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A Properly Unhaunted Place

William Alexander - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Book

Rosa Ramona Diaz has just moved to the small, un-haunted town of Ingot - the only ghost-free town in the world. She doesn't want to be there. She doesn't understand how her mother - a librarian who specializes in ghost-appeasement - could possibly want to live in a place with no ghosts....
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Oddity

Sarah Cannon - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Book

Welcome to Oddity, New Mexico, where normal is odd and odd is normal. Ada Roundtree is no stranger to dodging carnivorous dumpsters, distracting zombie rabbits with marshmallows, and instigating games of alien punkball. But things haven't been the same since her twin sister, Pearl,...
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Dr. Critchlore's School for Minions: Book 1

Sheila Grau - Amulet Books
Format: Print book

Welcome to Dr. Critchlore?s School for Minions, the premier trainer of minions for Evil Overlords everywhere. No student is prouder to be at Dr. Critchlore?s than Runt Higgins, a twelve-year-old werewolf. (At least he thinks he?s twelve. He was abandoned at the school as a baby, so he can?t...
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Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean

Justin Somper - Little
Format: Book

Twins, Connor and Grace, never dreamed that there was any truth to the Vampirate shanty their father sang to them before he died, but that was before the two were shipwrecked and separated from each other. For Connor, who is taken aboard a pirate ship, there's the chance to learn to swordfight,...
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The Book of Storms

Ruth Hatfield - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Danny O'Neill has never been what you'd call adventurous. But when he wakes the morning after a storm to find his house empty, his parents gone, and himself able to hear the thoughts of a dying tree, he has no choice but to set out to find answers. He soon learns that the enigmatic...
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Has Anyone Seen Jessica Jenkins?

Liz Kessler - Candlewick
Format: Book

Jessica Jenkins has always been a perfectly ordinary girl - until one day part of her arm vanishes in the middle of geography class! Jessica's friends Izzy and Tom are determined to help her develop her newfound invisibility, though Jessica is more concerned with discovering where the ability...
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The Imaginary

A.F. Harrold - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover

Rudger is Amanda Shuffleup's imaginary friend. Nobody else can see Rudger--until the evil Mr. Bunting arrives at Amanda's door. Mr. Bunting hunts imaginaries. Rumor has it that he even eats them. And now he's found Rudger.Soon Rudger is alone, and running for his imaginary life. He needs...
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Mothman's Curse

Christine Hayes - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover

When Josie and her brothers uncover a haunted camera, the Mothman legend becomes a terrifying reality that threatens their entire town in this spooky and action-filled novel. Josie may live in the most haunted town in America, but the only strange thing she ever sees is the parade of oddball...
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Wereworld: Rise of the Wolf

Curtis Jobling - Puffin Books
Format: Book

Imagine a world ruled by Werelords--men and women who can shift at will into bears, lions, and serpents. When Drew suddenly discovers he's not only a werewolf but the long-lost heir to the murdered Wolf King's throne, he must use his wits and newfound powers to survive in a land...
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The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street

Lindsay Currie - Aladdin
Format: Book

Tessa Woodward isn't exactly thrilled to move to rainy, cold Chicago from her home in sunny Florida. But homesickness turns to icy fear when unexplainable things start happening in her new house. Things like flickering lights, mysterious drawings appearing out of nowhere, and a crackling...
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Twelve Minutes to Midnight (1) (The Penelope Tredwell Mysteries)

Christopher Edge - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Paperback

Penelope Tredwell is the feisty thirteen-year-old orphan heiress of Victorian Britains bestselling magazine, the Penny Dreadful. Her spine-chilling tales -- concealed under the pen name Montgomery Finch -- are gripping the public. One day she receives a letter from the governor of the Bedlam...
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The Hypnotists: Book 1

Gordon Korman - Scholastic Press
Format: Book

Jackson Opus has always been persuasive, but he doesn't know that he's descended from the two most powerful hypnotist bloodlines on the planet. He's excited to be accepted into a special program at the Sentia Institute -- but when he realizes he's in over his head, Jackson...
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Tales from Lovecraft Middle School #1: Professor Gargoyle

Charles Gilman - Quirk Books
Format: Hardcover

"Two-headed monsters, giant tentacles, angry demons - Lovecraft Middle School is great creepy fun!"-Ransom Riggs, author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Strange things are happening at Lovecraft Middle School. Rats are leaping from lockers. Students...
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Twintuition: Double Vision

Tamera Mowry - HarperCollins
Format: Book

When their mother's new job forces them to move from bustling San Antonio to middle-of-nowhere Aura, Texas, Caitlyn tries to stay positive, focusing on meeting new people and having new adventures. Cassie, on the other hand, is convinced that it's only a matter of time until they'll...
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Spirit Hunters

ELLEN OH - HarperCollins
Format: Book

Harper doesn't trust her new home from the moment she steps inside, and the rumors are that the Raine family's new house is haunted. Harper isn't sure she believes those rumors, until her younger brother, Michael, starts acting strangely. The whole atmosphere gives Harper a sense...
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The Girl with the Ghost Machine

LAUREN DESTEFANO - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover

When Emmaline Beaumont's father started building the ghost machine, she didn't expect it to bring her mother back from the dead. But by locking himself in the basement to toil away at his hopes, Monsieur Beaumont has become obsessed with the contraption and neglected the living, and Emmaline...
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The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing

Sheila Turnage - Kathy Dawson Books
Format: Book

When Miss Lana winds up the mortified owner of an old inn with an unidentified ghost in the fine print, Mo’s itching to take the case. Plus, a historical ghost might make for some much needed Extra Credit in history. Who’s haunting the old inn? And why? Mo and Dale...
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The Ability

M.M. Vaughan - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

Delve into the extraordinary abilities of the twelve-year-old mind in this thrilling start to a middle-grade series that expands the possibilities of power.No one has any confidence in twelve-year-old Christopher Lane. His teachers discount him as a liar and a thief, and his mom doesn't...
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The Year of Shadows

Claire Legrand - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Olivia wants a new life - and it might take ghosts to get it. A heartfelt, gently Gothic novel from Claire Legrand.Olivia Stellatella is having a rough year. Her mother's left, her neglectful father - the maestro of a failing orchestra - has moved her and her grandmother into the city's...
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The Vanishing Vampire: A Monsterrific Tale

David Lubar - Starscape Books
Format: Hardcover

There's something strange going on at Washington Irving Elementary School. People are turning into monsters literally In "The Vanishing Vampire, " Sebastian's life has become a real pain in the neck. It all started the night he walked home from the movies by himself. He sort of blacked...
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The Shadow Project

Herbie Brennan - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

A young English thief stumbles on, and subsequently is recruited for, a super-secret operation that trains teenagers in remote viewing and astral projection techniques in order to engage in spying.
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The Crowfield Demon

Pat Walsh - Chicken House
Format: Book

In THE CROWFIELD CURSE, young monks' apprentice Will learned he was gifted with the Sight: able to see beyond this mortal coil into the spirit realms of Old Magic. Protected by the warrior fay Shadlok -- and befriended by the wry, wary hobgoblin called Brother Walter -- the boy is just...
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Ghoul Strike!

Andrew Newbound - Chicken House
Format: Hardcover

To finance the search for her lost parents, 12-year-old Alannah Malarra uses her psychic powers to hunt demons. With the help of her "business associate," professional thief Wortley Flint, she snags ghouls and robs them of their illicit riches. Sure, it's a mercenary existence,...
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