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The skeleton at the feast

the Day of the Dead in Mexico
1991
Explores the history and modern-day observances of the Day of the Dead in Mexico, a holiday celebrated in early November with feasting, cleaning and decorating graves, dancing, and making music.

Raising the dead

1997
Examines the likely origins of stories of the undead, discussing such frightening creatures as zombies, walking mummies, and the infamous Frankenstein.

Everwild

2010
Nick, known as the dreaded "chocolate ogre," is trying to find all the children in Everlost and release them from the limbo they are in, while Mikey and Allie have joined a band of skinjackers and are putting themselves in danger by visiting the world of the living.

Girl meets ghost

2013
Seventh-grader Kendall can see dead people, and speak with them, which means they want her to be a psychic sleuth and figure out what unresolved issues are keeping them from moving on.

Devine intervention

2012
To graduate from heaven's soul rehabilitation program for wayward teenagers, guardian angel Jerome must keep sixteen-year-old Heidi safe, but when he accidentally lets her down, he has only twenty-four hours before her soul dissolves forever.

Before I fall

2011
When Samantha Kingston suddenly dies while at school, she is given a second chance to live out her final day over the course of a week in order to solve the mystery of her death and understand the real value of everything she might lose.

The bone magician

2008
With his father, a fugitive, falsely accused of multiple murders and the real serial killer stalking the wretched streets of Urbs Umida, Pin Carpue, a young undertaker's assistant, investigates and finds that all of the victims may have attended the performance of a stage magician who claims to be able to raise corpses and make the dead speak.

Damned

life is short, death is forever
2011
As thirteen-year-old Madison tries to figure out how she died and ended up in Hell, she learns how to manipulate the corrupt system of demons and bodily fluids.

City of the Dead

2009
Derek Stone thought that his father and brother were killed in a train accident, but then his brother returns, strangely changed, and Derek begins to suspect that dead people are coming back to prey on the living.

Something strange and deadly

2012
When an army of zombies rise in Philadelphia, Eleanor Fitt soon learns that however is controlling the undead has also taken her brother. Now, she must race to stop these supernatural forces before it's too late.

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