Horror at the Haunted House

8 best books like Horror at the Haunted House (Peg Kehret): Dark Harvest, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death, Murder Most Unladylike: A Wells & Wong Mystery, The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural, Bayou Magic, A Dog's Way Home, This Was Our Pact, The Red Maze

Dark Harvest

Author

Norman Partridge

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and named one of the 100 Best Novels of 2006 by Publishers Weekly, Dark Harvest by Norman Patridge is a powerhouse thrill-ride with all the resonance of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

Halloween, 1963. They call him the October Boy, or Ol' Hacksaw Face, or Sawtooth...

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

Author

Caitlin Doughty

Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition.

Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut’s body if it were pushed out of a space...

Murder Most Unladylike: A Wells & Wong Mystery

Author	Robin Stevens
ISBN	0552570729

1934. When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up a secret detective agency at Deepdean School for Girls, they struggle to find a truly exciting mystery to investigate. (Unless you count the case of Lavinia's missing tie. Which they don't.)

But then Hazel discovers the body of the Science Mistress,...

The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural

Author	Patricia C. McKissack
ISBN	0679818634

Wow did this one surprise me. It's a collection of short horror stories, mostly based on African American folktales and set in the deep south. This was published by Scholastic, so I was expecting stories aimed at children. While technically I guess they are, the stories are much darker and mature than...

Bayou Magic

Author	Jewell Parker Rhodes
ISBN	0316224847

If only Maddy sees the mermaid, can it be real?

It's Maddy's turn to have a bayou summer. At first she misses life back home in the city, but soon she grows to love everything about her new surroundings -- the glimmering fireflies, the glorious landscape, and something else, deep within the water,...

A Dog's Way Home

Author	Bobbie Pyron
ISBN	0061986747

Daddy says, "Most folks got a north star in their life—something that gives their life extra meaning. Mine is music."

Without even thinking, I say, "Mine is Tam."

Abby knows that Tam, her Shetland sheepdog, is her north star, and she's pretty certain she's his, too. But when an accident...

This Was Our Pact

Author	Ryan Andrews
ISBN	1626720533

Ryan Andrews's This Was Our Pact is an astonishing, magical-realist adventure story for middle-grade readers.

It's the night of the annual Autumn Equinox Festival, when the town gathers to float paper lanterns down the river. Legend has it that after drifting out of sight, they'll soar off...

The Red Maze

Author	Mark Siegel
ISBN	1101935928

In book 3, Oona Lee is determined to light Moon Yatta's beacon and continue her quest to save the galaxy. But reaching the red beacon means navigating an impossible maze of pipes and facing devious enemies at every turn. Luckily, her friend Jax Amboy has returned from his adventures transformed! Now...