Hidden: a Child’s Story of the Holocaust written by Loic Dauvillier illustrated by Marc Lizano color by Greg Salsedo translated by Alexis Siegel 5 Stars A child wakes up and finds that her grandmother is awake as well. Only her grandmother is awake because of her memories of the Holocaust. The little girl convinces her…
Ghost in the House Ammi-Joan Paquette illustrated by Adam Record Candlewick Press, 2013 ISBN: 978-0-7636-5529-7 FORMAT: Picture Book AGES: Preschool 4 Stars This fun counting story starts off with one ghost in the house. As the ghost moves around he hears all sorts of strange sounds from growls to shrieks. Although a bit nervous at…
An Unlikely Match: A Regency Novel Sarah M. Eden Covenant Communications, Inc., 2012 ISBN: 978-1-60861-566-7 FORMAT: Romance, Paranormal AGES: Teen, Adult 3.5 Stars Nickolas Pritchard has inherited a huge castle in Wales. But his family left Wales centuries ago. Now he has the task of figuring out how to run a vast estate (he hardly…
The Diviners Libba Bray Read by January LaVoy Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2012 ISBN: 9780316126113 FORMAT: Audio, Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Fantasy, Historical (and probably a few more) AGES: Young Adult 4 Stars I read this book as part of the 2013 YALSA The Hub Reading Challenge. So far for the challenge I have…
Friends with Boys Faith Erin Hicks First Second, 2012 ISBN: 978-1-59643-556-8 FORMAT: Graphic Novel AGES: Young Adult 4 Stars I read this book as part of the 2013 YALSA The Hub Reading Challenge. So far for the challenge I have read: 12. The Silence of Our Friends by Mark Long, Jim Demonakos, and Nate Powell…
House of Dead MaidsClare B. DunkleHenry Holt & Co., 2010ISBN: 0805091165FORMAT: Young Adult, Paranormal, Ghost StoriesAGES: 14-183 Stars This book is just a bit creepy. So Tabby is sent to be a maid at a strange house. There her young charge doesn’t have a name but is “a heathen git” who wants to be a…
Anna Dressed in Blood By Kendare Blake Doherty,2011 ISBN: 9780765328656 Format: Audio Young Adult Book Ages: 14-18 years 4 Stars Cas Lowood is off on a new job—he is one of the few who can kill the dead. His new job is a ghost named Anna who wears a dress of blood. She is unlike…
This was my 18th book for the YALSA Best Books challenge. Anya is a teen girl who is looking for all the things that most teen girls are looking for: popularity, acceptance, style, a particular boyfriend, etc. Of course she feels that things are complicated by the fact that she feels that she is too…
This is the first in the Blossom Culp series. Basically Alexander is a young teen who lives in Illinois when street cars are the new form of transportation in town. When his friend Blossom Culp lets him know that he is one of the few that can see ghosts and the like, and that there…