The Ancient One

7 best books like The Ancient One (T.A. Barron): The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight, The Werewolf of Fever Swamp, In Ghostly Japan: Spooky Stories with the Folklore, Superstitions and Traditions of Old Japan, Carpe Diem, The Change, Ballet for Drina, To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel

The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight

Author	R.L. Stine
ISBN	0439568439

This book was actually scary!

Jodie and her brother Mark spend every summer on their grandparents' farm. But this summer, things are different. Instead of just one scarecrow in the fields, there are over a dozen. Stanley, the hired hand (who around here would be called one can short of a six-pack),...

The Werewolf of Fever Swamp

Author

R.L. Stine

What Big Teeth You Have!
There's something horrible happening in Fever Swamp. Something really horrible.It started with the strange howling at night. Then there was the rabbit, torn to shreds.

Everyone thinks Grady's new dog is responsible. After all, he looks just like a wolf. And he...

In Ghostly Japan: Spooky Stories with the Folklore, Superstitions and Traditions of Old Japan

Author	Lafcadio Hearn
ISBN	0804836612

The Japanese have two kinds of ghosts in their folklore—the spirits of the dead, and the spirits of the living. This classic of Japanese literature invites you to take your choice if you dare.

In Ghostly Japan collects twelve ghostly stories from Lafcadio Hearn, deathless images of ghosts...

Carpe Diem

Author	Autumn Cornwell
ISBN	0312367929

“I’ve got my entire life planned out for the next ten years — including my PhD and Pulitzer Prize,” claims 16-year-old overachiever Vassar Spore, daughter of overachiever parents, who in true overachiever fashion named her after an elite women’s college. Vassar expects her sophomore...

The Change

Author

K.A. Applegate

Tobias has pretty much gotten used to his life. He's a red-tailed hawk with the mind of a kid. It was weird when he first got trapped in morph. But now it's almost okay. After all, how many kids actually get the chance to fly?

Now Tobias is about to make a very special choice. A choice that the other...

Ballet for Drina

Author	Jean Estoril
ISBN	0590421905

I received this book from my cousin when I was quite young, perhaps about 8 or 9. I'm not sure how many times I read it as a child, but it was a favorite. I loved the illustration on the cover- the edition I had as a child was the Scholastic edition with the pink cover.

A few years ago, I was poking around...

To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel

Author	Fred Fordham
ISBN	0062798189

‘Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’

A portrait of race and class, innocence and injustice, hypocrisy and heroism, tradition and transformation in the Deep South of the 1930s, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird remains...