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October 22, 2006
THRILLS AND CHILLS FOR OCTOBER
9
The leaves are falling, the wind is blowing and Jack-O-Lanterns are sitting in windows. It is time for ghosts, goblins and vampires.
BLUE GIRL by Charles De Lint
New at her high school, Imogene enlists the help of her introverted friend Maxine and the ghost of a boy who haunts the school after receiving warnings through her dreams that soul-eaters are threatening her life.
THE BOY WHO COULDN'T DIE by William Sleator
When his best friend dies in a plane crash, sixteen-year-old Ken has a ritual performed that will make him invulnerable, but soon learns that he had good reason to be suspicious of the woman he paid to lock his soul away.
DEADLY GAME OF MAGIC by Joan Lowery Nixon
Lisa and her three friends find themselves unwilling players in a cat-and-mouse game with a murderous magician whose identity and motivation baffle them.
FREAKS by Annette Curtis Klause
After leaving home in search of adventure, romance, and riches, seventeen-year-old Abel, the "normal" son of freak show entertainers, is haunted by a mysterious spirit.
GHOST OF A HANGED MAN by Vivian Vande Velde
An outlaw condemned to be hanged threatens to wreak vengeance from the grave on those responsible for his death.
THE HAUNTING by Joan Lowery Nixon
When her mother inherits an old plantation house in the Louisiana countryside, fifteen-year-old Lia seeks to rid it of the evil spirit that haunts it.
HERE THERE BE GHOSTS by Jane Yolen
An illustrated collection of short stories and poems about ghosts.
MIDNIGHT PREDATOR by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Turqoise Draka, a vampire hunter, is hired to kill the evil vampire Jeshikah. To enter his realm she must disguise herself as the human slave of Jaguar, a vampire and slave owner who is tormented by his own past. Will Jaguar release the humanity Turqoise long ago locked away?
NIGHT TERRORS by Jim Murphy
Gravedigger Digger Barnes shares chilling tales he's heard in his graveyard wanderings in the eastern states.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
Submitted by Mrs. Jackson
Head of Young Adult Services
Posted by fjacksonem at October 22, 2006 1:13 PM