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10 best books like The Teacher's Tales of Terror (Chris Priestley): Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops, More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops, Patron Saints of Nothing, On My Honor, The Lie Tree, More Tales to Chill Your Bones, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, I Am the Cheese, The Silent Companions, The Ethan I Was Before

Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
AuthorJen Campbell
ISBN1780334834
This Sunday Times bestseller is a miscellany of hilarious and peculiar bookshop moments: 'Can books conduct electricity?'
'My children are just climbing your bookshelves: that's ok... isn't it?'

A John Cleese Twitter question ['What is your pet peeve?'], first sparked the 'Weird...
More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
AuthorJen Campbell
ISBN1472106334
Customer (holding up a book): What’s this? The Secret Garden? Well, it’s not so secret now, is it, since they bloody well wrote a book about it!

Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops was a Sunday Times bestseller, and could be found displayed on bookshop counters up and down the country....
Patron Saints of Nothing
AuthorRandy Ribay
A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder.

Jay Reguero plans to spend the last semester of his senior year playing video games before heading to the University of Michigan in the fall....
On My Honor
AuthorMarion Dane Bauer
ISBN0440466334
"On My Honor" was always a kids' book that was personal to me. The author, Marion Dane Bauer, was raised in the same small town as my mother; Oglesby, Illinois. The events in the book are based on an actual young boy's drowning that took place when my mother and the author were both children. I grew up playing...
The Lie Tree
AuthorFrances Hardinge
The leaves were cold and slightly clammy. There was no mistaking them. She had seen their likeness painstakingly sketched in her father's journal. This was his greatest secret, his treasure and his undoing. The Tree of Lies. Now it was hers, and the journey he had never finished stretched out before...
More Tales to Chill Your Bones
AuthorAlvin Schwartz
ISBN0439518326
Storytellers know — just as they have for hundreds and hundreds of years — that everyone enjoys a good, scary story!

Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories 3 joins his other popular collections of scary folklore, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark and More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, to give...
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
AuthorAlvin Schwartz
ISBN0590431978
This spooky addition to Alvin Schwartz's popular books on American folklore is filled with tales of eerie horror and dark revenge that will make you jump with fright.

There is a story here for everyone—skeletons with torn and tangled flesh who roam the earth; a ghost who takes revenge on her...
I Am the Cheese
AuthorRobert Cormier
ISBN0141300515
But I keep pedaling, I keep pedaling...

A photograph of Robert Cormier will show you an old man with a kind face, who was born and grew up in a small town of Leominster in Massachusetts which he never left, who graduated from a private catholic school and wrote articles for the local newspaper....
The Silent Companions
AuthorLaura Purcell
When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge, what greets her is far from the life of wealth and privilege she was expecting . . .

When Elsie married handsome young heir Rupert Bainbridge, she believed she was destined for...
The Ethan I Was Before
AuthorAli Standish
Ethan had been many things. He was always ready for adventure and always willing to accept a dare, especially from his best friend, Kacey. But that was before. Before the accident that took Kacey from him. Before his family moved from Boston to the small town of Palm Knot, Georgia.

Palm Knot may...
Ms. Bixby's Last Day
AuthorJohn David Anderson
Everyone knows there are different kinds of teachers. The good ones. The not-so-good ones. The boring ones, the mean ones, the ones who try too hard. The ones you’ll never remember, and the ones you want to forget. But Ms. Bixby is none of these. She’s the sort of teacher who makes you feel like the indignity...
Waylander
AuthorDavid Gemmell
ISBN0345379071
All of Waylander's instincts had screamed at him to spurn the contract from Kaem the cruel, the killer of nations. But he had ignored them. He had made his kill. And even as he went to collect his gold, he knew that he had been betrayed.
Now the Dark Brotherhood and the hounds of chaos were hunting him,...
Project 17
AuthorEliza Victoria
ISBN9710545256
Lillian is merely looking for a babysitting job for the summer, but a desperate man named Paul Dolores hires her to look after his 28-year-old brother, Caleb. Caleb is suffering from schizoaffective disorder, and Paul, who is about to start on his first office job in a long while, wants to make sure his...
A Wreath for Emmett Till
AuthorMarilyn Nelson
ISBN0618397523
In 1955, people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide media...
Boy Proof
AuthorCecil Castellucci
ISBN0763627968
What happens when an antisocial cinephile meets up with the worldly new guy at school — a quick-witted artist who's savvy enough to see through her sci-fi disguise?

Meet Egg. Her real name is Victoria Jurgen, but she's renamed herself after the kick-ass heroine of her favorite sci-fi movie,...
Tunes for Bears to Dance to (New Windmill)
AuthorRobert Cormier
ISBN0435124307
A masterful portrayal of hatred, prejudice and manipulation that challenges readers to examine how they would behave in the face of evil. Henry meets and befriends Mr. Levine, an elderly Holocaust survivor, who is carving a replica of the village where he lived and which was destroyed in the war. Henry's...
Only A Kiss
AuthorInes Bautista-Yao
When she was nine-years-old, Katie knew she wanted Chris to give her her first kiss. It wasn’t because she was in love with him (no way, he was her best friend! Besides, she was in love with his fourteen-year-old big brother), it was because she could make him do anything she wanted.

Besides,...
Galatea
AuthorMadeline Miller
In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece – the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen – the gift of life. Now his wife, Galatea is expected to be obedience and humility personified, but it is not long before she learns to use her beauty...
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
AuthorAlvin Schwartz
ISBN0397320825
All those who enjoyed shuddering their way through Alvin Schwartz's first volume of Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark will find a satisfyingly spooky sequel in this new collection of the macabre, the funny, and the fantastic.Is it possible to die -- and not know it? What if a person is buried too soon? What...
Tenderness
AuthorRobert Cormier
ISBN0385731337
Eighteen-year-old Eric has just been released from juvenile detention for murdering his parents. Now he's looking for tenderness--tenderness he finds in killing girls. Fifteen-year-old Lori has run away from home again. Emotionally naive and sexually precocious, she is also looking for tenderness--tenderness...
Strange Magic
AuthorSyd Moore
ISBN1786070987
Rosie Strange doesn't believe in ghosts or witches or magic. No, not at all. It’s no surprise therefore when she inherits the ramshackle Essex Witch Museum, her first thought is to take the money and run.

Still, the museum exerts a curious pull over Rosie. There’s the eccentric academic...
Stupid is Forever
AuthorMiriam Defensor Santiago
ISBN9718161279
Sense of humor is almost absent among politicians, but Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago is a truly talented exception. People are puzzled how she can spontaneously make them laugh in the midst of national policy crises, and of real danger to her life as a corruption fighter.

This book is a collection...
Golden Daffodils
AuthorMarilyn Gould
ISBN0397321643
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The Pigman's Legacy
AuthorPaul Zindel
ISBN0553265997
The Pigman has been dead for four months when John and Lorraine visit his empty house-and discover a down-and-out old man on the run from the tax collector. Convinced he's a sign from beyond the grave, John and Lorraine decide they've been given a chance to make up for what happened to the Pigman. Suddenly...
You Are Here
AuthorDawn Lanuza
Growth and change—two powerful anthems resonate throughout this collection of poetry and prose that will leave you feeling emboldened and empowered.

You Are Here is Dawn Lanuza’s newest collection of contemporary poetry that lends itself to the idea of giving ourselves second chances....
The Disconnect
AuthorKeren David
ISBN1781128553
Could you last six whole weeks without your phone? Six weeks without sharing photos, without group messages, without being kept in the social‑media loop?

An eccentric entrepreneur has challenged Esther’s year group to do just that, and the winners will walk away with £1,000.

For...
The Christmas Rat
AuthorAvi
ISBN0689838433
A boy, a rat, and an exterminator --
three players in a game of survival.
Christmas vacation is supposed to be a blast. Or so Eric thinks. But with all his friends either sick in bed or out of town, Eric's getting more bored by the hour.
Then he meets Anje Gabrail, exterminator.
Anje's got...
Better Out Than In
AuthorAdam Wallace
ISBN0980354749
What a great day it was when I came across Better Out Than In by Adam Wallace with illustrations by Heath McKenzie. Only a handful of books exist that can totally engage class after class in a primary school library across all year levels. Better Out Than In nails it every time.

It has dominated...
The Folcroft Ghosts
AuthorDarcy Coates
Tara and her brother Kyle are sent to stay with their estranged grandparents when their mother is hospitalised. May and Peter Folcroft seem warm and charming at first, and the house, hidden in the base of the mountains, is idyllic.

But strange things keep happening.

The swing moves...
Unmentionable!
AuthorPaul Jennings
ISBN0140373993
These curious, entertaining stories are sometimes sharp, sometimes creepy, often clever manipulations of the totally bizarre and the real. In "The Velvet Throne", a man becomes locked in a public toilet where the graffiti starts to come true; and "Sloppy Jalopy" finds a young man suddenly turned...
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