ghost towns

"Focuses on haunted towns and gives information related to . . . paranormal locations, theories, and place in popular culture"--Provided by publisher.

Twins Madison and Mason Page have everything two kids could ever want, but they don't seem to appreciate any of it. One day, they dive into their luxurious swimming pool and surface in a very different place. They emerge into another town, long since abandoned. Trapped in this new world, they venture forth, finding evidence that the town's former residents must have suffered some sort of horrible fate before disappearing. Then it hits them. They have somehow been transported to the ghost town of Pripyat, which has stood empty since the local power station exploded many years earlier, a nuclear plant known as Chernobyl.

What is a ghost town? Why do we call the Old West wild? What are cowboys? Who was Billy the Kid? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts about the American West.

"Dylan is twelve years old and embarking on his first ocean kayaking trip with his parents. He has spent the last year convincing them that he is ready for the challenging--and very dangerous--adventure. In fact, he has been determined to go ever since he heard about the destination: Ireland's Eye. The small island off the coast of Newfoundland is the easternmost settlement in Canada. Or it was. It is now hauntingly empty, a ghost town clinging to the edge of the unforgiving Atlantic. What about Ireland's Eye so captivates Dylan that he is willing to take such risks to get there? Does the ghost town have anything to do with the dreams Dylan keeps having of his grandfather who has just died? And why does the old man on the St. John's docks grimly whisper, 'Don't go to Ireland's Eye' when he hears of Dylan's plans?"--Provided by publisher.

Readers will learn about the causes, main events, key players, and lasting impacts of the California gold rush.

Explores the legends of lost lands, providing information related to their origins, theories, and place in popular culture.

Sara and Max look for real ghosts on a class trip to the ghost town Buzzard City, a community deserted after the Gold Rush.

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.

Text and photographs introduce towns from around the world that are said to be haunted.

When the Mystery Inc. gang gets lost in the desert they decide to check out the local ghost town, Sladeville, and find it apparently full of ghosts--but Velma suspects that living people are behind the ghostly manifestations.