Beyond the Grave: Ghost Stories

 

Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator by Jennifer Allison (YA FIC ALL)
During the summer before ninth grade, intrepid Gilda Joyce invites herself to the San Francisco mansion of distant cousin Lester Splinter and his thirteen-year-old daughter, where she uses her purported psychic abilities and detective skills to solve the mystery of the mansion's boarded-up tower. First in a series.

 

The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong (YA FIC ARM)
After fifteen-year-old Chloe starts seeing ghosts and is sent to Lyle House, a mysterious group home for mentally disturbed teenagers, she soon discovers that neither Lyle House nor its inhabitants are exactly what they seem, and that she and her new friends are in danger. First in a series.

 

The Mediator Series by Meg Cabot (YA FIC CAB)
After moving from New York to California with her newly married mother, 16-year-old Susannah has to cope not only with her new stepbrothers, but also with the handsome ghost sitting in her new bedroom and the angry girl ghost haunting her new school.

 

The Empty Mirror by James Lincoln Collier (YA FIC COL)
Nick and his friend Gypsy find themselves searching for a ghost of a boy who is causing trouble in Nick's name, and who feels that Nick owes him literally everything because of a connection between Nick and the boy's death.

 

Revenge of the Witch by Joseph Delaney (YA FIC DEL)
Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from "ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties." First in a series.

 

Blue Girl by Charles De Lint (YA FIC DEL)
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 Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (YA FIC GAI)
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.

 

The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein (YA FIC GRA)
When eleven-year-old Zack Jennings moves to Connecticut with his father and new stepmother, they must deal with the ghosts left behind by a terrible accident, as well as another kind of ghost from Zack's past.

 

The Hanging Hill by Chris Grabenstein (YA FIC GRA)
While working at a summer stock theater, eleven-year-old Zack and his stepmother encounter the ghost of one of Connecticut's most notorious criminals.

 

Ghostgirl by Tonya Hurley (YA FIC HUR)
After dying, high school senior Charlotte Usher is as invisible to nearly everyone as she always felt, but despite what she learns in a sort of alternative high school for dead teens, she clings to life while seeking a way to go to the Fall Ball with the boy of her dreams. First in a series.

The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh (YA FIC MAR)
After Jack has a near fatal accident, he meets Euri, a young ghost who introduces him to New York’s Underworld, where the dead reside until they are ready to move on. First in a series.

 

Jade Green: A Ghost Story by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (YA FIC NAY)
While living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman, recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression causes mysterious happenings.

 

Ghost Town: Seven Ghostly Stories by Joan Lowery Nixon (YA FIC NIX)
A collection of stories about eerie encounters in various ghost towns across the United States. Each story is accompanied by an afterword about the actual town on which the story is based.

 

Dead Connection by Charlie Price (YA FIC PRI)
A loner who communes with the dead in the town cemetery hears the voice of a murdered cheerleader and tries to convince the adults that he knows what happened to her.

 

Lily’s Ghosts by Laura Ruby (YA FIC RUB)
Strange goings-on at her great-uncle's summer home in Cape May, New Jersey, draw Lily and a new friend into a mystery involving lost treasure, a fake medium, and ghosts of all sizes, shapes, and dispositions.

 

The Afterlife by Gary Soto (YA FIC SOT)
A senior at East Fresno High School lives on as a ghost after his brutal murder in the restroom of a club where he had gone to dance.

 

YuYu Hakusho Vol. 1 Goodbye, Material World by Yoshihiro Togashi (YA GRAPHIC NOVEL TOG)
A delinquent teen that died during his one selfless act is allowed a second chance, and returns from the afterlife as a ghost who performs god deeds at the behest of Botan, the spirits guide of the dead, and Koenma, her boss. First in the series of manga graphic novels.

 

Restless: A Ghost’s Story by Rich Wallace (YA FIC WAL)
Frank, a teenaged ghost who has not been able to move on to a higher realm in the afterlife, tries to connect with his younger brother Herbie, a high school senior who was eight years old when Frank died.

 

A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb (YA FIC WHI)
After benignly haunting a series of people for 130 years, Helen meets a teenage boy who can see her and together they unlock the mysteries of their pasts.

 

The Fetch by Laura Whitcomb (YA FIC WHI)
After 350 years as a Fetch, or death escort, Calder breaks his vows and enters the body of Rasputin, whose spirit causes rebellion in the Land of Lost Souls while Calder struggles to convey Ana and Alexis, orphaned in the Russian Revolution, to Heaven.

 

Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson (YA FIC WIL)
After her lifelong best friend Vicky dies, Jade struggles with grief, guilt, and the domineering personality of Vicky's ghost.

 

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This list created for the South Kingstown Public Library by Brandi Kenyon.

Last updated 10/09.