Spine-tingling paranormal mysteries! What with poltergeists, vampires, werewolves, and curses all creeping up on you, will you make it through this pack without having to bite back your screams? Seven sassy yet spooky stories in which our feisty heroines tackle curses, mean-girl vampires, and haunted houses. All without wrecking their hairdos. Funny, feisty, frightening. And full of Gothic doom to boot.
Titles Included:
The Dead End
Casey Slater can't believe her bad luck. It's the summer before seventh grade, and instead of the perfect vacation she'd planned with her best friend, Casey is in a remote country town, where her parents are restoring an old, creaky, creepy house. Worst of all, everyone else in town thinks the old house is haunted. And soon Casey thinks so, too a vase explodes, a heavy china cabinet falls over on its own and it seems like the ghost doesn't want them there. Casey thought she'd be dying of boredom, but now she's scared to death!
This Totally Bites!
Twelve-year-old Emma-Rose Paley has always felt different from her bubbly, outgoing parents. Unlike them, Emma-Rose has pale skin and jet-black hair, is quiet and moody, and prefers gray weather to sunshine. She also hates the taste of garlic, has very sharp incisors, and loves rare burgers. When Emma-Rose uncovers a dark family secret, she has a sudden revelation. Could Emma-Rose be a real, live vampire?
Miss Fortune
Zoe's never been superstitious, so when she and her best friend Mia have their fortunes read at a carnival, she doesn't take it seriously. Zoe mocks the fortune-teller. But the woman gives Zoe a necklace to seal her fortune, and as soon as Zoe puts it on, unexplained things begin to happen to her. Her bike spins out of control, a fire starts in the oven when it isn't on, and Zoe begins receiving threatening texts and emails. The necklace must be cursed! But when Zoe and Mia return to the site of the carnival, it's gone! Can they break the curse before something terrible happens?
Now You See Me
Best friends Lena and Abby love searching through thrift stores for lost treasures. When they find an old Polaroid camera, they can't wait to try it out. But the photos that develop are troubling things that weren't there appear in the pictures. Creepiest of all is the image of a boy, dark and angry-looking. He shows up, over and over, clearer each time. Can the girls discover what the ghost boy wants -- before it's too late?
Midnight Howl
Marisol and her mom move from the city to rural Montana for a few months and stay with family friends, and their twin children, Jack and Hailey. Marisol loves looking at the stars so far away from city lights, but she feels creeped out by the woods right by their house. She's even more scared when her new friend Lily warns her about the wolves their wolves that are most dangerous around the full moon. When she notices Hailey disappear several times late at night, Marisol starts to wonder . . . could she be friends with a werewolf?
Her Evil Twin
Anna's new friend, Emma, is everything Anna wants to be fearless, effortlessly fashionable, and always up for doing something fun. The girls even look alike, and soon they're fixing their hair the same way and sharing clothes. But Emma is also kind of a troublemaker. She likes to sneak off grounds at lunch, and she doesn't seem to like Anna having any other friends. Emma never seems to get caught, but Anna does. After all, they look just alike. When Emma's sense of adventure takes a sinister turn, Anna starts to worry. Is her mirror-image BFF a dangerous evil twin?
Curiosity Killed the Cat
Eleven-year-old Hannah can't believe she has to move from Tarrytown to Spooky Sleepy Hollow to stay with her dad, stepmom, and her spoiled and nasty stepsister, Molly. So Hannah is thrilled when a sweet black stray cat begins showing up on her dad's doorstep to keep her company. Hannah's heard of the legend of the black ghost cat that haunts the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, but she always figured it was just a legend...right? Or could the ghost cat of Sleepy Hollow be haunting Hannah?
