The Haunting

10 best books like The Haunting (Joan Lowery Nixon): The Dark Garden, The Twin Dilemma, The Shadow Guests, Jade Green, Dreadful Sorry, The Ghosts of Mercy Manor, Black Mirror, The Traitors' Gate, Girlhearts, The Female Detective

AuthorMargaret Buffie
ISBN1553370910
In this Gothic novel by award-winner Margaret Buffie, 16-year-old Thea is suffering from traumatic amnesia. As she returns home and begins to rediscover who she is, the empty places of her mind fill up with shadowy memories. When she begins to hear voices from the past, she must find out what these ghosts...
The Twin Dilemma
AuthorCarolyn Keene
ISBN0448436949
When a star model disappears, Aunt Eloise insists that Nancy replace the model in a fashion show. Nancy reluctantly accepts the invitation, only to discover that several of the clothes for the show have been stolen! Once on the trail of her elusive enemies, Nancy discovers clue after clue pointing to...
AuthorJoan Aiken
After the mysterious disappearance of both his mother and older brother, Cosmo is sent away to live with his eccentric mathematician aunt. Lonely and confused, Cosmo must also deal with being the new kid at school. Not an easy assignment! But things take a weird twist when Cosmo is visited by ghosts from...
Jade Green
AuthorPhyllis Reynolds Naylor
Secrets
Orphaned fifteen-year-old Judith Sparrow brings two secrets to her uncle's house in South Carolina: one, that her grief-stricken mother died in a madhouse, the other that she has disobeyed the only condition to living in her uncle's home -- nothing green is allowed in the house.
Judith...
Dreadful Sorry
AuthorKathryn Reiss
ISBN0152050876
Oh my darlin’, oh my darlin’, oh my darlin’ Clementine, you are lost and gone forever, dreadful sorry Clementine.

Seventeen-year-old Molly has had a recurring nightmare her entire life— she is walking down a long hallway to the end room, where she knows something horrible is happening....
The Ghosts of Mercy Manor
AuthorBetty Ren Wright
ISBN0590436023
Now she believes in ghosts. . .

Gwen is determined not to like her new foster family. But surprisingly, she quickly feels at home with the warm comfortable Mercys.

Yet as Gwen begins to feel part of the family, she realizes that a terrifying secret lurks in the Mercy home. It is haunted...
AuthorNancy Werlin
ISBN0007141688
I have to say this book was really amazing...how could one character be so similar to me growing up? I'm half japanese, suffered ridicule as a teen for how I looked, my build was umm...very voluptuous, I wore big slouchy clothes to hide my body, I avoided the mirror, would sometimes have outbursts in school,...
AuthorAvi
ISBN0689853351
John Huffam is sure the tall man's beard is false. He's sure of little else in November 1849, the year he is fourteen, the year his father is sentenced to London's Whitecross Street Prison.

Maybe the man following John -- who claims to be one Inspector Copperfield -- can explain why. Surely, Pa...
AuthorNorma Fox Mazer
ISBN0380722909
Reread November 2015:
Well Past Self called it because I reread this and am bumping it from 3 stars to 4. If I read it again, I'll probably give it 5.

One, Sarabeth's friends are in it more than I remember and they are lovely. Yay, Patty. And Leo is there at important times and says things that...
AuthorAndrew Forrester
ISBN0712358781
In 1864, the British writer James Redding Ware (1832–c.1909), under the pseudonym Andrew Forrester, published The Female Detective, introducing readers to the first professional female detective character, G., and paving the way for the more famous female detectives of the early twentieth...
AuthorMariah Fredericks
ISBN0689869584
Cool is cool and geek is geek, and at Eldridge the two "definitely" do not mix.Sari and Jess are best friends and total opposites. They've liked each other ever since they discovered that they are the only two normal people at Eldridge Alternative. As they prepare to face the trials of ninth grade, Sari...
AuthorKaren Novak
A modern day mystery haunted by a 19th Century ghost.

Eleanor Bly haunts Five Mile House, looking for someone to tell her story to. Jumping from a window to her death in 1889, Eleanor's soul is at unrest until the truth is told about her life and death. She finally finds Leslie, one hundred years...
AuthorMary Pope Osborne
ISBN0763629952
In this compelling tale of romance and terror, a little-known legend has been woven into a novel that will grip readers from beginning to end.

Who is Undine, the mysterious, wild maiden who swims at midnight to hear the fish sing? When Lord Huldbrand first meets her on a lost and haunted promontory,...
AuthorEve Bunting
ISBN0618269193
A brutal car accident that claimed the life of her best friend has left seventeen-year-old Catherine in a state of shock and severe depression. She longs to move forward with her life, but feels she can’t until she is somehow assured of her friend’s forgiveness. On a Christmas visit to her grandmother...
Gallows Hill
AuthorLois Duncan
ISBN0440227259
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Role-playing takes on a terrifying cast when 17-year-old Sarah, who is posing as a fortune-teller for a school fair, begins to see actual visions that can predict the future. Frightened, the other students brand her a witch, setting off a chain...
Fog
AuthorCaroline B. Cooney
ISBN0590438069
Christina is 13 years old. She’s an island child, excited to leave for the mainland, a small town in Maine, to start high school. Her older island friends, Anya, Michael and Benj warn her that the town kids will tease and mock her island ways. They tell her not to “yarn”. What they don’t prepare...
The Return of Skeleton Man
AuthorJoseph Bruchac
ISBN0060580909
It's not over, that voice says. Some dreams, rabbit, are like this one I just sent you. They are messages and warnings.

And even though it sends a shiver down my spine, I understand what this message, this warning, means.

Skeleton Man will return.

Molly thought she'd put her...
The Fever
AuthorDiane Hoh
ISBN0590454013
Duffy Quinn was admitted into the hospital two days ago by her parents for a very high fever. One night, in her hospital room, she hears strange noises---metal rattling, a cry for help... Is she imagining this or is it real? Many of her schoolmates are volunteer workers at the hospital and they don't believe...
Three Quarters Dead
AuthorRichard Peck
ISBN0803734549
Kerry is chosen by the coolest clique in school and so she thinks life has finally begun. But then it seems all over when her three friends are killed in a shocking car accident. Or are they? Only weeks after the accident, Kerry receives a text from one of the girls: We're all 3 here at my aunt's in the city....
The Other Ones
AuthorJean Thesman
ISBN0141312467
Bridget Raynes is a witch.
For as long as she can remember, Bridget has been able to do things other people can't - read minds, move objects without touching them, hear the songs and stories the wind and rain tell. She has pushed her powers down for years, trying to be like her "normal" classmates. Then...
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