Summary: Sarah, her brother Billy, and her parents are moving into her deceased grandmother’s house for the summer in order to fix it up and sell it, but this is a house of locked rooms and many dark and dangerous secrets.
Delacourte
Filed under: 2012-2013 Club, Not Mock Newbery | Tagged: brothers and sisters, haunted house, horror | 1 Comment »
Goosebumps Wanted series
Summary:
When she discovers an evil mask at the bottom of a trunk and puts it on, LuAnn’s Halloween turns into a real nightmare because only an act of unbelievable kindness can remove it.
Scholastic Press
Filed under: 2012-2013 Club, Not Mock Newbery | Tagged: 2012, horror | 1 Comment »
Summary: Thirty creepy stories about warped technology, revengeful ants, sadistic gym teachers, and other terrifying things. Includes author’s notes on how he got his ideas for these stories.
Starscape
Filed under: 2011-2012 Club, Not Mock Newbery | Tagged: 2011, creepy, horror, short stories | Leave a Comment »
Summary: When a giant glowing fungus encroaches upon thirteen-year-old Eric’s small town, he, his little brother Brian, and a runaway girl try to stop it–and figure out what happened to the Puritan town that had mysteriously disappeared from the same spot.
Alfred A. Knopf
Filed under: 2011-2012 Club, Not Mock Newbery | Tagged: 2011, families, horror | Leave a Comment »
Summary: When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three talking cats. 256 p., Dial Books for Young Readers.
Filed under: Not Mock Newbery | Tagged: 2010, fantasy, horror | Leave a Comment »
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Marshall Seaver is expecting a boring summer when his best friend goes away, but instead he finds himself haunted–and hunted–by ghosts that want something from him which he cannot decipher. 341 p., Aladdin.
Filed under: Not Mock Newbery | Tagged: 2010, horror | 1 Comment »
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Cooper must face a monster trapped for two centuries in a well near his stepfather’s Maine vineyard or risk everything that he holds dear, including his girlfriend, Megan.
Houghton Mifflin
Filed under: Not Mock Newbery | Tagged: 2008-2009 Club, horror | Leave a Comment »
