ghost towns

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.

Feel goosebumps begin to form as this title explores ghost towns around the world, surveying common ghost-town features and creepy stories about these places.

While visiting a recent purchase of Grandfather's, a ghost town in the Rocky Mountains, the Aldens encounter a mystery involving a run-down motel and a woman who may be a ghost.

Explores the abandoned gold mining town of Bodie, California.

"Engaging images accompany information about Craco. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--.

"When Jack and Annie came back from their adventure in 'Magic Tree House #10: Ghost Town at Sundown,' they had lots of questions. Why do we call the Old West wild? What is a ghost town? What are cowboys? Who was Billy the Kid? It's time to be a 'fact tracker' with Jack and Annie!"--Back cover.

When their car breaks down, Dee, her boyfriend Luke, and his brother Mike walk through a winter storm to take refuge in a nearby deserted town called Purity Springs, but in the morning they see the town is populated with a deadly cult and find themselves at the mercy of the charismatic leader, Elijah Hawkins.