Ghost in the Kitchen by Deborah McClatchey

Over time, the Lost leave behind those they love and pick up new characters along the way. Hopelessly old-fashioned and yet more modern than most girls, Sonnet speaks several languages and takes care of her motley crew back home by working in a coffee shop and playing guitar. Her family is one of the Lost time travelers who have no power over their journeys. Sonnet Gray has problems, and not just those of a typical 18 year old. There’s also a sequel, called Between the Spark and the Burn. It went to the park while my son threw footballs past my head, it was in my hand as I stirred spaghetti sauce, and it went to bed with me until I turned the last page.Īnyone who can make me believe – without groaning – in teenage insta-romance, throw in some really goofy names (River West, Sunshine, Violet White), and then change the ghost aspects to supernatural/mind reading type aspects (which generally annoy me why can’t we have some real ghosts, eh?) has this 42 year old’s respect. (Like reading a mystery and it’s revealed that the butler did it, and the butler wasn’t even mentioned in the book until the last two chapters.)īut that aside, I really had a great time reading this and couldn’t put it down. Semi-spoiler alert… I’d take off a star just because when the outcome is some character you’ve never met or a story line has a back story you weren’t told about, it feels a little like cheating somehow. Usually YA is as predictable as the day is long, but I definitely didn’t know where this story was going and had to keep reading to find out. Tucholke is great with suspenseful stories. I read Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea in one day, so I must have been intrigued! Please note that this post contains affiliate links, which means that if you purchase something you see on our site we may receive a commission at no cost to you.

So if you’re a teen, or you know a teen, who is obsessed with things that go bump in the night, here are 11 of my favorite teenage thriller books, plus 50 more that I haven’t personally read (most of them) but have heard are excellent. My family is leery of me, but what else is new? In fact, if I do pick up the occasional chic lit, family drama, or self-help book, I end up bored and whispering,

It’s weird but it’s true: Most people love to be scared.Īs a little girl I crawled under my blankets at night to read Nancy Drew by the light of a dimming flashlight.Īs a teen I discovered the gothic thrills that books like Jane Eyre, Jamaica Inn, and Mary Stewart titles could give me.Īnd now, as a grown up bookworm, I eat up thrillers like they’re going out of style (thankfully, they’re not).

Ghost in the Kitchen by Deborah McClatchey