Approaching the undead

Format:

Book

Title:

Approaching the undead

Author:

Specter, Baron, 1957-

ISBN:

9781616418991

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

127 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Series title(s):

Graveyard diaries ;

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General Note:

"Calico chapter books"--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

A gripping fog -- The new girl -- Woodland Cemetery -- Playtime -- Flying V -- Shedding light on the subject -- Game over -- Yellow vs. orange -- The Chapmans -- Safety in numbers -- Chester Burns -- Let them rest -- Light and mirrors -- The fifth zombie hunter -- Approaching the undead -- Ghost facts -- About the author -- About the illustrator.

Summary:

Stan Summer has been attacked by mysterious balls of light in Hilltop Cemetery and he and his new friend Amy need to solve the mystery of who these ghosts are and what they want.

Subject(s):

Ghost stories.

Haunted cemeteries -- Juvenile fiction.

Ghosts -- Fiction.

Haunted places -- Fiction.

Cemeteries -- Fiction.

Mystery and detective stories.

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Library	Call Number	Status
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Summary

Stan Summer has always lived next to Hilltop Cemetery. So when Amy Martinez moves in nearby, she asks Stan to show her the graveyard. Stan brings Amy to Deadman's Hill, his favorite place in the cemetery--at least it was until a strange red fog started chasing him. When Amy and Stan approach the fog, it splits into balls of colored light. Some of the balls are playful and some are just plain mean. Can Amy, Stan, and the rest of the Zombie Hunters find a way to help the lights find peace? Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.Calico is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

Reviews (1)

Horn Book Review

Jared, Stan, Mitch, Barry, and Amy, who all live near a cemetery in Marshfield (a.k.a., "Graveyard City"), work together to solve supernatural mysteries in this series. Formulaic plots and flat characters slow the fun of the young graveyard detectives considerably; shadowy black-and-white illustrations, journal entries, and appended tips for kids who want to, for example, track werewolves themselves, add appeal. [Review covers these Graveyard Diaries titles: Approaching the Undead, How Not to be Killed by a Zombie, To Werewolf or not to Werewolf, and Tracking Your Nightmare.] (c) Copyright 2013. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.