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Doll Bones
by Holly Black
Playing an endless make-believe game about pirates, mermaids and warriors under the rule of a formidable Great Queen china doll, best friends Zach, Poppy and Alice find their bond tested when Zach is compelled to give up their shared adventures and Poppy begins having dreams about the doll. By the co-author of the best-selling Spiderwick Chronicles.
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The Night Gardener
by Jonathan Auxier
Irish orphans Molly, 14, and Kip, 10, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and the secrets of the cursed house. By the author of Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes.
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Coraline : 10th Anniversary Edition
by Neil Gaiman
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
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The Nest
by Kenneth Oppel
Agonizing over his sick baby brother's struggles to survive, Steve is visited in his dreams by a mysterious wasp queen who offers to save his brother at a formidable cost. Illustrated by the Caldecott Medal-winning artist of This Is Not My Hat.
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The Riverman
by Aaron Starmer
The first book in a new trilogy tells the story of a girl who claims she is visiting a parallel universe where a nefarious being called The Riverman is stealing the souls of children, and because she fears her soul may be next, she asks Alistair Cleary, a boy everyone trusts, to write her biography before it's too late.
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Cuckoo Song
by Frances Hardinge
In post-World War I England, eleven-year-old Triss nearly drowns in a millpond known as "The Grimmer" and emerges with memory gaps, aware that something is terribly wrong, and to try to set things right, she must meet a twisted architect who has designs on her family
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
by Ransom Riggs
After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark : Collected from Folkloreby Alvin SchwartzWelcome to a macabre world of scary stories, where a folklorist offers up some of the most alarming tales of horror, dark revenge and supernatural events of all time, in a 25th anniversary edition of extraordinarily chilling tales enhanced by all-new, spine-tingling illustrations by a renowned artist.
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A Monster Calls : A Novel
by Patrick Ness
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill, but an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
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Skellig
by David Almond
With all the tragedy and problems facing his family, Michael's excitement about moving into his new home is all but gone, yet his encounter with the creature in the garage is certain to put a spark back into his life in more ways than he had ever expected.
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The Seer of Shadows
by Avi
In New York City in 1872, Horace becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when he accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, Horace's life takes a frightening turn
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