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Wendy isn't as blind as a bat-there are bats that can see better than she can. Which is why, when her new glasses break, she's all too happy to wear the dorky pair of sunglasses she finds on the lawn. They seem to match her prescription, and that's all that matters if she's going to be able to make it through her school day.
But the glasses correct her vision too much. She begins to see things that no one else can see: cheerful corpses, frightening...
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Fifteen-year-old Raquel Falcone is, as one of her classmates puts it, the kind of kid who has a tendency to be invisible. That is until the night she's hit by a car and killed while walking home from the movies. In brief, moving chapters, we hear about Raquel from her classmates, her best friend, her family-and the woman who was driving the car that struck her. The loss of this seemingly invisible girl deeply affects her entire community, proving...
3) Being Dead
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A sixteen-year-old will give anything to be with her true love-even though he died two hundred years ago....A sopping-wet little dead girl stalks a teen who had nothing to do with her death-honest!... A heartless man dances with his wife-after she's passed away.
From the hilarious to the horrific, master storyteller Vivian Vande Velde explores the world of the dead-and the undead-in this surprisingly moving collection of unnerving tales.
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A spell that gets you land, money, long golden hair, or a date to the prom can't be a curse, can it? A curse just gets you dead. Or does it?... In these ten stunning short stories, boys and girls learn firsthand just what magic spells, enchantments, and curses really can do.
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When Selwyn, a farmer, is accused of murdering his rival, Farold, he is sealed in the village burial cave with Farold's moldering corpse to await starvation-or worse. Worse comes along quickly in the form of a witch who raises Farold from the dead. Selwyn thought he disliked Farold when he was alive, but that was nothing compared to working by the dead man's side as they search for the real killer.
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Dark forces are taking hold in the kingdom of Camelot: King Arthur struggles to keep his knights in line as they steadily divide themselves into factions, the great Merlin has vanished at the hands of his lover and pupil, Nimue, wizards all over the countryside battle for whatever measures of power they can find. At the center of the maelstrom stands Keira, an innocent girl who possesses the ability to foretell the fate of her world. When Keira is...
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A boy is trapped in a possessed car that has stalled in the path of an oncoming train. A girl is dragged into a crypt during a field trip to an eighteenth-century cemetery. A group of friends meet their fate after an unsettling visit with a backwoods psychic. And that's just the beginning. Celebrated author Vivian Vande Velde is at her spine-tingling best in this collection of thirteen scary stories, all of which take place on Halloween night. With...
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Nola's not much of a witch-she can work only a few useless spells, like the one that lets her spy on people. But there's no spell for keeping her crazy mother-who hears voices and is a magnet for witch-hunters-out of trouble. The two flee from town to town until the day Nola witnesses a murder. Which is bad enough, but worse is that the murderer may frame Nola and her mother for the crime. And then no amount of magic will save her.
And you think...
10) Dragon's Bait
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In this fantasy adventure, a teenage girl accused of witchcraft and sentenced to death by dragon finds an unexpected friend-and maybe something more.
Fifteen-year-old Alys is not a witch. But that doesn't matter-the villagers think she is and have staked her out on a hillside as a sacrifice to the local dragon. It's late, it's cold, and it's raining, and Alys can think of only one thing-revenge. But first she's got to escape, and even if she does,...
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