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• Prodigal Tiger

  Chong, Samantha

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  For five years, Caroline Chua has lived in exile from her home and family in Malaysia at a magical academy in New York City–far enough away that she can’t hurt the people she loves. That is until she is abruptly summoned home in an emergency. And…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Goodbye and Everything After

  Coyiuto, Mae, 1994-

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  It’s been five years since Nika’s beloved father passed away, but her family has never fully grieved. They don’t speak of him much at all, except on the anniversary of his death. When her mom’s new fiancé suddenly shows up at the cemetery for this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Were Never Here

  Hannan, Sophia,

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  The remaining members of a ghost hunting show return to the haunted manor that may have killed their friend in this atmospheric, contemporary gothic debut.

• Ellen Poe

  the Forgotten Lore

  Peterfreund, Diana,

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  The first book in an exciting YA series about a teen girl, descended from Edgar Allan Poe, who must navigate the haunting legacy of her ancestor while learning to harness her own strength and intelligence, especially as she begins to commune with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Corruption of Hollis Brown

  Ancrum, K. (Kayla), 1991-

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  A queer romantic thriller in which the lives of Hollis, a boy in search of meaning, and Walt, a spirit with unfinished business, collide when Walt takes possession of Hollis's body...and maybe his heart.

• The Awakening

  Armstrong, Kelley

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  I am a living science experiment--not only can I see ghosts, but I was genetically altered by a sinister organization called the Edison Group. What does that mean? For starters, I'm a teenage necromancer whose powers are out of control; I raise the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I, in the Shadows

  Bovalino, Tori,

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  Liam has been dead for ten months, haunting the house he used to share with his family, and facing intermittent and terrifying encounters with an eldritch entity called The Beast. Besides that complication in Liam’s new existence, he’s actually…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lockjaw

  Cerilli, Matteo L.,

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  With shifting timeframes and multiple perspectives, Lockjaw is a small-town ghost story, where monsters living and dead haunt the streets, the homes and the minds of the inhabitants.

• Bright Ruined Things

  Cohoe, Samantha

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  The only life Mae has ever known is on the island, living on the charity of the wealthy Prosper family who control the magic on the island and the spirits who inhabit it. Mae longs for magic of her own. Now that she's eighteen, Mae knows her time…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dead and the Dark

  Gould, Courtney,

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  Something is wrong in Snakebite, Oregon. Teenagers are disappearing, some turning up dead; the weather isn't normal; and all fingers point to TV's most popular ghost hunters who have just come to town.

• Holly

  a Belladonna Novella

  Grace, Adalyn

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  Something strange is happening at Wisteria Gardens, the magical manor that Blythe and Aris call home. All they want is a peaceful holiday season with their family, but a group of restless spirits is determined to threaten their festivities

• Hourglass

  Gray, Claudia

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  After escaping from Evernight Academy, the vampire boarding school where they met, Bianca and Lucas take refuge with Black Cross, a fanatical group of vampire hunters. Bianca must hide her supernatural heritage or risk certain death at its hands.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• White Smoke

  Jackson, Tiffany D.

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  Marigold is running from ghosts. The phantoms of her old life keep haunting her, but a move with her newly blended family from their small California beach town to the embattled Midwestern city of Cedarville might be the fresh start she needs. The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Persephone's Curse

  Leno, Katrina,

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  Are the four Farthing sisters really descended from Persephone? This is what their aunt has always told them: that the women in their family can trace their lineage right back to the Goddess of the Dead. And maybe she's right, because the Farthing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Narrow

  Marshall, Kate Alice,

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  A ghost haunting her boarding school uncovers a teen girl’s best kept secrets in the Queen of Scream’s deliciously terrifying new novel.

• Rules for Vanishing

  Marshall, Kate Alice

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  In the faux-documentary style of The Blair Witch Project comes the campfire story of a missing girl, a vengeful ghost, and the girl who is determined to find her sister--at all costs.

• We Can Be Heroes

  McCauley, Kyrie,

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  Beck and Vivian never could stand each other, but they always tried their best for their mutual friend, Cassie. After the town moves on from Cassie's murder too fast, Beck and Vivian finally find common ground: vengeance. They memorialize Cassie by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The House Saphir

  Meyer, Marissa

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  Mallory Fontaine is a fraud. Though she comes from a long line of witches, the only magic she possesses is the ability to see ghosts, which is rarely as useful as one would think. She and her sister have maintained the family business, eking out a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Don't Tell a Soul

  Miller, Kirsten, 1973-

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  All Bram wanted was to disappear--from her old life, her family's past, and from the scandal that continues to haunt her. The only place left to go is Louth, the tiny town on the Hudson River where her uncle, James, has been renovating an old…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Long Way Down

  Reynolds, Jason

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  Told in short, fierce staccato narrative verse, Long Way Down is a fast and furious, dazzlingly brilliant look at teenage gun violence, as could only be told by Jason Reynolds.