10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Horror [Middle School Readers]

1) The jumbies

Author

Baptiste, Tracey

Series

The jumbies (Tracey Baptiste) volume 1

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Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.

2) The doll's eye

Author

Cohen, Marina

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"The day Hadley discovers the lone glass eye in the empty attic of her new house is the day her life changes forever"--

3) The wrong train

Author

De Quidt, Jeremy

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A treasury of scary stories envisions the experiences of a train passenger who becomes subject to the nightmarish elements in stories told by a mysterious stranger, who demands a terrible price to make the stories end. Imagine you've just managed to catch your train and you realize it's the wrong one. You'd be annoyed of course, but not scared . . . Yet. Imagine you get off the wrong train at the next station hoping to catch one back the way you...

4) The Lie Tree

Author

Hardinge, Frances

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On an island off the south coast of Victorian England, fourteen-year-old Faith investigates the mysterious death of her father, who was involved in a scandal, and discovers a tree that feeds upon lies and gives those who eat its fruit visions of truth.

5) Room of shadows

Author

Kidd, Ronald

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Ever since his dad left, David Cray has had anger issues. So after he beats up school bully Jake Bragg, his mom grounds him in their creepy new house. Bored, David discovers a secret room with an old-fashioned desk, a chest, and a carving of a raven. Suddenly he's having strange dreams about the room and the house, and violence seems to follow him wherever he goes. Who is the Raven who is taking responsibility for these violent pranks? And why do...

6) Ryan Quinn and the Rebel's escape

Author

McGee, Ron

Series

Ryan Quinn volume 1

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When his father disappears and his mother is abducted, Ryan learns that his missing parents are secret agents and that he must undertake a perilous mission to rescue them.

7) The nest

Author

Oppel, Kenneth

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"When wasps come to Steve in a dream offering to fix his sick baby brother, he thinks all he has to do is say yes. But yes may not mean what Steve thinks it means"--

8) The gathering

Author

Poblocki, Dan

Series

Shadow House volume 1

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Poppy Caldwell is an orphan who keeps seeing a figure standing behind her in the mirror at the group home where she lives, but she does not associate this ghost with the letter that mysteriously appears in her file, claiming to be from a long-lost aunt, and inviting her to Larkspur House--and she is just one of five children who find themselves gathered in this strange house with a deadly past, and apparently no intention of letting the children escape....

9) York: the shadow cipher

Author

Ruby, Laura

Series

York (Laura Ruby) volume 1

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In an alternate history of New York, three kids try to solve a modern-world puzzle and complete a treasure hunt laid into the streets and buildings of the city.

10) Beanstalker and other hilarious scary tales

Author

White, Kiersten

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Snow White is a vampire, Little Red Riding Hood is a zombie, and Cinderella is an arsonist--and that is only some of the mayhem the reader will find in this collection of fractured fairy tales.