During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement, and her grandmother seeing a ghost -- one who has wild, impractical, and illuminating plans.

"Curator of paleontology Dr. Simon Nealy never expected to return to his Pennsylvania hometown, let alone the Hawthorne Museum of Natural History. He was just a boy when his six-year-old sister, Morgan, was abducted from the museum under his watch, and the guilt has haunted Simon ever since. After a recent break-up and the death of the aunt who raised him, Simon feels drawn back to the place where Morgan vanished, in search of the bones they never...

"The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn't fit among them. For Violet Hart -- whose family is about to move into the house on Katydid Street -- very little felt like it fit anymore. Like their old home, suddenly too small since her mother remarried and the new baby arrived. Or Violet's group of friends, which, since they started middle school, isn't enough for Violet's best friend, Paige. Everything...

"Across Italy there are many half-empty towns, nearly abandoned by those who migrate to the coast or to cities. The beautiful, crumbling hilltop town of Becchina is among them, but its mayor has taken drastic measures to rebuild -- selling abandoned homes to anyone in the world for a single Euro, as long as the buyer promises to live there for at least five years. It's a no-brainer for American couple Tommy and Kate Puglisi. Both work remotely, and...

From a New York Times–bestselling author, a teen falls for her ghostly protector and must choose between him and her real-life boyfriend.   Melissa Loring appears to have it all-generous parents, great friends, a devoted boyfriend. Tripp is nothing short of amazing-kind, athletic, and one of the most popular guys at school. Not to mention hot. So why does Melissa find herself longing for someone else? Sometimes she even dreams about an invisible...

After successfully ending the werewolf and vampire war, Wendy and her distant relative Craven must act quick to resolve the werewolf crisis that's taking place in the woods next to Witchspell Manor, but will she succeed this time?

Jake Prescott thinks he's finally in luck when magician Augustus Towers asks him to be his assistant. Jake's an amateur magician, and Augustus might be the perfect person to help him make it big. But Jake can't shake the creepy feeling he gets when he visits Augustus's performance space. Can it be true that The Marvelous Melbourne haunts the theater? And did he really die inside the Spirit Cabinet--the box Jake ends up trapped inside during Towers'...

Best friends Jared, Curtis, and Nick are ready to face the world-but what about the underworld? When a text message from an unknown number hits all of their phones, the boys find themselves faced with a strange figure and a mystery to solve. However, it's Nick who must find the solution or risk losing his life! Will the boys' friendship be enough to save him, or will he spend eternity in the afterlife?

Thirteen-year-old George is cynical about the existence of ghosts. Then he goes to spend half-term with his Gran and begins to revise his views. Can he believe the fantastic tales she tells him about Beckington Castle? Or was it only her imagination or a bad dream? A question he might well ask too, when he finds himself in Jacobean England, rubbing shoulders with King James I's favourite, George Villiers, and his family. History was never so much...

Bard's Blood #1 The classic tales of William Shakespeare are often as packed with gore and corpses as the scariest slasher flick -- and can spawn equally gruesome sequels.... Football star Cameron Dean is genuine campus royalty at Globe University, but his life is more of a nightmare than a dream. Not only was his dad murdered under mysterious circumstances, but Cameron suspects that his mom and aunt may have had something to do with it! When he unexpectedly...