The Girl Behind The Glass
Moving from Brooklyn to a rental house in the country strains the relationship between eleven-year-old identical twins Hannah and Anna Zimmer, a situation made worse by the ghost of a girl who is trapped in the house because of problems with her own sister eighty years before.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 440
subjects: sisters, twins, moving, household, ghosts, families [X], family life, ghost stories [X], moving, ghost stories, family
Misty Gordon And The Mystery Of The Ghost Pirates
While assisting her father, an estate and antiques dealer, teenaged Misty discovers a journal and pair of glasses that allow her to see ghosts, including those of pirates who founded her New England town and who are seeking a golden statue with mystical powers.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: ghost stories, pirates, eyeglasses, antiques, family life, new england, families [X], ghosts, mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction, ghost stories [X], mystery fiction, electronic books, electronic books
As Simple As It Seems
Eleven-year-old Verbena Polter gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with an odd new friend who believes she is the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 57
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 910
subjects: puberty, friendship, family life, ghost stories, identity (psychology), catskill mountains region (n.y.), ghosts, identity, adoption, identity (philosophical concept), family, families [X], ghost stories [X]
Curiosity Killed The Cat
Hannah, already unhappy to be moving in with her dad and his new family, including her stepsister Madison, a mean girl, is further upset by rumors of a ghost cat said to haunt a neighboring cemetery and the mysterious scratching at her door at night.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: girls, moving, cemeteries, stepfamilies, cats, ghosts, families [X], moving, household, horror stories, ghost stories, horror fiction, horror tales, pets, animals, ghost stories [X], horror fiction
Locke & Key
The Locke children have grown used to the magical keys discovered within their home, Keyhouse, and the tragedy associated with them, but they do not realize the danger they are in from Lucas Caravaggio, alias Zack Wells, whose quest for the key to the black door is relentless.
741.5
year: 2012
copies: 20
call number/section: 741.5
lexile:
subjects: families [X], haunted houses, keys, family life, ghost stories, horror graphic novels, maine, ghost stories [X], horror comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels, ghosts, horror comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels, comic books, strips, etc
The Dead Girls Of Hysteria Hall
Sixteen-year-old Cordelia and her family move into the house they just inherited in Pennsylvania, a former insane asylum the locals call Hysteria Hall--unfortunately the house does not want defiant girls like Delia, so it kills her, and as she wanders the house, meeting the other ghosts and learning the dark secrets of the Hall, she realizes that she has to find a way to save her sister, parents, and perhaps herself.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 37
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: horror stories, family life, sisters, secrets, ghosts, psychiatric hospitals, haunted houses, secrecy, families [X], ghost stories [X], horror fiction
Haunting The Deep
Samantha Mather, fifteen, is having recurring dreams of the Titanic and while awake, receives strange missives and visions of those who went down with the ship.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: titanic (steamship), family life, shipwrecks, ocean liners, magic, families [X], salem (mass.), ghost stories [X], paranormal fiction, ghosts, supernatural
The Girl In The Locked Room
Told in two voices, Jules, whose father is restoring an abandoned house, and a girl who lived there a century before begin to communicate and slowly, the girl's tragic story is revealed.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 99
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: juvenile fiction / girls & women, juvenile fiction / social issues / friendship, family life, haunted houses, fate and fatalism, extrasensory perception, friendship, ghosts, virginia, ghost stories, families [X], ghost stories [X], children's audiobooks, horror fiction
Locke & Key (one-shot)
A collection of three stories set in the world of Keyhouse.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: families [X], haunted houses, keys, family life, massachusetts, ghost stories [X], horror comics, graphic novels
Just South Of Home
Twelve-year-old Sarah, her Chicago cousin Janie, brainy brother Ellis, and his best friend, Jasper, investigate a tragic event in their small Southern town's history.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: families [X], african americans, family life, ghosts, supernatural, georgia, ghost stories [X], paranormal fiction, ghost stories, mystery fiction
Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
FIC
year:
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: scrooge, ebenezer, poor, families [X], family life, sick, misers, london (england), christmas fiction, ghost stories [X]
The Haunted
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.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: haunted houses, ghost stories, moving, friendship, dating (social customs), family life, new york (state), horror fiction, ghost stories [X], moving, household, families [X], ghosts
Sauerkraut
"HD Schenk is a maker--an inventor, someone who builds cool stuff.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: sauerkraut, great-grandmothers, ghosts, ghost stories [X], families [X], ghost stories, grandmothers, family life
Echoes Between Us
Told in two voices, Veronica and Sawyer become partners for their senior project and soon they are helping each other battle the ghosts that haunt them--her diagnosis causing blinding migranes and his adrenaline addiction.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: brain, compulsive behavior, alcoholism, dating (social customs), families [X], family life, ghosts, tumors, ghost stories [X]
The Elephant's Girl
Twelve-year-old Lexington, a foundling raised in a zoo, spends a summer cementing friendships, growing closer to the elephant that saved her life, and learning about her family and herself.
FIC
year:
copies: 31
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: elephants, zoos, foundlings, friendship, families [X], ghost stories, winds, family life, ghosts, orphans, ghost stories [X], animal fiction, magic realist fiction