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    The Stranger on the Stairs: and Other Scary Tales
    The Stranger on the Stairs: and Other Scary Tales
    The Stranger on the Stairs: and Other Scary Tales
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    The Stranger on the Stairs: and Other Scary Tales

    By Michael Dahl and Xavier Bonet

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    Our greatest fears are brought to life in this collection of spine-chilling tales. An ordinary round of the Lava Game turns terrifying. An old lodge for loggers is haunted by a miserable ghost. A boy thinks he's home alone until he finds evidence someone else is there with him.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateDec 21, 2015
    ISBN9781496539083
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    Michael Dahl

    Michael Dahl is the prolific author of the bestselling Goodnight, Baseball picture book and more than 200 other books for children and young adults. He has won the Association of Educational Publishers Distinguished Achievement Award three times for his nonfiction, a Teachers’ Choice Award from Learning Magazine, and a Seal of Excellence from the Creative Child Awards. Dahl currently lives in Minnesota.

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      The Stranger on the Stairs - Michael Dahl

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      Dear Reader,

      
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET?

      Everyone is afraid.

      Here’s another secret: everyone is afraid of different things.

      You might be afraid of snakes, spiders, elevators, closets, loud noises, the shadow under your bed. You never know what your friend or the person down the street fears, but one thing is certain — we have all been afraid at one time or another. Fear is something we all have in common.

      The following tales also have something in common. They are each about people who are afraid. Very afraid. Read their stories. See if you share their fears.

      Because if you don’t now… you will.

      Noah and his older brother, Sky, both folded their arms and stared at their parents across the dinner table.

      I don’t believe it, said Sky.

      You only have to share a bedroom for a week, their mother explained patiently.

      I want my own room, Sky said, pouting.

      As soon as we are finished painting, said their father, you will each have your own room.

      This place is creepy, said Noah.

      Their mother sighed and said, It’s not creepy. There’s so much sunshine and fresh air.

      It’s got sunshine, thought Noah, because there aren’t any trees.

      Their new home had been a boarding house for loggers a hundred years ago. It sat in the middle of boggy fields. The trees for miles around had all been cut down. There was nothing around but whispering cattails and jabbering frogs. The driveway was dirt, and it didn’t meet another road for at least five miles. The giant house had four porches, a front parlor with five sofas, a sauna built into the side of a hill, and more than a dozen bedrooms.

      Creepy, Noah had decided.

      That night, the brothers trudged angrily

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