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1) Ghost boys
Author
Language
English
Description
"Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that's been unleashed on his family, his friend Carlos, and his community in the wake of what they see as an unjust and brutal killing. Jerome meets another ghost: Emmett Till. Emmett helps Jerome process what has happened, on a journey toward recognizing...
Author
Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"As millions of boys and girls devoured the early adventures of the Hardy Boys, little did the young readers and aspiring sleuths know: the series' author was not Franklin W. Dixon, as the cover trumpeted. It was Leslie McFarlane, a nearly penniless scribbler, who hammered out the first adventures while living in a remote cabin without electricity or running water in Northern Ontario. McFarlane was perhaps the first bestselling ghostwriter in history...
Author
Language
English
Description
January 1988. Martin Pistorius, aged twelve, fell inexplicably sick. First he lost his voice and stopped eating. Then he slept constantly and shunned human contact. Doctors were mystified. Within eighteen months he was mute and wheelchair-bound. Martin's parents were told an unknown degenerative disease left him with the mind of a baby and less than two years to live. Martin was moved to care centers for severely disabled children. The stress and...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Lying due north of Australia, New Guinea is among the world's largest islands. In 1942, when World War II exploded onto its shores, it was an inhospitable, cursorily mapped, disease-ridden land of dense jungle, towering mountain peaks, deep valleys, and fetid swamps. Coveted by the Japanese for its strategic position, New Guinea became the site of one of the South Pacific's most savage campaigns. Despite their lack of jungle training, the 32nd Division's...
8) Ghost boy
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Unhappy in a home seemingly devoid of love, a fourteen-year-old albino boy who thinks of himself as Harold the Ghost runs away to join the circus, where he works with the elephants and searches for a sense of who he is.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Coveted by the Japanese for its strategic position, New Guinea became the site of one of the South Pacific's most savage campaigns of World War II. Despite their lack of jungle training, the 32nd Division's Ghost Mountain Boys marched 130 miles in six weeks over the Owen Stanley Mountains to the village of Buna. There, during two months of fierce combat, they achieved victory over the Japanese
Author
Series
Haunted library volume 1
Language
English
Description
"When ghost boy Kaz's haunt is torn down and he is separated from his ghost family, he meets a real girl named Claire, who lives above the town library with her parents and her grandmother. Claire has a special ability to see ghosts when other humans cannot and she and Kaz quickly form a friendship."--Amazon website.
14) Dreamland
Author
Series
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Eager to contact her sister Ever, ghost Riley goes in search of the place where dreams are made, where she finds a renegade ghost boy who has been flouting the rules of Dreamland for decades.
15) Aftermath
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Language
English
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Description
After her brother's death from a congenital heart defect, twelve-year-old Lucy is not prepared to be the new kid at school-especially in a grade full of survivors of a shooting that happened four years ago. Without the shared past that both unites and divides her classmates, Lucy feels isolated and unable to share her family's own loss, which is profoundly different from the trauma of her peers. Lucy clings to her love of math, which provides the...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his mother's death, eleven-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great aunt, a reclusive painter with a haunted past. Full of curiosity and open to the unfamiliar and uncanny given the recent upending of his life, he courts the ghost boy of Grief Cottage, never certain whether the ghost is friendly or follows some sinister agenda.
Author
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Cordelia and her family move into the house they just inherited in Pennsylvania, a former insane asylum the locals call Hysteria Hall--unfortunately the house does not want defiant girls like Delia, so it kills her, and as she wanders the house, meeting the other ghosts and learning the dark secrets of the Hall, she realizes that she has to find a way to save her sister, parents, and perhaps herself.
18) Haunt and seek
Author
Series
Publisher
Jolly Fish Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ben Tajima spots a ghostly boy all over town during a visit with his grandparents to Chicago, Illinois"--
20) Ninth Ward
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them.