Spine-tingling Stories
Supernatural and Paranormal Stories for Teens!
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Spine-tingling Stories |
| Armstrong, Kelley | The Summoning (2008) After Chloe starts seeing ghosts, she is sent to Lyle House for mentally disturbed teenagers and discovers that things are not as they seem, and that she and her new friends are in danger. Next in the Darkest Powers trilogy is The Awakening (2009). |
| Bloor, Edward | Story Time (2004) George and Kate are promised the best education but instead face obsessed administrators, endless tests, and evil spirits when they are transferred to Whittaker Magnet School. |
| Cabot, Meg | Shadowland (2000) Susannah has to cope with a move, her new stepbrothers, a handsome ghost in her new bedroom, and the angry ghost haunting her new school. Continue the chills with the five other volumes in the Mediator series. |
| Colfer, Eoin | The Wish List (2003) Meg Finn is dead, but not at peace – she’s in limbo, her good and bad deeds perfectly balanced. She’s back on Earth to tip the scale to the good by helping her last victim, but her former “partner” is trying to force her to tip the scale to the bad. |
| De Lint, Charles | The Blue Girl (2004) When a ghost falls in love with Imogene, his attempts to make her see the other spirits around her causes her imaginary childhood friend to return as well as dark, soul-eating creatures. |
| Duncan, Lois | Stranger With My Face (1981) Laurie senses she is being spied on and probably impersonated, but when she discovers what actually is occurring, it is more unbelievable than she ever imagined. |
| Gaiman, Neil | The Graveyard Book (2008) Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is being raised in a graveyard by ghosts who try to keep him safe from the killer who murdered his family and is still searching for him to complete the job. |
| Grant, Michael | Gone (2008) When everyone over the age of 14 suddenly disappears, a battle begins with the remaining residents over leadership and with those that have “The Power” and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not. Followed by Hunger (2009). |
| Horowitz, Anthony | Raven’s Gate (2005) Sent to live in a foster home in a remote English village, Matt uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle.. Other titles in The Gatekeepers series include Evil Star (2006), Nightrise (2007), & Necropolis (2009). |
| Hurley, Tonya | Ghostgirl (2008) After dying, high school senior Charlotte Usher is as invisible to nearly everyone as she always felt as she continues to learn in an alternative high school for dead teens. Followed by Homecoming (2009). |
| Jenkins, E. M. | Beating Heart (2006) After his parents’ divorce, 17 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. |
| Jones, Carrie | Need (2008) Depressed after the death of her stepfather, Zara goes to live with her grandmother in a small Maine town where new friends tell Zara the strange man she keeps seeing may be a pixie king and that only “were” creatures can stop him from taking souls. |
| McCann, Lisa | Wake (2008) Janie has been uncontrollably drawn into other people’s dreams as a witness, but things are starting to change in a dangerous way. Followed by Fade (2009). |
| Noel, Alyson | Evermore (2009) Since the car accident that killed her family, Ever can see auras and hear other people’s thoughts. Then she meets Damen, another psychic teen who is hiding even more mysteries. The Immortals series continues with Blue Moon (2009). |
| Page, Jan | Rewind (2004) An accident at a concert turns Liam into a ghost and takes him back in time to when his abusive father and dominated mother were teenagers. |
| Price, Charlie | Dead Connection (2006) A loner who communes with the dead in the town cemetery hears the voice of a murdered cheerleader and tries to convince the adults that he knows what happened to her. |
| Shusterman, Neal | Everlost (2006) When Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash, they end up in Everlost, or limbo for lost souls, where Nick is satisfied, but Allie will stop at nothing – even skinjacking – to break free. |
| Singleton, Linda Joy | Dead Girl Walking (2008) When Amber is killed, she meets her dead grandmother in a dreamlike place, then takes a wrong turn and awakens in the body of a popular classmate with serious problems. Followed by Dead Girl Dancing (2009) and Dead Girl in Love (2009). |
| Vande Velde, Vivian | Being Dead (2001) Seven haunted souls return in a collection of short stories sure to chill your bones! |
| Whitcomb, Laura | A Certain Slant of Light (2005) After benignly haunting a series of people for 130 years, Helen meets a teenage boy who can see her and together they unlock the mysteries of their pasts. |
| Zevin, Gabrielle | Elsewhere (2005) After 15 year old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to “live.” |
June 2009