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You're invited to a creepover, the graphic novel

2022
Abby confesses her crush on Jake to her friends during a sleepover, but when someone starts sending her threatening texts warning her to stay away from Jake or else, Abby begins to suspect a jealous ghost is behind the warnings.

Ghostlight

2022
"Rebecca Strand and her father fell to their deaths from the top of the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse in 1839. Just how they fell--or were they pushed?--remains a mystery. And their ghosts haunt the lighthouse to this day. . . Gabe tells this story every day when he gives the ghost tour on Toronto Island. He tries to make it scary enough to satisfy the tourists, but he doesn't actually believe in ghosts until he finds himself face to face with Rebecca Strand. The true story of her death is far more terrifying than any ghost tale Gabe has told. Rebecca reveals that her father was a member of the Order, a secret society devoted to protecting the world from "the wakeful and wicked dead", malevolent spirits like Viker, the ghost responsible for their deaths. But the Order has disappeard, and Viker's ghost is growing ever stronger. Now Gabe and his friends must find a way to stop Viker before they all become lost souls"--Dust jacket.

Fitz and Cleo

2022
Ghost siblings and best friends Fitz and Cleo go to the beach, fly paper airplanes, play baseball, and adopt a cat.

Family of liars

Carrie Sinclair tells the ghost of her son Johnny about the summer of 1987, when "the boys" arrive on Beechwood Island, setting off events that will haunt her for years to come.

Big Top Bandit

Barnstorm's Big Top Circus is in town, and Scooby and the Mystery Inc. gang can't wait to see it, but thanks to the Ghost Clown, things under the big top are a big mess.

Ghost eaters

a novel
2022
Erin hasn?t been able to set a single boundary with her charismatic but reckless college ex-boyfriend, Silas. When he asks her to bail him out of rehab?again?she knows she needs to cut him off. But days after he gets out, Silas turns up dead of an overdose in their hometown of Richmond, Virginia, and Erin?s world falls apart. Then a friend tells her about Ghost, a new drug that allows users to see the dead. Wanna get haunted? he asks. Grieving and desperate for closure with Silas, Erin agrees to a pill-popping ?s?ance.? But the drug has unfathomable side effects?and once you take it, you can never go back.

The hideaway

Sick of watching his mother be abused by her boyfriend, thirteen-year-old Billy McKenna takes matters into his own hands and runs away from home. Taking refuge in an overgrown graveyard, Billy is helped by an older man who is cleaning up the cemetery. Meanwhile, as the police search for Billy, the neighborhood comes together to support Billy's mother.

Where echoes lie

2021
"A teenage girl must solve the mystery of the ghost bride to save her own future from the curse"--Provided by publisher.

Took

a ghost story graphic novel
"Thirteen-year-old Daniel Anderson doesn't believe Brody Mason's crazy stories about the ghost witch who lives up on Brewster's Hill with Bloody Bones, her man-eating razorback hog. He figures Brody's probably just trying to scare him since he's the new kid . . . a 'stuck-up snot' from Connecticut. But Daniel's seven-year-old sister Erica has become more and more withdrawn, talking to her lookalike doll. When she disappears into the woods one day, he knows something is terribly wrong. Did the witch strike? Has Erica been 'took'?--Amazon.
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Cold

Told in alternating perspectives, Todd replays the events that lead to his death in the local park, watching as detectives investigate his murder and talk to the students responsible for it, and meanwhile Georgia, who does not know Todd, cannot stop thinking about him.
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