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BKLYN BookMatch for West Elm: Flashlight Reads

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The dark
by Lemony Snicket ; illustrated by Jon Klassen.
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Laszlo is afraid of the dark that crops up in dark corners and the creepy basement of his big house. When the dark decides to visit Laszlo gets a new perspective.

Leo
by Mac Barnett ; illustrated by Christian Robinson.
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Leo is a ghost who really wants a friend. When he frightens the new occupants of his house, Leo begins wandering the city in search of a friend he won't scare away.

Funny bones
Duncan Tonatiuh.
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This book tells the story of Mexican artist José Guadalupe (Lupe) Posada and how he created his calaveras (prints of skeletons performing various and sometimes unexpected activities). Posada's calaveras have since become synonymous with Mexico's Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) festival which takes place every year on November 1.

Ghosts
Raina Telgemeier ; with color by Braden Lamb.
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Catrina and her family move to a new town hoping the change in climate will help little sister Maya, who has Cystic Fibrosis. Catrina is frustrated by the move and losing all of her friends. Worse, Catrina's family is now in a town inhabited by ghosts. And Maya is determined to meet one.

Labyrinth lost
Zoraida Cordova.
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Alex is the most powerful bruja her family has seen in generations. But she also knows that magic always has a cost and she's unwilling to risk her family. When Alex's spell to get rid of her magic backfires and her family disappears from their Brooklyn home, she'll have to travel to the world of Los Lagos to get them back.

The screaming staircase
Jonathan Stroud.
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When one of their cases goes horribly wrong, the three young members of Lockwood & Co. have one last chance at redemption. Unfortunately it involves spending the night in one of the most haunted houses in England, and trying to escape alive.

Jackaby
William Ritter.
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When she arrives in New England in 1892, Abigail Rook soon becomes the assistant to R. F. Jackaby, a supernatural detective on the trail of a serial killer who may not be human.

Shutter
by Courtney Alameda.
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Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromat who can see ghosts in color and photograph them--assets for a ghost hunter. When Micheline is infected with a curse she only has seven days to exorcise the demon before it destroys her.

The diviners
by Libba Bray.
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A series of occult murders in 1926 New York draws flapper and object reader Evie O'Neil, her uncle, and other supernaturally gifted young people deep into the murder investigation.

Vassa in the night
Sarah Porter.
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When her stepsister sends Vassa out in the middle of the night for light bulbs the only store that's still open is the local BY's. Everyone knows about BY's, and its owner Babs Yagg, but people do tend to remember a store that dances around on chicken legs and has a habit of decapitating shoplifters. Vassa is sure getting out of the store quickly will be easy. When things don't go as planned in BY's it will take all of Vassa's wits and her wooden doll Erg's cunning to escape the store alive and maybe even break whatever curse has been placed on Brooklyn's nights.