Delightfully Dead: books about ghosts
Annotation:When 15-yr-old Lexi’s younger sister Kasey begins behaving strangely and their old Victorian house seems to take on a life of its own, Lexi investigates and discovers some frightening facts. (Part of a series)
Place a Hold
Annotation:Desperate to flee her dreams, Caitlyn accepts a spot at a school in France. Only, when she arrives, her nightmares get worse, with visits from an alluring, mysterious, and gorgeous Italian boy from the 1500s.
Annotation:16-yr-old Cass’s only friends are her dead sister and the school ghosts who feed her gossip, but when a popular boy asks for her help, she begins to reach out to the living.
Annotation:Sent by her father, the king, who is trying to forge an empire out of warring tribes, Darri arrives in Ghostland and discovers that her sister, may not want to leave this land where the dead mingle freely with the living.
Annotation:11-yr-old Tabby, who would later serve as housekeeper to the Brönte sisters, is taken from an orphanage to a ghost-filled house, where she and a wild young boy are needed for a pagan ritual.
Annotation:When 17-yr-old Willemina fakes credentials to get a teaching position at a school for Cherokee girls in nineteenth-century Oklahoma, she is haunted by the ghost of a drowned student.
Annotation:Moving from Chicago to Georgia, awakens psychic powers in 16-yr-old Kendall, who finds herself communicating with ghosts. (Part of a series)
Annotation:16-yr-old Violet has been part of her mother’s Spiritualist scam since she was nine, but during an 1872 house party in Hampshire, England, she is horrified to learn that she can actually see ghosts.
Annotation:When Lindsay transfers to Marlwood Academy after recovering from a breakdown at her previous high school, she discovers that there’s something strange going on involving a clique and some unsavory activities from the school’s little-known past. (Part of a series)
Annotation:Amelia, long a ghost, forms a strong bond with 18-yr-old Joshua, who nearly drowned where she did and who awakens in her long-forgotten senses and memories even as Eli, a spirit, tries to draw her away.
Annotation:After dying, Charlotte is as invisible to nearly everyone as she always felt, but despite what she learns in a sort of alternative high school for dead teens, she clings to life while seeking a way to go to the Fall Ball with the boy of her dreams. (Part of a series)
Annotation:After being hit by a bus and killed, a high school homecoming queen gets stuck in the land of the living, with only a loser classmate — who happens to be able to see and hear ghosts — to help her. (Part of a series)
Annotation:Emma learns she is a ghostkeeper, a person who can communicate with ghosts, and she’s been brought to a New England prep school for her protection. (Part of a series)
Annotation:Charlotte, whose parents host a ghost-hunting reality show, is being stalked by frightening spirits, and she tries to deal with the hauntings while trying to live a normal teenage life. (Part of a series)
Annotation:16-yr-old Aura of Baltimore, works at her aunt’s law firm helping ghosts with wrongful death cases file suits in hopes of moving on, but it becomes personal when her boyfriend, dies and persistently haunts her. (Part of a series)
Annotation:Upon moving to her mother’s New York home after her gambler father leaves, Elizah just wants to be left alone until she meets Nathaniel in the cemetery where her mother is caretaker.
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