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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Abandon Abandon Blake Crouch On Christmas Day in 1893, every man, woman, and child in a remote mining town will disappear, belongings forsaken, meals left to freeze in vacant cabins, and not a single bone will be found -- not ev… OL15860350W
Runaway engine! Runaway engine! Tommy Stubbs While traveling down an overgrown track, Thomas finds an abandoned town and Sir Topham Hatt asks him and the other engines to fix it up, but Thomas runs into trouble and only Stanley can help him out. OL16767944W
Ceremony in Lone Tree Ceremony in Lone Tree Wright Morris "Although Tom Scanlon would just as soon spend it alone, his ninetieth birthday becomes the occasion for a family gathering in the Midwestern town of Lone Tree. The unlikely celebrants take this oppo… OL176269W
Creed Creed Trisha Leaver When their car breaks down, Dee, her boyfriend Luke, and his brother Mike walk through a winter storm to take refuge in a nearby deserted town called Purity Springs, but in the morning they see the t… OL17905788W
Abandoned Abandoned Mathew Growcoot The places time forgot. From the magical empty theaters of Detroit to the lost playgrounds of Chernobyl, there are places across the globe that were once a hub of activity, but are now abandoned and … OL19738543W
Smack dab in the middle of maybe Smack dab in the middle of maybe Jo Watson Hackl All her life, Cricket s mama has told her stories about a secret room painted by a mysterious artist. Now Mama s run off, and Cricket thinks the room might be the answer to getting her to come back. … OL19749684W
Ghost cities of China Ghost cities of China Wade Shepard "Featuring everything from sports stadiums to shopping malls, hundreds of new cities in China stand empty, with hundreds more set to be built by 2030. Between now and then, the country's urban popula… OL20004794W
Peril by ponytail Peril by ponytail Nancy J. Cohen Marla and Dalton's honeymoon at an Arizona dude ranch veers from dangerous to downright deadly faster than a horse headed to the corral. With her husband's uncle-- the resort's owner-- on the suspect… OL20011821W
Lions Lions Bonnie Nadzam The presence of a stranger in a nearly abandoned Colorado town changes the fates of everyone he encounters, including the Walker family, who have lived in the town for generations. OL20033725W
Odysseys Odysseys Freeman Patterson 90 p. : 22 cm OL2286249W
Rhyolite Rhyolite Diane Siebert A poem describing the rise and fall of Rhyolite, a town in the desert of southwestern Nevada which grew from one gold claim to a town of 10,000 people, then, a few years later, was deserted. OL23788588W
Ghost Town Ghost Town Annie Bryant When the Beacon Street girls go on vacation to a ranch in Montana, a snowstorm strands Maeve, Avery, and Charlotte in a ghost town, while Katani and Isabel spend time back at the ranch with country m… OL24267096W
Ghost town mystery Ghost town mystery Ruth Nulton Moore Accompanying their father on a project that takes them to a ghost town in Nevada, teenage twins Sara and Sam discover peculiar nocturnal activities and clues to a hidden treasure of gold nuggets. OL3452926W
Escape from high doom Escape from high doom Hilary H. Milton The reader visits Noose City, a Texas ghost town famous for its ghosts of executed criminals, which reappear each year on the anniversaries of their deaths; the reader makes choices which determine t… OL5357738W
Treasure in ghost town Treasure in ghost town Barbara Turner While spending the summer in Cripple Creek, Colorado, Tom and Tammy explore an empty, boarded-up house and find a hidden treasure. OL6208218W
Ghost towns of Arizona Ghost towns of Arizona James E. Sherman Contains brief sketches of Arizona ghost towns, their people, and events from their history. OL7138486W
Ontario's Ghost Town Heritage Ontario's Ghost Town Heritage Ron Brown 208 p. : 28 cm OL8407343W
Ghost Towns (Scary Places) Ghost Towns (Scary Places) Sarah Parvis Deserted towns are time capsules of the past, and the 11 places explored in this book all have a past marked by tragedy. The Lost Colony, for example, on Virginia’s Roanoke Island, was the first plac… OL8436454W
Springtown Springtown DeLoras Scott Amanda Bradshaw Was Trouble Chance Doyer had learned that much on their first meeting. But there was something keeping Amanda in the deserted ghost town where he'd found her, and Chance wasn't abo… OL9368021W