Books with title Spooky

“What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that’s that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?”In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die. She begins the journey in rural India with a reincarnation researcher and ends up in a University of Virginia operating room where cardiologists have installed equipment near the ceiling to study out-of-body near-death experiences. Along the way, she enrolls in an English medium school, gets electromagnetically haunted at a university in Ontario, and visits a Duke University professor with a plan to weigh the consciousness of a leech. Her historical wanderings unearth soul-seeking philosophers who rummaged through cadavers and calves’ heads, a North Carolina lawsuit that established legal precedence for ghosts, and the last surviving sample of “ectoplasm” in a Cambridge University archive.

It's spooky and scary, but kids will think it's great! Spooky Fun is a Barron's Fun Pack containing everything they need to become a Spook Buster. They start with the enclosed color illustrated book, Spooky Fun, which poses a series of challenges. Can the Spook Buster reader outwit the story's spooks and find the magic key that lets them escape from a haunted house? The fun pack helps them with items that include-- • A Magic ring • A Pot of slime • Glow-in-the-dark maggots • Magnifying glass • Glow-in-the-dark spider • Glow-in-the-dark eyeball • Bat decoder • 3-D glasses • Mirror • Dragon's blood • and Spook Buster badge The Spooky Fun book tours the haunted house and shows illustrations of its creaky staircase, its spider's lair, its haunted library, its creepy crypt, and other spine-chilling locations. As kids progress from page to page, they'll find puzzles to solve and mysteries to unravel. The book's illustrations are in sinister, shadowy full color, and they seem to pop off their pages when viewed through the 3-D glasses.

Each spread of this Halloween-themed activity book features two spooky photographs that appear identical. Eagle-eyed readers, however, will spot seven things that have changed from one photo to the other. Perfect for fans of the I Spy or Where's Waldo series, the popular Spot 7 books offer benefits the other series dont: Comparing the two photos helps develop important reading skills, such as differentiation and visual memory. With a riddle on each spread and extra things to look for throughout the book, Chronicle's latest search-and-find activity book is sure to provide hours of spooky fun.

Poor Spook! He's the only dog in the world who belongs to a witch! And she'd rather have a cat! No wonder she's so mean to him. But it's Halloween, and anything can happen. When Spook falls off the witch's broomstick, he lands right on Jamie, a real boy. Jamie wants to keep Spook. But it's not so easy. First Jamie must win a terrible contest against the witch. If he loses, he'll never see Spook again.

"What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die."