The Ghosts of Stone Hollow
10 best books like The Ghosts of Stone Hollow (Zilpha Keatley Snyder): Being Dead, Verland: The Transformation, The Ghost Next Door, A Candle in Her Room, Ghosts: A Treasury of Chilling Tales Old & New, The Blue Hawk, A Girl Called Al, The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown, Zeely, Transcendent: Tales of the Paranormal
| Author | Vivian Vande Velde |
| ISBN | 0152049126 |
Most of the stories in this book are straightforward and well-done ghost stories -- "The Ghost" is obvious but amusing, "Shadow Brother" and "For Love of Him" are creepy as advertised, and "October Chill" and "Being Dead" are touchingly sad. "Dancing with Majorie's Ghost" is silly, and not as interesting...
Verland: The Transformation
| Author | B.E. Scully |
| ISBN | 1460907000 |
True crime writer Elle Bramasol is drawn into a macabre mystery when incarcerated Hollywood producer Eliot Kingman asks her to write a book about his case. As she delves deeper into Kingman's murder conviction, she discovers that he possesses a centuries old diary written by an elusive vampire named...
| 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 | Ruth M. Arthur |
| ISBN | 0689703155 |
Melissa was sure it was the doll, Dido, who brought evil to the family, not once, but again and again. Three generations were haunted by the strange wooden doll. Each time Dido came to light there was disaster and tragedy. What could be done to overcome the power of the doll? This is a book about many things:...
| Author | Marvin Kaye |
| ISBN | 0385185065 |
Marvin Kaye
Saralee Kaye
Introduction (Ghosts) • Marvin Kaye
A Prologue of Last Words • Marvin Kaye
Minuke • (1949) • Nigel Kneale
The Wind in the Rose-Bush • (1902) • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Legal Rites • (1950) • Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl
Smee...
| Author | Peter Dickinson |
| ISBN | 0330415468 |
This book caught my eye purely based on the name of the author -- I grew up loving the movie "Flight of Dragons," and not only did Peter Dickinson write the book that movie is based on, but the filmmakers named the main character in his honor. A curious reason to pick up a book, perhaps, but it at least caught...
| Author | Constance C. Greene |
| ISBN | 0140347860 |
The first--and inho best of the series of "Al" books by Constance C. Greene. The young narrator--whose name is never given!--describes her new friend "Al" who just moved into the apartment down the hall.
Al(exandra---she NEVER uses her full name--soon because fast friends which our narrator...
| Author | Betsy Byars |
| ISBN | 0140324798 |
"Bingo Brown fell in love three times during English Class." When I read this first sentence, I knew I was in for a treat. Of course, I was the same age as Bingo at the time, sixth grade, and over the course of the next several weeks, I fell in love with Bingo, myself. I devoured everything Byars wrote about...
| Author | Virginia Hamilton |
| ISBN | 1416914137 |
"We'll spend the whole summer on the farm with Uncle Ross. I ought to make up something special just because we've never ever gone alone like this!" And the first thing Elizabeth does is give herself and her younger brother, John, new names -- Geeder and Toeboy.
The farm is special too, with its...
Transcendent: Tales of the Paranormal
| Author | Lani Woodland |
| ISBN | 0615572324 |
Sometimes, it's just nice to take a break. For me, that's exactly what TRANSCENDENT gave me. The shorter stories lacked nothing in POP, but were fast and easy to zip through making it all about relaxation and enjoyment. As a writer who does a lot of reading for work, it was nice to read something that felt...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0060267895 |
"In order to gain wisdom, you must learn to read inter linea, between the lines."
Artos doesn't know who his parents are, just that kindly Sir Ector and Lady Marion took him into their castle when he was a baby. Though Sir Ector raises him as one of his sons, Artos never feels he truly belongs. The...
The World's Worst Fairy Godmother
| Author | Bruce Coville |
| ISBN | 0671002287 |
Honestly, I just couldn't continue with this. The story is only so-so, and the author tries way too hard to be cute and clever. The artwork is beautiful, but it is not enough to keep my 6yo and I interested. The 8yo, however, thinks this book is brilliant, so apparently the humor speaks to his little heart.......
| Author | Betty Ren Wright |
| ISBN | 0590435981 |
Not all nightmares happen when you're asleep. . .
Jessica's nightmares begin as soon as she and her family move into her grandmother's isolated country house. Jessica is so afraid that she can hardly sleep. Her fears deepen as the ghostly young woman who haunts her dreams begins to appear--even...
| Author | Robert D. San Souci |
| ISBN | 0812626885 |
This illustrated collection by the author of Short and Shivery: Thirty Chilling Tales includes ghost tales, “jump” stories, dark fantasy, and science fiction, all set in contemporary situations that will seem hauntingly familiar to young readers. Several of the stories draw on the rich heritage...
| Author | Mike Oliveri |
| ISBN | 0984880046 |
When tourists are murdered in a resort town in the northern mountain range of Minnesota, FBI Special Agent Angela Wallace is called in to investigate. But what she finds tests her training and sanity, for what she discovers should not exist. Winter Kill is the first book in the ongoing werewolf noir series,...
| Author | Kim Wilkins |
| ISBN | 0575067861 |
For centuries, magicians have compiled grimoires to call up demons. In Victorian London, one ambitious warlock, Peter Owling, designed a book of shadows to summon the Lord of the Demons - Satan himself. The plan backfired, Owling was killed and the book was ripped into four pieces and sent to the far...
| Author | Natania Barron |
| ISBN | 1936460092 |
Maddie's voice pulled me into this one right away. She's an ordinary ex-grad student in mourning for a missing lover, with far too many mundane responsibilities, but Barron gives her a thoughtful perspective on the world I found instantly engaging. She starts in our world, quickly tumbles into another...
| Author | Nancy Springer |
| ISBN | 0671441175 |
In Nancy Springer’s enthralling fourth volume of the Book of Isle, two young princes set out to destroy their own father and the pervasive evil that poisons the kingdom
An epic saga set in an ageless island stronghold of magic and mystery, Nancy Springer’s Book of Isle series is considered...
| Author | Michael Norman |
| ISBN | 1931599041 |
DNF at 58%
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So this book is a collection of stories about supposedly real hauntings. They range anywhere...
`One of the best books of the year' said the Guardian when Switchers was published and it received outstanding critical acclaim, followed by great sales. Kate Thompson went on to write two more unputdownable sequels Midnight`s Choice and Wild Blood, featuring Tess and Kevin, and here are all three...
