Ghosts


Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery
Dave Roman
GN Y Agn

Agnes Quill is the story of a teenage detective, the haunted city she lives in, the strange cases she solves and the ghosts who help, hinder or just plain annoy her.

subjects: Graphic Novels


Beating Heart: A Ghost Story
A.M. Jenkins
Y Fic Jen

Following his parents' divorce, seventeen-year-old Evan moves with his mother and sister into an old house where the spirit of a teenager who died there awakens and mistakes him for her long-departed lover.

awards: ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers: 2007

subjects: Ghosts, Haunted Houses, Divorce, Moving Households


Breathe: A Ghost Story
Cliff NcNish
Y Fic Mac

When he and his mother move into an old farmhouse in the English countryside, asthmatic, twelve-year-old Jack discovers that he can communicate with the ghosts inhabiting the house and inadvertently establishes a relationship with a tormented, malevolent spirit that threatens to destroy both his mother and himself.

subjects: Ghosts, Extrasensory Perception, Asthma, Single-Parent Families, Death, Grief, England


Deep and Dark and Dangerous: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
Y Fic Hah

When 13-year-old Ali spends the summer with her aunt and cousin at the family's vacation home, she stumbles upon a secret that her mother and aunt have been hiding for over thirty years.

subjects: Secrets, Ghosts, Mothers and Daughters, Cousins


The Intruders
E.E. Richardson
Y M Ric

When soon-to-be stepbrothers, Joel and Tim, start having the same nightmare after moving into a old house, they decide to investigate its source and the many other strange occurrences in their new home.

subjects: Nightmares, Ghosts, Haunted Houses, Stepfamilies, Mystery and Detective Stories, England


Jade Green
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Y Fic Nay

While living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman, recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression causes mysterious happenings.

awards: ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2001, Texas Lone Star Reading List 2002, ALA Popular Paperbacks 2003

subjects: Haunted Houses, Ghosts, Uncles, Orphans


Shadowland
Meg Cabot
Y Fic Cab

After moving from New York to California with her newly married mother, 16-year old Susannah has to cope not only with her new stepbrothers, but also with the handsome ghost sitting in her new bedroom and the angry girl ghost haunting her new school. Sequels: Ninth Key, Reunion, Darkest Hour, Haunted, Twilight.

subjects: Mediums, Teenage Girls, High School Students, Stepfamilies, Ghosts, California


The Restless Dead: Ten Original Stories of the Supernatural
Deborah Noyes
Y SS Noy

Enter the murky world of the undead. From a beyond-the-grave stalker to prankster devil worshippers, from a childish ghost of the future to a vampire lover, the characters of this stories will send shivers down your spine.

subjects: Horror Tales, Short Stories, Supernatural


The Unresolved
T.K. Welsh
Y Fic Wel

In 1904 New York City, the spirit of a deceased German American teenage girl searches for the person responsible for the Slocum steamboat fire that claimed her life and the lives of more than 1000 other passengers.

awards:

subjects: General Slocum (Steamship), Fires-New York, Shipwrecks, Ghosts, German Americans, New York (N.Y.)


List updated July 2007— Patti Cook


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