Best Teen & Young Adult Ghost Stories
A #1 New York Times Bestseller! "Maniscalco has created a serious, sharp-minded, and forward-thinking protagonist in Audrey Rose, whose fearlessness will endear her to readers looking for an engaging historical thriller. "Audrey Rose Wadsworth prefers breeches to ball gowns, autopsies to afternoon tea, and scalpels to knitting needles. Though her father, Lord Edmund, has forbidden it, Audrey covertly studies forensic medicine...while "the Ripper" remains two steps ahead, lurking where Audrey least expects....Maniscalco's portrayal of scientific invention in a newly industrial era will serve as a fine first foray into Victorian classics. "With ample knowledge of Ripper lore, Maniscalco creates a steadfast and headstrong heroine who is as comfortable in gloves of blood as she is in watered silk. Filled with plenty of gory details, and no shortage of possible suspects, Stalking Jack the Ripper conveys the panic, paranoia, and fascination of 1880s London with a madman on the loose.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Book #87 Read in 2017. Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco. Audrey Rose Wadsworth is interested in learning science and helps her uncle research on dead bodies."
"I definitely enjoyed this book and will be picking up the next book to see what's in store for Audrey and Thomas."
"If there were 100 stars available to rate this book, I would light them ALL up!!!!"
"Been wanting to read this book for awhile and am so glad I did!!"
"This story was fun and suspenseful."
"Loved the idea of a woman's vantage of science in the 1880's."
"The chemistry between Audrey and Thomas had be gripping my book in anticipation to see how thungs would unfold."
"Set in Victorian London it tells the story of Audrey Rose Wadsworth who - against her fathers wishes - spends most of her time in her uncles lab studying forensic medicine through the dissection of cadavers."
The final installment of the New York Time s bestselling Haunting of Sunshine Girl trilogy (based on the hit YouTube channel, and in development for television by The Weinstein Company) about a girl who can communicate with ghosts. She doesn't just help humans transition to. the afterlife; her empathy allows her to feel connections to their whole lived experience, a power that proves both dangerous and useful Sunshine continues to be a likable protagonist who strives to grow into herself and her unusual role in life. This sometimes frightening tale and series opener is based on a YouTube channel of the same name, so transmedia fans can enjoy both formats. And it wasn't long before I'd retreated into that last-resort safe room buried deep beneath my brain's Fear Center, praying the lock would hold. McKenzie's skill telling the story of a young girl who inadvertently moves into a haunted house with her clueless mother is a thing that slips up behind and puts a cold white hand right down your spine and just won't let go. If teens gobbled up the fast-paced, thrilling events surrounding Sunshine Griffith and her mother, Kat, in The Haunting of Sunshine Girl (Weinstein, 2015), they're sure to enjoy the new twists and turns of this latest series installment McKenzie continues to write in an authentic teen voice that sucks readers in until the end. Stine's Goosebumps or those looking for a mix of Carolyn Keene's Nancy Drew and DC Comic's Scooby Doo will find just what they need in this paranormal series. School Library Journal.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"My sixth-grade girls love this series."
"Purchased for a high school library - I'm sure the kids will enjoy!"
"Great book, read the three book series."
"This third novel of the sunshine trilagy was a great ending."
"I love this series have read them all."
"My daughter loved the 1St 2 books and this was a steal at a great price!!!"
She's embarrassed by her family, self-conscious about her body, and she's pretty much given up on fitting in at school. A 2011 Kirkus Best Teen Book of the Year. A School Library Journal Best Fiction Book of 2011. A Horn Book Best Fiction Book of 2011. Winner of the 2012 Eisner Award for Best Publication for Young Adults (Ages 12-17). She’s embarrassed by her family, self-conscious about her body, and she’s pretty much given up on fitting in at school. Spooky, sardonic, and secretly sincere, Anya’s Ghost is a wonderfully entertaining debut from author/artist Vera Brosgol.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"first comic book and I wasn't disappointed."
"Spooky and a great read."
"my 6th grader LOVES this book, highly recommend."
"Purchased this book for high school students who have learning disabilities, English is their second language, or simply hate to read."
"I chose 5 cause it had some understandings in your life we probably need. I didn't really like how the boy was cheating and the."
"It had a great story but of course this would be a book for older audiences but it is still a fabulous book."
"I would recommend this book to all the graphic novel lovers .This is a good book and it is not so scary as you would think."
Best Teen & Young Adult Alternative Family Fiction
Orange Is the New Black meets Walter Dean Myer’s Monster in this gritty, twisty, and haunting debut by Tiffany D. Jackson about a girl convicted of murder seeking the truth while surviving life in a group home. She didn’t say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: a white baby had died while under the care of a churchgoing black woman and her nine-year-old daughter. ★ “Suspenseful without being emotionally manipulative, compelling without resorting to shock value, this is a tightly spun debut that wrestles with many intense ideas and ends with a knife twist that will send readers racing back to the beginning again.” (Booklist (starred review) ). “Seen through Jackson’s dark portrait of the legal system and the failures of parents and social workers, Mary’s environments are as grim as the stories that play out in them; readers fascinated by procedural dramas will be thoroughly hooked.” (Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books). “A well-executed, powerful journey into the claustrophobic life of a young girl trying to navigate what little is left after the world has judged her, and what she will do to escape it.” (Mindy McGinnis, Edgar Award-winning author of A Madness So Discreet).
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Very powerful, emotional, twisted and at the same time provoking and disturbing story, that made me not want to put the book down. Throughout the story we learn about Mary’s struggles, and her ‘journey’ through ‘baby jail’ and ‘group home’. Although bullied, abused and with nowhere to run, Mary stays focused and strong, and constantly is trying to improve her life and do better."
"This is a book that I'll be thinking about for a long time to come."
"She was tried as an adult and convicted of manslaughter at just nine years old for killing a three month old baby. Now that Mary is older she's learning how unfair her trial was and how all the people that have been assigned to help her have failed her."
"When Mary becomes pregnant and learns the state will likely take her baby from her as soon as he is born, Mary finds a lawyer to try to exonerate herself and prove her mother’s guilt in Alyssa’s death."
"Allegedly is a dark and twisty read, all the more scary because of how closely it parallels what is really going on in the world."
"I do however, love all the articles, interviews, and documents used in the story line."
"The writing pulled me in so much that I lived and breathed the life of a young black teenage girl, even though I couldn't be farther away from who she is and her situation."
"I was totally sucked into this story right away."
Best Teen & Young Adult Monster Fiction
From the final idea of award-winning author Siobhan Dowd — whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself — Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly funny novel of mischief, loss, and monsters both real and imagined.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"You know how you come across a book, and after reading it, you feel like EVERYONE needs to read it as well?"
"There are some books that are so special to the reader that they are a bit difficult to review. First of all, don't be fooled by the reviews that say this book speaks about a woman dying of cancer and her relationship with her son. Yes, it does, but it has much more to it than this, and claiming it is so, diminishes a book full of lessons, morals and ethics. The sensitiveness, delicacy and openness of spirit of both Patrick Ness and Siohban Dowd, who died of cancer before she could finish the story, make this reading a revealing experience for those who are ready to look beyond the story line. "A Monster Calls" didn't really surprise me with twists and turns, or with an unexpected end. But the unexpectedness and the beauty of this book lies on its way of deconstructing the truth by making we see it, by peeling away slowly the masks of our needed lies and fantasies. I... hmmm... have a fertile imagination and often prefer the written world than the illustrated one."
"Just read it!"
"This story transcends reading levels by connecting to the reader on a deeply emotional level."
"Ness carefully (beautifully) relates the nuances and pain of anticipatory grief through the trials of the young protagonist, Conor, who is dealing and not dealing with the illness of his mother."
"A Monster Calls is, on the surface, the poignant story of a boy, his mum, and her battle with the monster that is cancer."
"I went in knowing that the reviews were great and that it would be sad, but beautiful at the same time. So if you decide to read this, a few words of advice: you will most likely read it in one go, so give yourself a couple hours to read it."
Best Teen & Young Adult Zombie Fiction
Ten years after the horrific murders at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza that ripped their town apart, Charlie, whose father owned the restaurant, and her childhood friends reunite on the anniversary of the tragedy and find themselves at the old pizza place which had been locked up and abandoned for years. Scott Cawthon is the author of the bestselling video game series Five Nights at Freddy’s, and while he is a game designer by trade, he is first and foremost a storyteller at heart.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"It answers many questions left by the games and also turns one thing from the games on its head."
"Also it was a great stress relief from the stress of college finals!"
"I suggest playing them/watching people play all of the games first, so everything falls into place and the characters are easy to follow."
"It believes that the readers have been to a place similar to the setting but doesn't go into any detail for those who may have never been to a place like that before."
"The only reason I gave this 4 stars was because there were still some things in the book that weren't explained enough, and sometimes the story didn't make sense until you looked back and thought about something more."
"I have a favorite character about fnaf IT is chica my moms favorite is foxy at the first one IT has Freddy Bonnie chica and foxy and golden Freddy at number 2 IT has old Freddy old chica old Bonnie old foxy and old golden Freddy toy Freddy toy chica toy Bonnie mangle and balloon boy and at number 3 it has Springtrap phantom Freddy phantom chica phantom phantom balloon boy phantom foxy and phantom mangle and last but not least number 4 it has nightmare Freddy nightmare Bonnie nightmare chica nightmare cupcake nightmare foxy plushtrap nightmare balloon boy nightmare fredbear and nightmare and that's all about fnaf ooh and it also has the restaurant called Freddy fazbaers pizza and thank you for watching and reading love Maddux Stevens."
"Who knows why this simple videogame had evolved into such a phenomenon."
"Its cool to see a competent character in a horror story at first then it just becomes a Mary Sue."