Horror for Teens
Searching for some thrills and chills? Look no further! MS = books for middle school readers (Updated May 2022)
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The Companion
Orphaned Margot learns that she is being brought to live with a wealthy family to be a companion to their daughter Agatha, who is completely silent. After a series of strange events, it appears that things are not quite as they seem in this huge gothic house.
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The Girl and the Ghost
Suraya’s best and only friend has always been Pink, the pelesit (shapeshifting spirit) she inherited from her grandmother. In an attempt to be rid of Pink, Suraya learns there are beings in the world much more demonic than her pelesit. MS
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To Break A Covenant
The people of New Basin experience strange phenomena – sleepwalking, night terrors, voices that only they can hear. And no matter how many vans of ghost hunters roll through, nobody can get to the bottom of what’s really going on. Except maybe Clem, Nina, Lisey & Piper.
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Five Midnights
If Lupe Dávila and Javier Utierre can survive each other’s company, together they can solve a series of grisly murders sweeping though Puerto Rico.
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Clown in A Cornfield
Quinn and her father have moved to Kettle Springs to find a fresh start, but what they don't know is that the town is split between the adults, desperate to make Kettle Springs great again, and the kids, who just want to have fun.
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What Lives in the Woods
Mystery-loving Ginny isn’t thrilled to spend the summer in upstate Michigan where her father is restoring an old mansion – but she does want to get to the bottom of who, or what, might be haunting it. MS
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The Taking of Jake Livingston
It’s not easy being one of the only Black students in your exclusive prep school. It’s not easy seeing ghosts everywhere you turn. And it’s definitely not easy when the spirit of a recently dead high school shooter wants to inhabit your body to commit more atrocities! MS
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Harrow Lake
When her horror movie director father is viciously stabbed, Lola is sent to live in Harrow Lake, where her father filmed his most famous slasher film. Lola thinks nothing can scare her, until enough sinister things happen to make her wonder if she’ll get out of the town alive.
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The Buried
They’ve spent ten years since the Cataclysm essentially buried underground and supplies are running out. Dr. Moran says it’s still not safe to go outside, but is she telling the truth?
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The Glare
After a decade on her mother’s tech-free ranch, Hedda moves in with her father, where she starts playing a game called The Glare, where if you die 13 times on level 13, you die for real. Hedda’s new friends start playing the game… And dying.
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