Books of the Month: YA - October
Embrace the Halloween spirit with this month's YA book list with a spooky blend of fantasy, horror, and the supernatural! Discover enchanting tales of witches, ghosts, and dark secrets that explore friendship, courage, and the unknown. Perfect for young adult readers, these spine-tingling stories promise to keep you captivated all season long. Happy haunting!
The agony house
Priest, Cherie, author
2018
Seventeen-year-old Denise Farber, her mom, and her stepfather are moving back to New Orleans, into the Argonne house, which is over 100 years old, and really showing its age, but which her mother plans to turn into a bed-and-breakfast. But old houses have histories, and sometimes ghosts, and a mysterious old comic book that Denise finds in the attic may hold the answer to a crime and the terrifying things that keep happening in what she thinks of as the "Agony" house.
Ghost roast
Gibbs, Shawnelle, author
2024
Fifteen-year-old Chelsea, daughter of a paranormal specialist, risks her hard-won popularity and more when she's drawn into a paranormal romance after discovering her own ability to communicate with ghosts.
Ghostgirl
Hurley, Tonya
2008
After dying, high school senior Charlotte Usher is as invisible to nearly everyone as she always felt, but despite what she learns in a sort of alternative high school for dead teens, she clings to life while seeking a way to go to the Fall Ball with the boy of her dreams.
Hex Hall
Hawkins, Rachel, 1979-
2010
When Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, she is exiled to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. witches, faeries, and shapeshifters.
I love him to pieces, or, my date is dead weight, or, he only loves me for my brains
Tsang, Evonne
2011
St. Petersburg High school juniors Dicey Bell, a baseball star, and Jack Chen, who loves science and role-playing games, discover a mutual attraction when paired for a project, but on their first date, a zombie-producing fungus sends them on the run.
Jughead. The hunger, Volume one
Tieri, Frank author
2018
Archie's Madhouse brings the first collection of the terrifying horror series that tears through Riverdale's cast of characters. Jughead Jones has always had an insatiable appetite ... but what if his hunger came from a sinister place? When a murderous menace is on the prowl, taking the lives of some of the most well-known and esteemed inhabitants of Riverdale, Jughead and his family's dark legacy comes to light.
Mooncakes
Walker, Suzanne, author
2019
Nova Huang knows more about magic than your average teen witch. She works at her grandmothers bookshop, where she helps them loan out spell books and investigate any supernatural occurrences in their New England town. One fateful night, she follows reports of a white wolf into the woods, and she comes across the unexpected: her childhood crush, Tam Lang, battling a horse demon in the woods. Pursued by dark forces eager to claim the magic of wolves and out of options, Tam turns to Nova for help.
Night world. No. 1
Smith, L. J. (Lisa J.)
2008
In "Secret Vampire", Poppy thought the summer would last forever; then she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Now Poppy's only hope for survival is James, her friend and secret love. A vampire in the Night World, James can make Poppy immortal. But first they both must risk everything to go against the laws of Night World. Their brother, Ash, is sent to bring the girls back, but he falls in love with their beautiful friend. Fugitives from Night World, three vampire sisters leave their isolated home to live among humans in "Daughters of Darkness". Two witch cousins fight over their high school crush. It's a battle between black magic and white magic in "Spellbinder".
Pride and prejudice and zombies : the classic Regency romance -- now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem!
Grahame-Smith, Seth
2009
Pumpkinheads
Rowell, Rainbow, author
2019
Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends. Every autumn, all through high school, they've worked together at the world's best pumpkin patch. They say good-bye every Halloween, and they're reunited every September 1. But this Halloween is different. Josie and Deja are finally seniors. It's their last season at the Patch, their last season together—their last good-bye. Josie's ready to spend the whole night feeling melancholy about it. But Deja has a plan: What if, instead of moping and instead of the usual slinging lima beans down at the Succotash Hut, they went out with a bang? They could see all the sights, taste all the snacks. Maybe Josie could even talk to that cute girl he's been mooning over for three years. What if their last shift was an adventure?
Rise of the wolf
Jobling, Curtis
2011
Forced to flee the family he loves, Drew Ferran seeks refuge in the most godforsaken parts of Lyssia. But when he is captured by Lord Bergan's men, Drew must prove he is not the enemy. Can Drew battle the werecreatures determined to destroy him and master the animal within?
Rod Serling's The Twilight zone. The monsters are due on Maple Street
Kneece, Mark
2009
When, after seeing a meteor fall from the sky, citizens of a small town discover that they have no power or telephone service, they begin to panic and become increasingly violent as they await the arrival of monsters from outer space.
Rod Serling's The Twilight zone. Walking distance
Kneece, Mark
2008
When he gets a flat tire within walking distance of the hometown that he has not seen in twenty years, a man walks back into his own past.