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by Ana Aranda

El Dia de Muertos es un dia festivo muy especial, en el cual las familias celebran y comparten historias y risas que traen a los muertos de vuelta a la vida. Ven y onete al festejo!

Es un dia en el cual la familia reunida cuenta historias y rie. Hay platillos favoritos por cocinar y poemas por escribir para los muertos, y lo mas importante- memorias por evocar. Ningon familiar es olvidado, porque este es el dia en el que los muertos vienen a visitar a los vivos-y en este dia festivo, es casi como si estuvieran sentados a nuestro lado mientras celebramos las cosas que los hicieron especiales. El texto tierno y el arte vibrante de Ana Aranda hacen que la alegria de este dia sea tangible.

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Read Sally’s story in this young adult companion to Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas written by New York Times best-selling author Shea Ernshaw.

Jack and Sally are “truly meant to be” … or are they?

Sally Skellington is the official, newly-minted Pumpkin Queen after a whirlwind courtship with her true love, Jack, who Sally adores with every inch of her fabric seams– if only she could say the same for her new role as Queen of Halloween Town. Cast into the spotlight and tasked with all sorts of queenly duties, Sally can’t help but wonder if all she’s done is trade her captivity under Dr. Finkelstein for a different cage.

But when Sally and Zero accidentally uncover a long-hidden doorway to an ancient realm called Dream Town, she’ll unknowingly set into motion a chain of sinister events that put her future as Pumpkin Queen, and the future of Halloween Town itself, into jeopardy. Can Sally discover what it means to be true to herself and save the town she’s learned to call home, or will her future turn into her worst… well, nightmare?

by Shea Ernshaw

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30 Magic Tree House

by Mary Pope Osborne

The intrepid Jack and Annie are summoned once again to the fantasy realm of Camelot. There, Merlin the Magician tells them that the Stone of Destiny has been stolen. The answer to its disappearance lies within a haunted castle. With a young magician named Teddy, Jack and Annie take on the challenge in an adventure that takes them to new heights and places they couldn’t even imagine!

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by Shirley Jackson

The greatest haunted house story ever written—the inspiration for the hit Netflix horror series!

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting”; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.

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by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Son tiempos de guerra, y la familia Carver decide dejar la ciudad donde vive para instalarse en un pequeno pueblo costero donde han comprado una casa. Pero desde el momento en que cruzan el umbral de la puerta, comienzan a suceder cosas extranas. En la misteriosa casa aun respira el espiritu de Jacob, el hijo de los antiguos propietarios, que murio ahogado.

Con la ayuda de su nuevo amigo Roland, Max y Alicia Carver comienzan a desenvolver las extranas circunstancias de esta muerte y descubren la existencia de un misterioso ser llamado El Principe de la Niebla . . . un diabolico personaje que ha regresado de las tinieblas a saldar una deuda de anos atras. Pronto los tres jovenes se veran envueltos en una aventura de barcos hundidos y estatuas encantadas, que cambiara sus vidas para siempre

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How to Carve a Pumpkin, Plus 29 Other Fun Halloween Activities

by Jack Hallow

Pumpkins aren’t just for teenagers to smash on Halloween – there are a multitude of uses for this versatile produce. Get back to the basics with a handy step-by-step for carving a pumpkin that will have your callers commenting on your crafty cutting. Use one of the included templates to carve your creation!

Then discover how to turn a simple gourd into a water bottle or a colourful animal feeder that will bring all sorts of critters to your garden. After, why not whip up a batch of smoky pumpkin deviled eggs, pumpkin chips or a warming pumpkin spiced latte to sip while you watch your favorite holiday movie? And that’s just the beginning!

Transform your festive fun with 29 ideas that will have you saying, “Oh my Gourd!”

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