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Ghost Stories for Teens
  • The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong. 2008.
    After fifteen-year-old Chloe starts seeing ghosts and is sent to Lyle House, a mysterious group home for mentally disturbed teenagers, she soon discovers that neither Lyle House nor its inhabitants are exactly what they seem, and that she and her new friends are in danger.

  • Story Time by Edward Bloor. 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.

  • Haunted: a Tale of the Mediator by Meg Cabot. 2003.
    Sixteen-year-old Susannah Simon is a mediator, one who communicates with the dead, and she also happens to be in love with Jesse, a nineteenth-century ghost.

  • Shadowland by Meg Cabot. 2005.
    After moving from New York to California with her newly married mother, 16-year-old Susannah has to cope not only with her new stepbrothers, but also with the handsome ghost sitting in her new bedroom and the angry girl ghost haunting her new school.

  • The Blue Girl by Charles De Lint. 2004.
    New at her high school, Imogene enlists the help of her introverted friend Maxine and the ghost of a boy who haunts the school after receiving warnings through her dreams that soul-eaters are threatening her life.

  • Spirit by J.P. Hightman. 2008.
    In 1892, a wealthy, seventeen-year-old married couple, Tess and Tobias Goodraven, lay ghosts to rest for the thrill of it but, separated by the terrible witch who was responsible for the Salem witchcraft horrors, they may not have strength to survive, much less help the dead.

  • Ghost Girl by Tonya Hurley. 2008.
    After dying, high school senior Charlotte Usher is as invisible to nearly everyone as she always felt, but despite what she learns in a sort of alternative high school for dead teens, she clings to life while seeking a way to go to the Fall Ball with the boy of her dreams.

  • The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh. 2007.
    After fourteen-year-old Jack has a near fatal accident, he meets a young ghost who introduces him to New York's Underworld, where those who died in New York reside until they are ready to move on, and Jack vows to find his dead mother there.

  • Beating Heart: a Ghost Story by A.M. Jenkins. 2006.
    Following his parents' divorce, seventeen-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.

  •  Uninvited by Amanda Marrone. 2007.
    Jordan's life sucks. Her boyfriend, Michael, dumped her, slept his way through half the student body, and then killed himself. But now, somehow, he appears at her window every night, begging her to let him in.

  • Jade Green by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. 2000.
    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 Restless Dead: Ten Original Stories of the Supernatural edited by Deborah Noyes. 2007.
    The wrong grave; The house and the locket; Kissing dead boys; The heart of another; The necromancers; No visible power; Bad things; The gray boy's work; The poison eaters; Honey in the wound.

  • Lurker by Stefan Petrucha. 2007.
    Four ghost girls, trapped in an abandoned orphanage, relate the story of high school student Mandy, who becomes caught up in a terrifying encounter after one of her classmates is tragically murdered. (#1 in Wicked Dead series)

  • I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Schroeder. 2008.
    Ava can't see or touch Jackson, but she knows he's there - back from the dead, as proof that love truly knows no bounds.

  • Everlost by Neal Shusterman. 2006.
    When Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash, they end up in Everlost, or limbo for lost souls, where although Nick is satisfied, Allie will stop at nothing--even skinjacking--to break free.

  • A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb. 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.