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Choke

2010
Using his renowned lack of common sense, fifteen-year-old Beck Phillips gets himself and his friends Kate and Wyatt embroiled in more dragon adventures, as they discover and hatch the last remaining dragon stone.

The show must go on!

2011
Bree is delighted to get the lead role in "The Last Sleepover" at Thomas Jefferson Middle School, but from the start the rehearsals are marked by strange occurrences until she begins to fear she will not survive opening night.

Starry nights

Seventeen-year-old Julien falls in love with the muse, Clio, as he tries to save her and the Mus?e D'Orsay's collection of Impressionist art after learning the paintings are reacting to a curse set by Renoir that trapped Clio in his painting.

The fantastic family Whipple

2013
"For every child who's ever dreamed of being in the Guinness Book of World Records comes the story of eleven-year-old Arthur Whipple and his fantastic family of world record breakers...Unfortunately, unlike his siblings, Arthur hasn't broken a single, solitary world record! But when the Whipples suffer a spate of catastrophes and a curious amount of attention from a pair of irregularly sized and unusually menacing clowns, Arthur might be the only one who can save his family from losing their collective crown...or worse."--Publisher's website.

Sinister scenes

2011
When the star of a horror movie filming in the town of Spooking disappears, twelve-year-old Joy Wells steps into the role--and into real-life horror when her co-star gives a terrifying and unscripted performance.

Juanita

2009
A fable about the annual blessing of the animals at Easter.

Three good deeds

2007
Caught stealing some goose eggs from a witch, Howard is cursed for his heartlessness and turned into a goose himself, and he can only become human again by performing three good deeds.

Break a leg!

famous curses and superstitions
1994
Gives the facts behind a variety of superstitions.

Fenway fever

2013
Twelve-year-old Alfredo "Stats" Pagano and Boston Red Sox pitcher Billee Orbitt work together to break a potential curse at Fenway Park.

The hound of the Baskervilles

2002
Sherlock Holmes and Watson set out to solve the mystery of the mysterious and terrifying beast which is lurking on the desolate moor.

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