In her historical mystery The Voice Upstairs, Laura E. Weymouth tells a riveting ghost story with plot twists that keep the reader intrigued and engaged until the surprising ending. 在韦茅斯笔的影响下, Wilhelmina Price (aka Wil) and Edison Summerfield (aka Ed) serve as protagonists and the voices that carry the story, 故事发生在20世纪20年代的英国, 向前. 是她母亲去世引起的, 威尔产生了死亡感, which enables her to see a soul leave a body prior to death. She can also slip into the shadowland—the world between life and death—where she can lend her body and voice to a阅读更多→

In her recent novel And Don’t Look Back, Rebecca Barrow has penned a psychological thriller with plot twists that parallel the intensity of a Criminal Minds drama. 作为这个故事的中心人物, 巴罗创造了哈洛福特, 谁一生都在逃亡, moving to a new location whenever something triggers her mom’s paranoia. As a result, Harlow has had to reinvent, build, and dismantle several identities. 鉴于这一现实, the moments during which Harlow feels most at home are those moments spent with her mom in the car, “wherever they’ve been in the rearview mirror, 不管他们像谁一样逐渐消失阅读更多→

12年前, Frances Frida Ripley (aka Frankie) was born near the sea during a storm, 这似乎在她身上留下了印记, making her prone to volatility and moodiness. She is often impatient with her six-year-old sister, Birdie, and temperamental with her parents. 鉴于她的情绪爆发, Frankie has grown accustomed to her father’s admonishment: “Shouting creates negative energy and harmful interpersonal toxicity. 此外,它还会扰乱我们的头脑。”. Frankie is frustrated by how adults always try to sort out or tidy up feelings, putting labels on them or nudging them into another shape. When Frankie doesn’t get her way, she rages. 她的父母阅读更多→

Collige virgo rosas is Latin for “gather, 女孩, the roses”—a favorite line of the dramatic and vivacious Cassandra Queen in Kyrie McCauley’s book We Can Be Heroes. 但卡西, 他是个诗人, 音乐作家, 一个崭露头角的女演员, is now incorporeal—having been shot to death by her possessive and entitled boyfriend, 尼科贝尔. Seeking closure, Ghost Cassie returns to the town of Bell to take care of some unfinished business. Rather than accept a world where “it’s normal to lose someone you love to a bullet at school” (316), she wants the world to “read stories where 女孩s are the heroes and阅读更多→

正好赶上2021年的万圣节, 露西·斯特兰奇的新初中小说, 午夜湖的幽灵, tells the story of twelve-year-old Agatha Rose Walters who thought she was an Asquith. 阿加莎的身世之谜, 女鬼的存在, and the lost Queen’s Stone—a legendary white opal—add intrigue to Strange’s story. Set in England’s Lake District in 1899, Lady Agatha loses her father. With his death, everything changes at once. 她的表弟克拉伦斯, the new Earl of Gosswater evicts her from the only home she has ever known and tells her that she is a nobody since her father is really Thomas阅读更多→

Justina Ireland explores the notion of unfairness in her novel for middle grade readers, Ophie的鬼魂.  Readers will accompany Ireland on this justice-seeking journey as she asks important questions: How do we live, 生存, 并在一个不公正的体制中茁壮成长? 我们如何保持坚强和不屈服, 愿意做正确的事, even when it puts our own comfort and lives at risk? What are we willing to put on the line in the name of justice that is denied to us? How do we grieve when the 鬼魂 of our loss appear in the everyday suffering of those around us? As阅读更多→

Young readers looking for a good ghost story with adventure and history stirred in will find it in 维多利亚·施瓦布的《皇冠登录welcome》.  In this third volume in the City of Ghosts series, Schwab features twelve-year-old Cassidy Blake whose parents are the Inspecters: World-traveling, 捉鬼, 超自然现象调查. As they travel the world to produce film accounts of their findings, Cassidy tags along from Paris to Edinburgh and beyond.  This episode has the family filming in New Orleans, 一个色彩斑斓的地方, style, and sound collide; a place of contradictions. Although Cassidy has always had a brain that doodles, helping to show her things that阅读更多→

与煤渣 & Sparrows, Stefan Bachmann has written a gothic novel for middle grade readers. 考虑到游戏类型, 他的书里有鬼魂, 精神, 鬼故事, 迷雾森林, 悲观的环境, 施了魔法的房间和楼梯, talking trees and a marble bust who claims to be a prince. The novel’s plot revolves around twelve-year-old Zita Brydgeborn and her discovery that she is not an orphan after all but a member of the Brydgeborn family of witches and the heiress to Blackbird Castle. 与夫人. Cantanker as her teacher, Zita receives all sorts of training—some of it oddly questionable. 不过,据奥巴马夫人说. Cantanker, “A true Blackbird is graced with阅读更多→

就像噩梦, scary stories are a sort of dress rehearsal for real-life fear, helping children learn to cope with the emotion in a low-stakes setting.  毕竟, the world can be a scary place where children will encounter frightful situations—such as getting lost, 失去朋友, 没有兄弟姐妹那么受爱, or experiencing abandonment as a result of parental death or divorce.  Therefore, knowing how to confront fear can benefit children and help them cope with difficulty. Scary stories like Dan Poblocki’s 幽灵猎人的女儿, targeted for middle grade readers in the eight to twelve year old age group, not only help children forge resilience but give them a sense阅读更多→