I Am Trying To Find Two ‘horror’ Books From My Childhood. Does Anyone Recognize These?
One was called I Have Bat Wings in My Lunch or something like that. I think that it was about a girl that was sent to live with her uncle or grandfather and he was a vampire. She ended up being sent to a school for monsters. I read it in first or second grade (about fourteen or fifteen years ago), but it was a chapter book (a bit ahead of my age range at the time). I think that my class did it as a book study… There is a possibility that it’s either from the UK or Canada, so it might not be widely known.
The other was from a series which I cannot remember the name of. The book had an illustrated cover of a ghost-girl in a white dress. She had long blond hair, a wicked grin and a cafeteria tray full of gross stuff (I am fairly certain there were eyeballs on it). I think that I remember her telling someone that she died from falling down a well and wore her collar high (or maybe it was a ribbon or something?) to cover her broken neck. I started the series in second or third grade (thirteen or fourteen years ago) and I found it at a book fair in a mall. It was a young adult or teen series (maybe children’s? I don’t know…) and there is a good possibility that it’s Canadian.
If anyone recognizes either of these books and can give me a title or an author’s name, or even direct me to a store that carries them, I would be BEYOND grateful.
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Second book: Ghost Feverl by Joe Hayes?http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Fever-Fantas…
The story’s setting is a southwestern town in the 1950’s where a haunted house keeps tenants leery of renting it. The house’s reputation is so bad the owner has to give away free rent just to find tenants. Finally a father (Frank) and his daughter (Elena) move in. The father seems nonplused with the noises and strange occurrences, but his daughter is not so oblivious. She feels a connection with the ghost because the ghost-girl is her age, and mysteriously died falling off the roof of the house. Elana tries to help the ghost, but ends up dealing with problems of her own.
Your first book could be There’s a Batwing in My Lunchbox by Ann Hodgmanhttp://www.amazon.com/Theres-Batwing-Lun…
If it’s a young adult series, you might try Goosebumps by R.L. Stine. He’s been writing the series with various Goosebumps spin-offs for well over 10 years I’m sure. Start there is my suggestion.
At Amazon, http://www.amazon.com I saw these:
“Bone Soup” by Cambria Evans, but the copyright is ‘08. It’s a children’s book, and the cover shows not a girl but ‘anybody’ at a bowl of soup, holding a spoon with an eyeball in it. Grades K – 3.
“There’s a Bat in Bunk Five” by Paula Danzinger and Rebecca Leer, ‘06, early childhood book.
“There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat” by Lucille Colandro, ‘05
She wrote many “Old Lady” books, all for young children.http://www.amazon.co.uk Can’t get far here either.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_have_batw…
Sorry, not doing so well here either.
I only see “Trapped in Bat Wing Hall” by R.L. Stine, ‘95, in which the second-person protagonist must choose which one to join in the “Horror Club” and follow one of two major plot-twists.
It’s called both “Horror Novel and Children’s Novel.” U.S. however, and not a chapter book, if we understand that term the same way.
Now I must suggest you call a reference librarian, children’s section, and ask him or her to use the training, resource tools and knowledge they possess to help you more thoroughly, if you don’t get an answer here.