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Goosebumps #2: Stay Out of the Basement

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Author: R.L. Stine Publisher: Scholastic Publish Date: July 1992 Country: United States Genre: Children's Horror Fiction ISBN: 0-439-56845-5 Binding: Paperback Pages: 122 Synopsis: "Dr. Brewer is doing a little plant-testing in his basement. Nothing to worry about. Harmless, he says.    But Margaret and Casey Brewer are worried about their father. Especially when they... meet... some of the plants he is growing down there.    Then they notice that their father is developing plantlike tendencies. In fact, he is becoming distinctly weedy--and seedy.    Is it just part of Dr. Brewer's "harmless" experiment? Or does Dad have more than just a green thumb ...?"

Goosebumps #1: Welcome to Dead House

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Author: R. L. Stine Publisher: Scholastic Publish Date: July 1992 Country: United States Genre: Children's Horror Fiction ISBN: 0-590-45365-3 Binding: Paperback Pages: 123 Synopsis: "Amanda and Josh think the old house they have just moved into is weird. Spooky. Possibly haunted. And the town of Dark Falls is pretty strange, too.    But their parents don't believe them. You'll get used to it, they say. Go out and make some new friends.    So Amanda and Josh do. But these new friends are not exactly what their parents had in mind.    Because they want to be friends...    ...forever." Fun Fact: Goosebumps series were among the top 15 challenged books in the 1990s for being "too frightening for young people and depicting occult or demonic themes." -Wikipedia

"Witchlight" by L.J. Smith

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publish Date: 1997 Country: United States ISBN: 978-1-4814-9820-3 Binding: Library Binding Pages: 240 Synopsis: "Keller, a shapeshifter, has been chosen to protect a new Wild Power. When she's not a panther, Keller is a tough, no-nonsense seventeen-year-old. But she meets her match in Iliana Harman, a clueless blonde who may really be the legendary Witch Child. Will Keller get annoyed and kill Iliana before she can convince Iliana to join Circle Daybreak? And what about the dashing and romantic Galen? Keller is falling in love with him--but he's destined to be the Witch Child's soulmate."

"Black Dawn" by L.J. Smith

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publish Date: 1997 Country: United States ISBN: 978-1-4814-9818-0 Binding: Library Binding Pages: 246 Synopsis: "When Maggie Neely's brother goes missing, she's determined to find him. But she never suspects that the trail will lead her into the most secret heart of the Night World, a kingdom where no outsider has stepped in five hundred years.    "The kingdom is ruled by the young vampire prince Delos... who keeps all humans as slaves. When Delos falls in love with Maggie, he frees her and demands that she join him in his life of dark pleasure. He's handsome, he's romantic--Maggie can hardly resist him. But did he kill Maggie's brother? And who are the strange people searching the kingdom for a Wild Power? Maggie won't give up until she learns the truth--even if it means destroying Delos and his secret land. If he doesn't destroy her first...."

"Huntress" by L.J. Smith

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publish Date: 1997 Country: United States ISBN: 978-1-4814-9816-6 Binding: Library Binding Pages: 233 Synopsis: "Jez Redfern is a vampire hunter... who's half vampire. Raised in the Redfern family, Jez was the undisputed leader of a gang of vampire raiders. Then came the discovery that shattered her life--her mother was a human. Now Jez hunts her former friends, protecting humans from the Night World.    "But when Circle Daybreak sends her on a search for one of the legendary Wild Powers, Jez has to rejoin her old gang. They want her back--especially Morgead, the gorgeous green-eyed vampire who used to be her second-in-command. With danger and temptation all around, Jez finds herself irresistibly drawn to him. And she's afraid that if she tastes blood again, she'll become the evil huntress she once was...."

"Soulmate" by L.J. Smith

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publish Date: 1997 Country: United States ISBN: 978-1-4814-8940-9 Binding: Library Binding Pages: 230 Synopsis: "Hannah Snow's life was perfect... until the notes started appearing. Notes in her own handwriting, warning her of the danger that was coming.    " Dead before seventeen .    "Therapy was supposed to help. But what came out instead were memories of another time, another life. And of a stranger who tore her world apart... a vampire who killed a village in his rage. Until, in the eyes of a dying human girl, he recognized his soulmate.    "Now the stranger is back. He has searched for her, waiting for her to be reborn. He is Thierry, a Lord of the Night World--and nothing in heaven or hell will keep him from his soulmate again. But if her destiny is death, can even Thierry's love protect her?"

"The Chosen" by L.J. Smith

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Publisher: Simon and Schuster Publish Date: 1997 Country: United States ISBN: 978-1-4814-8942-3 Binding: Library Binding Pages: 208 Synopsis: "She stalks the lonely back alleys and harbor docks of Boston, killing vampires one by one in revenge for her mother's murder.    "Armed with a wooden stake, martial arts, and the will to resist a vampire's mind control, she is safe as long as her true identity remains a secret.    "But when she rescues a girl from certain death, Rashel is suddenly swept into the Night World slave trade, gateway to the vampires' secret enclave. Here the gatekeeper is the dark, dangerous, and irresistible Quinn. He holds the keys to the realm Rashel is desperate to enter. But when she looks into his eyes, she's stunned to see her soulmate--a vampire whose world she's vowed to destroy."