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K-3
First Facts: Super Scary Stuff series.
This series may appeal to young readers with a precocious taste for the ghoulish. Ghosts is pretty straightforward, but Places is an odd combination of real locations that contain frightening beasts (e.g. venomous golden lancehead vipers on Brazil's Snake Island) and haunted places such as England's Chillingham Castle. Stock photos, brief sidebars, and defined highlighted words appear on each "super scary" spread. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these First Facts: Super Scary Stuff titles: Super Scary Ghosts and Super Scary Places.
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K-3
First Facts: Super Scary Stuff series.
This series may appeal to young readers with a precocious taste for the ghoulish. Ghosts is pretty straightforward, but Places is an odd combination of real locations that contain frightening beasts (e.g. venomous golden lancehead vipers on Brazil's Snake Island) and haunted places such as England's Chillingham Castle. Stock photos, brief sidebars, and defined highlighted words appear on each "super scary" spread. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these First Facts: Super Scary Stuff titles: Super Scary Ghosts and Super Scary Places.