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Offers a collection of scary stories about ghosts, supernatural events, and mysterious legends.

Bex, Charlie and their friends have already saved their town from monsters and aliens - and they've learned their lesson about apps from Veratrum Games Corp. So when the company releases their newest title, a zombie game, the friends band together and refuse to play, even though it looks like the coolest game ever and everyone in town is hooked. Then, when a flu works its way through school, turning students and teachers into walkers of the undead, Bex, Charlie and a few others are immune becaus...

Lewis James is unhappy. Overweight and unpopular, his dad despises him, the girl he likes won't look at him - he has no friends, no life. Desperate to change, anxious to know all about his future, he tries a fortune-teller with a difference. A beguiling and seemingly caring toyshop owner, Mr Jardine. Jardine is eager to help and first offers Lewis practical advice - such as taking up exercise and getting fitter to improve Lewis's chances with Lisa. He also offers Lewis a Saturday job in his shop...

One night, a lovelorn teen boy "accidentally" slips into the home of his ex-girlfriend, Laura, and ends up hiding in her basement, trapped in the house by its alarm system. How long can he stay hidden? What will happen if he is found? What will he learn about Laura - and himself - in this house? And what is his true motive for being there? Turner's affinity for observant outsiders - and teens who share a desire to hide from nosy adults and judgmental peers - shines in a psychological thriller i...

Freddy's just a normal kid ...with an out-of-this-world life! Freddy, his sister, Babette, and their parents have been abducted by aliens! Next stop, the planet Flurb, where things couldn't be more different from their ordinary life on Earth. On Flurb, they snack on yootleturds, the buildings are alive, and the aliens make Freddy King! But his reign won't last long if the evil Wizbad has anything to say about it ...or Babette! Her brother as king? No way!

This workbook accompanies the second three plays in the Dark Man Series; The Demon in the Dark, The Dark Realm of Screams and Change in the Dark. The workbook includes teachers notes and photocopiable literacy activities. The Dark Man Plays continuing the adventures of the Dark Man. The Dark Man series has won great acclaim and awards for its ability to engage older very reluctant readers who have a reading age as low as 5 to 7 years. Each book features the Dark Man, a shadowy, brooding loner...

This workbook accompanies the three Dark Man titles Dying for the Dark, Killer in the Dark and The Day is Dark. It contains worksheets specific to each title, plus teacher's notes and advice on working with the resources.

When Ellie and her family move into Inchwood Manor, Ellie quickly discovers strange things are happening. Who is the mysterious boy at the window? What secrets lie within the abandoned nursery? Who is the woman who haunts Ellie’s dreams – and why has she returned to the Manor, after more than a century? Ellie finds herself entangled in a Victorian mystery of ghosts and tunnels and secret documents – and discovers that life all those years ago isn’t so different from the world she knows today......

Seventeen-year-old high-school student Sarah Wagner wrestles with her grief over losing her older brother, John, to cancer. When John’s ghost begins haunting her room at night, Sarah seeks help from Michael—the dark and mysterious boy in her class—and her friend Donna, an angry girl on the fringe of society. Searching desperately for a way to lay her brother’s spirit to rest, Sarah’s journey takes her into the mystical realm of the occult, and as her world slowly becomes unhinged, we see that a...

Two young people set out on a dangerous quest which takes them from their English countryside to a strange desert world.

Megan goes for a ride on a magic carousel that takes her to a circus where she and her pony are the star performers in Mr. Scarletti's Amazing Travelling Circus. Includes facts about circuses.

These kids can insert themselves into your dreams and fix whatever gives you nightmares! The Nightmare Brigade is a dream team led by Professor Angus. With his two young sidekicks, 14 year-olds Esteban and Tristan, they have one goal: help people get rid of their worst nightmares. With unique skills, the team members can literally infiltrate their patient’s nightmare to seek its root and destroy the cause. Things are shaken up a bit, however, when they meet the young Sarah. The Brigade has a fee...