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Mysteries & Scary Stories

 * **//Boxcar Children// books by Gertrude Chandler Warner:** Four orphans solve a variety mysteries. In the first one, they hide out in a boxcar because they don't want to live with their grandfather. Will they discover that he isn't so bad after all?
 * **//The Dollhouse Murders// by Betty Ren Wright:** A girl finds a dollhouse and discovers little people inside.
 * **//Ghost Brother// by C.S. Adler:** A boy thinks that the ghost of his brother is helping with different issues at school and at home.
 * **//Million Dollar Strike// by Dan Gutman:** A boy named Ouchie always goes to the bowling alley where he is almost kidnapped.
 * **//Skeleton Man// by Joseph Bruchac:** A girl's parents disappear and a creepy man shows up claiming to be a long lost uncle.