Betty Ren Wright
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
A dollhouse filled with a ghostly light in the middle of the night and dolls that have moved from where she last left them lead Amy and her mentally challenged sister to unravel the mystery surrounding grisly murders that took place years ago.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Charli's impulsive uncle, Will Crandall, decides to buy the town's abandoned, possibly haunted castle and fix it up as a bed-and-breakfast, but Charli and Sophia, a clairvoyant orphan who has come to stay with the Crandall family, know his plan is somehow dangerous.
4) The blizzard
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
Although a blizzard prevents his cousins from visiting for his birthday, a disappointed Billy ends up having a very special day when his teacher and classmates must stay overnight at his family's house to wait out the snowstorm.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
When their father moves them for the seventh time in the five years since their mother's death, Jenny and her younger sister hope to stay in this latest house and try to find out about the malevolent ghost who seems bent on getting revenge on their elderly neighbors.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[1984]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
During a summer in an abandoned mining town, Katie's relationship with a rebellious stepbrother improves as they probe the past to find out why there seem to be ghosts, literally, beneath their feet.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Strange things happen when twelve-year-old Sarah is alone in the house with Great Aunt Margaret, who appears to be the victim of a ghost seeking revenge for a death in the past.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Vannie tries to make the best of things when she and her dog Muffy are left with her cranky great-aunt on an old farm in Ohio while Vannie's parents go to California to look for work.
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
When his family moves to a small town near Milwaukee, Matt's efforts to fit into his new fourth-grade class are complicated by his poor spelling and his encounter with the ghost of one of the school's former teachers.
13) The Wish Master
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Certain that his grandfather doesn't want him around, Corby is unhappy when he and his mother go to spend the summer in Wisconsin to help take care of his ailing grandmother, until a local boy takes him to the Wish Master.
14) Too many secrets
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Chad and his friend Jeannie try to discover who is breaking into their neighbor's house, while Chad also deals with his suspicions about why his father has been spending so much time away from home.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Rachel and her friend Charlie become linked with the mad ghost of a fierce old lady, who is eerily involved in the upcoming Sunbonnet Queen contest about which Rachel dreams.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
While vacationing at a spooky cabin on Perch Lake, nine-year-old Chad tries to clear the name of Tim Tapper, the cabin's ghostly inhabitant, who was blamed for a truck accident in the 1930s.
18) Out of the dark
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
When Jessica moves to her grandmother's childhood home and makes friends with the handicapped girl next door, she begins to have nightmares about the old schoolhouse in the woods.