GHOST STORIES

F ALP

Alphin, Elaine Marie.

Ghost Cadet

Twelve-year-old Benjy, in Virginia visiting the grandmother he has never met, meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who was killed in the Battle of New Market in 1864 and helps him recover his family's treasured gold watch. F ALP

Alphin, Elaine Marie.

Ghost Soldier
F BRI

Alexander, in North Carolina while his father decides whether to remarry and move there, meets the ghost of a Confederate soldier and helps him look for his family.

Brittain, Bill and Chessare, Michele.

Who Knew There'd Be Ghosts?

Three spunky youngsters join forces with two lively ghosts to save a historic mansion from being destroyed by a crooked antique dealer.

Buffie, Margaret.

The Dark Garden

An amnesia victim, haunted by a female ghostly presence and experiencing memories that can't possibily be hers, is swept into a 70 year-old murder mystery which may offer a way back to her own life. F BUF

Buffie, Margaret.

Someone Else's Ghost

When her family moves to a guest ranch in Alberta after the death of her younger brother, sixteen-year-old Jessica slowly becomes aware of a ghostly link between her mother's grief and a long-ago tragedy at Willow Creek Ranch. F BUR

Burgess, Melvin.

The Ghost Behind the Wall

Twelve-year-old David sneaks through the ventilation shafts in his London apartment building pulling pranks on his neighbors, which awakens the ghost of a boy with a grudge against the lonely, senile old man who lives upstairs.

F CAS

Cassedy, Sylvia.

Behind the Attic Wall

In the bleak, forbidding house of her great-aunts, neglected twelve-year-old orphan Maggie hears ghostly voices and finds magic that awakens in her the capacity to love and be loved. F CON

Conrad, Pam.

Stonewords
F DUN

Zoe discovers that her house is occupied by the ghost of an eleven-year-old girl, who carries her back to the day of her death in 1870 to try to alter that tragic event.

Duncan, Lois.

Locked in Time
F FLE

Nore arrives at her stepmother's Louisiana plantation to find her new family odd and an aura of evil and mystery about the place.

Fleischman, Paul

A Fate Totally Worse Than Death

In this horror novel parody, 3 self-centered members of Cliffside High School's ruling clique, who are aging rapidly, become convinced the new exchange student is the ghost of a girl who died. F FLE

Fleischman, Sid and Sis, Peter

The Midnight Horse

Touch enlists the help of The Great Chaffalo, a ghostly magician, to thwart his greatuncle's plans to put Touch into the orphan house and swindle The Red Raven Inn away from Miss Sally. F HAH

Hahn, Mary Downing

Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story

Molly and Michael dislike their bratty new stepsister Heather but realize that they must try to save her when she seems ready to follow a ghost child to her doom.

Hahn, Mary Downing

Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story (and other titles by Mary Downing Hahn)

F IBB

Ibbotson, Eva.

Dial-A-Ghost
F IBB

A family of nice ghosts protects a British orphan from the diabolical plans of his evil guardians.

Ibbotson, Eva.

The Great Ghost Rescue

A young English boy decides to establish a sanctuary for an assortment of ghosts when the homes they have haunted are replaced by highways and other modern "improvements." F JEN

Jensen, Dorothea

The Riddle of Penncroft Farm

Lars Olafson's move to a farm near Valley Forge brings him friendship with the ghost of an eighteenth-century boy, who recounts for him his adventures in that part of Pennsylvania during the American Revolution. F KIM

Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody.

In the Stone Circle

While spending the summer in an old stone house in Wales, 14-yr. old Cristyn comes to terms with the death of her mother while satisfying the request of a thirteenth-century princess. F KRO

Kropp, Paul and Macpherson, Elaine.

Dead On
F KRO

A family struggles with mysterious occurrences involving an old house, a ghost, and a clairvoyant sister.

Kropp, Paul.

Snow ghost

Setting out over the frozen bush for help, two survivors of a plane crash are ready for anything except the snow ghost they encounter.

F LIV

Lively, Penelope

The Wild Hunt of the Ghost Hounds

The revival of an ancient dance in an English village stirs up legendary unseen evil spirits which terrify a girl and her friend.

Montes, Marisa.

Something Wicked's in Those Woods

When their parents are killed in an accident, eleven-year-old Javier and his younger brother leave their home in Puerto Rico to go live with their aunt in Northern California, where a ghost from an unsolved crime and Javi's new-found psychokinetic powers make their adjustment all the harder. F PEC

Peck, Richard.

The Ghost Belonged To Me: A Novel

In 1913 in the Midwest a quartet of characters share adventures from exploding steamboats to "exorcizing" a ghost.

Service, Pamela F.

Phantom Victory

A teenage boy and girl, aided by ancestral ghosts, embark on a treasurehunt to find an heirloom necklace hidden years earlier by a guest at South Bass Island's historic Victory Hotel. F SIN

Singer, Marilyn.

Deal With a Ghost

16-year-old Deal is more eager to play a manipulative dating game than to adapt to her new school, but then she finds she has a personal connection to the ghost haunting the school. F SNY

Snyder, Zilpha Keatley.

The Trespassers

Having trespassed and explored the empty Hutchinson mansion, which seems haunted by the presence of a long-dead young girl, sixth grader Neely and her little brother become regular visitors when emotionally disturbed Curtis Hutchinson moves in.

F WIL

Wilde, Oscar and Zwerger, Lisbeth.

The Canterville Ghost

A celebrated and feared English ghost is outraged when the new American owners of his haunting place refuse to take him seriously and actually fight back against him.

Wright, Betty Ren.

A Ghost in the House

Strange things happen when twelve-year-old Sarah is alone in the house with Great-Aunt Margaret, who appears to be the victim of a ghost seeking revenge for a death in the past.

Wright, Betty Ren.

The Ghost Comes Calling

While vacationing at a spooky cabin on Perch Lake, nine-year-old Chad tries to clear the name of Tim Tapper, the cabin's ghostly inhabitant, who was blamed for a truck accident in the 1930s.