{"id":6548,"date":"2013-10-30T20:59:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T00:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/?p=6548"},"modified":"2021-08-15T00:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T04:22:20","slug":"ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/ghosts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghosts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shakespeare\u2019s <i>Hamlet<\/i> and <i>Macbeth<\/i> are filled with ghosts (and witches); Moaning Myrtle haunts the toilets at Harry Potter&#8217;s Hogwarts; and Dickens\u2019s <i>A Christmas Carol<\/i>&nbsp;boasts not only the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, but a repentant Jacob Marley, rattling chains. And there are many more. Read at night, by flashlight, with a batch of glow-in-the-dark ghost cupcakes (yes! see below) by your side.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69eaa3668b9ef\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69eaa3668b9ef\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/ghosts\/#FAMOUS_GHOSTS\" >FAMOUS GHOSTS<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/ghosts\/#GHOST_STORIES_FOR_YOUNG_READERS\" >GHOST STORIES FOR YOUNG READERS<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/ghosts\/2\/#GHOST_STORIES_FOR_MIDDLE-GRADE_READERS\" >GHOST STORIES FOR MIDDLE-GRADE READERS<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/ghosts\/2\/#GHOST_STORIES_FOR_OLDER_READERS\" >GHOST STORIES FOR OLDER READERS<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/ghosts\/3\/#GHOST_ARTS_CRAFTS_AND_ACTIVITIES_and_Cupcakes\" >GHOST ARTS, CRAFTS, AND ACTIVITIES (and Cupcakes)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/ghosts\/3\/#GHOSTS_IN_THE_MOVIES\" >GHOSTS IN THE MOVIES<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"FAMOUS_GHOSTS\"><\/span><b>FAMOUS GHOSTS<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; height: 474px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 282px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 282px;\"><b> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13249\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ghost-300x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ghost-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ghost-768x685.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ghost.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 282px;\">From LiveScience, check out this list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/11364-top-10-famous-ghosts.html\">Famous Ghosts<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 58px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 58px;\"><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 58px;\">Wikipedia\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_ghosts\">List of Ghosts<\/a> categorizes ghosts by country and classifies them under either Literature or Pop Culture.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 76px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 76px;\"><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 76px;\">Does the ghost of Abraham Lincoln still walk the White House? Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/legend-of-abraham-lincolns-ghost-white-house\">The Lingering Legend of Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s Ghost<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 58px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 58px;\"><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 58px;\">One of the oldest ghost stories dates to Pliny the Elder in the 1st century CE. Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/halloween\/historical-ghost-stories\">History of Ghost Stories<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"GHOST_STORIES_FOR_YOUNG_READERS\"><\/span><b>GHOST STORIES FOR YOUNG READERS<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 44.8276%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19639\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780763698928_p0_v1_s550x406-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780763698928_p0_v1_s550x406-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780763698928_p0_v1_s550x406-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780763698928_p0_v1_s550x406.jpg 409w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.1724%;\">Ammi Joan Paquette\u2019s <em>Ghost in the House<\/em> (Candlewick, 2013) is a cumulative counting book of Halloween characters in a haunted house, starting with an adorable and nervous little blue ghost. For ages 3-6.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 44.8276%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780670784851_p0_v2_s1200x630-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780670784851_p0_v2_s1200x630-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780670784851_p0_v2_s1200x630.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.1724%;\">By John Bemelmans Marciano (grandson of original <em>Madeline<\/em> author Ludwig Bemelmans), <em>Madeline and the Old House in Paris<\/em> (Viking Juvenile Books, 2013) features mean-spirited orphanage inspector Lord Cucuface, who has taken an antique telescope from the attic of the old house in Paris. This has upset the resident 18<sup>th<\/sup>-century ghost, who has been waiting for hundreds of years to view the comet that caused his death. Madeline and friend Pepito save the day.&nbsp; For ages 3-6.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 44.8276%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/61voXv4iDEL-300x285.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/61voXv4iDEL-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/61voXv4iDEL.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.1724%;\">In Eve Bunting\u2019s rhyming picture book <em>In the Haunted House<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1994), two pairs of sneakered feet \u2013 blue (big) and red (small) &#8211;&nbsp; tiptoe through a house crammed with ghosts, witches, and ghouls. (At the end, the red-sneakered person is ready to try it all over again.) For ages 3-6.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 44.8276%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/61elvogvkUL-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/61elvogvkUL-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/61elvogvkUL.jpg 408w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.1724%;\">\n<p>In Jacqueline Ogburn\u2019s <em>The Bake Shop Ghost<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008), Miss Cora Lee Merriweather, proprieter of the bake shop who once baked the best cakes in town, has come back as an ill-tempered ghost and now is a thorn in the side of the new owner, Annie Washington. Cora promises to leave Annie alone if Annie will make her a cake as good as one that she might have baked herself. Creative Annie finally succeeds, but it takes some effort and understanding. A cake recipe is included. For ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 44.8276%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19643\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51DWmqccbbL._SX258_BO1204203200_-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51DWmqccbbL._SX258_BO1204203200_-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51DWmqccbbL._SX258_BO1204203200_.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.1724%;\">The title character of Kay Winters\u2019s <em>The Teeny Tiny Ghost<\/em> (HarperCollins, 1999) is doing his best to be scarier, attending school to learn about Halloween, booing, spooky stories, and haunting \u2013 but he\u2019s just not much good at being frightful.&nbsp; Then a frightening RAP on the door compels him to defend his (adorable) teeny tiny cats. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 44.8276%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19644\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51Aj1XCqUcL-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51Aj1XCqUcL-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51Aj1XCqUcL.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.1724%;\">Alvin Schwartz\u2019s <em>Ghosts!<\/em> (HarperCollins, 1993) is a collection of seven short \u201cGhostly Tales from Folklore\u201d for beginning readers. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 44.8276%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/519aUkKc8L-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/519aUkKc8L-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/519aUkKc8L.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.1724%;\">By Bill Martin, Jr., and John Archambault, <em>The Ghost-Eye Tree<\/em> (Square Fish, 1988) is a story-poem about a little boy and his older sister, sent out at night to fetch a bucket of milk, which involves passing the the truly creepy Ghost-Eye tree (\u201cfeared by all\/the great and small\u201d). The little boy wears his special hat, which makes him feel safer, even though his sister tells him it makes him look stupid. An owl panics them; he loses the hat; and his sister bravely goes back to retrieve it. A wonderfully illustrated account of being scared of the dark. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 44.8276%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19646\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/61vSMYsyJNL-288x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/61vSMYsyJNL-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/61vSMYsyJNL.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.1724%;\">In Judith Viorst\u2019s <em>My Mama Says There Aren\u2019t Any Zombies, Ghosts, Vampires, Creatures, Demons, Monsters, Fiends, Goblins, or Things<\/em> (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1987), Nick has his doubts: after all, he knows for a fact that Mama sometimes makes mistakes. For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 44.8276%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19647\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51rYP0R1FxL-286x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51rYP0R1FxL-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51rYP0R1FxL.jpg 476w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.1724%;\">By Mary Higgins Clark<em>, Ghost Ship<\/em> (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2007) is the picture-book story of young Thomas who, on a visit to his grandmother\u2019s house on Cape Cod, finds a belt buckle buried in the sand which conjures up the ghost of Silas, a cabin boy who lived 300 years ago. Silas tells Thomas the exciting tale of how he and his friends saved Captain Hallett\u2019s ship from mooncussers \u2013 thieves who used lanterns to lure ships too close to shore so that they could steal the cargo from the wrecks.&nbsp; With gorgeous illustrations by Wendell Minor. For ages 5-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 44.8276%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19648\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780439634304_p0_v1_s1200x630-287x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780439634304_p0_v1_s1200x630-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780439634304_p0_v1_s1200x630.jpg 573w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.1724%;\">John Muth\u2019s exquisitely illustrated <em>Zen Ghosts<\/em> (Scholastic Press, 2010) melds an American Halloween, a wisdom-dispensing, <em>koan<\/em>-speaking Zen panda named Stillwater, and a Japanese ghost story. For ages 5-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 44.8276%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19649\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/61QcrzgTRaL-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/61QcrzgTRaL-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/61QcrzgTRaL.jpg 337w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.1724%;\">\n<p>Alvin Schwartz\u2019s <em>In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories<\/em> (HarperCollins, 1985) \u2013 an I Can Read! Book \u2013 is a collection of seven short stories featuring toothy monsters, graveyards, and ghosts. Creepy, but not too creepy. For ages 6-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><b>GHOST STORIES FOR MIDDLE-GRADE READERS<\/b><\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51EaLyMHpWL._SX332_BO1204203200_-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51EaLyMHpWL._SX332_BO1204203200_-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51EaLyMHpWL._SX332_BO1204203200_.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">In Kate Klise\u2019s <em>Dying to Meet You<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), the first of the 43 Old Cemetery Road series, curmudgeonly children\u2019s book writer Ignatius B. Grumply (\u201cspecializing in mysteries, mayhem, and the macabre\u201d) rents a run-down Victorian mansion &#8211; only to find it already occupied by 11-year-old Seymour Hope, his cat Shadow, and the ghost of failed mystery writer Olive Spence, who lives in the cupola. The story is told in a clever and creative mix of letters, newspaper clippings, and manuscript excerpts. Many sequels. For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19651\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51HsJpRr55L._SX334_BO1204203200_-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51HsJpRr55L._SX334_BO1204203200_-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51HsJpRr55L._SX334_BO1204203200_.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">In Sid Fleischman\u2019s <em>The Midnight Horse<\/em> (Greenwillow Books, 2004), it\u2019s a dark and stormy night and the orphan boy, Touch, is en route to meet his evil uncle, Judge Wigglesworth, who is scheming to cheat Touch out of his inheritance.&nbsp;On the way he meets the ghost of the Great Chaffalo, a magician who can turn a heap of straw into a horse \u2013 and who becomes Touch\u2019s ally. For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19652\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51T6B-h45rL._SX329_BO1204203200_-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51T6B-h45rL._SX329_BO1204203200_-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51T6B-h45rL._SX329_BO1204203200_.jpg 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">In Lauren Oliver\u2019s <em>Liesl and Po<\/em> (HarperCollins, 2012), Liesl has been locked in the attic by her wicked stepmother after her father\u2019s death. There she is befriended by a little ghost Po \u2013 neither male nor female \u2013 and Po\u2019s insubstantial pet Bundle, who is not quite a cat and not quite a dog. Po tells Liesl that her dead father needs her help to cross safely to the other side. There\u2019s a mix-up, however, when Will, a miserable alchemist\u2019s apprentice, somehow manages to exchange a box containing the most powerful magic in the world with the box containing Liesl\u2019s father\u2019s ashes. For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51hEUjpGMYL._SX333_BO1204203200_-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51hEUjpGMYL._SX333_BO1204203200_-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51hEUjpGMYL._SX333_BO1204203200_.jpg 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">In Sharon Creech\u2019s <em>Pleasing the Ghost<\/em> (HarperCollins, 2013) , nine-year-old Dennis is a basic, ordinary boy \u2013 except that, ever since his father died, he sees ghosts. Then the ghost of his Uncle Arvie arrives, sporting a purple sweater and a red cowboy hat \u2013 who, having suffered a stroke in real life, now speaks only in gibberrish. Arvie wants Dennis to help widowed Aunt Julia find a hidden stash of treasure, but the search is complicated by Uncle Arvie\u2019s inability to say anything more coherent than \u201cMacaroni dinosaur!\u201d Both funny and sad, as Dennis copes with loss, makes friends with Billy, who has also lost his dad, and does his best to help Arvie. For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/just-south-of-home-9781534419391_xlg-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/just-south-of-home-9781534419391_xlg-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/just-south-of-home-9781534419391_xlg.jpg 596w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">\n<p>Karen Strong\u2019s <em>Just South of Home<\/em> (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2020), set in Georgia, is a mix of history, mystery, and ghost story. When Sarah\u2019s troublemaking cousin Janie pinches a necklace from the ruins of a black church burned down by the Ku Klux Klan, she stirs up ghosts from the town\u2019s past. An exciting read for ages 8-12.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19654\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/71IFxyTTJAL-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/71IFxyTTJAL-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/71IFxyTTJAL-672x1024.jpg 672w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/71IFxyTTJAL-768x1170.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/71IFxyTTJAL.jpg 893w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">The protagonist of Elizabeth Cody Kimmel\u2019s Suddenly Supernatural series (Little, Brown) is young Kat Roberts, whose mother is a spirit-sighting medium \u2013 and to her dismay, Kat, at the age of 13, finds that she can see ghosts too. In the first of the four-book series, <em>Suddenly Supernatural: School Spirit<\/em> (2008), Kat and friend Jac deal with a school haunting.&nbsp; For ages 9-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19655\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51L2u9T34QL-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51L2u9T34QL-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51L2u9T34QL.jpg 343w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">In Elizabeth Cody Kimmel\u2019s <em>ParaNorman<\/em> (Little, Brown, 2013), Norman can see and talk to ghosts, both human and animal. In this, the first book of a series, he encounters a witch who, on the 300<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of her death, is determined to destroy his small New England town. For ages 9-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19656\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/515VOF05RTL-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/515VOF05RTL-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/515VOF05RTL.jpg 353w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">\n<p>Mary Hahn Downing is a ghost story writer extraordinaire. Many satisfyingly spooky titles, among them <em>Wait Till Helen Comes<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007), <em>The Doll in the Garden<\/em> (Clarion Books, 2007), <em>The Old Willis Place<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007), <em>The Ghost of Crutchfeld Hall<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011), and more. For ages 9-12.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51V2lDZogPL._SX334_BO1204203200_-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51V2lDZogPL._SX334_BO1204203200_-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51V2lDZogPL._SX334_BO1204203200_.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">\n<p>In Neil Gaiman\u2019s <em>The Graveyard Book<\/em> (HarperCollins, 2010), a Newbery winner, Nobody Owens \u2013 called Bod \u2013 has spent his life in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts (from a range of centuries). The graveyard is a strange and wonderful place \u2013 and to leave it puts Bod in danger of Jack, his family\u2019s murderer. For ages 9-12.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19669\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/53852723._SY475_-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/53852723._SY475_-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/53852723._SY475_.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">\n<p>In Lindsay Currie\u2019s <em>Scritch Scratch<\/em> (Sourcebooks, 2020), Claire \u2013 a science-loving kid who has nothing but scorn for her father\u2019s ghost-themed Chicago bus tours \u2013 gets a shock when she\u2019s suddenly followed by the ghost of a little boy. Then there are strange scratching sounds and the recurring number 396. A spooky history-based ghost story for ages 9-12.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19657\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780375868085_p0_v1_s1200x630-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780375868085_p0_v1_s1200x630-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780375868085_p0_v1_s1200x630.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">Orphaned Bee, the main character of Kimberly Newton Fusco\u2019s <em>Beholding Bee<\/em> (Knopf, 2013) \u2013 mocked because of her diamond-shaped birthmark \u2013 helps run the hotdog stand in a 1940s traveling carnival, cared for only by her beloved Pauline. Forcibly separated from Pauline, Bee runs away and ends up living with Mrs. Potter and Mrs. Swift \u2013 a pair of feisty elderly ladies who, as it turns out, only Bee can see. With the help of this ghostly pair, Bee ultimately learns to cope with challenges and to value herself \u2013 and eventually even to rescue Pauline. For ages 9-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51KmhfvAQrL._SX331_BO1204203200_-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51KmhfvAQrL._SX331_BO1204203200_-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51KmhfvAQrL._SX331_BO1204203200_.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">In Eleanor Cameron\u2019s <em>The Court of the Stone Children<\/em> (Puffin, 1990), Nina visits San Francisco\u2019s French Museum and there, in a room from an early 19<sup>th<\/sup>-century chateau, meets the ghost of Dominique, whose father was executed in the French Revolution. She needs Nina\u2019s help to prove his innocence. For ages 9-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19659\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/512nCG-jBTL-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/512nCG-jBTL-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/512nCG-jBTL.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">L.M. Boston\u2019s <em>The Children of Green Knowe<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002), originally published in 1954, is the first of a series set in the eerie old English mansion of Green Knowe, where young Tolly comes to live with Mrs. Oldknow, his great-grandmother, who tells wonderful stories of Green Knowe\u2019s past. &nbsp;Characters in this first book include Toby, Alexander, and Linnet \u2013 the ghosts of children who lived at Green Knowe in the 17th century \u2013 and Green Noah, an evil topiary tree powered by a gypsy curse. Five sequels, all wonderful. For ages 9-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19660\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780440421788-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780440421788-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780440421788.jpg 306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">\n<p>In Patricia Reilly Giff\u2019s <em>Gingersnap<\/em> (Wendy Lamb Books, 2013), set near the end of World War II, Jayna has been left in the care of the landlady while big brother Rob \u2013 her only family \u2013 is in the navy. When Rob is declared missing in action when his destroyer goes down, Jayna sets off on her own for Brooklyn, hoping to find her grandmother at a bakery called the Gingersnap. She\u2019s armed with an old blue recipe book, accompanied by her pet turtle, Theresa (in a cat carrier), and helped along the way by the voice of a mysterious ghost. (The book includes eight plot-relevant soup recipes.) A brave and heart-warming story for ages 9-12.<\/p>\n<p>For more soup resources, including soup stories, soup science, and many great versions of <em>Stone Soup<\/em>, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/?p=3799\">Soup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780062430090_p0_v1_s1200x630-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780062430090_p0_v1_s1200x630-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780062430090_p0_v1_s1200x630.jpg 422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">\n<p>In Ellen Oh\u2019s <em>Spirit Hunters<\/em> (HarperCollins, 2017), Harper and family have just moved to a new house in Washington, DC, that proves to be possessed by an evil spirit. A mystery thriller (with ghosts) for ages 9-12.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19661\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780142402573-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780142402573-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780142402573.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">In John Bellairs\u2019s <em>The House With a Clock in its Walls<\/em> (Puffin, 2012), originally published in 1973, orphan Lewis Barnavelt moves to Michigan to live with his Uncle Jonathan \u2013 who turns out to be a warlock; and next-door neighbor Florence Zimmerman is a witch. Jonathan\u2019s house was once owned by the evil Isaac and Selena Izard, who hid within its walls a ticking clock capable of bringing about the end of the world. Jonathan and Florence are doing their best to find and disable the clock \u2013 a task that becomes more complicated when Lewis and a friend inadvertently raise Selena from the dead on Halloween. There are many more Gothic horror titles for kids by Bellairs, all spooky, addictive, and well done. For ages 9-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51TXWBpr83L-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51TXWBpr83L-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51TXWBpr83L.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">\n<p>In Jonathan Stroud\u2019s <em>Lockwood &amp; Co: The Screaming Staircase<\/em> (Little, Brown, 2014), the first of a series, London is besieged with ghosts, and Lucy Carlyle and Anthony Lockwood of Lockwood &amp; Co., a kid-run psychic detection agency \u2013 armed with iron filings and Greek fire \u2013 are investigating haunted houses. Among them the truly terrible Combe Carey Hall. For aged 9-12.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19677\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/41Hko0aqOtL-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/41Hko0aqOtL-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/41Hko0aqOtL.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">\n<p>In Penelope Lively\u2019s <em>The Ghost of Thomas Kempe<\/em> (Heinemann, 1975), James\u2019s family have moved to a cottage that proves to be haunted by 17<sup>th<\/sup>-century apothecary Thomas Kempe \u2013 who wants James for an apprentice. For ages 9-12.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19678\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51fCoyK79VL._SX334_BO1204203200_-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51fCoyK79VL._SX334_BO1204203200_-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51fCoyK79VL._SX334_BO1204203200_.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">\n<p>In Zilpha Keatley Snyder\u2019s <em>The Headless Cupid<\/em> (Atheneum, 1971), the Stanley children meet their new stepsister, Amanda \u2013 who has a passion for witchcraft and a pet crow. The family house features a cupid on the bannister, reportedly beheaded by a poltergeist in 1896. And then the poltergeist comes back. For ages 9-12.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19679\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/47890-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/47890-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/47890.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">\n<p>In Margaret Mahy\u2019s <em>The Haunting<\/em> (Atheneum, 1982), eight-year-old Barney is haunted by a strange voice and the apparition of a boy in blue velvet \u2013 and discovers that in each generation of his family, one member has supernatural gifts. For ages 9-12.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780823446971-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780823446971-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780823446971.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">\n<p>By Diane K. Salerni, in <em>Eleanor, Alice, and the Roosevelt Ghosts<\/em> (Holiday House, 2020), the Roosevelt house is haunted and it\u2019s up to teenaged cousins &nbsp;introverted Eleanor and obstreperous Alice to tackle the ghosts. For ages 9-12.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19670\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/41g5NJdHL._SX337_BO1204203200_-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/41g5NJdHL._SX337_BO1204203200_-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/41g5NJdHL._SX337_BO1204203200_.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">\n<p>In Victoria Schwab\u2019s <em>City of Ghosts<\/em> (Scholastic, 2019), Cass \u2013 whose best friend, Jacob, is a ghost &#8211; has the ability to pull back the Veil between the living and the dead. Then her parents, both famed paranormal investigators, have a chance to film a documentary in Edinburgh, Scotland, a ghost-ridden city where Cass meets a girl who shares her ability and runs into danger with a sinister specter known as the Raven in Red. For ages 9-13.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19662\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9781101664353_p0_v2_s1200x630-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9781101664353_p0_v2_s1200x630-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9781101664353_p0_v2_s1200x630.jpg 408w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">In Richard Peck\u2019s <em>Ghosts I Have Been<\/em> (Puffin, 2001), set in the early 20<sup>th<\/sup> century, the snarky and delightful Blossom Culp \u2013 who lives with her half-gypsy mother on the wrong side of the railroad tracks \u2013 suddenly develops Second Sight. Her first attempt at a s\u00e9ance brings her national notoriety, a friendship with the eccentric Miss Dabney, and a tragic visit to the doomed <em>Titanic<\/em>, where she is unable to change the course of history.&nbsp; Blossom, believe me, is irresistible. She also appears, still psychic, in <em>The Ghost Belonged to Me<\/em> and <em>The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp<\/em>. For ages 10 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/download-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"276\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">\n<p>Katherine Arden\u2019s <em>Dead Voices<\/em> (Puffin, 2020) is set in a vast and near-empty hotel in the middle of a snowstorm that isolates its residents \u2013 including best friends Ollie, Coco, and Brian \u2013 from the outside and cuts off the power. And there are ghosts. For ages 10-13.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19671\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780358348207_p0_v2_s1200x630-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780358348207_p0_v2_s1200x630-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780358348207_p0_v2_s1200x630.jpg 423w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">\n<p>By Kate Milford, <em>The Thief Knot<\/em> (Clarion, 2020), one of the popular Greenglass House series, features a band of creative teens \u2013 among them a magician, a code-breaker, and a ghost \u2013 who come together to solve a kidnapping. Maps, ciphers, secret tunnels, and the haunted Boneash and Sodalime\u2019s Glass Museum and Radioactive Teashop. A great read for ages 10 and up.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9781419715310_p0_v1_s1200x630-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9781419715310_p0_v1_s1200x630-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9781419715310_p0_v1_s1200x630.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">\n<p>Jonathan Auxier\u2019s <em>The Night Gardener<\/em> (Harry N. Abrams, 2015) is a creepy Victorian ghost story in which Irish orphans Molly and Kip come to work at the Windsor estate, a vast crumbling mansion dominated by an enormous sinister tree, and visited each night by the frightening Night Gardener. For ages 10 and up.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19663\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/769271d1b2a8310f3d2574561727fbc4-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/769271d1b2a8310f3d2574561727fbc4-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/769271d1b2a8310f3d2574561727fbc4.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">In Oscar Wilde\u2019s <em>The Canterville Ghost<\/em> \u2013 available in many editions and as a full text <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastoftheweb.com\/short-stories\/UBooks\/CanGho.shtml\">online<\/a> \u2013 the American Hiram B. Otis purchases Canterville Chase, even though everyone tells him that the place is haunted. The obstreperous Otis twins nearly drive the resident Ghost to distraction, though the lovely Virginia, daughter of the family, finally does him a great service. For ages 10 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aac9e4a3-ebd8-4419-9326-cee3f41bf53b-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aac9e4a3-ebd8-4419-9326-cee3f41bf53b-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aac9e4a3-ebd8-4419-9326-cee3f41bf53b-810x1024.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aac9e4a3-ebd8-4419-9326-cee3f41bf53b-768x971.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aac9e4a3-ebd8-4419-9326-cee3f41bf53b-1215x1536.jpg 1215w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aac9e4a3-ebd8-4419-9326-cee3f41bf53b.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">A film version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0115820\/\">The Canterville Ghost<\/a> (1996) stars Patrick Stewart as Sir Simon de Canterville (the Ghost). Rated PG.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19665\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9781442442955_p0_v2_s550x406-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9781442442955_p0_v2_s550x406-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9781442442955_p0_v2_s550x406.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">In Claire Legrand\u2019s <em>The Year of Shadows<\/em> (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2013), Olivia\u2019s mother has disappeared and her father\u2019s symphony is going broke, so Olivia, her grandmother, and her father (Olivia calls him the Maestro) move into Emerson Hall, her father\u2019s decrepit concert hall. There Olivia acquires a telepathic cat (Igor, named for Stravinsky) and meets four ghosts who haunt the hall \u2013 and who need her help. As Olivia, with the help of her friend Henry, tries to lay the ghosts to rest and save them from invasive malicious shades, she also struggles with family issues and her own unhappiness. A spooky, but ultimately positive, story for ages 10-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1910949-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1910949-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1910949.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">In Chris Grabenstein\u2019s <em>The Crossroads<\/em> (Random House, 2008), eleven-year-old Zack Jennings, his father, and his new stepmother move to Connecticut where their new house stands at a crossroad dominated by an immense tree \u2013 the site of a long-ago tragic accident where dozens of people died in an horrific collision. When lightning strikes the tree, the demonic spirit trapped inside it is released and is bent on murderous revenge. Luckily Zack has help from family, friends, and some kindly ghosts. For ages 10-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/514bfG0ReUL-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/514bfG0ReUL-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/514bfG0ReUL.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">In Holly Black\u2019s <em>Doll Bones<\/em> (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2013), Zach, Poppy, and Alice end up going on a quest to deal with the demands of a ghost whose bones are encapsulated in a china doll. For ages 10 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19668\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51a-bfQIpnL._SX331_BO1204203200_-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51a-bfQIpnL._SX331_BO1204203200_-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51a-bfQIpnL._SX331_BO1204203200_.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">\n<p>In Aliza Layne\u2019s graphic novel <em>Beetle and the Hollowbones<\/em> (Atheneum, 2020), Beetle, a twelve-year-old goblin-witch, is doing her best to save her best friend, Blob Ghost, from a haunted mall. Things are made more difficult when talented Kat returns to town as an apprentice to the villainous sorceress Aunt Hollowbones. For ages 10 and up.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><b>GHOST STORIES FOR OLDER READERS<\/b><\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/810vmbYkuiL-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/810vmbYkuiL-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/810vmbYkuiL-672x1024.jpg 672w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/810vmbYkuiL-768x1170.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/810vmbYkuiL.jpg 893w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">\n<p>In Patricia Clapp\u2019s <em>Jane-Emily<\/em> (HarperCollins, 2009), Emily \u2013 an evil child \u2013 died many years ago before her thirteenth birthday. Now nine-year-old Jane and her Aunt Louisa have come to spend the summer at Jane\u2019s grandmother\u2019s house \u2013 and there Jane first sees Emily, staring back at her from the reflecting ball in the garden. A Gothic thriller for ages 12 and up.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51HK7ahIkcL._SX335_BO1204203200_-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51HK7ahIkcL._SX335_BO1204203200_-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51HK7ahIkcL._SX335_BO1204203200_.jpg 337w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">\n<p>By Darcie Little Badger, <em>Elatsoe<\/em> (Levine Querido, 2020) is a supernature murder mystery in which Elatsoe (called Ellie), a 17-year-old Lipan Apache with a talent for ghost calling, her spectral dog Kirby, and best friend Jay (a descendant of the fairy king Oberon) join forces to track down a murderer. For ages 12 and up.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780375898631_p0_v1_s550x406-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780375898631_p0_v1_s550x406-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780375898631_p0_v1_s550x406.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">Candace Fleming\u2019s <em>On the Day I Died: Stories from the Grave<\/em> (Schwartz &amp; Wade, 2012) begins when young Mike Kowalski picks up a drenched young girl on the side of a country road in the middle of the night who begs for a ride home. She leaves her saddle shoes behind in his car, and when Mike tries to return them, he finds that the girl &#8211; Carol Anne &#8211; drowned sixty years ago. When he visits the graveyard, he finds himself surrounded by young ghosts from the 1860s on who insist on taking turns to tell the stories of their deaths. Nicely creepy for ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19685\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/517qwfQh6LL-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/517qwfQh6LL-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/517qwfQh6LL.jpg 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">\n<p>Chris Crutcher\u2019s <em>The Sledding Hill<\/em> (Greenwillow Books, 2006) is narrated by the ghost of Billy Bartholomew, best friend of Eddie Profitt, who has stopped talking following the deaths of both Billy and his father. Eddie\u2019s mother copes by joining the fundamentalist church of the Reverend Tarter, a teacher at the high school, who attempts to ban a book, <em>Warren Peace<\/em>, by (I wish the author hadn\u2019t done this) a writer named Chris Crutcher. Eddie finally finds his voice again, defending the book. A lot of possibility for discussion here for ages 12 and up.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19686\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/borders_ruby-red-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/borders_ruby-red-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/borders_ruby-red.jpg 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">In Kerstin Gier\u2019s <em>Ruby Red<\/em> (Square Fish, 2012), young Gwyneth Shepherd discovers that she, and not as expected her sophisticated cousin Charlotte, has inherited the family time-travel gene. Gwyneth also has a special talent all her own: she can see ghosts. The first of a terrific trilogy, set in Britain. Subsequent titles are <em>Sapphire Blue<\/em> and <em>Emerald Green<\/em>. (These are good. Don\u2019t be fooled by the covers, which make them look like bodice rippers.) For ages 12 and up.<p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19687\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780451415226-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780451415226-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9780451415226.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">In Peter S. Beagle\u2019s <em>Tamsin<\/em> (NAL, 2013), 13-year-old Jenny Gluckstein moves from New York to Stourhead Farm in Dorset, England with her mother, her new stepfather, and his sons. There she meets to ghost of Tamsin who \u2013 along with her cat \u2013 has haunted the farm for 300 years, trapped there by a trauma that she can\u2019t bring herself to remember. Wonderful slices of English history and folklore. For ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19688\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9781435166172_p0_v1_s1200x630-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9781435166172_p0_v1_s1200x630-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9781435166172_p0_v1_s1200x630.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">\n<p>In Washington Irving\u2019s <em>The Legend of Sleepy Hollow<\/em> \u2013 originally published in 1820 and now available in many editions \u2013 the most famous specter in the little Dutch town of Sleepy Hollow is the Headless Horseman, said to be the ghost of a Hessian soldier who had his head shot off in the Revolutionary War.&nbsp; The plot involves the competition of gawky schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and popular local boy Brom Bones for the hand of lovely Katrina Van Tassel, and a trick on horseback with a pumpkin. The full text of the story is online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastoftheweb.com\/short-stories\/UBooks\/LegSle.shtml\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A film version of the story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0162661\/\">Sleepy Hollow<\/a>, with Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane, is rated R. NOT for little guys.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19689\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51Td8kF1ntL-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51Td8kF1ntL-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/51Td8kF1ntL.jpg 328w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">In Maggie Stiefvater\u2019s <em>The Raven Boys<\/em> (Scholastic, 2013), teenaged Blue and her psychic mother wait at the churchyard each St. Mark\u2019s Eve to see the spirits of those who will die within the next year. This particular spring Blue sees the shade of Gansey, one of the privileged Raven Boys from Aglionby Academy. Several sequels. For ages 13 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19690\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/the-woman-in-black-front-cover-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/the-woman-in-black-front-cover-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/the-woman-in-black-front-cover.jpg 633w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\" width=\"345\">\n<p>Susan Hill\u2019s <em>The Woman in Black<\/em> (Vintage, 2012) is a creepy and classic ghost story, set in a small English town at the fog-ridden Eel Marsh House. Eerie and psychologically compelling, unlike the awful movie. For teens and adults.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19691\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Hill-House-poster-567x840-1-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Hill-House-poster-567x840-1-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Hill-House-poster-567x840-1.jpg 567w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">\n<p>Shirley Jackson is brilliant. In <em>The Haunting of Hill House<\/em> (Penguin Classics, 2006), originally published in 1959, main character Eleanor Vance \u2013 due to a paranormal event in her childhood \u2013 is invited to participate in an investigation of supernatural happenings at the chillingly disturbing Hill House. Subtle, fascinating, and psychologically twisty. For older teenagers and adults.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19692\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/41DtDEcVwvL-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/41DtDEcVwvL-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/41DtDEcVwvL.jpg 328w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\">\n<p>In Henry James\u2019s classic ghost story novella, <em>The Turn of the Screw<\/em> \u2013 available in many editions \u2013 a horrified governess discovers that she\u2019s not just dealing with her young charges, but with ghosts. For teens and adults.<\/p>\n<p>The full text of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/209\">The Turn of the Screw<\/a> is available online from Project Gutenberg.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0209440\/\">The Turn of the Screw<\/a> (1999) is a British made-for-TV version, which aired on PBS\u2019s Masterpiece Theatre.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 46.0345%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19693\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/71x7ABw2OnL-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/71x7ABw2OnL-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/71x7ABw2OnL-677x1024.jpg 677w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/71x7ABw2OnL-768x1162.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/71x7ABw2OnL-1016x1536.jpg 1016w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/71x7ABw2OnL.jpg 1165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 53.9655%;\" width=\"345\">\n<p>Alice Sebold\u2019s <em>The Lovely Bones<\/em> (Little, Brown, 2002) is a painful story told entirely from the point of view of a ghost: 14-year-old Susie Salmon, murdered by a neighborhood serial killer, who now watches from the afterlife the experiences of family, friends, and her killer. For teens and adults.<\/p>\n<p>The film version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0380510\/\">The Lovely Bones<\/a> is rated PG-13.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><b>GHOST ARTS, CRAFTS, AND ACTIVITIES (and Cupcakes)<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13271\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/milk-bottle-ghosts-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/milk-bottle-ghosts-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/milk-bottle-ghosts-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/milk-bottle-ghosts.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>From PBS, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/parents\/crafts-for-kids\/glowing-ghost-jugs\/\">Glowing Ghost Jugs<\/a> has instructions for making ghostly lanterns from plastic milk bottles.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>From DLTK, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dltk-holidays.com\/halloween\/ghost_crafts.html\">Ghastly Ghost Crafts<\/a> has printable decorate-a-ghost sheets, instructions for making a footprint ghost, a ghost-and-pumpkin wreath, a ghost paper chain, and more.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>Among the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enchantedlearning.com\/crafts\/halloween\/\">Activities for Halloween<\/a> at Enchanted Learning are making a balloon ghost and a pop-up ghost card.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>Learn how to make paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RbSbrt1AaRk\">Ghost Streamers<\/a> with this You Tube video.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>Make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bakeat350.net\/2014\/10\/spooky-smores-bars-recipe.html\">Spooky S&#8217;Mores Bars<\/a>. You\u2019ll need ghost-shaped Peeps.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>From Artists Helping Children<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artistshelpingchildren.org\/halloween-ghostsmakingcraftsideaskids.html\">, Ghost and Ghoul Crafts for Kids<\/a> has instructions for many, among them a ghost flashlight cover, paper spiral ghosts, floating glow-in-the-dark ghosts, and squash ghosts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>Activity Village\u2019s list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.activityvillage.co.uk\/ghost-crafts\">Ghost Crafts<\/a> includes a felt ghost toy, ghost puppets, and a recipe for ghost brownies.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14194\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/marshmallow-ghosts-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/marshmallow-ghosts-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/marshmallow-ghosts-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/marshmallow-ghosts.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cutefoodforkids.com\/2012\/09\/48-edible-ghost-craft-ideas-for.html\">Edible Ghost Craft Ideas<\/a> lists recipes for dozens, among them meringue ghost cookies, haunted house sandwiches, and glow-in-the-dark ghost cupcakes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>From Primary Games, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.primarygames.com\/holidays\/halloween\/games\/ghosthunt\/\">Ghost Hunt<\/a> kids click on features of a haunted house scene to find the ghost.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><b>GHOSTS IN THE MOVIES<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13241\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/casper-movie-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/casper-movie-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/casper-movie-715x1024.jpg 715w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/casper-movie-768x1100.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/casper-movie-1073x1536.jpg 1073w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/casper-movie.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Casper the Friendly Ghost was created as a cartoon character in the 1930s; he\u2019s also the star of the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0112642\/\">Casper<\/a> (1995), in which an \u201cafter-life therapist\u201d and his daughter move into a haunted mansion. There they meet the friendly Casper and his three very unfriendly uncles. Rated PG.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ghost-and-mrs-muir-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ghost-and-mrs-muir-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ghost-and-mrs-muir-722x1024.jpg 722w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ghost-and-mrs-muir-768x1089.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ghost-and-mrs-muir-1084x1536.jpg 1084w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ghost-and-mrs-muir-1445x2048.jpg 1445w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ghost-and-mrs-muir.jpg 1495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0039420\/\">The Ghost and Mrs. Muir<\/a> (1947), a young widow goes to live in Gull Cottage on the British seacoast, where she meets the ghost of its former owner, Captain Daniel Gregg \u2013 and the unlikely pair fall in love. With Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13235\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/beetlejuice-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/beetlejuice-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/beetlejuice-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/beetlejuice-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/beetlejuice.jpg 933w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In Tim Burton\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0094721\/\">Beetlejuice<\/a> (1988), ghosts Adam and Barbara are doing their best to evict obnoxious human owners from their home. They get no help from the <i>Handbook for the Recently Deceased<\/i> or the bureaucrats who dominate the afterlife, and so end up calling upon Beetlejuice, a crazy and unreliable ghoul in a striped suit. With Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin, and (as Beetlejuice) Michael Keaton. Rated PG.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13252\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ghostbusters-2016-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ghostbusters-2016-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ghostbusters-2016-689x1024.jpg 689w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ghostbusters-2016-768x1141.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ghostbusters-2016-1034x1536.jpg 1034w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ghostbusters-2016-1379x2048.jpg 1379w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ghostbusters-2016.jpg 1683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0087332\/\">Ghostbusters<\/a> (1984), three unemployed parapsychology professors start a ghost-removal service. All goes well until a ghostly voice in a client\u2019s refrigerator proves to involve a portal to another world and Gozer, an ancient Sumerian god of destruction. With Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Rated PG.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/field-of-dreams-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/field-of-dreams-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/field-of-dreams-722x1024.jpg 722w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/field-of-dreams-768x1090.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/field-of-dreams.jpg 1057w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0097351\/\">Field of Dreams<\/a> (1989), Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella \u2013 urged on by a mysterious voice (\u201cIf you build it, he will come\u201d) \u2013 builds a baseball diamond in his field and finds it visited by the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the Chicago White Sox players who were banned from the game for throwing the 1919 World Series. With Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, Burt Lancaster, and James Earl Jones. A real heart-warmer. Rated PG.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13237\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/blithe-spirit-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/blithe-spirit-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/blithe-spirit-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/blithe-spirit-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/blithe-spirit.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0038363\/\">Blithe Spirit<\/a> (1945), the film adaptation of the witty play by Noel Coward, Charles Condamine and his second wife, Ruth, are plagued by the ghost of his first wife, Elvira, who wants Charles back.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13287\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/topper-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/topper-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/topper.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0029682\/\">Topper<\/a> (1937), fun-loving (and reckless-driving) Marion and George Kirby die in a car crash and end up haunting their somewhat stuffy friend, bank president Cosmo Topper. With Cary Grant and Constance Bennett as ghosts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13246\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dvd-watcher-in-the-woods-D_NQ_NP_604977-MLB32690797348_102019-F-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dvd-watcher-in-the-woods-D_NQ_NP_604977-MLB32690797348_102019-F-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dvd-watcher-in-the-woods-D_NQ_NP_604977-MLB32690797348_102019-F.jpg 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In Disney\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0081738\/\">The Watcher in the Woods<\/a>, an American family moves into a house in rural England where the two daughters see strange lights in the woods and begin to see and hear a teenager named Karen, who vanished 30 years before. The explanation, as it turns out (spoiler!) is an alien and another dimension, not ghosts. But it feels like ghosts. Rated PG.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/high-spirits-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/high-spirits-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/high-spirits.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0095304\/\">High Spirits<\/a> (1988), Peter Plunkett\u2019s Irish castle is in deep financial trouble, so he decides to fake a haunting to whip up interest from American tourists. Which works \u2013 and then real ghosts move in. With Peter O\u2019Toole as Plunkett. Rated PG-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/pirates-of-caribbean-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/pirates-of-caribbean-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/pirates-of-caribbean.jpg 671w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>The swashbuckling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0325980\/\">Pirates of the Caribbean<\/a> (2003) features the ghostly pirate ship, the <i>Black Pearl<\/i>, and a lot of cursed undead pirates. With Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, and Keira Knightley. Rated PG-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13256\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ghost-movie-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ghost-movie-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ghost-movie.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0099653\/\">Ghost<\/a> (1990), Sam is murdered in a mugging but stays behind as a ghost, trying to protect his girlfriend, Molly, from danger. Molly can\u2019t see him; he can only communicate with her through a startled psychic who had never believed her powers were real. With Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, and Whoopie Goldberg. Rated PG-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sixth-sense-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sixth-sense-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sixth-sense-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sixth-sense-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sixth-sense-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sixth-sense.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Directed by M. Night Shyamalan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0167404\/\">Sixth Sense<\/a> centers around a young boy who can see and talk to ghosts who don\u2019t realize that they\u2019re dead. Rated PG-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13286\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/the-others-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/the-others-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/the-others-698x1024.jpg 698w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/the-others-768x1127.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/the-others-1046x1536.jpg 1046w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/the-others-1395x2048.jpg 1395w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/the-others.jpg 1703w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0230600\/\">The Others<\/a> (2001), Grace Stewart lives in a mansion on the island of Jersey with her two oddly photosensitive children while waiting for her husband to return home from World War II. Soon strange happenings lead Grace to believe that the house is haunted \u2013 which it is, but not in the way that you expect. With Nicole Kidman. 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