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The Science of Monsters

Timothy J. Bradley (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781480757110

From aliens to zombies, learn about the "science" behind the monsters that continue to frighten and fascinate us. This book examines the scientific aspects of monsters from pop culture, books, and movies such as the Thing, the Blob, the Mummy, Dracula, Frankenstein, Godzilla, Medusa, Cerberus, werewolves, zombies, and many more. Featuring TIME content, this high-interest book builds critical literacy skills and academic vocabulary and is purposefully leveled to engage different types of learners. Developed by Timothy Rasinski and Lori Oczkus, the text includes a table of contents, captions, glossary, index, and images to deepen understanding. The detailed sidebars feature fun facts that develop higher-order thinking. The Try It! culminating activity provides additional language-development activities. Aligned with McREL and WIDA/TESOL standards, this text features complex content appropriate for middle school students.

Close Encounters

C.M. Johnson (author)

Publisher: Full Tilt Press ISBN: 9781629207117

In this title from Full Tilt’s Origins series, students will examine legends surrounding alien encounters, from UFO sightings to crop circles. Urban Legends: Close Encounters guides readers as they explore timelines, stories, and fun facts.

Hauntings

C.M. Johnson (author)

Publisher: Full Tilt Press ISBN: 9781629207018

In Urban Legends: Hauntings, part of Full Tilt’s Origins series, students will learn the origins of spooky ghost stories, poltergeists, exorcisms, and major historical hauntings. Are these legends simply stories...or could they be real?

Haunted Prisons and Asylums

Alex Summers (author)

Publisher: Rourke Publishing ISBN: 9781681919522

This title takes a look into the history of haunted prisons and asylums and the unusual behaviors that have happened there throughout history.

Haunted Houses

Alex Summers (author)

Publisher: Rourke Publishing ISBN: 9781681919515

This title looks into the paranormal activity of haunted houses around the world.

Haunted Battlefields and Cemeteries

Alex Summers (author)

Publisher: Rourke Publishing ISBN: 9781681919539

This title explores haunted battlefields and cemeteries aroung the world and the paranormal activities that happen there.

Haunted Ships, Planes, and Cars

Grace Ramsey (author)

Publisher: Rourke Publishing ISBN: 9781681919546

This title explores haunted ships, planes, and cars with scary photos and actual events and places.

Haunted Hotels

Grace Ramsey (author)

Publisher: Rourke Publishing ISBN: 9781681919508

This title looks at haunted hotels around the world with paranormal activity that has happened there.

Haunted Objects

Grace Ramsey (author)

Publisher: Rourke Publishing ISBN: 9781681919492

This title looks at how objects can be haunted and gives examples of famous places with such objects.

Between Midnight and Morning

Patrick M. Mendoza (author)

Publisher: August House ISBN: 9780874836073

In the shadows lurking between midnight and morning, the imagination reigns. Real and imagined become simply words with shifting boundaries and slippery definitions.

Ghosts

Elizabeth Noll (author)

Publisher: Black Rabbit Books ISBN: 9781680721058

Readers of this book will investigate the facts and compare the data provided in the easy-access text and compelling diagrams and infographics, and then decide for themselves if ghosts are real.

Haunted Places

Elizabeth Noll (author)

Publisher: Black Rabbit Books ISBN: 9781680721065

Readers of this book will investigate the facts and compare the data provided in the easy-access text and compelling diagrams and infographics and then decide for themselves if places really are haunted.

Ghosts in Cemeteries

Lisa Owings (author)

Publisher: Bellwether Media Inc. ISBN: 9781626174276

Few places seem more fitting for restless spirits than the spooky cemeteries of the world. But do ghosts truly wander among the tombstones? Reluctant readers can determine for themselves whether or not several famous cemetery hauntings are true in this creepy title.

Ghosts in Palaces

Lisa Owings (author)

Publisher: Bellwether Media Inc. ISBN: 9781626174306

A meeting with the queen might have a totally different meaning at one of England’s haunted palaces—she may not be alive! This title for young readers recounts brushes with spirits in the gilded halls of England’s castles, including sightings of the famous Anne Boleyn!

Ghosts in Battlefields

Lisa Owings (author)

Publisher: Bellwether Media Inc. ISBN: 9781626174269

What if the spirits of the dead stay behind at the place where they died? Visitors to famous battlefields think some may do just that. They tell stories of ghostly fighting and spooky feelings of strange presences. Read on to determine if they are long-dead soldiers defending their ground or just strange coincidences in this chilling title.

Ghosts in Prisons

Lisa Owings (author)

Publisher: Bellwether Media Inc. ISBN: 9781626174313

People have reported hearing footsteps and seeing shadowy figures at prisons that have been empty for years. Could phantom inmates still roam the halls? Read eerie stories from famous prisons to decide for yourself in this title for reluctant readers.

Ghosts in Mansions

Lisa Owings (author)

Publisher: Bellwether Media Inc. ISBN: 9781626174290

The elegant houses of the wealthy may hold more than just expensive things. Some are said to be home to ghosts! Reluctant readers will love reading the famous ghost stories from lavish locales in this spooky book.

Ghosts in the White House

Lisa Owings (author)

Publisher: Bellwether Media Inc. ISBN: 9781626174320

Presidents of the United States might get some creepy houseguests during their time at the White House—former presidents! Find out which presidents have been sighted haunting their old home and what their unfinished business might be in this high-interest title for young readers.

Ghosts at Sea

Lisa Owings (author)

Publisher: Bellwether Media Inc. ISBN: 9781626174252

Some sailors come back to land full of ghost stories about cursed crews or flaming ships. But do they truly sail the seas? Or are they just tricks of the mind? Find out for yourself in this high-interest book for reluctant readers.

Ghosts in Hotels

Lisa Owings (author)

Publisher: Bellwether Media Inc. ISBN: 9781626174283

Who’s that knocking on your hotel room door? Is it room service or a ghostly visitor? Guests have recounted strange occurrences likes these during their stays at some hotels. This title introduces reluctant readers to some of these haunted encounters with unwanted hotel guests.

Gettysburg

Russell Roberts (author)

Publisher: Purple Toad Publishing ISBN: 9781624691126

Gettysburg was the deciding battle of the American Civil War - three hot July days of Union and Confederate soldiers fighting and dying in and around a small Pennsylvania town that determined the fate of the United States. When it was over, after the final climactic fury of Pickett's Charge, the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee would never again have the strength to mount an invasion of the North. Gettysburg marked the beginning of the end for the Southern cause.Many feel that Gettysburg produced something else - something that makes objects unexplainably fall, phantom images to appear, and strange noises to be heard. That something is haunted Gettysburg.

Little Big Horn

Earl Rice Jr. (author)

Publisher: Purple Toad Publishing ISBN: 9781624691188

Few things stir the imagination more than ghosts and ghostly sightings. The prospect of experiencing spectral encounters with visitors from another plane or dimension draws some 400,000 tourists to the windswept ridges of the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument every year. As most ghost hunters know, there is arguably no better place to ply their trade than the scene of violent action and the irreversible loss of life - the very definition of a battlefield. And the greasy-grass knolls of the Little Bighorn killing fields stand high on the list of haunted battlegrounds.Supernatural tales o spectral sightings from visitors and park employees alike lend an irresistible mystique to the Custer legend and to the battlefield itself. Such tales go back a long way. The Crow people are thought to be the first to experience paranormal happenings. They once called the park superintendent the "ghost herder," because they believed the ghosts of the fallen arose from their graves at sundown and walked among the living until daybreak. If the stone grave markers at the Little Bighorn could talk, they would have many tales to tell. Are you ready to listen?

Verdun

Earl Rice Jr. (author)

Publisher: Purple Toad Publishing ISBN: 9781624691164

The Battle of Verdun claims the dubious distinction of being the longest battle of World War I. The fighting began in February 1916 and raged on for ten months, finally ending in December. Its combined casualty count of French and German soldiers numbered more than 700,000, of which 262,308 were either dead or missing. The battle left a keen sense of national pride in the hearts of the French people. It also left a deep emotional scar in their collective psyche.A hundred years after the last guns fell silent along the River Meuse, the mere mention of the name Verdun still evokes ghastly and ghostly remembrances of the unspeakable horror of 1916. Nine villages that once stood on the surroundings in Verdun, vibrant and gay, disappeared in the deathly rain of artillery and mortar shells. They exist today only as names on maps and perhaps in the whispers of the spectral sentinels that patrol the verdant countryside and watch over a nation's dead.

The Mystery of the Ghosts of Flight 401

Brian Innes, Kathryn Walker (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427174697

Why would the ghosts of two crewmen who died in a 1972 air crash in the Everglades appear to other aircrafts flying the same route? This book tells the stories of the people who believe they have met these ghosts of the airways!

The Legend of the Jersey Devil

Trinka Hakes Noble (author), Gerald Kelley (illustrator)

Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press ISBN: 9781627530408

The Pine Barrens region in New Jersey has long been a place of mystery, with its dark pine groves, black swamps, and dank bogs, oftentimes shrouded in mist and fog. Reputed to be haunted by spirits, its an unsettling place to be sure. But of all the mysterious happenings and sights to be found in the Pine Barrens, there is none so intriguing as the Jersey Devil. Since its first reported sighting in 1735, local lore has it that a devil-like creature with the head of a horse, the wings of a bat, and the hooves of a goat has menaced townspeople, frightened livestock, and caused all manner of trouble over the years. Is the Jersey Devil real? Award-winning author Trinka Hakes Noble weaves a spellbinding tale about the origins of the legend of the Jersey Devil. Atmospheric illustrations by artist Gerald Kelley bring the tale to spooky life.