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This collection of tales is for fans of ghost-story writer Mary Downing Hahn’s scary but not too scary books. Even the stories without actual ghosts are spooky. Each tale turns something ordinary - a pigeon, a white dress, a stranger on the bus, a puppet - into a sinister link to the supernatural. For the human characters, secrets from the past or careless behavior in the present can lead to serious trouble. All the stories have a young person as their central character, so all will resonate easily with young listeners who enjoy the eerie, the creepy, and the otherworldly.

On board the steamer was an elderly man with such a joyful face that if it didn't belie him he must have been the happiest person on earth. In fact, he said he was the happiest; I heard it from his own mouth. He was a Dane, a countryman of mine, and a traveling theatrical producer. His whole company was with him and lay in a large box, for he was the proprietor of a puppet show. He said that his natural cheerfulness had been enlightened by a Polytechnic student, and the experiment had left him completely happy.

A New York Times bestseller! “Kate DiCamillo's dazzling first title in the Norendy Tales trilogy is brimming with wit, whimsy, and heart as it follows five puppets fulfilling their thrilling shared destiny.” – Shelf Awareness Shut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret...

Becky can't wait to put on her puppet show. She's even thought of a surprise ending!

Los nigromantes de la Torre de Idyll no son como dicen los cuentos. Allí nadie sacrifica doncellas ni juega con la muerte, sólo se estudia entre libros y hechizos. Clarence, que siempre ha vivido ahí, adora esa calma. Hazan, que conoce el mundo exterior, comienza a cansarse de ella. Sin embargo, cuando unos venenos letales empiezan a comercializarse por toda Marabilia, ambos deben abandonar esa paz.