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Goosebumps is a series of children's horror novels written by American author R. L. Stine. The protagonists in these stories are teens or pre-teens who find themselves in frightening circumstances, often involving the supernatural, the paranormal or the occult. Between 1992 and 1997, sixty-two books were published under the Goosebumps umbrella ...
Ray Douglas Bradbury (US: / ˈ b r æ d b ɛr i / BRAD-berr-ee; August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter.One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.
The Westing Game is a mystery book written by Ellen Raskin and published by Dutton on May 1, 1978. [1] It won the Newbery Medal recognizing the year's most distinguished contribution to American children's literature. [2] The Westing Game was ranked number nine all-time among children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal in ...
Vanishing on 7th Street is based on a screenplay by Anthony Jaswinski [3] and is produced from Herrick Entertainment. [4] The film is the eighth from director Brad Anderson [5] and features Hayden Christensen, Thandiwe Newton and John Leguizamo in the lead roles. [5] The shooting began on October 12, 2009 in Detroit.
Murder Most Unladylike is a 2014 children's mystery novel by British-American author Robin Stevens. It follows two schoolgirls in 1930s England solving their first murder mystery and is the first book in the 'Murder Most Unladylike' series. The story is written in the style of a casebook and follows two fictional boarding schoolgirl detectives ...
Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story. [1] Often within a closed circle of suspects, each suspect is usually provided with a credible motive and a reasonable opportunity for committing the crime. The central character is often a detective (such as ...
Chasing Vermeer is Blue Balliett's first published book. Its original purpose was a book to read to her class for fun. [2] She realized that a mystery about "real" art issues had not been written since E.L. Konigsburg's 1967 novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, and desired to write what she wished to read. [3]
Hoot is a 2002 children's mystery/suspense novel by Carl Hiaasen. The story takes place in Florida, where new arrival Roy makes two oddball friends and a bad enemy. Roy joins an effort to stop construction of a pancake house which would destroy a colony of burrowing owls who live on the site. The book won a Newbery Honor award in 2003.