Do you believe in ghosts? Are there visitors from the spirit world all around us? Test your beliefs through spine-tingling teen fiction!

Skellig by David Almond (J ALMOND)

Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel.

Devil’s Race by Avi (JRHI AVI)

Sixteen-year-old John Proud is tormented by the ghost of an evil ancestor, with his own name and his own face, who was hanged in 1854 for being a demon.

Midnight Magic by Avi (JRHI AVI)

In Italy in 1491, Mangus the magician and his apprentice are summoned to the castle of Duke Claudio to determine if his daughter is indeed being haunted by a ghost

The Haunting of Hip Hop by Bertrice Berry (ADULT FIC BERRY)

When hip-hop producer/songwriter Harry "Freedom" Hudson decides to buy a reputedly haunted brownstone in Harlem he inadvertently disturbs a passel of fretful ghosts!

China Garden by Liz Berry (YA FIC BERRY)

After college Clare moves with her mother from London to a rural home where her psychic ability helps unravel the past and where she searches for something called the Benison.

Raising the Dead by Daniel Cohen (J 306.9 COHEN)

Get thrills and chills as you read about real-life monsters, the mummy's curse, zombies, and other weird tales from beyond the grave in a grimly fascinating and extensively researched book.

Young Ghosts by Daniel Cohen (J 133.1 COHEN)

Tells the stories of radiant apparitions, a murder victim who returns to bring his killer to justice, a talkative ghost, a poltergeist, and Christmas ghosts. 

The Other Shepards by Adele Griffin (YA GRIFFIN)

Teenage Holland and her younger sister Geneva, having always lived under the shadow of siblings who died before they were born, struggle to establish separate identities and escape from the oppressive weight of their parents' continuing grief.

Look For Me By Moonlight by Mary Downing Hahn (JRHI HAHN)

While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother, sixteen-year-old Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father's new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest.

Rosey in the Present Tense by Louise Hawes (YA FIC HAWES)

Unable to accept the sudden death of his Japanese American girlfriend Rosey, seventeen-year-old Franklin finds that she has come back to him as a spirit and eventually realizes that he must let her go.

The Time of the Ghost by Diana Wynne Jones (JRHI JONES)

A ghost, uncertain of her identity, watches the four Melford sisters hatch a plan to get their parents' attention and slowly becomes aware of the danger from a supernatural power unleashed by the the girls and their friends from the boys boarding school run by the Melfords.

The Norton Book of Ghost Stories edited by Brad Leithauser (ADULT S NOR)

All kinds of creepy and spine tingling ghost stories!  Read it if you dare!

Jade Green by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (JRHI NAYLOR)

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.

The Haunting by Joan Lowery Nixon (JRHI NIXON)

When her mother inherits an old plantation house in the Louisiana countryside, fifteen-year-old Lia seeks to rid it of the evil spirit that haunts it.

The Ghost Belonged to Me by Richard Peck (J PECK)

Blossom Culp tries to convince her rich kid neighbor Alexander Arnsworth that he has the ability to speak with the dead and that his barn is being haunted by the spirit of a restless ghost.

Nightshade edited by Robert Phillips (ADULT S NIG)

A tantalizing and terrifying selection of the finest ghost and horror stories of the twentieth century!  Best read at midnight.

The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (J SNYDER)

Legend has it that a ghost cut the head off a wooden cupid on the stairway. Has the ghost returned to strike again?

The Face In the Mirror by Stephanie Tolan (JRHI TOLAN)

Joining his estranged father in a professional production of Shakespeare's "Richard III," Jared tries to cope with acting insecurities, his obnoxious half brother, and a theater ghost.

Demons and Shadows by Robert Westall (JHRI WESTALL)

Robert Westall writes that “there is freedom in ghostliness.  You break the boring surface of life and let the underside out.”  The underside does creep out in these eleven eerie stories!

Ghosts of the West Coast by Ted Wood (J 133.109 WOO)

Plan a haunted vacation by checking out these ghost sightings from all over the west coast.  From San Diego to Seattle, plenty of hair raising spooky true stories!

13 April 2006