In other stories a tour guide holds tourists hostage in a creepy cemetery and a teenager ... by Juliana Brandt (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing House, $17.99) About a dozen ...

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Although the stories might be scary, you still want to be able to ... or names of people or places they know. Slightly older children might want to add in their own ideas, and even young children ...