Stonewords: A Ghost Story
10 best books like Stonewords: A Ghost Story (Pam Conrad): Wait Till Helen Comes, Ghosts I Have Been, The Moorchild, Time Windows, Behind the Attic Wall, Midnight in the Dollhouse, My Teacher Is an Alien, The Boggart, Melusine, Witch's Sister
| Author | Mary Downing Hahn |
| ISBN | 0380704420 |
Beware of Helen...Heather is such a whiny little brat. Always getting Michael and me into trouble. But since our mother married her father, we're stuck with her...our "poor stepsister" who lost her real mother in a mysterious fire. But now something terrible has happened. Heather has found a new friend,...
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0141310960 |
An oldie from my childhood which I just finished re-reading this October -- great timing, because it begins on Halloween . . . .
Excellent, and now I remember why I hung onto this so long. I was ghost crazy as a kid, and adored witches, and this book certainly filled the bill. Blossom Culp, social...
| Author | Eloise Jarvis McGraw |
Half moorfolk and half human, and unable to shape-shift or disappear at will, Moql threatens the safety of the Band. So the Folk banish her and send her to live among humans as a changeling. Named Saaski by the couple for whose real baby she was swapped, she grows up taunted and feared by the villagers for...
| Author | Kathryn Reiss |
| ISBN | 0152023992 |
I read this back in elementary school after my mum bought it for me at a book fair, and I read it so many times that the cover fell off. Did I replace the book? Negative...I taped the cover back on, and I still re-read it to this day.
Time Windows is the story of Miranda Browne, the quintessential city...
| Author | Sylvia Cassedy |
| ISBN | 0380698439 |
They were watching...and waiting
At twelve, Maggie had been thrown out of more boarding schools than she cared to remember. "Impossible to handle," they said -- nasty, mean, disobedient, rebellious, thieving -- anything they could say to explain why she must be removed from the school.
Maggie...
| Author | Marjorie Filley Stover |
| ISBN | 0590449249 |
3.5 stars. Melissa breaks her leg in a fall from a tree and has to spend a long time in bed. The civil war has just ended so not only does Melissa have to lay still with planks tied to her leg she has to endure a visit from cousin Valerie from the opposing side stay with them. The cousin is manipulative and jealous...
| Author | Bruce Coville |
| ISBN | 1416903348 |
Sixth grade is just out of this world!Susan Simmons can tell that her new substitute teacher is really weird. But she doesn't know how weird until she catches him peeling off his face -- and realizes that "Mr. Smith" is really an alien! At first no one will believe her except Peter Thompson, the class brain....
| Author | Susan Cooper |
| ISBN | 1416905278 |
"Centuries old and housands of miles from home". When Emily and Jess Volnik's family inherits a remote, crumbling Scottish castle, they also inherit the Boggart - an invisible, mischievous spirit who's been playing tricks on residents of Castle Keep for generations. Then the Boggart is trapped in...
| Author | Lynne Reid Banks |
| ISBN | 0380791358 |
What is the sinister mystery of Chateau Bois Serpe? Roger, his parents, and twin sisters arrive at this crumbling ruin in the wilds of France, anticipating a holiday that's "different." And so it proves, but not as they'd hoped. The owner, the strange daughter Mesuline, whom Roger first meets tending...
| Author | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| ISBN | 0689853157 |
When the darkness,
tolls the hour,
I shall have you
in my power...
Lynn and her best friend, Mouse, are positive their neighbor, Mrs. Tuggle, is a witch. And they suspect the old woman is forcing Lynn's sister, Judith, to join her coven to witches. But Lynn and Mouse can't prove anything...
| Author | Richie Tankersley Cusick |
| ISBN | 0590132741 |
After her sister drowns, Ryan McCauley is haunted by the dead girl’s past
Two sisters walk through a snowy wood, collecting pinecones for Christmas decorations. Something has frightened Marisa, and she’s about to explain it to Ryan, her younger sister, when she steps onto a patch of thin...
| Author | Bruce Coville |
| ISBN | 0553156101 |
"What A Hunk! Too Bad He's Dead..."Sixth-grader Nina Tanleven convinced her architect father to let her best friend Chris go with them to stay in the old inn he's restoring. On theafternoon they arrive, the girls find a faded Civil War photograph of a very handsome Confederate soldier. Nina and Cris...
