cemeteries

When fourteen-year-old Leigh's father buys a graveyard and insists she work there after school, she learns much about life, death, and the power of friendship.

A graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman's "The Graveyard Book", in which the orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is taken in by the inhabitants of a graveyard as a child of eighteen months and raised lovingly and carefully by the community of ghosts and otherworldly creatures. But Bod must remain in the graveyard, for leaving it could mean his death at the hands of a man named Jack--the man who murdered Bod's family.

Follows a young boy named Nobody Owens as he is raised in a graveyard by a group of ghosts and avoids leaving the graveyard for fear that he will be killed by the man who has already murdered his family.

Sixteen-year-old Lacy Brink, surprised to find herself dead and buried at Baltimore's Westminster Cemetery, recruits fellow poets Sam and Edgar Allan Poe in resisting tyrannical Mrs. Steele's rules by having an open mic night.

Dylan's hobby is getting interesting gravestone rubbings from the old cemetery, and he thinks that one from Dr. Naper, Cedarville's own Dr. Frankenstein, would be the perfect addition to his class history project, but getting the rubbing proves more difficult than he expected, and the reader is asked to choose between three possible endings.

When eleven-year-old Iris sneaks out at night to make snow angels, she was not expecting to raise the ghost of Avery Moore, a girl her own age; but bringing to light the segregated and abandoned black cemetery seems like the perfect way to help Avery get the recognition she craves, and it will also be a good idea for the school project about the history of her small North Carolina town, where racial tensions are never far from the surface--only it seems that if Avery gets everything she wants Iris will join her as a ghost, best friends forever.

Tour some of the world's most famous haunted places in Spooky Cemeteries. Young readers will learn about the history, eerie occurrences, and public reactions to several spooky sites. The book also provides historic context and scientific facts that explain what is really going on. Dynamic photos and illustrative details will make readers feel as though they've just visited each hair-raising locale!.

Photographs and text describe eight cemeteries from around the world, including Highgate Cemetery in England, Saint Louis Cemetery No. 1 in Louisiana, Chase Vault in Barbados and others.

"Mitch hears bells chiming one night in the old chapel in Evergreen Cemetery. The chapel isn't used anymore and he's seen ghosts there before. He sneaks over and finds some hobgoblins. After a seemingly harmless and amusing encounter, Mitch returns home to bed. But while he sleeps, the mischievous creatures break into his home and damage the kitchen. And Mitch gets blamed for it! Can Mitch and the Zombie Hunters reach a truce with the hobgoblins before they can wreak more havoc?"--Back cover.

"Jared and his mom encounter a disoriented girl while taking a shortcut through Woodland Cemetery. They take her to her home on a desolate road out of town. When they arrive, they realize the girl has vanished. The house looks deserted, but an old woman appears at an upstairs window. She assures them everything is fine. After conducting some research, Jared learns about a drowning death in Woodland Cemetery years before that could be the same girl reliving her death every night. Can Jared help the girl find a restful place if the ghosts of Pheasant Hill want noghting to do with the living?"--Back cover.