| Description |
ix, 213 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Ahh, arachnids! spiders -- Ahh, arachnids! spider in the toilet -- Boo! -- Buried alive -- Capuchin catacombs --Claustrophobia -- Clinkity clink: ghost story -- Crocodiles -- Death, scared to -- Evil scientist -- Fake blood and fake wound -- Ghosts -- Ghosts around the world -- Gomantong caves -- Haunted houses -- Haunt your own house --Island of the dolls - Island of snakes - Jellyfish -- Killer bees -- Komodo dragon -- Lake Natron: petrifying waters -- Manchineel tree -- Monsters -- Mujina: ghost story -- Mummies -- Nepenthes, the flesh-eating plant -- The open window: ghost story -- Ouija board -- Paris catacombs -- Quicksand -- Rats -- Sandbox tree -- Séance -- Séance, hold your own -- Sharks -- Snakes -- Stinging tree -- Stonefish -- Tasmanian Devil -- Transylvania -- UFOs and aliens -- UFO alien message -- Urban legends -- Vampire bats -- Vampire bite -- Vampires -- Werewolves -- Witches -- Write your own ghost story -- Xylophobia -- Yeti -- Your biggest fear -- Zombies -- Zombify yourself. |
| Summary |
"Combining fact, fiction, and hands-on activities, Frightlopedia is an illustrated A-Z collection of some of the worlds most frightening places, scariest stories, and gruesomest creatures, both real and imagined. Discover Borneos Gomantong Cave, where literally millions of bats, cockroaches, spiders, and rats coexistin pitch darkness. Learn about mythical creatures like the Mongolian Death Wormand scarily real ones like killer bees, which were accidentally created by scientists in the 1950s. Visit New Orleanss Beauregard-Keyes house, where Civil War soldiers are said to still clash in the front hall. Plus ghost stories from around the world, a cross-cultural study of vampires, and how to transform into a zombie with makeup. Each entry includes a zFright Metery measurement from 1 to 3, because while being scared is fun, everyone has their limit."--Amazon.com. |
| Audience |
1060 Lexile. |
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1060 Lexile. |
| Audience |
1060L Lexile |
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1060L Lexile |
| Subject |
Fear -- Encyclopedias -- Juvenile literature.
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Curiosities and wonders -- Juvenile literature.
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| Genre |
Encyclopedias.
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| Added Author |
Bozek, Rachel, author.
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Tambellini, Stefano, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
9780761183792 |
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0761183795 |
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9780606390149 (Turtleback) |
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