The Ghost Hunter's Handbook

Lori Summers, Rachel Dickinson. Price Stern Sloan, $7.99 (96pp) ISBN 978-0-8431-4916-6

Got a haunting on your hands? Part of the inventively designed Field Guide to the Paranormal series (which resemble passports to another world), The Ghost Hunter's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Paranormal by Lori Summers offers help for those in need. With blocky drawings and eerie photographs, the title explains what ghosts are, where and how to find them and ""What to Do if You Encounter a Ghost."" An appendix suggests books and movies for further research; fill-in-the-blank pages encourage kids to document sightings. Also available: The Witch's Handbook: A Field Guide to Magic by Rachel Dickinson (with movie stills from The Wizard of Oz, Harry Potter and more).

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