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Tag: Ghosts
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.
Friendly Ghosts, a guest post by Richard Fairgray
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
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.
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Book Review: Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry
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.
Book Review: Lost Soul, Be at Peace by Maggie Thrash
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
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. […]
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Book Review: Release by Patrick Ness
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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