The Night Before Halloween

Author: Natasha Wing
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0448419653
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
It's time for Halloween! Celebrate the holiday with this this family fun read-aloud, a delightful seasonal entry in Natasha Wing's best-selling series. Little monsters and goofy goblins take center stage in this silly, spooky spin on Clement C. Moore's beloved poem. But what will happen on Halloween when the monsters come face to face with human trick-or-treaters in this fun-filled book by the author of The Night Before Easter? A perfect gift to get young readers excited for this festive fall holiday!

Teachers' Night Before Halloween

Author: Layne, Steven L
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455612819
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
It's the day before Halloween, and goblins, princesses, and Jedi have taken over the school. Every classroom is out of control as fifth-grade monsters pretend to eat a group of younger students and princesses hide in the bathroom to compare costumes. The teachers are fighting to maintain control, but the pre-Halloween celebrations aren't the worst of it. On Halloween Day, there is the annual student parade where students dress up, and ghosts, ghouls, fairies, and pirates take over the school completely. It's mayhem across the school this year, and the teachers are in for the biggest trick-or-treat of their careers.

Witches' Night Before Halloween

Author: Bannatyne, Lesley Pratt
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455614332
Category : Children's poetry, American
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
In a parody of "The Night before Christmas," a poem describes all of the things that witches and their raised-from-the-dead helpers do on the night before Halloween.

The Hallowed Eve

Author: Jack Santino
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
In Northern Ireland, Halloween is such a major celebration that it is often called the Irish Christmas. A day of family reunions, meals, and fun, Halloween brings people of all ages together with rhyming, storytelling, family fireworks, and community bonfires. Perhaps most important, it has become a day that transcends the social conflict found in this often troubled nation. Through the extensive use of interviews, The Hallowed Eve offers a fascinating look at the various customs, both past and present, that mark the celebration of the holiday. Looking through the lenses of gender, ethnicity, and religious affiliation, Jack Santino examines how the traditions exist in a nonthreatening, celebratory way to provide a model of how life could be in Northern Ireland. Halloween, concludes Santino, is a marriage of death and life, a joining of cultural opposites: indoor and outdoor, domesticity and wildness, male and female, old and young. Although current folk and popular traditions can be divisive, Halloween in Northern Ireland is universally considered to belong to everyone, regardless of their background or political leanings. The holiday is a dramatic example of how a community comes together one day a year, and these Northern Irish traditions capture the fundamental and everyday dimensions of life in Ulster.

Segments – The Stories Behind the Poems

Author: Charles Messina
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1480926698
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82

Book Description
Segments - The Stories Behind the Poems: An Autopoemography of Charles Messina by Charles Messina Segments - The Stories Behind the Poems is a collection of poems that are easy to read and are understandable. Also included are short stories for each poem so the reader can understand and relate to them. There are many feel-good stories and some very sad ones as well. But all in all, this is a feel-good book that you will enjoy now and for years to come. You will find yourself opening this book up many times to share the stories with your children, families, and friends.

The Day Before Yesterday

Author: Michael Elliott
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684870452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
In The Day Before Yesterday, acclaimed journalist Michael Elliott says, "Americans whine. They live in the most prosperous society the world has ever seen...And yet they are convinced that their life is miserable." Michael Elliot looks to America's past for solutions to current problems, such as crime, job insecurity, and economic stagnation, while looking toward the future for a new sense of renewal.

Darkly

Author: Leila Taylor
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 1912248557
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 185

Book Description
A fascinating journey into the dark heart of the American gothic that analyzes its connections to race and racism in 21st-century America Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under floorboards—the American gothic is a macabre tale based on a true story. Part memoir and part cultural critique, Darkly explores American culture’s inevitable gothicity in the traces left from chattel slavery. The persistence of white supremacy and the ubiquity of Black death feeds a national culture of terror and a perpetual undercurrent of mourning. If the gothic narrative is metabolized fear, if the goth aesthetic is

Haunted Derry

Author: Madeline McCully
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750966645
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
From the Admore Banshee to the ghost in the Bog of Lettermuck, this collection of spine-chilling tales from across County Derry is guaranteed to make your blood run cold. This spooky selection features stories of unexplained phenomena, ghostly apparitions, death knocks and poltergeist activity and includes the tale of the phantom coach said to return to the White Horse Inn every seven years; the helpful ghost that inhabits Derry Opera House; the spirit children said to haunt Rosemount's By-Wash and even a photograph of the Old Covent taken by a ghost. Drawing on historical and contemporary sources and including many first-hand experiences and previously unpublished tales, Haunted Derry will enthrall anyone interested in the unexplained.

Karen's Little Witch (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #22)

Author: Ann M. Martin
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338056034
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 79

Book Description
From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Big witchLittle witchKaren is sure her next-door neighbor is a witch. Does that mean her neighbor’s granddaughter, Druscilla, is a witch, too? Karen is not taking any chances. She makes up a good-luck spell for witch protection. Karen’s dad says Druscilla is lonely. He wants Karen to go trick-or-treating with Druscilla and to go to her Halloween party. But Karen is afraid. Will her witch protection save her from the little witch?

Supernatural

Author: Robert Bostian
Publisher: SterlingHouse Publisher
ISBN: 1563154676
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description