Toxic beauty by
Starting a new school is hard enough, but Bethany has never felt more plain and ordinary. She'd give anything to be popular, beautiful and clever. When a mysterious man offers to make all of Bethany's wildest dreams come true, she jumps at the chance. But she doesn't realize that beauty comes with a price...
Tech Fury by
Eighth-grader Emily Lemon wakes up and discovers that none of the gadgets around her house are working properly, and the computers at her middle school seem to have a mind of their own--but when the scoreboard in the gym displays the words "the revolution has begun, down with humanity" she realizes that humanity has lost control and civilization as we know it is in serious trouble.
Don't mess with angels by
The stone angel sits on an old gravestone in Thornley churchyard. The grave is said to be that of Lord Jago and his family. Local legend has it that if you touch the angel's foot at midnight and cry, "Arise, Mad Lord Jago!", he'll leap out and get you! But what at first seems laughable, soon becomes very unfunny indeed. For in the graveyard something is stirring; a terrifying something that threatens to suck the life out of everything - and everyone - it encounters...
Coraline by
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
Skulduggery Pleasant by
Stephanie's uncle wrote horror fiction - at least that's what she thought until he died and left her his estate. Then she discovered that though his books may have been horror, they weren't exactly...fiction.
The Endsister by
Meet the Outhwaites. There's Dad (Dave) and Mum (Olly). There's 16-year-old Else, the violinist who hates the violin. There's nature-loving Clancy, who likes animals more than people - particularly the girls who tease him now he's at highschool. There's the twins, Oscar and Finn, Finn and Oscar, who are never far apart. And then there is four-year-old Sibbi, the baby of the family. They live in a cottage on Aunty May's property, among the trees and the possums and as much space as you could ask for. But when Aunty May gets sick, they begin to worry that they will lose everything ... until an unlikely solution appears in the form of a letter to say that Dave has inherited the old family home in London. Only London turns out not to be the grand solution everyone was hoping for. Dave is never around, constantly tied up in legal and financial drama. Olly is alone and cut off from her work and study and friends. Else is even more miserable in London than she was in Melbourne, missing her violin and not sure how to make herself feel better. And Sibbi is misbehaving, feeling left out and unwanted, and she won't stop talking about the people in their house, the people no one else can see. Meanwhile, Hardly Alice and Almost Annie watch as this new family moves into their house ... and hope and pray that they can keep them away from the locked door upstairs ...
The Turnkey by
Witnessing the turbulence and devastation of World War II during the London Blitz would prove challenging for any 12-year-old girl, but Flossie Birdwhistle is no ordinary girl-she is a ghost. Chosen to be the Turnkey at London's Highgate Cemetery, Flossie has been charged with the special task of looking after the souls that reside there. When Flossie discovers the ghost of a mysterious German soldier, far from his home and carrying a strange object, she uncovers a terrible secret that threatens the worlds of both the living and the dead. With the help of the other Turnkeys, Flossie must unravel the mystery in order to save London
