CHRIS GRABENSTEIN LAUNCHES THE SMOKY CORRIDOR (PAPERBACK VERSION)

		Yikes! The Zombies are out... in paperback! The paperback version of Book #3 in Chris Grabenstein's award-winning Haunted Mystery series, The Smoky Corridor, goes on sale today for just $6.99! Order yours now! IndieBound Amazon Barnes & Noble Random House Books-A-Million "Chris Grabenstein hasn't forgotten how it feels to be a sixth grade boy. It's evident in his ghost stories for middle school readers. Few middle school boys would turn down a book about ghosts, zombies, and a hidden treasure of Confederate gold. Throw in voodoo, cemeteries, and the new school year, and it's obvious that Grabenstein knows the way to a reader's heart. The Smoky Corridor...is another winner from the author who won Anthony and Agatha Awards for previous books in this series." —Lesa Holstine, Lesa's Book Critiques "Grabenstein is (such) a riveting storyteller, most kids won't be able to put this book down." —School Library Journal "The latest in the Haunted Places Mystery series (the first, The Crossroads, 2008, won both the Anthony and Agatha awards) has all the mordant wit, rollicking action, and grossness any middle-schooler could want." —Booklist And you have until August 15th to enter... READ * HAVE SCARY FUN * BECOME A STAR! Enter and you could WIN BIG: Have a Main Character named after you in THE GREAT ESCAPE FROM MR. LEMONCELLO'S RIDICULOUSLY BRILLIANT LIBRARY—Chris Grabenstein's brand new book coming from Random House in 2012. You'll also win an advance copy of Haunted Mystery #4 THE BLACK HEART CRYPT (before it comes out on August 23rd). Three runners up will also receive free copies of THE BLACK HEART CRYPT—before it's published. And speaking of THE BLACK HEART CRYPT... Haunted Mystery #4 will be in bookstores everywhere in two weeks (August 23rd). Pre-order your copy (or copies) now! Halloween. Dressing up, eating candy, carving pumpkins, and going to parties. Most kids' favorite night of the year. Not Zack Jennings. Zack knows that on Halloween, the veil separating the ghostly plane from the human world is very, very thin. Powerful spirits can cross over and do some serious mischief. In this fourth volume of Chris Grabenstein's popular Haunted Mysteries series, Zack must once again do battle with malevolent spirits. With the assistance of three dotty aunts (and their crazy cats), he must also save his town from a 200-year-old threat. PREORDER THE BOOK IndieBound Amazon Barnes & Noble Random House Advance Praise "Thirteen bad-seed specters from the same family escape from their crypt one Halloween. They range from an 18th-century highwayman to a murderous Capone-era gangster dubbed "Crazy Izzy" and were all confined in the same tomb years ago thanks to spells cast by Zack Jennings' three great-aunts. Eleven-year-old Zack's inherited ability to see ghosts may be a mixed blessing at best, but it comes in handy when the 13 spectral Icklebys break out, seize control of their nerdy but increasingly willing descendant Norman and embark on a vengeful crime spree. Fortunately, most of the Icklebys turn out to be easily sidetracked, and equally fortunately Zack has allies on both sides of the dirt (as the author puts it), from the aforementioned great-aunts (weird sisters indeed, flying in from their Florida retirement home with a full stock of witchly goods and exorcism chants) to a headless cat ghost. As in Zack's three previous Haunted Mystery outings (The Smoky Corridor, 2010, etc.), the pace never flags. Through flurries of ultra-short chapters, events spiral to a suspenseful climax." —Kirkus

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