Little Willow ([info]slayground) wrote,
@ 2008-05-03 12:23:00
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Booklist: Mind Readers and Ghostly Visitors
I can often anticipate what people are going to say, want, or need. I'm a quick thinker and I'd like to think I'm pretty perceptive. I can also be very persuasive. (Please note that I use my powers for good, not evil!) With both Jules and Meg Cabot calling me psychic within 24 hours, I felt the urge to create this list.

Fictional stories about telepathy or ESP have always interested me. They often involve living characters interacting with ghosts. Here are some ghost and/or psychic stories I've enjoyed, listed alphabetically by author and split into two sections: books for kids and books for teens.

Juvenile Fiction
Gilda Joyce mysteries by Jennifer Allison
- Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator
- The Ladies of the Lake
- The Ghost Sonata

The Doll in the Garden by Mary Downing Hahn

A Time for Andrew by Mary Downing Hahn

Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn

Hidden Talents by David Lubar
- Sequel: True Talents

Lily's Ghosts by Laura Ruby

Teen Fiction
Golden by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
- Sequel: Platinum

A Great and Terrible Beauty trilogy by Libba Bray
- A Great and Terrible Beauty
- Rebel Angels
- The Sweet Far Thing

1-800-WHERE-R-YOU? by Meg Cabot
- When Lighting Strikes
- Code Name Cassandra
- Safe House
- Sanctuary
- Missing You

Gallows Hill by Lois Duncan

The Third Eye by Lois Duncan

Prowlers series by Christopher Golden
- Prowlers
- Laws of Nature
- Predator and Prey
- Wild Things

The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney by Suzanne Harper

Fingerprints series by Melinda Metz
- #1 Gifted Touch
- #2 Haunted
- #3 Trust Me
- #4 Secrets
- #5 Betrayed
- #6 Revelations
- #7 Payback

Lily Dale by Wendy Corsi Staub
- Awakening
- Believing

Premonitions by Jude Watson
- Sequel: Disappearance

The Midnighters by Scott Westerfeld
- #1 Secret Hour
- #2 Touching Darkness
- #3 Blue Noon

A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb

Classic Pick
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R.A. Dick (pseudonym of Josephine Leslie)
Read the book, then see the classic film, then watch the TV series.


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[info]lisayee
2008-01-09 05:55 am UTC (link)
It's probably out of print, but growing up one of my favorite books was THE TROUBLE WITH JENNY'S EAR. It was about a girl who could read minds.

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[info]slayground
2008-01-09 06:02 am UTC (link)
I'll see if I can get it from the library!

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[info]eluper
2008-01-09 01:29 pm UTC (link)
Your list, of course, begs the question: Why are so many ESP books written as a series?

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[info]slayground
2008-01-09 02:16 pm UTC (link)
Good question. Perhaps because mysteries and fantasies have an addictive quality and eager-for-more readers?

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[info]eluper
2008-01-09 02:22 pm UTC (link)
Then I'd better get to work writing a few mysteries or fantasies. Maybe I'll write a fantastical mystery...or a mysterious fantasy.

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[info]slayground
2008-01-09 02:23 pm UTC (link)
Howzabout a fantastery?

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[info]wonderlandchick
2008-01-09 04:02 pm UTC (link)
Oooooh. Now I have a new reading list! Cause I so needed another one. ^_^

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[info]slayground
2008-01-09 07:57 pm UTC (link)
Enjoy. :)

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[info]whiskpirate
2008-01-09 07:25 pm UTC (link)
Midnighters is an amazing series. I definately second the recommendation to anyone who has yet to read it!

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[info]slayground
2008-01-09 07:57 pm UTC (link)
Appropriate icon. :)

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[info]whiskpirate
2008-01-10 04:35 am UTC (link)
I thought so ^^ I have 3 of them on this user, but I made 15 altogether, which can be found here on my icon journal.

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[info]slayground
2008-01-10 04:37 am UTC (link)
Nice.

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can u guess?
(Anonymous)
2008-03-25 01:32 am UTC (link)
I just realized I have a thing for ESP series. I loved the 1-800 Where R You Series. When lighting Strikes was my first Meg Cabot book so it holds a special place in my book reading heart. I absolutely loved the Libba Bray trilogy. Gemma Doyle rocks. Gilda Joyce is smart sassy and so much fun. I didn't know there was a third one in the series though, thanks. I am going to have to check out some of these other books

Doret

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Re: can u guess?
[info]slayground
2008-03-25 02:39 pm UTC (link)
:)

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