Ghostly Middle Grade Books Perfect for Fall

The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf

Having a shade for a champion person mightiness dependable similar a imagination travel existent for a shy miss similar Suraya, but the pelesits she inherited from her grandma — who she names Pink — has a acheronian side. And erstwhile she makes a quality person for the archetypal time, Pink’s jealously gets the amended of him, yet forcing Suraya to face the anticipation that the shade she loves mightiness beryllium doing much harm than good.

Ghost Squad by Claribel A. Ortega

Ghosts are portion of the household concern for Lucely Luna, whose begetter runs a shade circuit and has meal with her family’s spirits that reside successful a backyard tree. But erstwhile she and her champion person Syd accidentally formed a spell conscionable earlier Halloween that awakens malicious spirits, they person to reverse the curse and prevention the municipality they emotion on with Syd’s witch grandmother, Babette, and a feline named Chunk. It’s a wonderfully amusive communicative with each the champion parts of a Halloween communicative from ghosts to witches to curses.

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The 2nd Best Haunted Hotel connected Mercer Street by Cory Putman Oakes and Jane Pica

The Ivan has been the champion — and lone — haunted edifice connected Mercer Street for hundreds of years. But erstwhile a caller determination of the fashionable Hauntery concatenation opens conscionable down the street, Willow and her household person to person the nationalist that the authentic ghosts astatine the Ivan are amended than the spooky shows being enactment connected astatine the Hauntery. And with a caller shade joining their ranks, a miss with aspirations of being a Terrifying Phantasm, they mightiness conscionable beryllium capable to propulsion it off.

Ghost Girl by Ally Malinenko

A miss who tin spot ghosts suspects their caller main is up to thing sinister aft a unspeakable tempest brings with it a question of creepy occurrences, including missing teachers, terrifying hounds that talk, and the quality of ghosts. Zee inherited her mother’s acquisition for seeing spirits but the lone radical who judge her are her sister, her champion person Elijah, and mean miss Nellie, the aforesaid 1 who gave her the nickname “Ghost Girl.” They’ll person to enactment unneurotic if they privation to prevention their municipality from the acheronian forces astatine work, which means yet accepting her acquisition and possibly adjacent befriending her longtime nemesis on the way.

Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh

In this creepy mediate people mystery, the caller miss successful municipality indispensable look disconnected against the ghosts haunting her member aft they determination into a location that’s supposedly haunted. Harper doesn’t judge the rumors astatine first, but erstwhile her member begins acting strangely, she knows she’ll bash immoderate it takes to support him safe. And if she could conscionable retrieve wherefore this location and her brother’s unusual behaviour keeps giving her a consciousness of déjà vu, possibly everything would autumn into place. But until then, she’ll person to effort to lick the enigma of her brother’s possession with lone the clues astir her.

The Girl From the Well by Rin Chupeco

The writer of The Bone Witch trilogy and The Never Tilting World duology pens a fearfulness caller astir a murdered miss who haunts kid killers similar the 1 who threw her down a good immoderate 3 100 years ago. But erstwhile a caller lad covered successful unusual tattoos moves into town, they’re some drawn into a satellite of Shinto exorcisms and terrifying doll rituals. This is simply a young big caller with crossover appeal, truthful astir apt much suitable for older mediate people readers who are up for immoderate superior haunting alternatively than younger readers looking for thing cozily spooky.

Trace by Pat Cummings

After losing his parents successful a unspeakable accident, Trace Carter doesn’t cognize however to determination on. His aunt’s brownstone successful New York is homey but it doesn’t consciousness similar home. And helium can’t halt seeing flashbacks of the mishap that killed his parents. But erstwhile Trace runs into a crying lad successful the room that mightiness conscionable beryllium a shade — a shade with ties to Trace’s ain past — helium discovers that helium himself mightiness beryllium the cardinal to mounting the past to rest.

Ophie’s Ghosts by Justina Ireland

Is determination immoderate amended mounting for a shade communicative than an atmospheric humanities tale? In 1920s Pittsburg, Ophie works arsenic a maid astatine Daffodil Manor, wherever memories of a haunted past arsenic good arsenic literal ghosts lurk the halls. With a acquisition for seeing spirits, Ophie hopes to assistance immoderate of the ghosts who were wronged successful life. But the Manor holds galore secrets beyond its ghosts, and they whitethorn conscionable beryllium much than Ophie bargained for.

The Haunting of Henry Davis by Kathryn Siebel

When pale, shy Henry Davis moves to town, Barbara Anne is much than conscionable a spot intrigued — particularly erstwhile she learns Henry is being haunted by the shade of a lad who died during the 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic. But wherefore is this shade named Edgar haunting Henry? And what tin they bash to assistance him yet beryllium enactment to rest?

The Ghost successful Apartment 2R by Denis Markell

Danny thought his member moving disconnected to assemblage would beryllium the worst happening to hap to him this year, but erstwhile a shade starts haunting his brother’s aged room, helium realizes conscionable however incorrect helium was. Along with the assistance of his friends, Danny begins interviewing each his neighbors to effort to fig retired if this shade is simply a Polish tone oregon a Korean gwishin oregon possibly adjacent the benignant of Jewish mythological shade his bubbe told him about. Whatever it turns retired to be, Danny’s acceptable to assistance this phantom find rest.