Stine continues to thrill scare-seeking nine-year-olds, and that Darren Shan is a solid pick for thirteen-year-olds who want some gore with their fright. Several of my go-to’s are still wonderful, from the mild-to-medium-scary John Bellairs series ( The House with a Clock in its Walls, etc.) to Mary Downing Hahn’s decidedly creepy Wait Till Helen Comesto Patricia Clapp’s somewhat gothic Jane-Emily. I can still point teens toward Lois Duncan’s guilty pleasure, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and seven-year-olds toward James Howe’s delicious Bunnicula. It’s been several years since horror had a strong fan base among our children and teen readers, but it seems to be coming back. But the evil force becomes too strong and soon Jane is fighting for her life.Requests for thriller and horror titles have been creeping steadily upward over the past year, and I realize that I’m not up on the best of the recent scariest kids’ books anymore.
Louisa, Jane's eighteen-year-old aunt and companion, believes that Jane's relationship with the dead and dark-eyed Emily is only the product of a lonely child's imagination. From the first, she feels the presence of Emily, the long-dead daughter of Mrs.
YOUN JANE CANFIELD goes to spend the summer in the large, dark mansion of her grandmother in Lynn, Massachusetts. or she will lose her innocent, helpless niece forever. Now Emily has dark plans for little Jane - a blood-chilling purpose that Louisa, just a girl herself, must battle with all her heart, soul, and spirit. Many years earlier, a child of rage and malevolence lived in this place. Jane stares into a reflecting ball in the garden - and the face that looks back at her is not her own. Jane is nine years old and an orphan when she and her young Aunt Louisa come to spend the summer at Jane's grandmother's house, a large, mysterious mansion in Massachusetts. Emily was a selfish, willful, hateful child who died before her thirteenth birthday.
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