title: The Christmas Eve Ghost
author:  Shirley Hughes 
description: K-Gr 3The author/illustrator draws on her memories of 1930s Liverpool to tell this story of a widow and her two children struggling to make ends meet. When the youngsters are left alone while the mother runs an errand on Christmas Eve, they are frightened by ghostly noises coming from the other side of the wall. They have been warned to stay away from the neighbors, the O'Rileys, who go to a church for a different kind of people, not their kind. Mrs. O'Riley turns out to be an understanding, nurturing adult who takes the siblings in and reveals the source of the noise. American children may not understand the source of the initial religious intolerance. However, Hughes's old-fashioned illustrations are the draw here, and many will find this to be a satisfying family read-aloud.<i>Virginia Walter, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies</i><br /> Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
zlib_text: CHRISTMAS EVE
  
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  HAUNTED HILL
  
    
    
  
  By Bryan Smith
  
    
    
    
    
    
    
  
  First Digital Edition
  
  Copyright 2015 by Bryan Smith
  
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  www.thehorrorofbryansmith.blogspot.com
  
    
  
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  All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual
  persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
  
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
  
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  The gray sky started spitting snow again as Luke Herzinger pulled his 1973
  Oldsmobile Delta 88 into the parking lot of Sal’s Place. Less than half a
  dozen cars were parked up in front of the place, leaving two spaces open
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