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Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A collector of obscure and macabre artifacts, unscrupulous metal band musician Judas Coyne is unable to resist purchasing a ghost over the Internet, which turns out to be the vengeful spirit of his late girlfriend's stepfather.
2) The shining
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Jack Torrance sees his stint as winter caretaker of a Colorado hotel as a way back from failure, his wife sees it as a chance to preserve their family, and their five-year-old son sees the evil waiting just for them, as they journey into a world in which old horrors come to life to destroy the living.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious child appears in her living room one day, the elderly Maddy tells him the story of her love for the wild and free-spirited Feather, who tried but failed to live a conventional life with her, and her search for him on a fantastical voyage across the seas.
Author
Series
Haunting of Sunshine girl volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Sunshine Griffith and her mother Kat move from sunny Austin, Texas, to the rain-drenched town of Ridgemont, Washington. Though Sunshine is adopted, she and her mother have always been close, sharing a special bond filled with laughter and inside jokes. But from the moment they arrive, Sunshine feels her world darken with an eeriness she cannot place. And even if Kat doesn't recognize it, Sunshine knows that something...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Shiver-inducingly delicious."-The New York Times Book Review
"[Suma's] narratives are subtle, quicksilver creatures, her language is elegant, and her characters keep more secrets than they reveal. If this book was a dessert, it wouldn't be a chocolate chip cookie or a vanilla birthday cake - it would be an earl grey lavender macaroon, or maybe balsamic fig ice cream." – NPR.com
"This beautiful story is full of magical-realism and luscious,...
7) Beloved
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sethe, an escaped slave who now lives in post-Civil War Ohio, has borne the unthinkable and works hard at "beating back the past." She struggles to keep Beloved, an intruder, from gaining possession of her present while throwing off the legacy of her past.
8) Betrayal
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After learning that she is descended from a legendary ghostkeeper, Emma faces terrible forces as she tries to dispel Neos, find her family, and discover a way to be with Bennett without either of them losing their powers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Emma's antique-collector parents vanish and her brother's college roommate shows up to become her guardian, he takes her from San Francisco to Boston, where she discovers that she is a powerful "ghostkeeper," which both explains troubling incidents from her past and presents difficult new dilemmas.
10) A wounded name
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Ophelia Castellan will never be just another girl at Elsinore Academy. Seeing ghosts is not a skill prized in future society wives. Even when she takes her pills, the bean sidhe beckon, reminding her of a promise to her dead mother. Now, in the wake of the Headmaster's sudden death, the whole academy is in turmoil, and Ophelia can no longer ignore the fae. Especially once she starts seeing the Headmaster's ghosts-two of them-on the school grounds....
11) The dire king
Author
Series
Jackaby volume 4
Publisher
Workman Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this conclusion to the Jackaby series, the eccentric detective and his assistant Abigail Rook find themselves in the middle of a war between magical worlds.
An evil king is using a blend of magic and technology to push Earth and the Otherworld into a mortal competition. In New Fiddleham, Jackaby and Abigail are caught in the middle as they try to close the rend between the two worlds, and discover why zombies are appearing around town. As the...
12) Surrender
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Ghostkeeper Emma's mysterious visions are realized when she comes face to face with Neos, the ancient, repulsive old ghost that has haunted her, torn her family apart, turned her friends against her, and ruined minds and lives.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Frankie's mother died and her father left her and her siblings at an orphanage in Chicago, it was supposed to be only temporary - just long enough for him to get back on his feet and be able to provide for them once again. That's why she is not prepared for the day that he arrives for his weekend visit with a new woman on his arm and out-of-state train tickets in his pocket. Now Frankie and her sister, Toni, are abandoned alongside so many other...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With evocative language, a shifting timeline and more than one unreliable narrator, Suma subtly explores the balance of power between the talented and the mediocre, the rich and the poor, the brave and the cowardly . . . To reveal more would be to uncover the bloody heart that beats beneath the floorboards of this urban-legend-tinged tale." -The New York Times
The Walls Around Us is a ghostly story of suspense told in two voices--one still...
15) Liv, forever
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Soon after an art scholarship gets Liv a place at prestigious Wickham Hall, she becomes the latest victim of a dark conspiracy spanning 150 years, but her ghost, aided by friend Gabe and boyfriend Malcolm, tries to put a stop to the killing.
16) The haunted
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"To evade her manipulative ex-boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Hendricks' family moves to small-town New York, where she joins the popular crowd, but only her outcast neighbor, Eddie, can help chase vindictive ghosts from her new house. Clean slate. That's what Hendricks Becker-O'Malley's parents said when they moved their family to the tiny town of Drearfield, New York. Hendricks wants to lay low and forget her dark, traumatic past. Forget him. But things...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Before I Fall meets "bah, humbug" in this contemporary YA reimagining of A Christmas Carol from New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Hand.
On Christmas Eve five years ago, seventeen-year-old Holly Chase was visited by three Ghosts who showed her how selfish and spoiled she'd become. They tried to convince her to mend her ways. She didn't. And then she died.
Now she's stuck working for the top-secret company Project Scrooge-as their latest Ghost...
18) Mirror girls
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Biracial twin sisters--one who presents as black and the other as white--are determined to put the ghosts of the past to rest and to uncover the truth behind their parents' murders in the Jim Crow South.
"As infants, twin sisters Charlie Yates and Magnolia Heathwood were secretly separated after the brutal lynching of their parents, who died for loving across the color line. Now, at the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, Charlie is a young Black...
19) Long Lankin
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When Cora and her younger sister, Mimi, are sent to stay with their great Auntie Ida in an isolated village in 1958, they discover that they are in danger from a centuries-old evil and, along with village boys Roger and Peter, strive to uncover the horrifying truth before it is too late.
20) Truly devious
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, begins her first year at a famous private school in Vermont, she sets a plan to solve the cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder's wife and daughter shortly after the school opened.
Ellingham Academy was founded by Albert Ellingham, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only...