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• Duppy Stories

  Ghosts, Gremlins and Rolling Calves

  Brailsford, David

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  A collection of supernatural stories from Jamaica featuring ghosts, gremlins and rolling calves. Some are true', some sinister, some amusing, but all bring to life the underbelly of a country which, while devoutly religious, is very much open to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Reformatory

  a Novel

  Due, Tananarive, 1966-

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  A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ancestors

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  A collection of short stories from three talented authors exploring ghosts and hauntings by drawing upon African and African-American ancestral myths and beliefs. In Brandon Massey's The Patriarch' a young writer travels to the hushed backwoods of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• These Ghosts Are Family

  a Novel

  Card, Maisy,

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  Stanford Solomon's shocking, thirty-year-old secret is about to change the lives of everyone around him. Stanford has done something no one could ever imagine. He is a man who faked his own death and stole the identity of his best friend. Stanford…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Duppy Talk

  West Indian Tales of Mystery and Magic

  Hausman, Gerald

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  Includes six ghost stories from Jamaica which are based on the country's legends and have their roots in African folklore; each story is accompanied by a section about the teller of the tale.

• Akos and the Fire Ghost

  Djoleto, S. A. Amu (Solomon Alexander Amu), 1929-

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  Akos is a happy teenager living with her family in a fishing village. When her father drowns trying to save another man's life, everything changes and she is sent to be a housemaid in Accra. When a local man, Mr Ewusi, teases her about ghosts, she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ghost Boys

  Rhodes, Jewell Parker,

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  "After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--

• Ophie's Ghosts

  Ireland, Justina,

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  Discovering her ability to see ghosts when a cruel act ends her father's life and forces her to move in with relatives in 1920s Pittsburgh, young Ophelia forges a helpful bond with a spirit whose own life ended suddenly and unju

• I Am Alfonso Jones

  Medina, Tony

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  The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ghost of Sifty-Sifty Sam

  Medearis, Angela Shelf, 1956-

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  To win a $5000 reward, a chef named Dan agrees to stay in a haunted house overnight and when he meets a very hungry ghost, he gets more than he had expected.

• The Dark-thirty

  Southern Tales of the Supernatural

  McKissack, Pat, 1944-2017

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  A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty -- the half hour before sunset -- when ghosts seem all too believable.

• Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush

  Hamilton, Virginia

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  Fourteen-year-old Tree, resentful of her working mother who leaves her in charge of a retarded brother, encounters the ghost of her dead uncle and comes to a deeper understanding of her family's problems.

• The Things She's Seen

  Kwaymullina, Ambelin, 1975-

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  This brilliantly written thriller explores the lives--and deaths--of two girls, and what they will do to win justice. Sure to be one of the most talked-about books of the year! Nothing's been the same for Beth Teller since the day she died. Her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Forgotten Girl

  Brown, India Hill, 1991-

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  When eleven-year-old Iris sneaks out at night to make snow angels, she was not expecting to raise the ghost of Avery Moore, a girl her own age; but bringing to light the segregated and abandoned black cemetery seems like the perfect way to help…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Moaning Bones

  African-American Ghost Stories

  Haskins, James, 1941-2005

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  More than fifteen tales from the oral tradition probably originally recorded in the 1920s and 1930s such as "The Haunted Stateroom, ""Black Tom, " and "The Ghost in the Back Seat."

• The Headless Haunt and Other African-American Ghost Stories

  Haskins, James, 1941-2005

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  A collection of ghost stories and anecdotes that are part of the folklore of African Americans.

• Sweets and Treats

  Parker, Toni Trent

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  Color photographs and text portray children celebrating Halloween.

• Willie Bea and the Time the Martians Landed

  Hamilton, Virginia

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  In October of 1938, on their farm homestead in Ohio, a black family is caught up in the fear generated by the Orson Welles "Martians have landed" broadcast.

• Jenny Reen and the Jack Muh Lantern

  Smalls, Irene

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  Sister Louisa, who cares for Jenny Reen while her parents work in the field, warns the young slave girl about a monster, known from long-told tales, who comes out on Halloween.

• Corduroy's Halloween

  Based on the Character Created by Don Freeman

  Hennessy, B. G. (Barbara G.)

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  It's trick-or-treat time for everyone's favorite bear, who is now celebrating his 50th anniversary! Corduroy loves Halloween. Lift the flaps and share his holiday fun! Corduroy has lots to do to get ready. He visits the pumpkin patch and finds a…Read moreRead more of this annotation