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With the start of seventh grade, Olivia's longtime friend, Beth, has found new interests and new friends. Now Olivia thinks if she could just afford the type of clothes that Beth now wears, maybe their friendship could be restored. Motivated by a need for cash, Olivia agrees to babysit for a family of four who recently moved to the neighborhood haunted house. Now she's not sure what's scarier: hearing countless creepy sounds or being responsible for four kids!

Ever since Cass almost drowned (okay, she did drown, but she doesn't like to think about it), she can pull back the Veil that separates the living from the dead...and enter the world of spirits. Her best friend is even a ghost. So things are already pretty strange. But they're about to get much stranger. When Cass's parents start hosting a TV show about the world's most haunted places, the family heads off to Edinburgh, Scotland. Here, graveyards, castles, and secret passageways teem with restless phantoms. And then Cass meets a girl who shares her "gift"....

Francis não tem amigos. Ele sofre bullying porque é diferente. Em casa, vive trancado no sótão, onde tem uma fabulosa coleção de bonecas vestidas com roupas que ele mesmo cria. Adora moda e pediu de aniversário uma máquina de costura. Um certo dia na escola, na hora do intervalo, Francis vai se sentar num banco, no lado mais afastado do pátio, porque prefere a solidão a ser zoado. Mas nesse dia, sentindo-se triste, ele vê alguém atravessar o gramado na sua direção. É uma menina de mais ou menos a sua idade, embora não a reconheça como aluna da escola.

This is the second story in the Anne of Green Gables series. Skinny little red-haired Anne has changed into a pretty 16-year-old and is all grown up - well, sort of grown up. The story opens with Anne as a school teacher at Avonlea school. When Anne reached the school that first morning, she was confronted by prim rows of "shining morning faces". She had sat up until nearly midnight composing a speech which she had revised and improved painstakingly. It was a wonderful speech with fine ideas. And then, she couldn't remember it!

With his summer headed downhill fast, thirteen-year-old Justin faces a tricky choice—stand up to bigotry or let fear hold him back. When he's targeted by a bully, and a good friend stops speaking to him, Justin counts on help from Leroy Usher, the ghost whose magical carnival helped transform Justin's life after his father died last year. So this should be a breeze, right? His expectations rise further when a mysterious message from Mr. Usher invites him and pals Darby and Naz for a midnight visit.

Twelve-year-old Caroline is a Hurricane Child, born on Water Island during a storm. Coming into this world during a hurricane is unlucky, and Caroline has had her share of bad luck already. She's hated by everyone in her small school, she can see things that no one else can see, and - worst of all - her mother left home one day and never came back. With no friends and days filled with heartache, Caroline is determined to find her mother. When a new student, Kalinda, arrives, Caroline's luck begins to turn around. Kalinda, a solemn girl from Barbados, seems to see the things Caroline sees, too.

Sobald es dunkel wurde, bekam Bruce solche Angst, dass er sich am liebsten versteckte. Als Gespenst würde das auf keinen Fall in Frage kommen, denn hauptsächlich nachts war ja das Spuken für Geister am wichtigsten. Also beschloss der Ältestenrat von den Gespenstern – Bruce wird auf ein einsames Schloss verbannt und um seine Angst zu verlieren, die darin lebende Familie zu vertreiben. Aber der Butler Alfred und die Kinder der Familie behandelten Bruce so herzlich, dass er sich mit ihnen anfreundete.