5.3/10 Acquainted With the Night ­ Hotze, Sollace. During a summer on a Maine island, seventeen-year-old Molly and her older cousin become very close, as she helps him deal with his father's suicide and his experiences in the Vietnam War, and as together they share encounters with a troubled ghost.

5.4/6 Beast Under the Wizard's Bridge ­ Strickland, Brad. Lewis Barnavelt tries to avert disaster when the destruction of an old bridge threatens to release a diabolical force, the legacy of a long-dead evil magician.

6.1/8 Beasts of Clawstone Castle ­ Ibbotson, Eva. While spending the summer with elderly relatives at Clawstone Castle in northern England, Madlyn and her brother Rollo, with the help of several ghosts, attempt to save the rare cattle that live on the castle grounds.

5.5/4 Beauty and the Serpent ­ Porte, Barbara Ann. An eccentric school librarian tells offbeat stories involving fantastic animals and encourages teachers and students to relate their own stories as well.

4.9/9 Behind the Attic Wall ­ Cassedy, Sylvia. Maggie, a "problem child," is passed from boarding schools to relatives and ends up living with aunts in a mysterious house with strange noises.

5.3/6 Being Dead ­ Vande Velde, Vivian. Seven supernatural stories, all having something to do with death.

3.4/2 Berenstain Bears in Maniac Mansion ­ Berenstain, Stan. When priceless antiques begin to disappear from Squire Grizzly's mansion, the ghost of his ancestor Bad Bart is suspected.

6.1/8 The Boggart ­ Cooper, Susan. After visiting the castle in Scotland which her family has inherited and returning home to Canada, twelve -year-old Emily finds that she accidently brought back with her a boggart, an invisible and mischievous spirit with a fondness for practical jokes.

6.2/7 The Boggart and the Monster ­ Cooper, Susan. In this companion volume to The Boggart, the invisible and mischievous spirit living in the Scottish Castle Keep sets out to help save Nessie the Loch Ness Monster, one of his few remaining cousins.

5.5/8 Circus in the Woods ­ Littlefield, Bill. Molly, her parents, and her sister spend most summer vacations at a camp in the Vermont mountains, and as the years pass, Molly is led to find a mysterious circus within the woods nearby.

5.1/5 Coraline ­ Gaiman, Neil. Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.

4.5/3 Cougar ­ Griffith, Helen V. Starting a new life on a farm in the country, Nickel has to adjust to the attentions of a local bully and the appearances of a ghost horse that was supposed to have died in a fire.

4.6/5 Crandall's Castle ­ Wright, Betty Ren. Charli's impulsive uncle, Will Crandall, decides to buy the town's abandoned, possibly haunted castle and fix it up as a bed-and-breakfast, but Charli and Sophia, a clairvoyant orphan who has come to stay with the Crandall family, know his plan is somehow dangerous.

6.0/10 Dancing on the Edge ­ Nolan, Han. A young girl from a dysfunctional family creates for herself an alternative world which nearly results in her death but which ultimately leads her to reality.

4.6/4 Dark-Thirty ­ McKissack, Patricia. A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the dark thirty--the half hour before sunset--ghosts seem all too believable.

5.0/5 Dark Waters ­ MacPhail, Catherine. Col McCann becomes a local hero when he saves a boy from drowning but when his older brother is suspected of a serious crime, Col must decide if he should be loyal to his family or tell the truth about what he saw while under water.

4.8/4 Doll in the Garden ­ Hahn, Mary Downing. After Ashley and Kristi find an antique doll buried in old Miss Cooper's garden, they discover that they can enter a ghostly turn-of-the-century world by going through a hole in the hedge.

4.8/6 Dread Locks ­ Shusterman, Neal. Accustomed to a carefree existence, fifteen-year-old Parker Baer meets the girl next door and finds his life taking a menacing turn as he begins to absorb some of her terrible powers.

4.7/11 A Drowned Maiden's Hair ­ Schlitz, Laura Amy. At the Barbary Asylum for Female Orphans, eleven-year-old Maud is adopted by three spinster sisters moonlighting as mediums who take her home and reveal to her the role she will play in their seances.

5.6/6 The Egyptian Box ­ Curry, Jane Louise. Tee is happy to find that the ancient Egyptian box she inherits holds a spirit who will serve her, until she notices changes in her servant's appearance and behavior.

4.1/7 The Fire Within ­ D'Lacey, Chris. When college student David Rain rents a room in an unusual boardinghouse full of clay dragons, he has no idea that they, along with some lively squirrels, will help jumpstart his writing career.

3.7/4 The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs ­ DeFelice, Cynthia. Hindered by a fight with her friend Dub and a series of mysterious fires, eleven-year-old Allie investigates the fire seventeen years earlier which claimed the lives of the husband and infant son of a school cafeteria worker, as well as the handsome young man whose ghost asks Allie for help.

3.4/3 Ghost Beach ­ Stine, R. L. Jerry can't wait to explore the dark, spooky old cave he found down by the beach. Then the other kids tell him a story. A story about a ghost who lives deep inside the cave. A ghost who is three hundred years old. A ghost who comes out when the moon is full. A ghost who is haunting the beach. Just another stupid ghost story. Right?

4.6/5 The Ghost Behind the Wall ­ Burgess, Melvin. Twelve-year-old David sneaks through the ventilation shafts in his London apartment building pulling pranks on his neighbors, which awakens the ghost of a boy with a grudge against the lonely, senile old man who lives upstairs.

4.2/5 Ghost Brother ­ Adler, C. S. Wishing to be like his older but dead brother, who often materializes to give Wally advice and support, Wally enters a skateboarding competition and finally gains the confidence to be himself.

3.7/3 Ghost Next Door ­ Stine, R. L. Hannah's neighborhood has just gotten a little - wierd. Ever since that new boy moved in next door. But when did he move in? Wasn't the house empty when Hannah went to sleep the night before? Why does it still look so deserted? She's not getting any answers from her new neighbor. He just keeps disappearing in the oddest ways. And he's so pale...Is Hannah being haunted by...the ghost next door?

4.9/5 Ghost of Fossil Glen ­ DeFelice, Cynthia. . Allie knows it's not her imagination when she hears a voice and sees in her mind's eye the face of a girl who seems to be seeking Allie's help.

4/1 Ghost on Saturday Night ­ Fleischman, Albert. When Professor Pepper gives Opie tickets to a ghost-raising instead of a nickel in payment for being guided through the dense fog, Opie manages to make money anyway by helping to thwart a bank robbery.

5.2/9 Ghost Ship ­ Reiche, Dietlof. An eighteenth-century figurehead, the journal of a ship's quartermaster, and supernatural occurrences at a seaside resort lead twelve-year-old Vicki and her friend Peter on a quest to lift a curse and set right a horrible deed committed two hundred and thirty years in the past.

4.8/4 Ghost Sitter ­ Griffin, Peni R. Charlotte is looking forward to a great summer in her new home, even though she has to take care of her little brother Brandon. The new house is terrific, but her brother starts asking for his new friend "Susie." Who is Susie? An imaginary friend? Soon, Charlotte realizes that her new house is haunted by the ghost of a girl who doesn't realize that she is dead.

4.4/2 Ghosthunters and the Incredibly Revolting Ghost! ­ Funke. Cornelia. Timid nine-year-old Tom Tomsky reluctantly agrees to help professional ghostbuster Hetty Camomile dispel an IRG (Incredibly Revolting Ghost) from an old house.

4.5/3 Ghostly Tales: Four Stories ­ Pfeffer, Susan Beth. In four ghost stories, set in nineteenth century Concord, Massachusetts, each of the March sisters has a supernatural encounter.

5.6/16 A Girl Named Disaster ­ Farmer, Nancy. While journeying to Zimbabwe, eleven-year-old Nhamo struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.

5.5/2 Graven Images ­ Fleischman, Paul. In this book, three stories, from chilling to comic, show what happens when people put their faith in graven images.

4.9/5 Hardy Boys Ghost Stories ­ Dixon, Franklin W. The Hardy brothers are confronted with the supernatural in these six ghost stories which include "The Walking Scarecrow" and "The Haunted Castle."

5.0/5 Harvey Angell and the Ghost Child ­ Hendry, Diane. Orphan Henry's dream to see the ocean finally comes true when his Aunt Agatha takes him on a seaside vacation. On the first night he hears moaning and groaning coming from inside Sibbald House where they were staying. He calls Harvey Angell to help him uncover the shocking secret of Sibbald House.

5.1/8 Haunted: a Tale of the Mediator ­ Cabot, Meg. Sixteen-year-old Susannah Simon is a mediator, one who communicates with the dead, and she also happens to be in love with Jesse, a nineteenth-century ghost.

5.6/5 The Haunted Fort ­ Dixon, Franklin W. A long-distance telephone call from Chet Morton's uncle summons Frank and Joe Hardy and their staunch pal Chet to a summer art school, located near old Fort Senandaga which is reputed to be inhabited by a ghost.

4.1/4 The Haunting of Swain's Fancy ­ Seabrooke, Brenda. Eleven-year-old Taylor spends the summer with her father and his new family in a historic house in West Virginia and, while contending with hostility from her stepsister Nicole, attempts to solve the mystery of ghosts who haunt the site.

4.2/3 Howling Ghost ­ Pike, Christopher. Cindy is playing by the ocean with her younger brother, Neil, when a ghost appears out of nowhere an grabs Neil and takes him away. Cindy tries to tell people what happened, but everyone assumes the boy must have drowned. Cindy is left heartbroken, with no one to help her find her brother. Until Sally reads about what happened in the paper. Sally believes in ghosts - she knows ghosts are a dime a dozen when it comes to Spooksville. With Adam and Watch, Sally goes to Cindy and promises to help get her brother back. But what none of them knows is that this is a nasty old ghost. It would rather turn them all into ghosts than return Cindy's brother.

3.9/5 Invasion of the Road Weenies and Other Warped and Creepy Tales - Lubar, David. A collection of thirty-five stories featuring such horrors as a monstrous Halloween costume, a midnight visit to a graveyard, and a hearing-impaired genie. Includes author's notes on how he got his ideas for these stories.

5.1/5 The Invisible Intruder ­ Keene, Carolyn. Despite mysterious warnings, Nancy and a group of friends start out on a ghost hunting expedition to investigate five places reputed to be haunted. This unusually intriguing story will delight all Nancy Drew fans.

5.8/5 Jade Green: a Ghost Story ­ Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. While living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman, recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression causes mysterious happenings.

4.4/6 Johnny and the Dead ­ Pratchett, Terry. Book 2. After twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell suddenly starts seeing and talking to ghosts, he and his friends become involved in a battle to save the local cemetery.

3.7/6 Kit's Wilderness ­ Almond, David. Thirteen-year-old Kit goes to live with his grandfather in the decaying coal mining town of Stoneygate, England, and finds both the old man and the town haunted by ghosts of the past.

5.4/9 The Leap ­ Stroud, Jonathan. After her best friend, Max, drowns, grief-stricken Charlie discovers that she can enter a mysterious afterlife when she is dreaming, and as she tries desperately to find Max, she puts herself in grave danger from which only her brother can save her.

4.0/5 Legend of Sleepy Hollow ­ Jablonski, Carla. Wishbone imagines himself as Ichabod Crane, the nineteenth-century schoolteacher. Ichabod thinks he knows all about bad luck, ghosts, and evil spirits-and how to get rid of them. But he's in for a big surprise when he faces the scariest ghost of them all-the terrifying Headless Horseman!

3.9/1 Lucinda's Secret ­ DiTerlizzi, Tony. With goblins, trolls, and the house boggart all trying to get them, the Grace children turn to Great Aunt Lucinda for help.

4.3/4 Mandie and the Ghost Bandits ­ Leppard, Lois. A gold shipment, a train wreck on a moonlit night, and a gang of robbers disguised as "ghosts" are all part of this suspense-filled adventure!

4.7/1 Midnight Magic ­ Avi. In Italy in 1491, Magnus the Magician and his apprentice are summoned to the castle of King Claudio to determine if his daughter is indeed being haunted by a ghost.

3.7/8 Millicent's Gift ­ Rinaldi, Ann. Like all her brothers and sisters, Millicent has received a special gift from her magical family, but she quickly learns that a gift can also be a burden.

4.5/3 My Best Friend is Invisible ­ Stine, R. L. Sammy Jacobs is into ghosts and science fiction, and he's met someone who's totally unreal. He's hanging out in Sammy's room and eating his cereal. Sammy has to find a way to get rid of his new "friend" - except that friend is invisible!

4.4/5 Mystery of the Island Jewels ­ Stengel, Joyce. On a cruise to Martinique with her distant father and her new stepfamily, fourteen-year-old Cassie encounters a mystery involving an attractive boy, his family's dark secret, the ghost of an Arawak Indian maiden, and a long-lost jeweled statue of Jesus.

4.2/7 The Old Willis Place: a Ghost Story ­ Hahn, Mary Downing. Tired of the rules that have bound them ever since "the bad thing happened," twelve-year-old Diana ignores her brother's warnings and befriends the daughter of the new caretaker, setting in motion events that lead to the release of the spirit of an evil, crazy woman who once ruled the old Willis place.

3.9/6 The Rope Trick ­ Alexander, Lloyd. Motivated by her quest to learn a legendary rope trick, the magician Princess Lidi and her troupe embark on a journey through Renaissance Italy that intertwines adventure, love, and mystery.

5.6/4 The Secret Hideout ­ Hutchens, Paul. "Poetry" brings his muddy lamb into Miss Lily's classroom, and chaos breaks out. The gang later discovers a mysterious cave with a hidden passage near the cemetery. When they spend the night in the cave, they are fightened by two very different visitors dressed in white. Could they be ghosts? Watch Poetry's pet lamb provide a helpful explanation of Jesus' parable of the lost sheep.

5.8/6 Secret of the Desert Stone ­ Peretti, Frank. Fourteen-year-old Jay and his younger sister Lila accompany their father to the tiny African nation of Togwana where they experience a supernatural phenomenon through a mysterious stone.

5.7/6 Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales ­ Jacques, Brian. Chilling stories about ghosts, vampires, and other spooky things.

6.7/13 Sorcery and Cecelia ,or, the Enchanted Chocolate Pot ­ Wrede, Patricia. In 1817 in England, two young cousins, Cecilia living in the country and Kate in London, write letters to keep each other informed of their exploits, which take a sinister turn when they find themselves confronted by evil wizards.

5.2/5 Specter from the Musician's Museum ­ Strickland, Brad. When the evil sorceress Belle Frisson ensnares Rose Rita Pottinger in a magic web in order to steal her life force, Lewis Barnavelt must risk his own life to save a friend.

4.6/5 Spirit House ­ Sleator, William. Fifteen-year-old Julie investigates the suspicious behavior of the Thai exchange student staying with her family and comes to believe in the wish-granting power of a spirit that appears to have followed him across the ocean.

4.7/4 Stonewords: A Ghost Story ­ Conrad, Zoe discovers that her house is occupied by the ghost of an eleven-year-old girl, who carries her back to the day of her death in 1870 to try to alter that tragic event.

5.2/17 A String in the Harp ­ Bond, Nancy. This story relates what happens to three American children, unwillingly transplanted to Wales for one year, when one of them finds an ancient harp-tuning key that takes him back to the time of the great sixth-century bard Taliesin.

4.8/9 The Supernaturalist ­ Colfer, Eoin. In futuristic Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from his abusive orphanage and teams up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures, and together they determine the nature and purpose of the swarming blue Parasites that are invisible to most humans.

4.9/16 Sweet Miss Honeywell's Revenge ­ Reiss, Kathryn. Just before her mother is to remarry and her stepfamily is set to move in, twelve-year-old Zibby gradually realizes that her antique dollhouse is haunted by ghosts, one of whom is out for revenge.

5.6/3 Throwing Smoke ­ Brooks, Bruce. When his teammates on the Breadhurst Newts baseball team continue their losing ways, Whiz uses an unusual printing press to create several star players in hopes of winning a game.

8.3/10 Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction ­ James, Henry. Here are five fascinating short stories - works which represent the author in both his early and late phases. In these stories the mysterious turnings of human behavior are skillfully and coolly observed, proving Henry James to be a master of psychological insight as well as one of the finest stylists of modern English literature.

6.1/8 The Unseen ­ Snyder, Zilpha Keatley. Feeling angry and out-of-place in her large family, twelve-year-old Xandra finds a magical key to a world of ghostly, sometimes frightening, phantoms that help her see herself and her siblings more clearly.

4.5/4 Who Knew There'd Be Ghosts? - Brittain, Bill. Three spunky youngsters join forces with two lively ghosts to save a historic mansion from being destroyed by a crooked antique dealer.

4.9/7 Who's There? ­ Tolan, Stephanie. When fourteen-year-old Drew and her mute younger brother come to live with their father's estranged relatives after their parents' sudden death, they discover that the house is haunted by ghosts and a desdly family secret.

3.9/3 Wicked Cat ­ Pike, Christopher. Adam and his friends are exploring the area around Spooksville when they come across a black cat. It seems like a friendly animal: it purrs when they rub its back, and licks its paws like any other cat. But then it follows them back to town, and strange things begin to happen. A tree falls down, and a house catches fire. Each time something bad happens, the cat is there--watching, with its strange green eyes. And it won't go away. Adam and his friends don't know what to do. Especially when the cat begins to use its powers on them.

4.4/4 The Wicked, Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House ­ Chase, Mary. Nine-year-old Maureen is the terror of her neighborhood until the day she begins to explore an old deserted estate and encounters a leprechaun and seven strange ladies.

4.0/7 The Wish List ­ Colfer, Eoin. Meg Finn is in trouble. She's dead, but not at peace--she's in limbo, her good deeds perfectly balanced against her bad deeds; Heaven or Hell wait, a tip of the scale away. So she's back on Earth trying to tip the scale to the good by helping her last victim, and her former "partner" is also back, trying to force her to tip the scale to the bad.

5.2/6 Wrath of the Grinning Ghost ­ Strickland, Brad. When a malevolent creature tries to claim his father as its latest victim, thirteen-year-old Johnny Dixon and Professor Childermass risk their own lives trying to save him.