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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
The story of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors. On Christmas Eve Scrooge sits in his counting-house with not a kind word for a soul, just wanting to be left alone until the 'humbug' of Christmas is over. Four ghostly visitors (his partner Marley, followed by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come) show him the error of his ways. By the time Christmas...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Language
English
Description
When Frankie's mother died and her father left her and her siblings at an orphanage in Chicago, it was supposed to be only temporary - just long enough for him to get back on his feet and be able to provide for them once again. That's why she is not prepared for the day that he arrives for his weekend visit with a new woman on his arm and out-of-state train tickets in his pocket. Now Frankie and her sister, Toni, are abandoned alongside so many other...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when Horace accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a seaside New England town in the 1920s, twelve-year-old Clare finds refuge from the cruelty of her society friends in a mysterious glass house inhabited by Jack, a charming and playful ghost who cannot remember his real name or how he died.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Victorian London, an undertaker's son who can see ghosts and is haunted by their constant demands for attention must decide whether to help when a horrible disease imprisons ghosts into empty houses in the world of the living.
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English
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Archeologist Verity Grey has been sent to uncover an ancient Roman campsite in a small village on the Scottish Borderlands--a campsite, her boss believes, is the final resting place of the legendary lost Ninth Roman Legion. But as soon as she arrives, she senses danger in the air: in the icy reserve of archeologist David Fortune; in the haunted eyes to the little boy who has visions of a slain Roman sentinel; and in the unearthly sound of the ghostly...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
In San Diego in 1918, as deadly influenza and World War I take their toll, sixteen-year-old Mary Shelley Black watches desperate mourners flock to séances and spirit photographers for comfort and, despite her scientific leanings, must consider if ghosts are real when her first love, killed in battle, returns.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A struggling American ventriloquist in post-World War II Europe is possessed by the mischievous spirit of a young Jewish boy killed in the Holocaust. Author's note details the murder of over one million children by the Nazis during the 1930s and 1940s.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lars Olafson's move to a farm near Valley Forge brings him friendship with the ghost of an eighteenth-century ancestor, who recounts for him his adventures in that part of Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.
12) Haunt and seek
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Series
Language
English
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"Ben Tajima spots a ghostly boy all over town during a visit with his grandparents to Chicago, Illinois"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A sixteen-year-old biracial girl in rural Oregon in the 1920s searches for the truth about her father's death while avoiding trouble from the Ku Klux Klan in this YA historical novel inspired by Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'"--
14) Rebel spirits
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Lorelei is not happy when her family moves into an old bed-and-breakfast in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania--and that is before she meets the Civil War ghost, Nathaniel, who needs her help, and discovers that some of the hotel staff are not what they seem to be.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lila, visiting the reputedly haunted Laurel Oaks Plantation in Louisiana, is contacted by the spirit of Daphne, a slave girl in the 1840s who has been waiting for more than a century for just the right person to help clear her name of charges that she poisoned two girls and their mother.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
In 1888 seventeen-year-old Evelyn Fallow, herself disfigured by the phosphorus in the match factory where she worked, has been hired as a maid to Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man--but when the Jack the Ripper murders begin she and Merrick find themselves haunted by the ghosts of the slain women, and Evelyn is caught up in the mystery of Jack's identity.
17) The dead below
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Series
Language
English
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"When Treva Gallo researches her new Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, neighborhood, she unearths more than she expected"--
19) My plain Jane
Author
Series
Lady Janies volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Description
Refusing a job with the Society for the Relocation of Wayward Spirits, Jane Eyre heads to Thornfield Hall to work as a governess for Mr. Rochester.
20) Ophie's ghosts
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Ophelia Harrison used to live in a small house in the Georgia countryside. But that was before the night in November 1922, and the cruel act that took her home and her father from her. Which was the same night that Ophie learned she can see ghosts. Now Ophie and her mother are living in Pittsburgh with relatives they barely know. In the hopes of earning enough money to get their own place, Mama has gotten Ophie a job as a maid in the same old manor...
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