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Haunted Houses... In This Economy?

Your home is supposed to feel safe, but not in these books!

Jefferson County Public Library

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  • Seventeen-year-old witch Nev Blackwell reckons with a terrible inheritance when a stranger arrives at her ancestral California mansion with a dark warning.
    Book, 2024New York : Union Square & Co., [2024] — TEEN FICTION GLAZE
  • After Libby's recent bipolar III diagnosis and the tragedy that preceded it, this new house was supposed to be a fresh start. Instead, the house's strange beauty just disguises a sinister past that's come to haunt them.
    Book, 2024New York : Delacorte Press, [2024] — TEEN FICTION FRAISTAT
  • On a forgotten part of Nova Scotia, there lies an island. On that island are 11 houses. In those houses sit 11 ancient families. And they are waiting...
    Book, 2024New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2024] — TEEN FICTION OAKES
  • When Ali disappears with no warning except, "Don't follow me when I'm gone," Lia is sure she's gone back to Brier Hall. Lia must go home one final time and face what haunts her in an effort to find her sisters and uncover the truth of her past.
    Book, 2024New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2024] — TEEN FICTION STRYCHACZ
  • A new stand-alone YA about a teen who uncovers a mystery while working as a tour guide on an island's mansion built in the 1920s and must solve it before history (and death) repeats itself.
    Book, 2024New York : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] — TEEN FICTION JOHNSON
  • In this moody supernatural thriller set several years after WWI, a teen who can sense imminent death and communicate with spirits helps uncover the dark history of a remote English house.
    Book, 2023New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2023] — TEEN FICTION WEYMOUTH
  • The Skull

    a Tyrolean Folktale

    Klassen, Jon,
    This eerie reworking of a Tyrolean folktale by Caldecott Medalist Klassen opens as pale-skinned young Otilla, lost in a snowy forest after running away, stumbles upon a mansion inhabited by a talking skull.
    Book, 2023Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2023. — J FICTION KLASSEN
  • Escaping from her harsh school before finding work as a maid in an English boarding house, Louisa realizes that her mysterious employer and his staff execute cruel judgments on the guests.
    Book, 2017New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] — TEEN FICTION ROUX
  • Seventeen-year-old bisexual Jade Nguyen is spending the summer in Vietnam at the French colonial house her estranged father is fixing up as a vacation rental, but unbeknownst to her family, the house and its ghosts have other plans.
    Book, 2023New York : Bloomsbury, 2023. — TEEN FICTION TRAN
  • Harper doesn't trust her new home from the moment she steps inside. The rumors are that the house is haunted, but Harper isn't sure she believes them. Until her younger brother, Michael, starts acting strangely.
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017] — J FICTION OH