Mary Downing Hahn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"They say that a ghost witch lives in the woods, up on Brewster's Hill. They say her companion, Bloody Bones, has a pig skull for a face and stands taller than a man, his skeleton gleaming white in the moonlight. They say that the witch takes young girls, and no one ever sees them again. Daniel doesn't believe the stories about the witch or her beast. He figures the kids on the bus are just trying to scare him, since he's new. But when his sister,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1994, while her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret gets a new view of the school bully Gordy when she finds him hiding his own brother, an army deserter, and decides to help him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In the nineteenth century, ten-year-old Florence Crutchfield leaves a London orphanage to live with her great-uncle, great-aunt, and sickly cousin James, but she soon realizes the home has another resident, who means to do her and James harm.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When her adorable baby brother is replaced by an ugly, ill-tempered changeling, Mollie is determined to find the so-called Kinde Folke who took baby Thomas, return the changeling she calls Guest, and make them give Thomas back.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Logan and his family move into a run-down old house in rural Virginia, he discovers that a woman was murdered there and becomes involved with his neighbor Arthur in a dangerous investigation to try to uncover the killer.
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Travis and his sister Corey decide to boost business at their grandmother's Vermont inn by staging a few "hauntings" that soon draw tourists from across the country, but when their antics awaken a dark force, they must find a way to put to rest the ghosts they have disturbed.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: The author of wildly popular ghost stories, Mary Downing Hahn has created a group of tales for fans of her "scary but not too scary" books. Even the stories without actual ghosts are spooky. Each tale turns something ordinary-a pigeon, a white dress, a stranger on the bus, a puppet-into a sinister link to to the supernatural. For the human characters, secrets from the past or careless behavior in the present can lead to serious...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother, sixteen-year-old Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father's new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest.
14) Daphne's book
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
As author Jessica and artist Daphne collaborate on a picture book for a seventh-grade English class contest, Jessica becomes aware of conditions in Daphne's home life that seem to threaten her health and safety.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Unnerved by the overgrown forest near her aunt's house and the wild black cats that live there, Danni encounters a mean old woman who claims to be their owner and makes a discovery that places her life in danger.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Tired of the rules that have bound them ever since "the bad thing happened," twelve-year-old Diana ignores her brother's warnings and befriends the daughter of the new caretaker, setting in motion events that lead to the release of the spirit of an evil, crazy woman who once ruled the old Willis place.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Marketing:
"A chilling murder mystery lies at the heart of this page-turning thriller about a missing teacher, small town secrets, and turbulent tween friendships from master of middle grade horror Mary Downing Hahn.
When best friends Abbi and Skylar witness a clandestine meeting between a mysterious woman and someone in a dark van, they're thrilled. Finally, a mystery to spice up the summer!
Who could these people be? Why are they meeting?...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
©1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Tallahassee Higgins enjoys the vagabond lifestyle she lives with her free-spirited mother, but when Mother goes to Los Angeles to try her luck in TV and movies, Tallahassee is placed with her uncle whose conventional suburban lifestyle makes her question her mother's values--and her own.