Intended to increase reading motivation in students, this book features tales of ghosts and poltergeists. The tales range from the legendary to the contemporary. These accounts of ghost stories in the book provide subject matter for thoughtful interpretation and discussion, while challenging students in four critical reading categories: main idea, important details, inferences, and vocabulary in context. The book, also meant to improve student's reading rates, consists of 21 units divided into three groups of seven units each. All the stories in a group are on the same reading level. Group 1 is at the sixth-grade reading level, group 2 at the seventh, and group 3 at the eighth, as assessed by the Fry Formula for Estimating Readability. (MS)