Anticipating a regular, uneventful summer, nine-year-old Abby is astounded when she meets up with an angry ghost in her house who draws her into a mysterious adventure.
"In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost; into future scenarios that seem all too real; and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by Otherness"--Amazon.com.
A New York Times bestseller The Haunting of Sunshine Girl,in active development for television by The Weinstein Company, a hit paranomal YA series based on the wildly popular YouTube channel about an "adorkable" teenager living in a haunted house. Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Sunshine Griffith and her mother Kat move from sunny Austin, Texas, to the rain-drenched town of Ridgemont, Washington. Though Sunshine is adopted, she and her mother have always been close, sharing a special bond filled with laughter and inside jokes. But from the moment they arrive, Sunshine feels her world darken with an eeriness she cannot place. And even if Kat doesn't recognize it, Sunshine knows that something about their new house is just ... creepy. In the days that follow, things only get stranger. Sunshine is followed around the house by an icy breeze, phantom wind slams her bedroom door shut, and eventually, the laughter Sunshine hears on her first night evolves into sobs. She can hardly believe it, but as the spirits haunting her house become more frightening-and it becomes clear that Kat is in danger-Sunshine must accept what she is, pass the test before her, and save her mother from a fate worse than death.
Kristy and Lawrence are a couple who work together as Private Investigators.Kristy is fascinated by the paranormal while Lawrence remains sceptical. She has added psychic skills to her resume which has lead her to being relegated to the role of nanny when she applies for investigate work. She is rescued from this role by a distraught mother, Suzanne, who is convinced her son, Eddy, was murdered.Eddy has died in a house fire, along with a young girl assumed to be Ashlin, who had been left in charge of the house. Kristy is led deeper into the maze of relationships of Eddy and Ashlin and Eddy's family. Kristy finds Ashlin's journal and is fascinated by her account of a young boy and girl dying, in a fire, in a house by the sea. Finally, the case appears to have been wrapped up, at least from sceptical Lawrence's point of view, but following events show all is not as it seems.
Nine-year-old Abby surprises herself, her equally timid baby-sitter, and her older brother when they are haunted by a ghost that is trying to reclaim a stolen music box.
If you want to see a ghost, you have to believe in them... Siblings Jo and Allan spend a magical six-week summer holiday with their aunt at her fancy dress shop in Hastings, England, surrounded by magic, the age-old history of Hastings, and haunted houses. Jo is an 8-year-old girl who loves cats - and ghosts - and is anxious to see her very first spirit. Surely in historic Hastings, her wish will come true! Allan is her 11-year-old brother who loves football and history. He is also very protective of his little sister. Now a history teacher, the story is told through Allan's eyes many years later, as he recounts what happened on My Haunted Summer Holiday. Join these two for a summer vacation you will never forget.
Shy, nine-year-old Abby surprises herself, her equally timid babysitter, and her older brother when they are haunted by a ghost that is trying to reclaim a stolen music box.