Sideshow: Ten Original Tales of Freaks, Illusionists and Other Matters Odd and Magical

10 best books like Sideshow: Ten Original Tales of Freaks, Illusionists and Other Matters Odd and Magical (Deborah Noyes): Full Tilt, Stepsister, Cheshire Crossing, Tales of the Peculiar, Verify, The Toll, Bad Island, Hello Girls, Last Things, Of Monsters and Madness

Full Tilt

Author	Neal Shusterman
ISBN	0689873255

Sixteen-year-old Blake and his younger brother, Quinn, are exact opposites. Blake is the responsible member of the family. He constantly has to keep an eye on the fearless Quinn, whose thrill-seeking sometimes goes too far. But the stakes get higher when Blake has to chase Quinn into a bizarre phantom...

Stepsister

Author	Jennifer Donnelly
ISBN	1338268465

Isabelle should be blissfully happy – she’s about to win the handsome prince. Except Isabelle isn’t the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and captured the prince’s heart. She’s the ugly stepsister who’s cut off her toes to fit into Cinderella’s shoe ... which is now filling with...

Cheshire Crossing

Author

Andy Weir

The three meet here, at Cheshire Crossing--a boarding school where girls like them learn how to cope with their supernatural experiences and harness their magical world-crossing powers.

But the trio--now teenagers, who've had their fill of meddling authority figures--aren't content...

Tales of the Peculiar

Author	Ransom Riggs
ISBN	0399538534

Before Miss Peregrine gave them a home, the story of peculiars was written in the Tales.

Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of peculiars. A fork-tongued princess. The origins of the first ymbryne. These are but a few of the truly brilliant stories in Tales of the Peculiar—known...

Verify

Author

Joelle Charbonneau

Meri Beckley lives in a world without lies. When she turns on the news, she hears only the facts. When she swipes the pages of her online textbooks, she reads only the truth. When she looks at the peaceful Chicago streets, she feels the pride everyone in the country feels about the era of unprecedented hope...

The Toll

Author

Cherie Priest

From Cherie Priest, the author of The Family Plot and Maplecroft, comes The Toll, a tense, dark, and scary treat for modern fans of the traditionally strange and macabre.

State Road 177 runs along the Suwannee River, between Fargo, Georgia, and the Okefenokee Swamp. Drive that route from east...

Bad Island

Author	Doug TenNapel
ISBN	0545314798

Something on this island is up to no good . . .

When Reese is forced to go on a boating trip with his family, the last thing he expects is to be shipwrecked on an island-especially one teeming with weird plants and animals. But what starts out as simply a bad vacation turns into a terrible one, as the...

Hello Girls

Author

Brittany Cavallaro

Best friends are forged by fire. For Winona Olsen and Lucille Pryce, that fire happened the night they met outside the police station—both deciding whether to turn their families in.

Winona has been starving for life in the seemingly perfect home that she shares with her seemingly perfect...

Last Things

Author

Jacqueline West

When strange things start happening to local music idol Anders Thorson, everyone blames his number-one-fan, Thea. But is she out to hurt him? Or protect him?

High school senior Anders Thorson is unusually gifted. His band, Last Things, is legendary in their northern Minnesota hometown....

Of Monsters and Madness

Author	Jessica Verday
ISBN	1606844636

A romantic, historical retelling of classic Gothic horror featuring Edgar Allan Poe and his character Annabel Lee, from a New York Times best-selling author.

Summoned to her father's home in 1820's Philadelphia, a girl finds herself in the midst of a rash of gruesome murders in which he might...

The Beasties

Author	William Sleator
ISBN	0141306394

The master of suspense delivers a hard-core horror story to thrill and chill. Fans will get more than goose bumps from this terrifying tour de force by William Sleator.

The nightmare begins when Doug's family moves to the desolate northern woods; soon he and his little sister, Colette, become...

Ungodly

Author	Kendare Blake
ISBN	0765334453

For the Goddess of Wisdom, what Athena didn’t know could fill a book. That’s what her opponents said.

So she was wrong about some things. So her carefully planned assault on Olympus left her team beaten and scattered and possibly dead. So they have to fight the Fates themselves, who, it turns...

Mortal Gods

Author	Kendare Blake
ISBN	1408330776

Ares, god of war, is leading the other dying gods into battle. Which is just fine with Athena. She's ready to wage a war of her own, and she's never liked him anyway. If Athena is lucky, the winning gods will have their immortality restored. If not, at least she'll have killed the bloody lot of them, and she...

Night Terrors: Stories of Shadow and Substance

Author	Lois Duncan
ISBN	0689807244

Nighttime: a time of enveloping dark, eerie shadows and strange noises. . . . Eleven award-winning young adult authors share their views of the dark in this spellbinding collection of original short stories, each one distinct from the next. Young Adult.

The monkey's wedding / Joan Aiken
Satan's...

A Nightmare's Dozen: Stories from the Dark

Author	Michael Stearns
ISBN	0152012478

A Nightmare's Dozen: A collection of interesting, mostly, YA Horror Stories.

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This a collection of fourteen stories that are written by young adult authors whose works usually don't fall in the realm of horror stories. For the most part these stories are interesting and usually...

My Name is Anna

Author	Lizzy Barber
ISBN	1473556775

'A dark, addictive read, with a real heart at its core. I loved it' – AMY LLOYD, bestselling author of The Innocent Wife
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Two women – desperate to unlock the truth.
How far will they go to lay the past to rest?

ANNA has been taught that virtue...

Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 2

Author	Bisco Hatori
ISBN	1591169909

The second volume of Ouran High School Host Club includes where Haruhi has to take a physical exam, Hunny goes missing at Kyoya's family pool resort, Tamaki has apprentice, and the twins are fighting.

If you have seen the anime then you pretty much know what to expect out of Volume two, but it's...

Haunted Mansion

Author	Joshua Williamson
ISBN	1302900765

Welcome, foolish mortals, to the Haunted Mansion - enter if you dare! You might think that no one lives in this elegant house on the hill...but then where's that creepy organ music coming from? Are its iron gates meant to keep people out...or keep something in? Get ready to meet the 999 spooks of the Haunted...