Scary

Sequel to A Great and Terrible Beauty and Rebel Angels.
448 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  19th Century, ESP

Sequel to A Great and Terrible Beauty.
560 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  19th Century, ESP

After the mysterious suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off to boarding school in England where she discovers her own unexplainable power.
416 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Mean Girls, 19th Century, ESP

High school senior Karen is frightened at first when a young policeman asks her to use her psychic powers to help the police locate missing children.
224 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  ESP, Detectives

When the old woman died, she left each of her grandchildren something very special. For Kirby, the gift of dance. For Brendon, the gift of music. And for Nancy, the most extraordinary gift of all, the gift of magic.
224 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  ESP, Sisters

A mysterious stranger who can spin straw into gold promises to make Charlotte's money problems disappear, but what does he want in return?
400 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, 18th Century, Ghosts

Book 1 of the Wave Walkers series. Jolly and Munk, two "polliwogs" who have the ability to walk on water, running for their lives from an evil sea creature, end up on a mysterious pirate ship run by a crew of ghosts.
336 pages Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Sea Adventures, Pirates, Ghosts

Twelve-year-old Diana ignores her brother's warnings and befriends the daughter of the new caretaker, setting in motion events that lead to the release of the spirit of an evil crazy woman who once ruled the old Willis place.
208 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Ghosts , Murder Mysteries

Violet's paralyzing fear of the San Francisco earthquakes changes when her family renovates an old building. An aftershock dislodges a letter addressed in 1906 to Baby V, and Violet is certain the disturbing letter is intended for her.
288 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Earthquakes, Ghosts, Sisters

Molly and Michael dislike their spooky new stepsister Heather but realize that they must try to save her when she seems ready to follow a ghost child to her doom.
192 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Ghosts

Tolly comes to live with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century.
192 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Ghosts, Grandparents

Fifteen-year-old Loch and his younger sister join their father on a scientific expedition searching for enormous prehistoric creatures sighted in a Vermont lake, but soon discover that the expedition's leaders aren't interested in preserving the creatures.
224 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Loch Ness Monster

Meet Billy Hooten, AKA Owlboy, a quickthinking, goggle-and-feather-wearing superhero who protects the bizarre and monstrous citizens of Monstros City, a city that exists under Billy's hometown.
256 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Monsters, Parallel Universe, Funny

Book 3 in the Twilight series. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger.
Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  High School, Love, Vampires

Sequel to Twilight. Edward is afraid that his vampire lust for blood is putting his human girlfriend in danger.
576 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  High School, Love, Vampires

Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Isabella, the person Edward holds most dear. The lovers find themselves balanced between desire and danger.
512 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  High School, Love, Vampires

It doesn't take long for Cody Elliot to realize that his new high school is a little different. The other students are supernaturally strong, don't like the sunlight, and are always placing orders at the local blood bank. These kids are vampires! As Cody struggles to fit in, he disrupts centuries of human-vampire segregation, with some serious and some funny consequences.
240 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Funny, High School, Vampires

Book 1 of the Cique du Freak series. Two boys who are best friends visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices.
272 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Best Friends, Insects, Vampires

Book 1 of the Chronus Chronicles. Thirteen-year-old Charlotte and her cousin Zee must set out to save humankind from denizens of the Underworld, Nightmares, Death, Pain, and a really nasty guy named Phil.
424 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Mythology, Zombies, Evil Scientists

Three teens and a curator of unclassifiable artifacts at the British Museum match wits with a madman determined to reanimate the dead, both humans and dinosaurs.
336 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  19th Century, Museum Mysteries, Zombies, Evil Scientists

Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
176 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Witches, Parallel Universe, Zombies