ghost towns

"Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang are lost in the desert and find themselves smack dab in the middle of Sladeville--a ghost town! But the ghosts of Sladeville seem out of place. Something odd is going on in the town, and the gang is going to find out what it is!"--Provided by the publisher.

Simple text and illustrations tell the stories of four ghost towns found throughout the world.

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

When their car breaks down, Dee, Luke, and 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.

More than one hundred years after every resident of a remote mining town vanishes without a trace, two back-country guides are hired by a history professor and his journalist daughter to explore the town, and, along with a psychic and a paranormal photographer, the group discovers a horror that will shock them all.

When twelve-year-old Jacob and his eleven-year-old brother, Rich, enter an old ghost town, an eerie voice carried by the wind tells them to leave, but they ignore it and soon encounter terrifying, supernatural threats inside the town's old gold mine.

Tell the history of Salton Sea, California's largest lake and once a thriving resort community that is now almost completely abandoned.

Visits eleven lost cities, and includes one in constant danger of sliding down a rocky cliff, a town that was buried by a desert, and a city that disappeared when it was flooded on purpose.