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A ghost-communicating heroine faces a new school and joins her friend in investigating an old mystery. The adventure moves into New York’s subway system, with humour part of its presentation.

A young orphan finds herself in a mysterious family home, where ghosts connect her present to Colonial-era romance and intrigue. The story also includes a romance of Peggy’s own.

A haunted-house mystery links Harper’s forgotten accidents and her brother’s unusual behaviour with spirits, while bringing Korean traditions and Jamaican cultural details into the story.

This is an eerie mystery built around ghostly children, a prophecy and clues that Jim must interpret. The stakes are presented as serious: the overview says innocent people may die if he fails.

A school production becomes unsettling when apparent sabotage and the possibility of a real phantom both enter the picture. Brooke’s concern about Zeke’s enthusiasm gives the spooky mystery a friendship angle.

This is a family-centred ghost story about three sisters trying to make sense of loss while imagining lives beyond their home and neighbourhood.

This is a horror mystery built around Abby’s effort to learn what happened to her mother. Its appeal may lie in the unanswered disappearance and the group’s encounter in the cave.

A spooky mystery combines a ghostly presence and a hidden chamber with the Goodman children’s first holiday with their separated-from father. Hugh’s curiosity leads the siblings into danger.

A supernatural mystery is interwoven with familiar pressures: Jack is weighing his future, dealing with family distance and managing feelings for a close friend.

This is a wartime fantasy in which folklore and the afterlife intersect with the lives of two teenagers. Friendship and belonging are named as central concerns.

This is a supernatural story about friendship and the consequences of joining in when someone is teased. Its central tension combines school relationships with a ghost seeking revenge.

This is a family mystery built around a hidden treasure, an unfamiliar family home and secrets from the past. Ellsworth and his cousin Jess investigate together; the story also introduces ghosts.

A supernatural mystery centred on Chloe’s unsettling encounters with ghosts and the secrets of a group home. Its teenage viewpoint also brings questions of trust and belonging into the suspense.

This is a supernatural suspense story about Jane’s encounter with a threatening presence from the past, with her young aunt taking on the struggle to protect her.

This combines a boarding-school story with ghosts, an old abbey and a mystery centred on a persistent supernatural evil. Fiona’s friendships and her efforts to confront the danger offer threads beyond the haunting.

A playful haunted-house adventure centres on two rowdy poltergeists, a babysitting arrangement and children trying to repair the disruption. Expect comic supernatural trouble, resident ghosts and a brisk problem-solving storyline rather than a realistic family drama.

A spooky, folklore-rich mystery about returning to a ruined abbey and trying to repair an old wrong. Expect atmosphere, supernatural creatures, friendship and questions about preserving the past.

A family travel adventure blends historical learning with folklore. Readers follow the Johnson children through historic coastal places, while Bobby faces danger and the children also take part in a crabbing trip despite knowing they should not.

This is a tense, unsettling story about a child in care who expects rejection and tests new homes. Its reverse structure and uncertain supernatural threat make Olivia’s emotional experience central.

This is a child-centred ghost story about bereavement, relocation and friendship. Chloe’s investigation gradually links her own guilt with the ghost boy’s guilt, giving the supernatural mystery an emotional purpose.

Expect a genuinely spooky, suspenseful story balanced by humour and compassion. Its central appeal is the developing friendship between two very different girls who investigate unsettling mysteries together.

This anthology offers contrasting kinds of supernatural romance: wistful, thoughtful, unsettling and eerie. Its short-story structure lets readers compare how different writers handle love, strangeness, freedom and uncertainty.

A supernatural adventure about a girl whose unusual experiences lead to questions about family history, parallel worlds and disrupted time. It offers mystery, lively characters and a blend of real-world and fantastical settings.

Choose this for a reader who enjoys a witty girl protagonist, mysteries and spooky ambiguity. It also offers sustained attention to friendship choices, outsider status and the effects of frequent family moves.

A good fit for readers who enjoy ghostly mysteries, clues and twists, especially when a story also explores family changes. The suspense is prominent, though the narrative may feel crowded and its conclusion is described as contrived.

Expect atmospheric Cornish tales where folklore, ghosts and magic meet farms, the sea and family life. The collection includes linked stories, including one about William, whose disability brings exclusion and cruelty from others.

Louie’s grief after his brother’s death unfolds alongside parental separation and a community’s devastation. The story uses ghosts and Endlander mourning traditions to explore how people remember the dead, communicate loss and begin rebuilding.

A lively illustrated mystery with several interwoven pressures: Nina wants to free a trapped ghost and win class captain, while negotiating friendship, rivalry, family arrangements and questions about social-media personalities.

This is a dark, psychologically charged supernatural horror story about a teenager whose ability to see the dead brings him into contact with a powerful, vengeful ghost. Identity and control appear central alongside fear.

This offers an atmospheric supernatural mystery centred on mortality, family loyalty and a young woman questioning restrictive social expectations. Its emotional appeal lies in Gothic tension, romance and Signa’s developing self-understanding.

Expect an eerie, imaginative timeslip story in which Minty investigates a mysterious garden and tries to help two children from different historical periods. Its suspense is closely connected with family distress and compassion.

This is an intimate, melancholy friendship story in which grief, family love and first romance are closely entwined. Its gradual revelations and ghostly possibility invite emotional attention rather than straightforward plot-following.

This is a grief-centred magical-realist family story, combining a search in Taiwan with memories, ghosts, art and questions of cultural and personal identity.

This is a clue-driven pirate mystery about testing an apparently supernatural explanation against the possibility of a human hoax. Its main appeal is following evidence and asking who might want the treasure.

This is a friendship story about settling into a new home, meeting an exciting neighbour and discovering that fun can become troubling when another person causes damage and blame.

This is a linked supernatural fantasy about secrets, bargains and loyalties in the Shadow Market. Its broad timespan brings together Jem’s search, recurring relationships and separate episodes involving romance, sin, war, souls, inheritance and ghosts.

A supernatural family mystery with a teenage protagonist, a ghostly romantic interest and difficult questions about home, school and the meaning of the past.

This is an atmospheric supernatural story about inherited consequences, ghosts and a family mystery, combining romance with a confrontation involving black magic and a disturbing cave discovery.

A spooky treasure adventure about two friends stranded overnight on a haunted island, helping ghostly pirates while competing with someone who also wants the treasure.

A supernatural adventure about Isis and Gray, whose unexpected friendship grows amid ghosts, family change and a dangerous psychic society. Its central tensions involve secrecy, trust and whether apparent charm conceals harmful intentions.

This is a mystery about belonging, memory and fairness: a newcomer follows a disturbing clue, questions the story a community tells about Wil, and becomes involved in putting a past wrong into perspective.

This is a supernatural mystery-adventure built around lost identity, eerie local rumours and missing children. Its strongest offer is a forward-moving search: Christopher must recover his memories while uncovering what is happening in the community.

A creepy supernatural adventure about belonging, dares and the past. Jamie’s attempt to enter a school’s “in crowd” leads her into a cemetery where ghosts appear to be performing and one seeks to claim her as a replacement daughter.