomas F. Pecore)

Summary: "Native Americans have a long tradition of storytelling. Now, you can easily introduce your children to these rich cultures with a compilation of powerful tales from multiple tribes like the Cheyenne and the Lenape. What sets this book apart from other Native American books for kids: Tales from 12 tribes--Kids will embark on a literary adventure with 12 stories from tribes around America,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2022

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Joven, John

Summary: "Fee! Fi! Fo! Fum! This wonderfully illustrated collection of stories is bursting with funny and fantastic characters from all around the world, including stomping giants, angry ogres, a very greedy troll, and a snorting, snarling minotaur lurking in a labyrinth." -- Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne Books, EDC 2021

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Randall, Ronne.

Summary: Three billy goats attempt to cross a bridge guarded by a hungry troll.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Parragon 2013

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