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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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So you have arrived here on page six. If you are a regular reader of Good Reading you will have already noticed ...
CHRISTIAN WHITE’s The Nowhere Child became the fastest selling Australian debut in history.
EMMA HARVEY ...
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Elise is a talented artist, pianist and singer. She is also what is known in 1950s Australia as ‘highly strung’ ...
Ten Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World is one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read. It’s one of the ...
Reading this novel is like following an intricate pattern for macramé. Not only is it a story based on the ...
England in 1348 is a very different place. Class distinction is absolutely defined, and the classes do not mix, ...
There is a popular belief that if a book doesn’t ‘grab you’ by page 20 then it should be put back on the shelf or ...
This novel should come with a small warning. For readers living with someone who has dementia, it may prove a ...
This brightly coloured little book tells the story of the life cycle of a butterfly in such a fun and simple way. ...
Chihiro Takeuchi has written and illustrated this little book which is, as the title suggests, full of animals. ...
The minute we saw Miss Kraken, we all knew it was going to be a bad year.
And those little scary-faced children ...
Henry’s moved house and now lives 2003 kilometres away from his Grandpa.
Henry’s missing his Grandpa but they ...
Izzy Winkle has been brought up to be polite, nice and above all, grateful. Her grandmother is the Etiquette Queen ...
Gwen and her family are fleeing the war along with many other neighbours. But when their car comes to a standstill ...
Tess is always coming up with ways to make money. If it wasn’t for her best friend, Toby, she’d easily turn to the ...
Eddie Woo is the head teacher of mathematics at a Sydney suburban school. When he started recording and putting ...
Jimmy has been thrust into a very awkward situation. He has to give a eulogy at the funeral of his cousin, ...
Northbridge Primary School sees the arrival of Jingwen and his younger brother, Yanghao. Following a tragedy in ...
Anton and Rani have their work cut out for them, as the number of ghosts infesting Melbourne takes on plague ...
Sunyana, First Uncle, Second Nephew Daman and six of the family’s pregnant nanny gotals are all on a dangerous ...
Angel Mage is a YA high fantasy novel inspired by one of Nixs’ favourite books, The Three Musketeers by Alexandre ...
Dev1at3 is the much-anticipated second book in Jay Kristoff ’s YA sci-fi series ‘Life1ik3’ which, according to the ...
Shalini is a privileged young woman living in Bangalore, where her father has a thriving business. She finds ...
When we think of The Ritz Hotel in Paris, we think of exclusive high glamour and comfort, and so it was in April ...
There is a lot happening in Peter Polites’ new book, The Pillars. Pano’s housemate-landlord has started a campaign ...
In this harrowing novel, Irish novelist Edna O’Brien has powerfully imagined the story of one of the Nigerian ...
One of the most memorable, ominous lines from Margaret Atwood’s dystopian classic The Handmaid’s Tale is: ‘In a ...
The concept of a human zoo is abhorrent to us today but such a thing existed well into the 20th century. Katherine ...
Sian’s quiet, ordered life as a lecturer in American studies at a New Zealand university is rocked off its course ...
Some historical novels wear their history lightly – All the Light We Cannot See and The Essex Serpent are two that ...
Peter Corris, Australian historian and novelist, died on the 31 August 2018, aged 76. He suffered from type 1 ...
In a chilling first chapter we are faced with a ‘Jonestown Massacre’ type scene; a country property in Wales, once ...
Is there such a thing as an ‘innocent reader’, one who has no prior knowledge of a book’s genre or author, ...
We open on a scene familiar to us from a plethora of spy thrillers: our hero(ine) is being tailed through a ...
Other People’s Houses is a memoir by Hilary McPhee, a former Chair of the Australian Council for the Arts. It ...
The history of China is a long one, with the country’s most radical changes happening in the 20th century. This ...
There are many books written about Australia’s early outlaws. But many of the outlaws, bushrangers, mad dogs, or ...
If you’re a gen X movie fan but aren’t the least bit interested in the art and science of film editing, you’ll ...
In 2017, 250 Indigenous community leaders from around Australia convened at Uluru to release the ‘Uluru Statement ...
We’ve flooded city streets brandishing signs hand-painted with maxims of defiance in crimson block letters, ...
In late 2017, a good decade late, I finally got around to reading Norman Doidge’s bestselling brain bible, The ...
I really like Malcom Gladwell. His podcast ‘Revisionist History’ is one of my favourites. He has a talent for ...
The essay, a short literary composition on a theme, generally analytical, speculative, or interpretative, is ...
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