Can anyone recommend juvenile fiction books that deal with the paranormal?
Can anyone recommend juvenile fiction books that deal with the paranormal?
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Can anyone recommend juvenile fiction books that deal with the paranormal?
Kingfountian series
Fallen series and house of night series
Thank you for the suggestions!
They are some of my favorite ya series
House of Night looks really interesting, my tbr pile is getting longer and longer
Ya I have that problem too
This one’s pretty good so far
It sounds really good, and I love the cover art
I thought it was really pretty too
I’m a sucker for pretty cover art
Me too
Alice in Zombieland
Anna Dressed in Blood (I haven’t read this one yet, still in my TBR pile.)
Anna dressed in blood looks really good! Thanks for the suggestions
Yeah actually… Just discovered a “white whale” I’ve been chasing for years… John Bellairs has a whole slew of them. His Anthony Monday books were the specific ones I was looking for, but he has others too… Not sure how “juvenile” you’re looking for… But I’d say they’re probably around a 3rd/4th grade reading level.
Thanks for the suggestions! I’m actually writing a story and I’m thinking it’s going to be in the YA or Juvinile age range so the more to read and research the better!
Dear lor’ then YES read them!! Edward Gorey illustrated several (if not all) of his works, which is a bonus if you’re a fan of his art… And what I recall of the Monday books was a very well written sinister evil, but not presented in a manner which would terrify youngsters. I was a twisted child though, almost more afraid of the light than the dark, you might say 😉
Bellairs should suit your research very well indeed 🙂
Fantastic!!! My MC sounds a bit like you so this is all good:)
If you wanted something a little more “grown up” Christopher Pike is good too… And Lois Duncan (I Know What You Did Last Summer) has a couple books which touch on subjects like Astral Projection and such… and I’m thinking Avi wrote some good material on that subject too…
OH… ooh… and Brian Jacques Castaway books. His Redwall is better known, but not exactly paranormal. The Castaway books are about a boy who got caught in a Flying Dutchman kind of situation… Can’t die, wanders around with his telepathic dog and helps folks. The thing about Castaways is it has the paranormal, but not the typical scare tactics usually associated with that genre.
Now that sounds interesting!!!
Hahaha I mean, my point about the Castaways isn’t that there’s no terror involved… Ben and Ned get into some hairy situations… Just that it’s a good reference since it shows the paranormal as more…. A tool of God, than the Devils work. The story is very well done anyway, but a completely different perspective than most authors use when addressing the strange.
Yes that’s sort of what I’m going for, a different angle at the very least. I literally just started this week so there’s a lot to consider
Really then… couldn’t hurt to read The Bible either (people always seem to forget that it’s basically just an ancient word for The Book)… I’m not exactly religious, and probably the furthest thing you can get from actual ORGANIZED religion… but even a total atheist should be able to read it objectively. TONS of paranormal miracles listed there… Dead people reviving, loaves and fishes, a scant amount of oil that burns longer than it should, giant fish swallowing men, bushes burning without consuming the wood, bodies of water split in half, staffs turned into serpents… Moses alone is a fertile ground for the unexplained…
That’s a very good point. I have to say I have not read it. I don’t think the kiddie ones really count either huh lol
If you wanted to read the kiddie parable versions, you’ll still get about the same info… Despite my lack of absolute faith, I was raised strictly Seventh Day Adventist, and some of my favorite books are some of the kiddie parables.
Etta B. Degering’s My Bible Friends is fairly accurate, and Arthur S. Maxwell’s The Bible Story set is good too….
I went through a long phase where I was obsessed with this kinda stuff… I’m sure if I sit on it a little while I’ll think of some other suggestions too, but I’m still on my first coffee, so may take a little while to fully warm up my brain 😀 I’ll come back and let you know if I get any brainstorms later 😉
Wicked lovely series!
RL Stein is good.
Omg duh why didn’t I think of that, thank you!!
What I have found inspiring is to go to a bookshop and browse around the store looking for books in that genre and more than likely you will end up with an entirely different book ‘cos some of those books there just grab you…its useless to fight it or resist!
The Ruined series (3 books- Ruined, Unbroken, Dark Souls) by Paula Morris. The first two are set in New Orleans.
Betty Ren Wright’s books basically all dealt with ghosts and such, they’re all stand-alone.
Veil Diaries by BL Brunnemer is AMAZING
Chronicles of Vladimir Todd
Books by Betty Ren Wright and Mary Downing Haun are great.
Betty Ren Wright is awesome!!! There’s one of her ghost stories, I think it was called Wait Til Helen Comes, that I still reread every couple years.
That one is by Haun. I love Christina’s Ghost by Wright.
The casquette girls by Alys Arden
Ghosts I have been by Richard Peck and other books by him. There are also books that are folk tales in that section like Scary Stories to tell in the Dark.
Thanks for all the suggestions everyone!!!
Gone by Micheal grant
Sarah by Teri Polen. We read it a while back in our book club and it’s very good.
The Old Willis Place by Mary Downing Hahn.
Ghost Ship by Dielof Reiche.
I am a huge fan of Jonathan Stroud. The Bartimaeus series is fantastic – more magicians and djinn’s,
But the Lockwood & Co series is more paranormal-y?
Anything by Kelly Armstrong she’s the best!
Robert Beatty’s Serafina series. It’s not noticeable when you first start it that that is what is going on but as you get into it’s definitely there. There are three of them at the moment and I believe he is going to write a spinoff series of it, too.
I have always wanted to read that series!
@Kerri I loved it even if I am 62 lol. I grew up in Asheville and went to biltmore a lot as a kid.
Good books don’t have an age limit am I right?
Again, not sure on the juvenile fiction, but Simon Holt’s The Devouring Trilogy is def paranormal (getting trapped in your night mares, facing your fears to get out, sibling relationships, body possession)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3374819-the-devouring
Ooh that sounds awesome!
They are! I read them every Halloween! (I’m easily spooked and these didn’t make me like, afraid to run to my bathroom in the dark at 1 am so idk how affected a juvenile would be…)
What age are we talking about?
I will be reading them personally and I’m way past the juvenile age lol. I am wanting to familiarize myself with the YA and Juvenile fiction genres so all these examples are super helpful
OH
That is so awesome!
The Lux Series
Mortal Instruments series
The Mortal Instruments.
all the lovely bad ones
Skullduggery Pleasant are junior
Ferryman by Claire Mcfall
Spirit ascendancy by E.E. Holmes
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley @Vicky, Half Magic by Edward Eager
Goosebumps