New student Algie (short for Algernon) Green is just beginning to enjoy his new school when he takes on a paper route and meets a bicycle-riding phantom.

Algie is enjoying Graveyard School and his new town, until he gets a new customer on his paper route and hears some spooky rumors about the man's house.

Who's the new hot dog on Skateboard Hill? He's the only one who can take Dead Man's Curve alive. Skate and Vickie are determined to meet him--he may be their only chance to beat Eddie Hoover in the skateboard contest. If the phantom boarder gives them the secret of his awsome moves, will they have to take the ultimate wipeout in return?

When his teacher reads the class "A Christmas Carol" by Dickens, Christopher, who hates Christmas, finds himself in his own Christmas past, present, and future.

Indexes popular fiction series for K-6 readers with groupings based on thematics, consistant setting, or consistant characters. Annotated entries are arranged alphabetically by series name and include author, publisher, date, grade level, genre, and a list of individual titles in the series. Volume is indexed by author, title, and subject/genre and includes appendixes suggesting books for boys, girls, and reluctant/ESL readers.

St Albans is a city steeped in history, a place of former martyrs, Roman legions, battles, bloodshed ... and ghosts. Here the paranormal history of this remarkable area is brought vividly to life in the first dedicated guide to its unique haunted heritage that presents true encounters with the world of the strange and the unseen. Paranormal historian Paul Adams opens case files both ancient and modern to compile a chilling collection of supernatural experiences – the much haunted St Albans Cathedral where phantom monks have been seen in daylight and the fighting ghosts of Battlefield House and the legless apparition of a long-dead butler are just some of the unnerving experiences that await the reader.