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The only thing worse than being dead is being half-dead. And when twelve-year-old Gwinnett Rooke is accidentally flattened by a tourist trolley on the moss-draped streets of Savannah, Georgia, she finds herself in a ghastly predicament: She’s not alive, but she’s not quite dead, either. Caught somewhere between this life and the next, she takes on an apprenticeship with the local witch, Honora Haggerty.

But Honora’s not just any witch. She also serves as Savannah’s resident psychopomp—a magical guide tasked with helping the spirits of the city navigate their way through the afterlife. It’s all fun and games when it comes to reliving Revolutionary battles and placating long-dead divas, but when a shadowy corporation begins threatening Savannah’s most historical (and haunted) landmarks, ghosts start disappearing, and a string of suspicious deaths strikes the city. Gwinnett knows that an untimely end can be upsetting, but could this really be the work of a sinister specter?

Gwinnett will have to call on all her phantasmal friends to help solve the mystery before whoever—or whatever—is responsible ensures she’s totally post-mortem.

Arnie Armstrong wishes for a different life. As the band geek son of two legendary bodybuilders, his proclivity for Dungeons and Dragons over crunches and bicep curls doesn’t do him any favors when it comes to finding his place in his extraordinary family. Secretly, Arnie wishes he had the suave, brooding magnetism of his classmate, Zane DeSang, who never says a word, but somehow manages to be the coolest kid in class.

What Arnie doesn’t know is that Zane is wishing for another life, too. Despite being pressured by his cape-wearing, “traditional” vampire family, Zane wants nothing to do with world domination or terrorizing rustic villages. He longs to spend his days as a normal kid like Arnie—hanging out with friends, playing trumpet in the band, and enjoying something other than a liquid lunch.

But when Zane and Arnie fatefully collide in the local cemetery, things get freaky. Arnie wakes up in a coffin while Zane wakes up mortal, and when they discover they’ve switched bodies, they decide to take a stab at living one another’s lives. Between babysitting feral bat relatives and avoiding Mrs. Armstrong’s infamous brussels sprout pizza, swapping bodies isn’t as easy as it looks. And when a trio of vampire hunters roll into town, the stakes get even higher. The boys must work together to protect Zane’s family and reverse the swap before one of them gets skewered—leaving the other trapped forever.

FREAKY FRIDAY meets HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA in a zany, paranormal body swap.

Meat is murder.

At least, that’s what twelve-year-old magician Raine Foxworthy thinks.

But Raine isn’t sure what to think when her neglectful foodie parents drag her along for a family vacation at L’Hotel Sanable, a luxury resort specializing in reuniting estranged families. Raine, accustomed to disappointments and an empty apartment, is enchanted by the hotel’s accommodating (albeit strange) recreation program. While the parents enjoy all the boring, adult features the resort has to offer, the children are taken to “the pasture,” an isolated wonderland of games where nursemaids stand by with mountains of good things to eat. The tight-lipped hotel staff caters to Raine’s every whim, and the charming hotel manager, Madame Ingrid Mastanotti, promises the children anything and everything they want. 

The Sanable is a picture of perfection. So why can’t Raine shake the feeling that something’s wrong?

CORALINE meets HANSEL AND GRETEL in this skin-crawling, middle grade horror.

In a house of seven kids, twelve-year-old PJ McFarland feels invisible. That is, until she’s befriended by Avery Sikes, the new girl who bewitches everyone she meets. Smooth-talking, picture-perfect Avery is everything PJ’s not, and when she starts wearing PJ’s clothes, doing her homework, and seating herself in PJ’s place at the dinner table, the mysterious new girl seems to fit into PJ’s life even better than she does.  

But when a series of horrific accidents start plaguing the McFarland siblings, PJ discovers just how far Avery will go to “craft” her perfect family—and dispose of anyone who gets in her way. 

Somewhere in the nightmare realm between Stephen King and GOOSEBUMPS, this insidious middle grade horror is perfect for fans of WAIT TILL HELEN COMES.

Twelve-year-old Lou is a werewolf, and in 1860 Texas, that’s not a good thing. When one heroic act exposes his true nature, Lou is forced to flee his small-town life of hiding to seek his last hope of safety—the long-lost mother who abandoned him at birth. But the old west is a dangerous place. Between murderous fur traders, pettifogging Bible salesmen, and shapeshifting outlaw gangs, he quickly ends up on the wrong side of the law. 

Lou’s luck turns when a surly, winged bounty hunter named Jericho rescues him from a crooked sheriff. Jericho begrudgingly agrees to help him find his mother, but only for a price—she needs Lou’s unique abilities to locate a mysterious treasure. But the closer Lou gets to the prize, the more he begins to suspect that Jericho isn’t telling the whole truth about the treasure’s terrible power, her fall from heavenly grace, and his own shattered past. 

THE MANDALORIAN meets THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY in this rip-roaring werewolf western. 

The old Kerhonkson hospital just might be twelve-year-old Osmund Greene’s last hope. 

After being diagnosed with the same degenerative disease that killed his sister, Oz’s parents have no qualms about shipping him to the remote Catskills resort to begin a controversial new treatment with the young, charismatic doctor, Zachary Crane.

But Oz isn’t the only one in Crane’s care. The band of wild, recovering patients call themselves the Forever Children, led by the iron whims of a reckless (debatably psychotic) girl named Ruby. Dr. Crane claims that he fixes his patients “piece by piece,” and with every new treatment, Oz’s old memories start to slip, only to have brand-new ones pop up in their place—memories Oz doesn’t remember making.

As Oz grows stronger, Ruby’s “games” get wilder. When a horrific accident exposes the truth behind the Forever Children’s miraculous recoveries, he finds himself at the perilous precipice between science and sorcery. Dr. Crane is determined to keep his patients in perfect health, no matter what the cost.

But “forever” comes at a monstrous price. 

FRANKENSTEIN meets a gender-swapped PETER PAN in this middle grade body horror.