Being Dead

Vivian Vande Velde (Author)
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4774
Product Type: Paperback Books
Age Groups: Ages 13 to 15, Ages 16 to 18
Horror fans will love these seven deliciously creepy tales featuring ghosts, cemeteries, suicides, murders, and other death-rela... (see details)

Horror fans will love these seven deliciously creepy tales featuring ghosts, cemeteries, suicides, murders, and other death-related themes. Most of the selections deal with everyday teens in seemingly ordinary situations; readers will settle in, confident that they know what to expect, only to receive a spine-tingling jolt as they hit one of the collection's many gruesome twists and turns. The first story, Drop by Drop, shows the author's macabre imagination at its best. Sixteen-year-old Brenda is understandably disgruntled when her parents whisk her away from her friends and her life in the city. Worse, their new house in a small town appears to be haunted. In one shivery scene, a disembodied hand touches her through her waterbed mattress, and Brenda spends the night on the couch. Clues turn up: a missing little girl, a foul smell from the woods, a dripping ghost. But just when it seems that Brenda will solve the mystery, the truth comes out-and most readers will be reeling with shock. In another story, a boy killed in Vietnam returns to haunt the father who forced him to enlist-or does he? In October Chill, a terminally ill girl falls for the ghost of a teen from Colonial times. None of the stories are gory, but they are all quite dark.

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SKU 4774
ISBN 9780152049126
Language English
Product Type Paperback Books
Primary Contributor Vivian Vande Velde
Age Groups Ages 13 to 15, Ages 16 to 18
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt