Annotation:Mimi is happy to get away to her father's remote Canadian cottage only to discover a stranger living there who has never heard of her or her father and who is convinced that Mimi is responsible for leaving sinister tokens around the property.
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Annotation:When 17-year-old Luke Hunter foretells with freakish accuracy the death of his friend, life in the religiously conservative town of Stokum gets complicated. A darkly comic coming-of-age novel.
Annotation:All 16-year-old Cameron wants is to get through life with a minimum of effort. It’s not a lot to ask but he's given some bad news: he’s sick and he’s going to die. Hope arrives in the winged form of Dulcie, a loopy punk angel/possible hallucination. She tells Cam there is a cure—if he’s willing to go in search of it.
Annotation:Asia lives with her grand parents or so she believes. While exploring their old property she is both frightened and fascinated by the appearance of a ghost at an abandoned farm that only she can see and hear.
Annotation:Seventh-grader Martin Conway believes that his life is monotonous and dull until the night the antique radio he he inherited from his grandmother transports him to the bombing of London in 1940 where he meets Jimmy.
Annotation:When Dr. Faraday, a Warwickshire physician, pays a visit to the Ayres family at their Hundreds Hall estate, he unknowingly enters a wickedly haunted house. His life soon becomes entwined with a family plagued by a terrifying past.
Annotation:When fifteen-year-old Annie Grey and her "clairvoyant" mother arrive in Peach Hill, New York, in 1924, each finds a reason for wanting to finally settle down, but to reach their goals they will have to do some serious lying and Annie will have to stand up for herself.
Annotation:Billy Creekmore was born at midnight on Friday the thirteenth so people believe he can commune with the spirits.He also has a gift for storytelling which endears him to the other children at the Guardian Angels Home for Boys. When the orphange sells him to a glass factory he runs away fearing he will be maimed like his friend Meek. Here his adventures really begin as looks for his father while traveling with a circus.
Annotation:In 1926, magician Harry Houdini arrives in the city to perform magic and to expose fraudulent mediums but thirteen-year-old Scooter King, who works for his mother making her seances seem real, needs Houdini's help to solve a murder.
Annotation:Kellyanne has two of the best friends in the world. The only problem is that nobody sees them but her. When her father leaves them in an opal mine, it's up to Kellyanne's brother to rally the town to find these two imaginary friends.
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Sometimes terrifying, sometimes comforting the world of spirits holds an endless fascination for us. Be prepared to be scared, puzzled and to laugh out loud at the books on this list.