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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

A great deal of Mary Downing Hahn's stories include ghostly visitors. I'll just list my favorites for now:

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

Bad Girls Don't Die by Katie Alender

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

Dead on Town Line by Leslie Connor

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

Soulless by Christopher Golden

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

Pemba's Song: A Ghost Story by Marilyn Nelson and Tonya C. Hegamin

The Immortals series by Alyson Noël
- Evermore
- Blue Moon
- Shadowland
- Dark Flame (2010)
- Untitled fifth book (2010)
- Untitled sixth book (2011)

Note: Riley, Ever's little sister in The Immortals, is getting her own (yet-to-be-titled) series, launching in 2010.

Invisible Touch by Kelly Parra

Dead is... series by Marlene Perez (I've read the first two books)
- Dead is the New Black
- Dead is a State of Mind
- Dead is So Last Year

The Seer series by Linda Joy Singleton (I've only read the first book)
- Don't Die Dragonfly
- Last Dance
- Witch Ball
- Sword Play
- Fatal Charm

Lily Dale series by Wendy Corsi Staub
- Awakening
- Believing
- Connecting
- Discovering

Blue is for Nightmares series by Laurie Faria Stolarz
- Blue is for Nightmares
- White is for Magic
- Silver is for Secrets
- Red is for Remembrance
- Black is for Beginnings (graphic novel)

The Touch series by Laurie Faria Stolarz
- Deadly Little Secret
- Deadly Little Lies
- Deadly Little Game (November 2010)
- Untitled fourth book (November 2011)
- Untitled fifth book (November 2012)

Premonitions by Jude Watson
- Sequel: Disappearance
Note: These two books will be republished by Scholastic as one volume called The Sight: Premonitions and Disappearance in March 2010, with a new byline: Judy Blundell, the author of What I Saw and How I Lied. She used the pseudonym Jude Watson for her Star Wars books as well.

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.

Related Booklists: Sleuths and Spies, Contemporary Sci-Fi for Kids and Teens, Fantasy Novels for Kids and Teens


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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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[info]slayground
2008-03-25 02:39 pm UTC (link)
:)

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(Anonymous)
2008-06-16 06:14 am UTC (link)
There is a book I used to love and that I took out of my school's library many times. It is about a girl who was somehow connected with the ghost of another girl who lived and died in her house a century before. I think part of the story is that she has to find out how this girl died and help her. I can't remember what the name is, though. Do you think you could help me figure out what this book is?

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[info]slayground
2008-06-16 01:30 pm UTC (link)
Certainly! It sounds like the premise of various books, of course. Do you recall when it was published, and/or if it was for kids or for teens? Give me an era, a decade, or anything you can remember about the cover. That will help narrow it down for me.

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(Anonymous)
2008-06-16 04:54 pm UTC (link)
I think it was for kids, but then again I also read books for teens as a kid, so I'm not entirely sure. I remember that at the end of the book there was a big fire, and the ghost family was trapped underneath a trapdoor in the attic. The copy I had was a tattered paper back, and I know it had a picture on the front, but I don't remember it. I think the background of the cover was orange. I wish I remembered more.

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[info]novel_tee
2009-05-07 05:44 am UTC (link)
I read the 1-800 series from Meg Cabot back in middle school, or something. I never really liked it as much as the Mediator series, though.

I also read the Fingerprints series by Melinda Metz. I remember I was so bummed to find out that they just randomly ended it after seven books. I wikipedia-ed it for fun and I guess a TV show was in the works, but never got picked up.



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[info]slayground
2009-05-07 05:54 am UTC (link)
That would have been fun to see! Paranormal Girl - IMDb - though I would have kept the original title, Fingerprints. :)

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