https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7 en-us 2022-10-11 13:19:04 UTC 2023-10-04 07:02:07 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4da.png jrvalezy https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335266245 Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow journeys into (and out of?) the eerie abyss. These chilling tales spring from the macabre imagination of acclaimed and award-winning comic creator Emily Carroll. Come take a walk in the woods and see what awaits you there...]]> 2022-10-11 13:22:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335266245 jrvalezy https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335478630 The Witch Boy
The Hidden Witch
The Midwinter Witch

In thirteen-year-old Aster's family, all the girls are raised to be witches, while boys grow up to be shapeshifters. Anyone who dares cross those lines is exiled. Unfortunately for Aster, he still hasn't shifted . . . and he's still fascinated by witchery, no matter how forbidden it might be. When a mysterious danger threatens the other boys, Aster knows he can help -- as a witch. It will take the encouragement of a new friend, the non-magical and non-conforming Charlie, to convince Aster to try practicing his skills. And it will require even more courage to save his family . . . and be truly himself. ]]> 2022-10-11 15:10:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335478630 jrvalezy https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335482117 Now also a movie!
When Lewis Barnavelt, an orphan, comes to stay with his uncle Jonathan, he expects to meet an ordinary person. But he is wrong. Uncle Jonathan and his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Zimmermann, are both magicians! Lewis is thrilled. At first, watching magic is enough. Then Lewis experiments with magic himself and unknowingly resurrects the former owner of the house: a woman named Selenna Izard. It seems that Selenna and her husband built a timepiece into the walls—a clock that could obliterate humankind. And only the Barnavelts can stop it!]]> 2022-10-11 15:12:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335482117 jrvalezy https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335484955 Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead.
There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a gravestone entrance to a desert that leads to the city of ghouls; friendship with a witch, and so much more.
But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks, for it is there that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod's family.]]> 2022-10-11 15:13:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335484955 jrvalezy https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335488157 A collection of thirty-six eerie, mysterious, intriguing, and very short short stories.]]> 2022-10-11 15:15:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335488157 jrvalezy https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335494710 A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow-impossible though it seems-they may still be alive. A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.]]> 2022-10-11 15:18:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335494710 jrvalezy https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335497130 Cassidy Blake's parents are The Inspecters, a (somewhat inept) ghost-hunting team. But Cass herself can REALLY see ghosts. In fact, her best friend, Jacob, just happens to be one.
When The Inspecters head to ultra-haunted Edinburgh, Scotland, for their new TV show, Cass—and Jacob—come along. In Scotland, Cass is surrounded by ghosts, not all of them friendly. Then she meets Lara, a girl who can also see the dead. But Lara tells Cassidy that as an In-betweener, their job is to send ghosts permanently beyond the Veil. Cass isn't sure about her new mission, but she does know the sinister Red Raven haunting the city doesn't belong in her world. Cassidy's powers will draw her into an epic fight that stretches through the worlds of the living and the dead, in order to save herself. ]]> 2022-10-11 15:19:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335497130 jrvalezy https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335499790 Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the cold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home will never be like the shimmering Caribbean island she left behind. In her relatives' stern Puritan community, she feels like a tropical bird that has flown to the wrong part of the world, a bird that is now caged and lonely. The only place where Kit feels completely free is in the meadows, where she enjoys the company of the old Quaker woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond, and on occasion, her young sailor friend Nat. But when Kit's friendship with the "witch" is discovered, Kit is faced with suspicion, fear, and anger. She herself is accused of witchcraft!]]> 2022-10-11 15:21:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335499790 jrvalezy https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335503209 Uncle Montague lives alone in a big house and his regular visits from his nephew give him the opportunity to relive some of the most frightening stories he knows. But as the stories unfold, a newer and more surprising narrative emerges, one that is perhaps the most frightening of all.]]> 2022-10-11 15:22:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335503209 jrvalezy https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335507376 When eleven-year-old Ollie happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn't think—she just acts, stealing the book and running away. As she begins to read the slender volume, Ollie discovers a chilling story about a girl named Beth, the two brothers who both loved her, and a peculiar deal made with "the smiling man," a sinister specter who grants your most tightly held wish, but only for the ultimate price. 
Ollie is captivated by the tale until her school trip the next day to Smoke Hollow, a local farm with a haunting history all its own. There she stumbles upon the graves of the very people she's been reading about. Could it be the story about the smiling man is true? On the way home, the school bus and the strange bus driver has some advice for the kids in his care: "Best get moving. At nightfall they'll come for the rest of you."
And with that, a deliciously creepy and hair-raising adventure begins.]]> 2022-10-11 15:25:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335507376 jrvalezy https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335511954 Dylan has escaped a horrific train crash unscathed.
Except she hasn't.
The bleak landscape around her isn't Scotland. It's a wasteland haunted by wraiths searching for human souls.
And the stranger waiting for her isn't an ordinary boy. Tristan is a Ferryman, tasked with transporting her soul safely to the afterlife, a journey he's made a thousand times before.
Except this time, something's different.
Can true love overcome the boundaries of death?]]> 2022-10-11 15:27:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335511954 jrvalezy https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335518810 The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring....
In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close.
The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.
Only it's different.]]> 2022-10-11 15:31:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335518810 jrvalezy https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335521650 Zach, Poppy and Alice have been friends for ever. They love playing with their action figure toys, imagining a magical world of adventure and heroism. But disaster strikes when, without warning, Zach’s father throws out all his toys, declaring he’s too old for them. Zach is furious, confused and embarrassed, deciding that the only way to cope is to stop playing . . . and stop being friends with Poppy and Alice.
But one night the girls pay Zach a visit, and tell him about a series of mysterious occurrences. Poppy swears that she is now being haunted by a china doll – who claims that it is made from the ground-up bones of a murdered girl. They must return the doll to where the girl lived, and bury it. Otherwise the three children will be cursed for eternity . . .]]> 2022-10-11 15:33:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335521650 jrvalezy https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335525291 Before it's too late, Harold the dog and Chester the cat must find out the truth about the newest pet in the Monroe household -- a suspicious-looking bunny with unusual habits... and fangs!]]> 2022-10-11 15:35:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335525291 jrvalezy https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335529968 Twelve-year-old Colophon Letterford has a serious mystery on her hands. Will she discover the link between her family’s literary legacy and Shakespeare’s tomb before it’s too late? Antique paintings, secret passages, locked mausoleums, a four-hundred-year-old treasure, and a cast of quirky (and some ignoble) characters all add up to a fun original adventure.]]> 2022-10-11 15:37:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335529968 jrvalezy https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335533765 Marjorie Glatt feels like a ghost. A practical thirteen year old in charge of the family laundry business, her daily routine features unforgiving customers, unbearable P.E. classes, and the fastidious Mr. Saubertuck who is committed to destroying everything she’s worked for.
Wendell is a ghost. A boy who lost his life much too young, his daily routine features ineffective death therapy, a sheet-dependent identity, and a dangerous need to seek purpose in the forbidden human world.
When their worlds collide, Marjorie is confronted by unexplainable disasters as Wendell transforms Glatt’s Laundry into his midnight playground, appearing as a mere sheet during the day. While Wendell attempts to create a new afterlife for himself, he unknowingly sabotages the life that Marjorie is struggling to maintain. ]]> 2022-10-11 15:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335533765 jrvalezy https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335535943 Of all the things Anya expected to find at the bottom of an old well, a new friend was not one of them. Especially not a new friend who’s been dead for a century.
Falling down a well is bad enough, but Anya's normal life might actually be worse. She's embarrassed by her family, self-conscious about her body, and she's pretty much given up on fitting in at school. A new friend—even a ghost—is just what she needs.
Or so she thinks. ]]> 2022-10-11 15:41:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2335535943 jrvalezy https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2343063612 Littlest One is a tiny creature slowly learning her job of giving dreams to humans. But the dreaded Sinisteeds, dark fearsome creatures that plague their victims with nightmares, are always at work against the dreamgivers. When an old woman takes in John, an angry foster child with a troubled past, the Sinisteeds go after him with their horrifying nightmares. Can Littlest One, and her touch light as gossamer, protect John’s heart and soul from the nightmare of his dark past?]]> 2022-10-17 12:10:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2343063612 jrvalezy https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2731571506 A jaw-dropping zombie horror series for teens.

When the sickness came, every parent, police officer, politician - every adult fell ill. The lucky ones died. The others are crazed, confused and hungry.

Only children under fourteen remain, and they're fighting to survive.

Now there are rumours of a safe place to hide. And so a gang of children begin their quest across London, where all through the city - down alleyways, in deserted houses, underground - the grown-ups lie in wait.

But can they make it there - alive?]]> 2023-10-04 07:02:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jrvalezy/htkqv76ku6ukmor7/wish/2731571506