catskill mountains region (n.y.)

Eleven-year-old Verbena Polter gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with an odd new friend who believes she is the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before.

Two stories from the Catskill Mountains: one featuring a man who sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world; and the other, a superstitious schoolmaster who encounters a headless horseman.

A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains awakes to a much-changed world.

Eleven-year-old Verbena Polter gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with an odd new friend who believes she is the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before.

Olivia plans to spend her summer in the Catskills, binge-watching horror movies and chatting with her online friend Elm, but things get complicated when she sends Elm her best friend's picture and she runs into the last person she thought she would ever see in real life.

A young boy runs away from home to live in the wild on the site that used to be his grandfather's farm.

Collects audio versions of two classic stories by Washington Irving, including "Rip Van Winkle," in which a man falls asleep for twenty years and finds strange surroundings upon his waking, and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," which follows a ghostly encounter with a superstitious schoolmaster and a headless horseman.

A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains awakes to a much-changed world.

A forbidding and possibly haunted old estate affects the fortunes of two young people for whom life is difficult in their upstate New York small town.