The Bewitching of Aveline Jones

The Bewitching of Aveline Jones
Author: Phil Hickes
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2021-09-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1801315205

Turn on your torches and join Aveline Jones! Aveline is thrilled when she discovers that the holiday cottage her mum has rented for the summer is beside a stone circle. Thousands of years old, the local villagers refer to the ancient structure as the Witch Stones, and Aveline cannot wait to learn more about them. Then Aveline meets Hazel. Impossibly cool, mysterious yet friendly, Aveline soon falls under Hazel's spell. In fact, Hazel is quite unlike anyone Aveline has ever met before, but she can't work out why. Will Aveline discover the truth about Hazel, before it's too late? Join the world of Aveline Jones, where mysteries are solved, spirits are laid to rest, and everybody gets to bed on time. Perfect for adventurers aged 9+ and fans of Michelle Harrison, Piers Torday and Jamie Littler.

The Haunting of Aveline Jones

The Haunting of Aveline Jones
Author: Phil Hickes
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2020-09-17
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1474994113

Turn on your torches and join Aveline Jones! Aveline loves reading ghost stories, so a dreary half-term becomes much more exciting when she discovers a spooky old book. Not only are the stories spine-tingling, but it belonged to a girl called Primrose Penberthy, who vanished mysteriously, never to be seen again. Intrigued, Aveline decides to investigate Primrose's disappearance, with some help from her new friend, Harold. Now someone...or something, is stirring. And it is looking for Aveline. The first in a deliciously spine-tingling, spooky new series, where mysteries are always solved, spirits are always laid to rest, and everybody gets to bed on time.

Night of the Gargoyles

Night of the Gargoyles
Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1994
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780395665534

Ominous b/w illus. When night comes, the gargoyles on a museum building come alive.

The Devil Makes Three

The Devil Makes Three
Author: Tori Bovalino
Publisher: Page Street YA
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2021-08-10
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1645672360

When Tess and Eliot stumble upon an ancient book hidden in a secret tunnel beneath the school library, they accidentally release a devil from his book-bound prison, and he’ll stop at nothing to stay free. He’ll manipulate all the ink in the library books to do his bidding, he’ll murder in the stacks, and he’ll bleed into every inch of Tess’s life until his freedom is permanent. Forced to work together, Tess and Eliot have to find a way to re-trap the devil before he kills everyone they know and love, including, increasingly, each other. And compared to what the devil has in store for them, school stress suddenly doesn’t seem so bad after all.

Revenge of the Kraken

Revenge of the Kraken
Author: Megan Atwood
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2021
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1663911312

Jason tries to follow his grandpa's example and treat the sea with respect, but he is unable to stop his friends' father from trying to hunt an endangered dolphin who unbeknownst to them is protected by the Kraken!

The Vanishing of Aveline Jones

The Vanishing of Aveline Jones
Author: Phil Hickes
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2022-10-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1805314386

Turn on your torches and join Aveline Jones! Aveline is determined to discover the truth behind her uncle's mysterious disappearance when she travels to his home with Mum and Aunt Lilian. After years of hoping Aveline's uncle would return, they have finally decided to sell his house - but Aveline and Harold have other plans. Sneaking into her uncle's study, Aveline discovers he had been researching possible supernatural activity around an ancient burial mound - and linked this with the unexplained disappearances of other local villagers. Dark, magical forces are at work, and they'll do anything to remain hidden, as Aveline and Harold soon learn... Join the world of Aveline Jones, where mysteries are solved, spirits are laid to rest, and everybody gets to bed on time. Perfect for adventurers aged 9+ and fans of Michelle Harrison and Jennifer Killick.

Super Scary Monsters

Super Scary Monsters
Author: Megan Cooley Peterson
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2016-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1515702774

"Brief text describes monsters from around the world, including legendary monsters such as the Yeti and Mothman as well as mythical monsters such as the minotaur"--

Do You Believe in Ghosts?

Do You Believe in Ghosts?
Author: John G. Sutton
Publisher: Element Books, Limited
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1999
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781901881493

Make up your own mind about ghosts with some super scary "real life" stories and personal experiences from other kids and spooked adults.

Lost in Stinkeye Swamp

Lost in Stinkeye Swamp
Author: R. L. Stine
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Total Pages: 134
Release: 1997
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780590397759

Readers are placed in a new home that proves to be a swamp house and the site of a hidden treasure, a sewer ghoul, and a swamp thing, in a spooky story with more than twenty possible endings. Original.

Who's Afraid

Who's Afraid
Author: Philippa Pearce
Publisher: Puffin HC
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1988
Genre: Ghost stories, English
ISBN: 9780140320572

Eleven stories dealing with the world of the supernatural. Ghosts range from an evil kitchen-boy with a recipe for death to a tiresome invalid at the top of an apple tree. Philpipa Pearce's Tom's Midnight Garden was awarded the Library Association's Carnegie medal.