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Tag: Ghosts

April 13, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

Book Review: Harvest House by Cynthia Leitich Smith

We meet Celeste, our ghost, on page one. What happened to her? What's really going on in this town? And can Hughie and friends help Celeste find peace and finally help her tell her story?

February 24, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

Book Review: She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

Come for the cover, stay for the spooky story full of atmospheric weirdness, ghosts, and bugs. Don't forget the bugs.

September 3, 2021 by Amanda MacGregor

The Ghostly Inspiration Behind Burden Falls, a guest post by Kat Ellis

The first time I went on a ghost hunt, I didn’t see any ghosts. But I might have heard one.

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Friendly Ghosts, a guest post by Richard Fairgray

May 13, 2021 by Amanda MacGregor

The reason I keep writing scary stories is simple: I enjoy being afraid; I always have. I enjoy sitting alone in the dark and wondering if the howling coyotes are getting closer or if they’re just louder because they’ve caught someone.

A Banjo as a Bridge, a guest post by Erica Waters

July 21, 2020 by Amanda MacGregor

I first got the idea for Ghost Wood Song, my debut YA novel about a girl with a ghost-raising fiddle, from a spooky experience of my own.

Book Review: Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry

March 24, 2020 by Amanda MacGregor

This is a warning and a celebration of what happens when girls become feral, become hunters, when girls decide they are not sorry. A fierce story of heartbreak, grief, connection, and the complications of the human heart.

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Book Review: Lost Soul, Be at Peace by Maggie Thrash

October 2, 2018 by Amanda MacGregor

Publisher’s description Following her acclaimed Honor Girl, Maggie Thrash revisits a period of teenage depression in a graphic memoir that is at once thoughtful, honest, and marked by hope. A year and a half after the summer that changed her life, Maggie Thrash wishes she could change it all back. She’s trapped in a dark depression and […]

Book Review: Cast No Shadow by Nick Tapalansky and Anissa Espinosa

October 5, 2017 by Amanda MacGregor

Publisher’s description Greg has lived in Lancaster his whole life. The town’s always had its quirks, and being born without a shadow means he’s counted among them. When Greg discovers an old mansion in the woods just outside of town, he didn’t expect to meet a smart, beautiful, funny, and…very dead teenaged girl named Eleanor. […]

Book Review: Release by Patrick Ness

September 21, 2017 by Amanda MacGregor

Publisher’s description Inspired by Judy Blume’s Forever and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, this novel that Andrew Smith calls “beautiful, enchanting, [and] exquisitely written” is a new classic about teenage relationships, self-acceptance—and what happens when the walls we build start coming down. Adam Thorn doesn’t know it yet, but today will change his life. Between his religious family, a deeply unpleasant […]

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