Subject: GHOST (Keywords) and Collection: Junior Fiction

California Poppy has been dropped off, yet again, with an unsuspecting relative. This time it's her eccentric Great-Aunt Monica, a woman she's never even met. Aunt Monica has no idea what to do with an eleven-year-old, so she puts California to work researching their ancestor, the once-famous eti...

If you go down to the woods today... Eleven-year-old Bella Bright has invited her three best friends to visit her new cottage, which stands in the shadows of a ruined manor house. As they explore, Bella thinks she catches a glimpse of a pale face in one of the empty windows...who could it be? Thi...

Rendered a ghost by a bicycle accident, young Finn McAllister teams up with fellow spirit Isabella Rojas to commit invisible pranks on the living, before discovering that they cannot move on to the afterlife.

Turn on your torches and join Aveline Jones! Aveline is thrilled when she discovers that the holiday cottage her mum has rented for the summer is beside a stone circle. Thousands of years old, the local villagers refer to the ancient structure as the Witch Stones, and Aveline cannot wait to learn...

Nancy and her boyfriend Ned visit Coffin Hall to research the library's rumoured ghost, but when a fire breaks out and Ned is blamed, it is up to Nancy to find the true culprit.

Ebenezer Scrooge is a cranky old mouse who is only concerned with his business and making money. Scrooge thinks Christmas is just a waste of time. But on the night of Christmas Eve, he is visited by three ghosts who take him on a journey through his past, present, and future. His experience could...

To rescue her aunt from the ghost of a serial killer, twelve-year-old Evie Von Rathe embarks on a journey into a strange world filled with hungry witches, ghosts, and a story thief, all while trying to fulfil her deal with the Clackity.

"Kristy, Claudia, Mary Anne and Stacey have had some strange adventures since they started the Baby-sitters Club. But nothing's been as spooky as what's going on right now.The baby-sitters have been getting mysterious phone calls when they're out on their jobs. When a phone rings and they pick up...

Creepella is about to interview the famouse Hector Spector, who has come to Mysterious Valley with his Galloping Ghost Circus. But before she can, she has a mystery on her paws - someone is playing tricks and making messes all over Cacklefur Castle.Can she put a stop to these ghastly gags?

When a haunted dinosaur wreaks havoc across Mysterious Valley, Creepella tries to tackle the beast and brings Geronimo along for help.

After a summer of tagging sharks off the west coast of Florida, Sabina, Maribel, and Luke have a new assignment: searching for "survivor trees" that are resistant to the disease that is destroying the state's citrus trees; the search takes them to the remote mangrove islands of Sanibel Island, wh...

Sid Jones loves hanging out in the graveyard with her best friend Zen - they are desperate to see a real-life ghost! But when Sid accidentally summons a 300-year-old pirate from the dead, it opens the door to the HALFWAY HOUSE - a magical inn FULL of lost souls from across the ages, all trapped t...

"It's the summer before fifth grade, and for Ferris Wilkey, it is a summer of sheer pandemonium. Her little sister, Pinky, has vowed to become an outlaw. Uncle Ted has left Aunt Shirley and, to Ferris's mother's chagrin, is holed up in the Wilkey basement to paint a history of the world. And Char...

A delightful tale of victory against all odds from master storyteller, Michael Morpurgo, lavishly illustrated by Michael Foreman. "Every fox in the whole town, in the whole country just about, is a football fan...And we all have an impossible dream." In a cosy den under a garden shed lives a fami...

Oscar Grimstone has always felt like an outsider. His classmates make fun of his all-black clothes and pasty skin. But now strange things have begun to happen that Oscar can't explain, and he's starting to feel cursed, too. Then Oscar discovers something truly startling: even though he is very mu...

Eleven-year-old Lolli must return to London and break a promise she made, to never again enter the historic building run by her beloved Aunt Elsie. However, with the busy Christmas season coming, help is required and Lolli, with her guardian Freya, must return to the house of her nightmares. Insi...

Butter O'Bryan has been told there are ghosts on Howlers Beach, but are there? Howlers Beach, 1932. Butter O'Bryan lives in a Very Small Castle with his father and his three aunts - Aunt Elephant, Aunt Cake and Aunt Peculiar. These aren't their real names, of course, just as Butter's father isn't...

Now Bones is one of Sid's best friends (even though nobody else can see him) but there are still loads more ghosts to help. But Sid has to uncover the source of her own magic before she can free the ghosts. Can she really be a witch? When the ghosts start to fade Sid knows that time is running ou...

"These spooky, creepy, and slightly gruesome tales will introduce a new generation of children to the many pleasures of a ghost story. Kids will feel chills and thrills as they read about such things as haunted houses that burst into flames, ghosts frightening and friendly, a skull that won't sta...

12-year-old Luke Smith-Sharma shovels coal under a half-bombed, blackened power station. With his best friend Ravi he keeps his head down, hoping to one day earn his freedom and return to his family, while avoiding the wrath of the evil Tabatha Margate. When he tries to help new girl Jess, Luke i...

Rebecca Strand was just sixteen when she and her father fell to their deaths from the top of the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse in 1839. Just how they fell (or were they pushed?) remains a mystery. And their ghosts haunt the lighthouse to this day... Gabe tells this story every day when he gives the ...

Matilda Lockett is used to playing the role of Poor Dead Edna the Orphan on stage with her spirit-medium aunt, Signora Valentina, and theatrical uncle Barnabus but when they all decamp to Beauchamp Manor to deal with a most dreadful haunting, she discovers she really can see ghosts! There she mee...

Copper Inskeep holds Windydown Vale's deepest and darkest secret: he is the ghoul that haunts the Vale, donning a gruesome costume to scare travelers and townsfolk away from the dangers of the surrounding swamps. When a terrified girl claims she and her father were attacked by a creature--one tha...

Molly Thompson has lots of questions. Questions like, is her Aunt Carol an undead fiend who drinks the blood of the living? Is she secretly lurking in the attic? And is Molly's friend Lowry a descendant of a long line of Kroglin werewolves? Serious young historian Molly suspects that the creepy l...

With a body made of wax, seaweed for hair and polished abalone shells for eyes, Corpse is bound to haunt the Witches' sea shack forever. She has no memory of the kid she was before she was snatched and ended up on the rock-that-doesn't-exist. But the delivery of an unexpected message sets Corpse ...

Told in two voices, Jules, whose father is restoring an abandoned house, and a girl who lived there a century before beginning to communicate and slowly, the girl's tragic story is revealed.

'And we're going to live here, happily ever after, just like a fairy tale.' When Dad tells Luna and her little sister Aurora that they're moving to live in a real tower, it's almost like they've stepped inside a fairytale. But everything is not as magical as it first seems. The tower needs patchi...

Greta Woebegone did not believe in ghosts, until the day she almost died, when everything changed. Now Greta can not only see the spirits that haunt her family home, she can talk to them too, from Percy the poo-pushing plague victim to the sinister spook in the cellar. Can Greta save the ghosts f...

It's Halloween at Penhallow Hall and while celebrations are in full swing at the stately home, Polly and Rex are in search of a new ghost dog. Down in the old stable block they come across a dog's head carved in a wooden door and wake a terrier called Patch. The little dog is terrified of the cha...