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Graveyard Watch
Melbourne
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Puffin
,
2013
5972428
2013
single work
children's fiction
children's
horror
'Eerie because goosebumps are for chickens.
Zak wakes up with no memory of who he is. The parents he can't remember are acting strange. Why won't they let him out of the house? And what's going on in the graveyard next door?' (Publisher's blurb)
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Swarm
Melbourne
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Puffin
,
2013
6195483
2013
single work
children's fiction
children's
horror
'It moves like lightning and has razor-sharp teeth. It burns. It multiplies. And it's hungry.
There's nowhere to run - the alien slugs have landed and there's no escape. They're set to take over the world!' (Publisher's blurb)
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The Trunk
Melbourne
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Puffin
,
2013
6197920
2013
single work
children's fiction
children's
horror
'Charlie is dying to know what is in the huge heavy trunk that belongs to his strange neighbours. What are those bone-crunching sounds he can hear through the wall?'
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The No Bodies
Melbourne
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Puffin
,
2013
6198026
2013
single work
children's fiction
children's
horror
'Even a nobody can be somebody. Somebody who The No Bodies want. They'll promise unbelievable freedom, unworldly power and all the revenge a nobody can take. The price? Your body, of course.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Hunter and Collector
Melbourne
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Penguin
,
2013
Z1914504
2013
single work
children's fiction
children's
horror
'She called herself Mrs Hunter, although that was not her real name. No one on Earth could pronounce that. She had chosen the name Hunter because the word had a meaning all of its own . . .
When Mrs Hunter collects William she thinks she has found the perfect prey . . . but she may have met her match.
An alien-invasion story about the kind of hunting and collecting that makes your skin crawl . . .' (Publisher's blurb)
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Game Over
Melbourne
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Penguin
,
2013
Z1914513
2013
single work
children's fiction
children's
horror
'It's the 1980s and Samuel is the new boy at school who seems to have it all: Mad magazines, video games, and even some food Johnny has never heard of called Doritos. In this Eerie story, all is not as it seems and Johnny soon finds out that having it all . . . could cost him his life.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Killer App
Melbourne
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Penguin
,
2013
Z1914516
2013
single work
children's fiction
children's
horror
'When Roma's friend Michael downloads a mysterious app, all of her friends are curious. Inside the Dead Boring game, they all see different things. Michael says the only way to play it is if they all play at the same time, at 10.00pm. For the rest of them, the game is wondeful, and they can do what they love. But for Roma, it's a nightmare. Soon it all goes dreadfully wrong, and they can't get out. What is this game, and more importantly, who's behind it?' (Publisher's blurb)
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Tiddles
Melbourne
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Penguin
,
2013
Z1914519
2013
single work
children's fiction
children's
horror
'Hideously insane Great-Aunt Pam has a special surprise waiting for house guests Ben and Cathy. Dead special.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Feeney’s Fiendish Fleas
Melbourne
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Puffin
,
2013
Z1934988
2013
single work
children's fiction
children's
horror
'There's a funfair in town, but this one isn't fun or fair, it's fiendish, as Flynn and Jen find out when they go looking for their missing dog. ' (Publisher's blurb)
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12y
The Specular
Melbourne
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Puffin
,
2013
6808699
2013
single work
children's fiction
children's
horror
'They say that right before you die your life flashes before your eyes. Ollie's about to test that theory. He's alone, the Specular are out, they've taken his family and now they're after him.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Thriller
Melbourne
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Penguin
,
2013
6195793
2013
single work
children's fiction
children's
horror
'Eerie. Because goosebumps are for chickens.
'Alfie has a thriller idea for the school camp show, and using his grandfather's mortician's make-up could be just the thing to give it a real zombie touch.' (Publisher's blurb)
Melbourne : Penguin , 2013
