This story is based on the true history of one of the most haunted places in America. Daphne was a slave, now she is one of many ghosts who haunt Laural Oaks - once a beautiful plantation, now a bed and breakfast. Lila and her brother come to stay while their parents work in the area. Even as the...
This is a ghost story based on a real plantation in Louisiana, Myrtles Plantation, that has ghosts. Laurel Oaks does, too. The chapters tell the entire story by alternating between Lila Barry, whose family come to stay at the plantation and find they are the only guests, and Daphne, a long-ago sl...
The Doll GraveyardLois RubyJuvenile Horror/MysteryReview: Shelby feels like her life is falling apart. It all started when she catches her father with a woman who is not her mother. When the truth comes out that Shelby’s dad and mom are getting a divorce and her dad will have a new family Shelby ...
When twelve-year-old Dana Shannon starts to strip away wallpaper in her family's old house, she's unprepared for the surprise that awaits her. A hidden room -- containing a human skeleton! How did such a thing get there? And why was the tiny room sealed up? With the help of a diary found in the...
After the Nazis move into Austria, the Shpann family makes plans to escape. But the only place they're able to go is occupied China. Life grows harder and harder for the family, but they always manage to take solace in one another--that is until a mother's secret threatens to tear them apart.
Miriam belongs to a strict religious group--a group that does not allow makeup, jeans, jewelry and things other children take for granted each day. When Miriam is diagnosed with cancer, her church refuses to allow her to be treated. Ruby has taken on an important American issue--the competing rig...
"Why do weird things always happen to me?" Dana thought she had solved all the historical mysteries in her parents' house in Lawrence, Kansas. But now that her parents have turned the house into a bed-and-breakfast, Dana isn't so sure. Their first guests, the Burks, are a suspicious couple who ...
Spending a summer helping her mother run a truckstop diner, fourteen-year-old Dovi becomes involved in a custody battle between divorced parents who both want to hold on to their young son.
Even the teachers were buzzing about it. I was the official spokesperson at impromptu news conferences. “Yes, it was a boy. No, Pammy didn’t have any anesthetic. Weight? Six pounds, seven ounces. Brown eyes. Almost no hair, dark though. Of course he was going to be circumcised. No, he really wasn...