Ransom
10 best books like Ransom (Lois Duncan): The Ghosts of Stone Hollow, Taking Terri Mueller, The Ghost Next Door, The Girl in the Box, Dear Lovey Hart, I Am Desperate, Stumptown Kid, Wolf Rider, Ghost of a Hanged Man, The Dark and Deadly Pool, The Stranger
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| ISBN | 0718823478 |
I am new to Zilpha Keatley Snyder with an odd, long name but see that she is award-winning through other novels. This 1974 one didn't need to be set in 1938 and doesn't feel like it is in 1938, thus I don't know the authoress' purpose but most of it felt relevant. A strong, sour exception was one teacher's attitude...
| Author | Norma Fox Mazer |
| ISBN | 0380790041 |
For as long as I can remember, It's just been Daddy and me. I can't remember my mother. I was told she died in an accident when I was four, and that's all I know about her. I don't understand why there isn't even a picture of her. The other thing I don't understand is why we're always moving -- different towns...
| Author | Wylly Folk St. John |
| ISBN | 0671442902 |
Sherry Alston had never been told about her dead half-sister Miranda. So when Sherry came to visit her Aunt Judith, no one could explain the odd things that started to happen. Who was the elusive friend Sherry said she saw in the garden? Was she an imaginary playmate - or could she be the ghost of Miranda...
| Author | Ouida Sebestyen |
| ISBN | 0440228735 |
To Anybody Out There My name is Jackie McGee. I am the girl who disappeared. Listen to the news. See if other pieces of paper are scattered nearby. Maybe if you yell really loud I can hear you and yell back. I am not making this up. Please help!
Left in an underground cement room by an unknown captor, Jackie...
Dear Lovey Hart,
I am desperate. I love a man old enough to be my father. I worship him from afar. Do you think there is any hope for a relationship between us?
G.C.
Dear G.C.,
Not unless he wants to adopt you.
Chip is cute. He is also the editor of the high school newspaper. So...
| Author | Carol Gorman |
| ISBN | 1561454125 |
Twelve-year-old Charlie Nebraska wants two things he can't get: to make the local baseball team and to have life to return to the way it was before his father died two years earlier in the Korean War.
When Charlie meets Luther Peale, a stranger who quietly and mysteriously arrives in Charlie's small...
On an ordinary evening, just as he's about to leave for a party, 15-year-old Andy Zadinski receives a phone call from a stranger that changes his life. The caller, Zeke, confesses to the murder of a young woman named Nina Klemmer. Andy immediately calls the police, who shrug it off as a gag or a crank call....
| Author | Vivian Vande Velde |
| ISBN | 0761451544 |
Ghost of a Hanged Man: Vivian Vande Velde
Hook: What got me really interested in the book was the cover of the book: I really enjoy horror books, so seeing the cover got me really intrigued into reading it, especially since it involved a man who turned into a ghost.
Summary: There was a...
| Author | Joan Lowery Nixon |
| ISBN | 0440419816 |
Liz enjoys her summer pool job at the glamorous Ridley Hotel. Until the night, a dark and lonely night, a ghasty shadow surges up from the pool. A face -- eyes wide, mouth gaping -- stares at Liz. A hand clutches at her sneaker. Then it, whatever it is, is gone.
But danger isn't. Strange things are happening...
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0590456805 |
"From the first moment she sees him in class, Nicoletta is drawn to Jethro, fascinated by his dark, mysterious face. She is attracted yet repelled, interested but afriad. Nicoletta becomes obsessed, unable to think of any-thing but this strange boy.
But she knows so little about him.
Until...
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0141306939 |
An updated look for the classic YA thriller from genre heavyweight Richard Peck
Sixteen-year-old Gail is living the upper-class suburban life when she begins receiving terrifying phone calls and notes in her locker. And the calls keep coming. When she's attacked by the town's golden boy...
| Author | Jessica Wollman |
| ISBN | 0385736010 |
Beauty is only skin deep. Popularity goes much deeper. . . .
Appearances can be deceiving. Sam Klein’s found that out firsthand. All she wanted was to be popular. But sometimes what we want is the absolute worst thing for us.
Sam discovers that Kylie, It-girl of Woodlawn High, owes...
| Author | Julia Platt Leonard |
When 13-year-old Oz Keillor finds a dead body in his family restaurant, he is soon caught up in a mystery where the stakes are high. His older brother is the prime suspect, and Oz quickly finds out that the murder may be tied to the death of their father years earlier, who was accused of selling nuclear...
| Author | Pete Hautman |
| ISBN | 0399243771 |
Roni Delicata is the pushy crime reporter for the school newspaper The Bloodwater Pump. Brian Bain is a quiet science geek who has a tendency to blow things up. Ordinarily, they would have nothing to do with each other. But today isn’t an ordinary day: their snobby classmate Alicia Camden has been snatched.Soon...
| Author | Becky Citra |
| ISBN | 1554693454 |
Thea and her dad are always on the move, from one small Cariboo town to another, trying to leave behind the pain of Thea's mom's death. They never stay long enough in one place for Thea to make friends, but when her dad gets work renovating a guest ranch on Gumboot Lake, she dares to hope that their wandering...
| Author | Phillip Margolin |
| ISBN | 0061885568 |
From tracking down her best friend, who’s nowhere to be found, to secretly helping her attorney father solve a missing-person case, Madison Kincaid is a busy seventh-grade sleuth. Teaming up with new classmate Jake, she hits the sidewalks of Portland, Oregon, determined to find out what’s behind...
| Author | Richie Tankersley Cusick |
| ISBN | 0590431145 |
I think that Moonlight Reader and I posted this as a potential read during Halloween Book Bingo. Wow, I had forgotten what a mess this book was. I honestly went into this blind since I didn't recall a thing at all about this book. I know I had it though as a kid since I had most of Cusick's books when I was growing...
