title: Five Goofy Ghosts (Hello Reader , Level 4)
author:  Judith Bauer Stamper 
description: Gr. 2^-3. Five silly horror stories will make kids shiver with fear and laugh out loud--and want to read. The pictures in full color, with heavy cross-hatching, show ghosts, witches, skeletons, and graveyards; best of all is the close-up of the hairy toe ("Who's got my hairy toe?") in a new variation of the old folktale. There are haunted houses with creaking stairs and a cumulative rhyme that collects a bat, a zombie, a skeleton "bony and white," and other monsters. Finally, there's a riddle story with ghostwriter puns and a ghost who comes out of the graveyard to say, "Boo!" Part of the Hello Reader! series, this will also make a popular read-aloud. <i>Hazel Rochman</i>
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  GHOSTSITTERS
  
  
  as told to
  
  
  ANGIE SAGE
  
  
  illustrated by
  
  
  JIMMY PICKERING
  
  
  For Charlie Denchfield
  
  
  CONTENTS
  
  
  -1
  
  
  SLUGS \- 1
  
  
  -2
  
  
  BATS \- 20
  
  
  -3
  
  
  NURSE WATKINS \- 33
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  GIRLS!  \- 50
  
  
  -5
  
  
  NED AND JED \- 65
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  PIZZA \- 86
  
  
  -7
  
  
  GHOST CATCH \- 102
  
  
  -8
  
  
  SECRETS \- 116
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  BIRTHDAY BOTHER \- 126
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  HORSE-WITH-PEDALS \- 143
  
  
  -11
  
  
  THE RING \- 159
  
  
  -12
  
  
  GHOST BATTLE \- 174
  
  
  -13
  
  
  SURPRISE, SURPRISE! \- 193
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  About the Author
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  About the Illustrator
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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