Books with title The Skeleton

In the third Pandora English mystery, Pandora is still negotiating her double life as a lowly assistant at a New York fashion magazine with the reality that she has great supernatural powers and responsibilities. Pandora – with her special skeleton key – is slowly unlocking the mysteries of the haunted mansion where she lives with her great aunt Celia. What sinister experiments did the architect Dr Edmund Barrett conduct there before he died? Where is his laboratory? And what are the strange noises emanating from the basement? On the centenary of the mysterious fire that supposedly killed Dr Barrett, he returns to the mansion. He has a message for Pandora. But he has brought with him a dark force that threatens to tear apart the delicate balance between the worlds of the dead and living...

This is a modern age fairy tale about an unexpected couple that live under the sea. She's a lonely mermaid who's just trying to find love and he's a skeleton who is haunted by his past. Together they embark on a journey to find true love. If you like the Grimm's fairy tales or the Little Mermaid from Hans Christian Andersen, then this short story is for you.

Cole Franklin is a Dallasten-year-old with a bit of attitude, a precocious curve-ball and a dog named"Buddy" - a 100% lazy black Lab with a most unusual past. When Cole's parents go way for a week, Cole andBuddy are sent to Dixon's Gap (home of the Fightin' 'Dillos) with Cole's auntand uncle and Cole's clueless cousins, Taylor and Tony.What starts out to be a b-o-r-i-n-g week becomesanything but that when Cole and Buddy discover ... The Skeleton in the Closet.Set in present-day Texas, Skeleton is a mysteryfor young readers (ten and up).

A haunted library is no place for a girl who can see ghosts, but when Verity Long stumbles on a dead body in the middle of the main reading room, she has to believe someone...even a dead someone...must have witnessed the crime.Her ghostly sidekick Frankie warns her to stay out of it. The very alive, very handsome deputy sheriff, Ellis Wydell, inadvertently places her directly in the middle of it. And her ex-fiancé, Ellis's brother, is back with an agenda of his own.Undaunted, Verity presses forward, uncovering scandalous secrets, long-forgotten ghosts, and a shocking trail of clues that places her directly in the path of a killer.

Less than 48 hours after twelve-year-old Chris casts off on a trip to sail down the Alaskan coast with his uncle, their boat sinks. The only survivors are Chris and a boy named Frank, who hates Chris immediately. Chris and Frank have no radio, no flares, no food. Suddenly, they've got to find a way to forage, fish and scavenge supplies from the shore. Chris likes the company of a curious friendly raven more than he likes the prickly Frank. But the boys have to get along if they want to survive. Because as the days get colder, and the salmon migration ends, survival will take more than sheer force of will. There in the wilderness of Kodiak, they discover a bond they didn't expect, and through it, the compassion and teamwork that might truly be the path to rescue.