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Discover more Middle Grade books about ghosts during the month of October! Recommend your favorites, snap a photo, or share a quote using the hashtag #MGCarousel.
Dramatic Phenomenon
Category: CHALLENGES
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When a mysterious parcel arrives at her family’s new home, eleven-year-old Lin Rosenquist is surprised to discover the ornate key contained in the parcel unlocks a spellbinding world called Sylver.
Sylver is an enchanting land of eternal winter, inhabited by animals that shared a special connection with children in the real world. In death, they are delivered to Sylver, where they take on a curiously human-like form and still watch over the children they cherish.
While Lin is overjoyed to be reunited with her own beloved pet, she soon learns that the magic of is failing, and snow trolls want to claim Sylver for themselves. Lin must discover a way to stop them and save this enchanted world.
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Local Haunting
He shuddered, then drew his shoulders in and fiddled with his collar as if he suddenly felt cold. “No one knows what it is, or what its nature might be. But it has a local name.” He took a deep breath, then spoke in a voice of guttural dread. “We call it … the Creeping Shadow.”
The Creeping Shadow by Jonathan Stroud
A Grave Scene
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Looking for books that fit our monthly reading challenge this October? Try one of the favorites from our home shelf!
When Karma’s dad lands a job with Netflix doing a docu-series, it’s huge. The only problem is, he’s supposed to be chasing down ghosts at a haunted hotel across the country, and Karma’s more than a little skittish. She’s a worrier, and she keeps dreaming up worse case scenarios.
Joined by her best friend and a mysterious local, Karma investigates every strange happening in the historically creepy Stanley Hotel as part of her dad’s Totally Rad film crew over her spring break. Their mission: find a ghost and get it on camera.
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Believe in Ghosts
It wasn’t that I did not believe in ghosts; it was that I believed in them in the same noncommittal way that I believed in giant squids or lucky coins or Belgium.
Jackaby by William Ritter
Ghosts of Technology
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Looking for books that fit our monthly reading challenge this October? Try one of the favorites from our home shelf!
Tennessee Lancaster can pry into folks’ memories with a single touch of their treasured belongings. It’s something she’s always kept hidden— until, Tennie’s gift does something new. Instead of just memories, her touch releases a ghost with a terrifying message.
Trouble is the last thing Tennie wants to stir up, but with her new friend, Fox, desperate to go hunting deep in the forest, trouble’s all they seem to find in Howler’s Hollow.
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Bound to Happen
“I’m back here,” bellowed a voice that, unfortunately, belonged to my big brother, Topher, and not one of the dearly departed. I’d never actually seen a ghost in our kitchen; I’d only heard it banging around. But due to my home’s location, I figure I’m bound to run into a ghost eventually.
The Key to Extraordinary by Natalie Lloyd
#MGCarousel – October 2022
Our month-long themed challenges are designed for readers of Middle Grade fiction. Play along by finding books which match the prompt.
Our challenge this October is…
Ghost Stories
The books we’re dying to read this Spooky Season are positively ghastly! From wicked shades to spooky spirits, perilous poltergeists and friendly phantoms, this month we’re prepared to encounter creatures from the afterlife.
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