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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Jennie Lovell's fiancé, Will, is killed during the Civil War, she forms an alliance with a spirit photographer and uses her ability to talk to the dead to investigate the secrets Will was hiding and how he really died.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
"After one hundred years of being a vampire, it's time for Eleonora to have her Birthnight ... All Leo has to do is hunt down and kill her first prey ... After all, who will miss an orphan ... But an accidental fire causes more death and destruction ... Instead of killing one carefully selected victim, she's created several ghosts from the orphanage residents. And one sinister specter, the Orphanmaster, is poised to terrorize the living residents...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
In the nineteenth century, ten-year-old Florence Crutchfield leaves a London orphanage to live with her great-uncle, great-aunt, and sickly cousin James, but she soon realizes the home has another resident, who means to do her and James harm.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Best friends Aldo, Pen, and Jasper are braced for a boring summer. And equally dull summer journal writing assignments. That is, until they see a slightly transparent boy with a bad haircut appear by the soccer field and then disappear into the woods beyond. The boys follow him and discover the long-abandoned Grauche Orphanage for Orphans, a house in the woods that is most definitely haunted. But the ghosts are not the problem. They have been trapped...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year old orphan Emma Casey lives by a haunted graveyard in her Tennessee town, giving tours, and helping her brother and Granny Blue with the family bakery, and waiting for the destiny dream of her ancestors--but when it comes it shows her only a key, and she finds that she must solve a ghostly mystery that has haunted her town for generations. --
6) Liesl & Po
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
A mix-up involving the greatest magic in the world has tremendous consequences for Liesl, an orphan who has been locked in an attic, Will, an alchemist's runaway apprentice, and Po, a ghost, as they are pursued by friend and foe while making an important journey.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Upon the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of an overwhelming mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the price.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
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...
11) Forbidden
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"In early 19th century England, Josie, 16, finds herself in a sinister place with mysterious, hostile people, including her own relatives. Persistence and determination drive her to uncover the town's horrifying secret--a conspiracy to wreck and plunder ships--despite obstacles natural and supernatural"--
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 86
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
When the Alden children go camping on Blizzard Mountain, a place said to be inhabited by a ghost looking for buried treasure, they begin to think someone or something is trying to scare them off.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 133
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taking a shortcut through the Greenfield Cemetery, the Aldens stumble across a local superstition which maintains that visitors are required to leave gifts or suffer the wrath of a malevolent ghost, a suspicious tradition that prompts the children to expose the truth.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 116
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While visiting the Diamond Drive-In with their grandfather, the Boxcar Children investigate a series of pranks and ghost sightings at the outdoor theater.
Author
Series
Pram Bellamy volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bright, imaginative, eleven-year-old Pram lives with two aunts who run a retirement home, hiding the fact that she can talk with ghosts--but not the spirit of her mother--and after befriending Clarence, who also lost his mother, she decides to find her father in hopes he can answer her questions.
16) Gallant
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Olivia Prior has grown up in Merilance School for girls, and all she has of her past is her mother's journal--which seems to unravel into madness. Then, a letter invites Olivia to come home--to Gallant. Yet when Olivia arrives, no one is expecting her. But Olivia is not about to leave the first place that feels like home: it doesn't matter if her cousin Matthew is hostile or if she sees half-formed ghouls haunting the hallways. Olivia knows that...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 112
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Aldens investigate the rumors of ghosts, disappearing props and a haunted seat in the Trap-Door Theater.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 71
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While visiting a recent purchase of Grandfather's, a ghost town in the Rocky Mountains, the Aldens encounter a mystery involving a run-down motel and a woman who may be a ghost.
Author
Series
Spellbinder novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Belladonna Johnson, who lives with the ghosts of her parents, once again teams up with her classmate Steve, whose mother has suddenly disappeared, when they are given a dangerous assignment by a ghostly monk involving a return to the Dark Times.
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