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This list includes suggestions for our Spooktacular October reading challenge. You can participate at https://marshalllyonlibrary.beanstack.org/.
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Anna Dressed in Blood
Kendare Blake - Tor Teen; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing... |
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The Taking of Jake Livingston
Ryan Douglass - Putnam
Format: Hardcover
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Sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston sees dead people everywhere. But he can't decide what's worse: being a medium forced to watch the dead play out their last moments on a loop or being at the mercy of racist teachers as one of the few Black students at St. Clair Prep. Both are a living... |
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Sabriel (Old Kingdom)
Garth Nix
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Game of Thrones fans will love the New York Times bestselling Abhorsen series. Sabriel, the first installment in the trilogy, launched critically acclaimed author Garth Nix onto the fantasy scene as a rising star.Since childhood, Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away... |
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The Haunting of Sunshine Girl: Book One
Paige McKenzie - Weinstein Books
Format: Book
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Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Sunshine Griffith and her mother Kat move from sunny Austin, Texas, to the rain-drenched town of Ridgemont, Washington. Though Sunshine is adopted, she and her mother have always been close, sharing a special bond filled with laughter and inside jokes.... |
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Cemetery Boys
Aiden Thomas - SWOON READS
Format: Hardcover
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Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can't get rid of him.When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his true gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then... |
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Jackaby
William Ritter - Algonquin
Format: Book
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"Miss Rook, I am not an occultist," Jackaby said. "I have a gift that allows me to see truth where others see the illusion--and there are many illusions. All the world's a stage, as they say, and I seem to have the only seat in the house with a view behind the curtain."A... |
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Iron Cast
Destiny Soria - Amulet Books
Format: Print book
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It's Boston, 1919, and the Cast Iron club is packed. On stage, hemopaths - whose "afflicted" blood gives them the ability to create illusions through art - Corinne and Ada have been best friends ever since infamous gangster Johnny Dervish recruited them into his circle. By night... |
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The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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The original hardcover edition of a perennial favorite, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which has sold more than one million copies and is the only novel to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal. Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place - he's the only living resident... |
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The Name of the Star
Maureen Johnson - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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The day Louisiana teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London marks a memorable occasion. For Rory, it's the start of a new life at a London boarding school. But for many, this will be remembered as the day a series of brutal murders broke out across the city, gruesome crimes mimicking the horrific... |
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Five Midnights
Ann Dávila Cardinal - Tor Teen
Format: Book
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Ann Dávila Cardinal's Five Midnights is a "wickedly thrilling" (William Alexander) and "flat-out unputdownable" (Paul Tremblay) novel based on the el Cuco myth set against the backdrop of modern day Puerto Rico.
Five friends cursed. Five deadly fates.... |
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Dread Nation
Justina Ireland - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestseller * Six starred reviewsAt once provocative, terrifying, and darkly subversive, Dread Nation is Justina Ireland's stunning vision of an America both foreign and familiar - a country on the brink, at the explosive crossroads where race, humanity, and survival meet.Jane... |
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs - Quirk Books
Format: Paperback
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The #1 New York Times best-selling series. Includes an excerpt from Hollow City and an interview with author Ransom Riggs A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss... |
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Hex Hall
Rachel Hawkins - Hyperion Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Three years ago Sophie Mercer discovered that she is a witch Her non-gifted mother has been supportive consulting Sophies estranged father-a warlock-only when necessary But when Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong its her dad who exiles her to Hex Hall... |
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The Bone Houses
Emily Lloyd-Jones - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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An instant IndieBound bestseller! Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Sky in the Deep in this bewitching, historical horror novel, perfect for fans of Holly Black and V.E. Schwab. Seventeen-year-old Aderyn ("Ryn") only cares about two things: her family and her family's... |
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The Fell of Dark
Roehrig, Caleb - FEIWEL & FRIENDS
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What's a boy to do--in Caleb Roehrig's YA paranormal romance The Fell of Dark--when his crush is a hot vampire with a mystery to solve?The only thing August Pfeiffer hates more than algebra is living in a vampire town. Located at a nexus of mystical energy fields, Fulton Heights... |
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Thirteen Chairs
Dave Shelton - David Fickling Books
Format: Hardcover
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A spine-tingling collection of ghost stories.When a boy finds himself drawn into an empty house one cold night, he enters a room in which twelve unusual-looking people sit around a table. And the thirteenth chair is pulled out for him.One by one, each of those assembled tells their ownghost... |
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Department 19
Will Hill - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover
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Jamie Carpenter's life will never be the same. His father is dead, his mother is missing, and he was just rescued by an enormous man named Frankenstein. Jamie is brought to Department 19, where he is pulled into a secret organization responsible for policing the supernatural, founded more... |
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The Monstrumologist
Richard Yancey - Simon & Schuster BFYR
Format: Hardcover
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In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a New Escientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi. |
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Last Things
Jacqueline West - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Anders Thorson, front man of his metal band, Last Things, is unusually gifted for a teenager, but strange things in the Minnesota woods near his hometown are threatening him. Thea, the new girl in town, says she's there to protect him, but is that the whole truth?"-- |
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