The Dark Garden

Author	Liz Berry
ISBN	0380732289

When Clare moves with her mother from London to Ravensmere, an historic English estate, she can't shake the feeling that the residents already know her, especially Mark, a maddeningly attractive biker. Clare also feels compelled to take midnight walks in Ravensmere's abandoned China Garden. Then...

Author	Isobel Bird
ISBN	0060006056

And It Harm None has Annie dealing with the changes in her life, Cooper confronting her mother, Kate facing off with an old frenemy, and all of them helping Sasha protect an old friend.

This was another uneven showing in the Circle of Three novels, enough that I suspect the author may have been...

Author

Eleanor Beresford

Magic plus girls' boarding school. That's an exciting combination to me. No, I didn't grow up on the British boarding school genre, but I wish I could have. I was a shy, awkward girl (and now I'm a shy, awkward woman, yay!) and the idea of an all-girl's school just sounded so appealing to me. Probably I wouldn't...

Author	Antonia Barber
ISBN	0671707140

When Lucy sat in the attic, she thought she heard the sound of voices calling...
That's when she started to believe the rumors in the village that the old house was haunted. But no ghosts appeared - until the day Lucy and her brother Jamie stood in the garden and watched two pale figures, a girl and a boy,...

Author	Janet Lunn
ISBN	0140324364

Shadow in Hawthorn Bay introduces fifteen-year-old Mary Urquhart, a Scottish girl with a special gift – the gift of “second sight”. One morning, in the spring of 1815, Mary hears her beloved cousin Duncan calling desperately for her help. But Duncan is 3,000 miles away in Upper Canada, and to...

Author	Debra Doyle
ISBN	0152015205

The day before his knighting, Will has joined the hunt. Chasing a white deer until it vanishes results in losing himself in the forest. As he hunts for his way back, he finds two outlaws harassing an old woman for her pig, and in the resultant fight, he kills them.

She can direct him back, and he makes...

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...

Author	Nancy Holder
ISBN	1595142916

WARNING: SOMETIMES EVIL IS CLOSER THAN IT APPEARS.

possessions: me
-one full-blown obsession with floppy-haired, gorgeous, perfect Troy (still).
-nightmares, endless, terrifying nightmares, oh god someone help me.

possessions: them
-everything I've ever wanted.
-killer...

Author	Mary Downing Hahn
ISBN	0380716356

I thought becoming a teenager was going to be fun. Instead, the summer I turned thirteen my life turned upside-down. Dad lost his job and we moved into my aunt and uncle's beach house. Sounded great-but not When I had to share a room with my boy-crazy cousin Fay. Fay was having plenty of fun, but I just got...

Author	Adèle Geras
ISBN	0152055312

In this retelling of "Sleeping Beauty," Alice seems destined to lead a princess's life--except for the frightening curse that dreaded Aunt Violette bestowed at her christening: She will die at the age of eighteen. Although she lives, something horrible happens on her eighteenth birthday. And as...

Author	O.R. Melling
ISBN	0140319808

4.5 stars.

This book was a magical find for me. I was in London for 10 days this past month, and I visited a little used book shop in a gorgeous park. It was there I picked this book-- kind of at random-- because I thought it sounded interesting and I needed a new book for the plane home. It wasn't until...

Author	Peni R. Griffin
ISBN	0780748204

The two of them live in the same town--Amber in 1991, and Ada in 1891--and they both have real problems. Amber's parents are getting divorced, and she seems to be the last to know. Ada's father doesn't think women have minds of their own. So the two troubled girls hit on the same solution: they each go to the...

Author	Kathryn Lasky
ISBN	0152241272

When their father accepts a new job in England, July, Liberty, and their family find themselves exploring the foggy streets of London. The twins try to discover the source of the voice only they can hear--a voice that needs their help. Using telepathy and their individual talents, the twins uncover...

Author	Maureen Hardegree
ISBN	1935661930

The start of a fun middle-grade series, The Ghost Handlers, follows Heather Tildy, an Atlanta teen with a troublesome habit of attracting ghosts. Middle-child Heather has enough to worry about with sisters, boys and school. Now that a trouble-making girl from the 1800's is poking her nose in Heather's...

Author	Donna Jo Napoli
ISBN	0689873964

The story of a teenage Mary Magdalene -- here called Miriam -- is finally told....
When the world goes dark and her mind explodes within her, Miriam's future is shattered. In ancient Israel such seizures make her unclean. If anyone finds out about them, she will be an outcast.
Only Abraham --...

Author	Yukako Kabei
ISBN	0759528527

As the holidays wind down, Kieli continues her "research trip" with her companions - Harvey, a near-immortal soldier known as an Undying, and the Corporal, a soldier's spirit possessing an old radio. Their fates irrevocably intertwined by a bloody war waged eighty years ago, Harvey has promised to...

Author	Margaret Mahy
ISBN	0007121733

Reality and the supernatural intertwine in this exciting and chilling novel from an award-winning author; As the Hamiltons gather at their holiday beach house, Carnival's Hide, for their Christmas celebrations, the warm, chaotic familty atomosphere is chilled by the unexpected arrival of three...

Author	Joan Lowery Nixon
ISBN	0440220084

For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes The Haunting from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon.
The walls whisper. The ceilings shriek. No one can survive a night of terror inside Graymoss. The old plantation house has been in Lia’s...