Younger Readers

• Byfield, Barbara Ninde
  The Haunted Tower
  Doubleday, 1976
  E Byf (Grades 1-3)
  A retired spy and his father reluctantly become involved with the case of Crown Prince Brulph, who disappears on the eve of his coronation.
• Hayes, Geoffrey,
  The Mystery of the Pirate Ghost
  Scholastic , 1985
  E Hay (Grades 1-3)
  Otto and his Uncle Tooth track down a pirate ghost who has been terrorizing Boogle Bay.
• San Souci, Robert
  The Boy and the Ghost
  Simon and Schuster, 1989
  E San (Grades 1-3)
  A poor boy hopes to win a fortune for himself and his family by spending the night in a haunted house.

Older Readers

• Bulla, Clyde R.
  The Ghost of Windy Hill
  Thomas Crowell, 1968
  + Bul
  The setting 1851 in a supposedly ghostly inhabited house in the countryside outside of Boston. The Carver family moves in, supposedly to scare the ghost away, but with some unexpected results.
• Creech, Sharon
  Pleasing the Ghost
  Harper Collins, 1996
  + Cre
  Nine year old Dennis , whose uncle and father died within a year of one another , is visited by the ghost of his uncle and together they settle some unfinished business.
• Fleischman, Sid
  The Ghost on Saturday Night
  Greenwillow, 1997
  + Fle
  When Professor Pepper gives Opie tickets to a ghost raising instead of a nickel in payment for being guided through the sense fog, Opie manages to make money anyway by helping to thwart a bank robbery
• Hoke, Helen
  Ghosts and Ghastlies
  Franklin Watts, 1976
  + Hok
  A collection of short stories and poetry by various authors that are all guaranteed to make your hair stand on end.
• Hoke, Helen
  Spirits, Spooks, and other Sinister Creatures
  Franklin watts, 1984
  + Hok
  Another collection of horrors stories by contemporary authors and old masters.
• Gage, Wilson
  The Ghost of Five Owl Farm
  World Publishing, 1966
  + Gag
  When his cousins come to visit, Ted decides to frighten them with some really spooky ghost stories, but then he discovers that something really spooky is really going on.
• McKissack, Patricia
  The Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
  Alfred Knopf, 1992
  + McK
  A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the dark thirty, the half hour before sunset, when ghosts seem all too believable.
• San Souci, Robert
  More Short and Shivery
  Delacort Press, 1994
  + 398.25 San
  A collection of scary folktales from the United states, China, England, Italy, Russia and other countries around the world.
• San Souci, Robert
  Even More Short and Shivery
  Delacorte, 1997
  + 398.25 San
  Another collection of traditional scary tales from all over the world.
• Schwartz, Alvin
  Scary Stories 3: Tales to Chill Your Bones
  Harper Collins, 1991
  + 398.2 Sch
  Some traditional and some more modern day stories of ghosts, haunts, superstitions, monsters and horrible scary things.
• Sharp, Allen
  The Haunters of Marsh Hall
  Cambridge University Press, 1982
  + Sha
  This book is about you- about having an adventure in real life when you can decide what is going to happen.
• Wright, Betty Ren
  Christina's Ghost
  Holday House, 1985
  + Wri
  Christina's summer in a spooky, isolated Victorian house with her grumpy uncle turns into a ghostly adventure.

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