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Ghost Stories

 

Bad Girls Don't Die

by Kate Alender

As strange things occur in her house and with her younger sister, Alexis wants to believe it's all in her head. But soon, what she used to think of as silly parlor tricks are becoming life-threatening--to her and her family.

 

 

Beating Heart: A Ghost Story

by A.M. Jenkins

He is seventeen years old, waiting for the start of his senior year, and ever since his family moved into this big old house -- abandoned for decades -- he has dreamt of her. Ghost and boy fascinate each other, until her memories and his desire collide in a moment that changes them both forever.

 

 

Bliss

by Lauren Myracle

After she's dumped by her hippie parents on her aloof grandmother in Atlanta, Bliss is enrolled in Crestview Academy, an elite institution where the tensions of the present and the dark secrets of the past threaten to simmer into violence.

 

 

A Certain Slant of Light

by Laura Whitcomb

In the class of the high school English teacher she has been haunting, Helen feels them: for the first time in 130 years, human eyes are looking at her. They belong to a boy, a boy who has not seemed remarkable until now. And Helen --terrified, but intrigued -- is drawn to him.

 

 

A Curse Dark as Gold

by Elizabeth C. Bunce

Charlotte Miller has always scoffed at talk of a curse on her family's woolen mill, which holds her beloved town together. But after her father's death, the bad luck piles up. Then a stranger named Jack Spinner makes a tempting offer: he can turn straw into gold.

 

 

Ghostgirl

by Tonya Hurley

Charlotte Usher feels practically invisible at school, and then one day she really is invisible. Even worse: she's dead. And all because she choked on a gummy bear. But being dead doesn't stop Charlotte from wanting to be popular; it just makes her more creative about achieving her goal.

 

 

The Ghosts of Kerfol

by Deborah Noyes

In an enthralling work of Gothic suspense, Edith Wharton's classic ghost story Kerfol inspires five connected tales set in the same haunted manor over the centuries.

 

 

Hauntings and Other Tales of Danger, Love and Sometimes Loss

by Betsy Hearne

In fifteen eerie tales, you will meet the lonely, the troubled, the grieving-the ones who must answer these questions. They have choices; they have fears; they have life . . . and death. They will haunt you long after their stories end.

 

 

Shadowed Summer

by Saundra Mitchell

Years ago a local boy named Elijah Landry disappeared. All that remained of him were whispers and hushed gossip, until this summer. A ghost begins to haunt Iris, and she’s certain it’s the ghost of Elijah. What really happened to him? And why, of all people, has he chosen Iris to come back to?

 

 

Spirit

by J.P. Hightman

The train is bound for Blackthorne, near Salem, where a winter carnival awaits. For ghost-hunters Tess and Tobias Goodraven, this train will take them to a place much darker than they imagined. When the train derails and the casualties climb, the Goodravens must bridge the gap between past and present tragedies if they have any chance of quieting the souls of the living, the dead, and the haunted.

 

 

Storm Catchers

by Tim Bowler

In this powerful new novel from the winner of the Carnegie Medal, Ella's family must deal with the consequences when she is kidnapped from the house in the middle of a storm.