Spooky smack down (Wheelnuts! Craziest Race on Earth! # 2)

Summary: Buckle up for Wheelnuts! the craziest race on Earth! Six kooky cars, five extreme courses, one winner! In Spooky smack down, drivers will find that the road ahead is dangerous. Can they deal with: haunted castles?! Ferocious dragons?! Ravenous vampire bats?! Which team will come out on top? The rules are simple, there are no rules

The House on the Hill

Summary: A haunting tale set in rhyme, detailing two little ghosts making their way up the path to the house on the hill on a dark and scary night. Features a twist at the end involving a Halloween surprise. (Publisher)

The Ghosts of Tarawera

New Zealand author
Summary: On holiday near Rotorua, Joe and Eddie are fascinated by the area's bubbling mud pools and boiling geysers. Local volcanologist Rocky tells them about the Pink and White Terraces that existed on the lake where they're staying, and how they were destroyed in the cataclysmic 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera. But Joe's fascination turns to unease when strange sightings on the lake and dark rumblings from the Earth hint that the volcano is reawakening. Can he persuade Rocky, who puts his faith only in science, to sound a warning? (Back cover)

The haunted library

A brand-new young chapter book series from Edgar Award winner Dori Hillestad Butler!
 
When ghost boy Kaz’s haunt is torn down and he is separated from his ghost family, he meets a real girl named Claire, who lives above the town library with her parents and her grandmother. Claire has a special ability to see ghosts when other humans cannot and she and Kaz quickly form a friendship. The two join forces to solve the mystery of the ghost that’s haunting the library. Could it be one of Kaz’s lost family members?

Awful auntie

Summary: Stella Saxby is the sole heir to Saxby Hall. But awful Aunt Alberta and her giant owl will stop at nothing to get it from her. Luckily Stella has a secret - and slightly spooky - weapon up her sleeve

The pirates and the nightmaker

It's 1740 . . .

The Firefly is taken in the night by pirates who sail the Caribbean. The ship's boy and a handful of men are set adrift in a jolly-boat. Without food or water the half-starved men eye up the young boy.

Astonishingly, a mysterious Mr Wicker saves the boy by turning him into an unearthly creature — an invisible flying boy with beautiful emerald-green wings.

When the boy is drawn to a ghost ship sailed by Captain Bass, he learns of the dangerous power of a magical astrolabe which Mr Wicker desperately seeks — and why Wicker must never find it.

The boy cannot trust Wicker . . . but is there anyone he can trust? Captain Bass? Sophie Blade, the pirate's daughter? And who can return him to himself?

The Jolley-Rogers and the ghostly galleon

Summary: Every full moon a mysterious ship is seen off the coast of Dull-on-Sea. The day after, gold and jewellery are missing from the homes, shops and museums of the town. Matilda needs the Jolley-Rogers' help to investigate.     Can Matilda and Jim Lad retrieve the stolen booty from the mysterious ship before the moon fades? Or will they end up stuck on board with ghostly pirates until the next full moon? Join Jim Lad and Matilda as they sail the seven seas (and the coast of Dull-on-Sea) in search of adventure and pirate loot, featuring the crew from The Pirates next door. (Publisher)

Wake Up Do, Lydia Lou!

Summary: A little ghost tries to give Lydia Lou a scare... but he can't even wake her up. Maybe his noisy animal friends can help

The Girl in Blue

When Sandy's mother takes the job of looking after elderly Miss Cannon they go to live in her rambling old house.

Sandy is used to moving and changing schools, but that doesn't make it any easier, especially when there's a bull in the class determined to make life difficult.

With plenty of time on her hands after school, Sandy starts exploring her new home and finds someone else roaming the dark passages and stairways - the girl her own age dressed in blue. But the girl always vanishes as suddenly as she appears, and nobody else sees her.

Is it all her imagination, or is the girl a glimpse of the past? Sandy is determined to unravel the mystery, unaware that she knows more about the girl than she realises. (inside cover)

The Haunted Castle

Summary: Uncle Samuel S. Stingysnout invites the whole Stilton family to creepy, faraway Penny Pincher Castle for a big surprise

Elisa the Adventure Fairy

Rainbow magic. The princess fairies
Summary: Rachel and Kirsty are very excited about an evening treasure hunt around Golden Palace. But when they hear strange noises coming from the old tower, the girls suspect that Jack Frost is close by. Can they trick him into giving them Elisa's magic tiara

A Kiwi Christmas Carol

Summary: Charles Dickens' A Christmas carol retold with a New Zealand twist. A story in rhyme
New Zealand author; New Zealand illustrator
A Christmas carol

The Dickensian Christmas story is given a Kiwi twist. What a whole lot of hoo-ha, this 'let's all be merry' - the dinners, the pressies and fuss! A load of old CODSWOLLOP! hollered old Jerry. But leave early then - if you must! Miserly old Jerry from the Kai Corner Dairy is the New Zealand equivalent of Scrooge. Children will love spotting the odd kiwi icon in Webb's humorous illustrations.