Edition |
Reillustrated edition. |
Description |
113 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Note |
Originally published: New York : HarperCollins, 1981. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-111) |
Summary |
Tapped from the oral traditions of American folklore, these ghost stories and tales of weird happenings, witches, and graveyards have startling, funny, or surprising endings. |
Contents |
"AAAAAAAAAAAH!" -- Big toe -- Walk -- "What do you come for?" -- Me tie dough-ty walker -- A man who lived in Leeds -- Old woman all skin and bone -- Thing -- Cold as clay -- White wolf -- Haunted house -- Guests -- Hearse song -- Girl who stood on a grave -- A new horse -- Alligators -- Room for one more -- Wendigo -- Dead man's brains -- "May I carry your basket?" --The hook -- White satin evening gown -- High beams -- Babysitter -- Viper -- Attic -- Slithery-dee -- Aaron Kelly's bones -- Wait till Martin comes -- Ghost with the bloody fingers. |
Audience |
640 Lexile. |
Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.1 1.0 18788. |
Subject |
Ghost stories, American.
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Folklore -- United States.
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Tales -- United States.
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Folklore -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
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Genre/Form |
Juvenile.
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Added Author |
Helquist, Brett. Illustrator.
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ISBN |
9780060835194 |
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0060835192 |
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9780060835200 |
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0060835206 |
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0397319266 |
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9780397319268 |
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0064401707 (paperback) |
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9780064401708 (paperback) |
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