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Top 11 YA books with ghosts
For the lovers of the spooky, the supernatural, the macabre, or the outright terrifying, here are 11 books for young adults that feature hauntings from beyond the grave.
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I was lying in bed the other night unable to sleep. When this happens I often flick on the radio to listen to ABC ...
In KAREN VIGGERS’s new novel The Orchardist’s Daughter, the author returns to remote Tasmania, the setting of her ...
On a summer day in 1997, three young girls leave a playground. Only two return.
Nineteen years later, the legal ...
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Night time has come to the Australian bush. Caspar’s family is asleep in their tent. But Caspar cannot sleep. He ...
In this brightly coloured and busy book Frané Lessac takes us on a wonderful journey from Tasmania to the Northern ...
‘Oh No!
I’m afraid of the dark.
There’s creepies and crawlies and creatures that bark!
Shadows and spooky ...
Eva is bored. She’s played with her toys, done some drawings and finished a puzzle and now she is SO bored. Mum ...
In 2007, author-illustrator Jeff Kinney tapped into something big. With digital technology booming and reluctant ...
Although the town of Spindrift is in another world, where Shadow Mages, Witches, Sirens and Whisperers are ...
From ‘Dead Bodies 101’ to ‘The Dead vs the Undead (A Field Guide)’ the disgusting details of this book are not for ...
Every last drop of water is gone from Southern California. Every. Last. Drop. Or at least that’s what it feels ...
James can fly. Well, kind of. His landings leave something to be desired and he maybe hasn’t quite worked his ...
Rhen and his sole remaining guard, Grey, are doomed to live the same short time-frame over and over again. The ...
Nic’s father has got a job in a band on a cruise ship, so she is sent to live with Grandpa. Nic’s not impressed: ...
Despite everything that has happened, Serenity and her brother, Danny, still wait for their father to come back ...
In his book Asia’s Reckoning: The struggle for global dominance, Australian journalist Richard McGregor likens the ...
He’s known as an entertainer, a TV globetrotter and an author. Michael Palin strengthens that latter reputation ...
This is the remarkable story of Dr Sanduk Ruit, the Nepalese eye surgeon who had personally restored the sight of ...
At an early age, allowed to spend time with the body of his dead mother, Richard Shepherd became curious of the ...
'I remember when ...’ we may say, but after reading this book, one wonders if our memories really are reliable. ...
Abraham is locked away in a safe place. He cannot ignore the truth of what has happened to him and his family, nor ...
Phoebe is in love with Marcus. His family and extended group of friends have accepted her into their circle as one ...
Captain Jack West is back. He has survived the trials of the Underworld and won the Great Games on behalf of his ...
All Our Secrets is an award-winning novel with 11-year-old Grace Barrett as the narrator. Grace is intelligent and ...
Jane Harper is the author of two previous popular titles, The Dry and Force of Nature.
In The Lost Man, her ...
Istumbled across Dervla McTiernan’s The Ruin early in 2018 and adored it. It’s a clever, complex and surprisingly ...
Seven parents go to dinner in a hotel restaurant, leaving their four young sons eating pizza and watching movies ...
Gabriel’s Bay is a fictional amalgam of several small New Zealand towns. In the first chapter of the book we are ...
Matteo Righetto’s Soul of the Border is like a song by a 70s prog-rock band that takes up an entire side of a ...
One night, in a remote college town in California, Mei’s roommate, Kara, goes to sleep in her clothes and boots. ...
In 1612, 17-year-old Fleetwood Shuttleworth is once again pregnant after three miscarriages and is desperate to ...
This is a well-written, unusual book, comprised of the journal of Scribe, a divorced man whose son is ill in ...
Lucy, married to Ollie, never got close to her mother-in-law, Diana. Lucy regrets this, as her own mother died ...
Ava Green has dealt with many challenges in her 28 years of life, including a cancer diagnosis. Now, ...
Seraphine Mayes is one of the Summerbourne clan and has led a privileged life. However, along with twin brother, ...
Hank Green is intensely interested in the internet. He and his brother, John (author of The Fault in Our Stars), ...
Originally published in 1922, this is a sublime novel about greed by Edith Wharton. So make yourself a Pimm’s, ...
Zebra contains 13 short stories and one novella all set in the Australian landscape. The short stories use a ...
It’s 1943 and Rosa Sauer’s husband, Gregor, is away fighting with the German army. After her mother is killed in a ...
Jessica Farris is a make-up artist living in New York City, struggling to make enough money to support herself. An ...
In October 1929, Athelinda Playford is hosting a house party at Lillieoak, her home on the banks of the Argideen ...
If you lived in Castle Rock – the fictional town in Maine that Stephen King uses for much of his fiction – you ...
Former army pilot Ted Roberts has lost his wife and career, and his daughter hates him. Bob Sorenson, a ...
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