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Goosebumps. Original series volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
It sounds like something's moving in the mummy's tomb. Did the secret chant wake someone?After last year's scary adventure, Gabe's a little nervous about being back in Egypt. Back near the ancient pyramids. Back where he saw all those creepy mummies.Then he learns about an Egyptian superstition. A secret chant that is supposed to bring mummies back to life. Gabe's uncle says it's just a hoax.But now it sounds like something's moving in the mummy's...
2) Lucky enough
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Series
Pub. Date
20180301
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A baseball star's luck is tested in this action-packed story-perfect for fans of Mike Lupica and Tim Green-from the author of The Kid Coach.
Like many athletes, Trey is superstitious. How could he not be when he just made the Ravens travel baseball team thanks to his lucky charm, a piece of rare sea glass he found on his grandmother's beach?
This stroke of good fortune reinforces Trey's superstitions, and his rituals only become more important to...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In Fortune Falls, where superstitions are real, and all children must pass regular "luck tests" to see if they are worthy, ill-fortuned Sadie has always been deemed as unlucky, and shunted aside for her luckier younger brother--but when she finds an unusually intelligent black cat named Jinx, her fortunes begin to change for the better.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
The last place in the world Bree wants to spend her summer is at Midnight Lake. There's no cell reception, no shopping, and no normal food! To make matters worse, Bree's Aunt Hedda seems determined to make Bree's stay with her as miserable as possible. Aunt Hedda's superstitions and cooking are weird to begin with. Everyone in town seems to think her aunt is crazy, but when Bree starts hearing strange night music and finds bones washed up on shore,...
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
A discarded chain letter augers a series of bad events for Mary Anne, who is plagued by bad luck and a threatening note demanding a midnight meeting on Old Man Sutcliff's grave.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
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Simon, Henry, and Jack Barker decide to ignore their parents' warning to stay away from Superstition Mountain in order to search for their missing cat Josie, but they begin to see the wisdom of their mom and dad's advice when they find three human skulls.
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Series
Boxcar children volume 152
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
When the Alden siblings visit their grandfather's friend in an apartment building, they begin to wonder about the many mysterious events that keep happening on the thirteenth floor of that building.
8) The Banshee
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Terry wakes up in the middle of the night to horrible screeching, he thinks the Banshee has come to pay his family a visit.
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Series
Time spies volume 6
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
The time travel missions continue for Mattie, her brother Alex, and sister Sophie when they meet the superstitious villagers in Washington Irving's classic story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," and must help fearful Ichabod Crane win the heart of Katrina Van Tassel.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009] c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In the dangerous dark of winter in an Eastern European village during the early seventeenth century, Peter learns from a gypsy girl that the Shadow Queen is behind the recent murders and reanimations, and his father's secret past may hold the key to stopping her.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Upon superstitious headmaster Mordred's orders, the returning students and new lasses of Dragon Slayers' Academy deck themselves in lucky charms on Friday the thirteenth, but luck may not help when a wicked dragon arrives seeking revenge.
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Series
Superstition Mountain mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The Barker brothers and their friend Delilah secretly climb up to Superstition Mountain one last time, hoping to solve the remaining mysteries, including whether the librarian is really the ghost of Julia Thomas, what was their uncle Hank's role in discovering the gold mine, and especially, who is trying to kill them.
Author
Series
Roscoe Riley rules volume 7
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Pumpkin ContestIf Roscoe guesses the weight of a giant pumpkin, he'll be a winner! Easy, right? But a little black cat keeps trying to cross his path! Will the bad-luck kitty ruin Roscoe's chance to win?
14) Bad luck Lola
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Lola cracks a mirror, she is not worried at first, but when one unlucky thing after another happens, Lola slowly becomes convinced she is cursed.
15) Zip it!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When Pine City Porcupines' bat boy Chad breaks an important unofficial rule of baseball: Do not talk to the starting pitcher when he has a perfect game going, the team may lose the game unless Chad can find a baseball card to help break the superstition.
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Pub. Date
[2019].
Description
Sixteen-year-old Clara Morris is facing an awkward summer with her father in the tiny upstate town of Redmarch Lake. Clara's relationship with her parents--and with life in general--has been strained since she lost her twin sister, Zoe, when the girls were eight. As a child, her sister had been her whole world--they even shared a secret invented twin language. Clara has managed to rebuild herself as best she can, but she still feels a hole in her...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Do black cats deserve the bad rap that they get? These black cats get a chance to express themselves and tell their side of the story! Clever rhymes and beautiful cat illustrations will captivate children, and young readers will look forward to every page-turn. The black cats tell their stories in a way that is fun and funny, and by the end of the book, readers both young and old will delight in saying, "I'm a black cat who got a bad rap." The short...