Beneath The Ghost Moon

Beneath the midnight moon, mice battle mean-hearted creepy crawlies to protect their farmyard home.

Beneath the midnight moon, mice battle mean-hearted creepy crawlies to protect their farmyard home.

Laurel Daneau has moved on to a new life, in a new town, but inside she's still reeling from the loss of her beloved mother and grandmother after Hurricane Katrina washed away their home. Laurel's new life is going well, with a new best friend, a place on the cheerleading squad and T-Boom, co-captain of the basketball team, for a boyfriend. Yet Laurel is haunted by voices and memories from her past. When T-Boom introduces Laurel to meth, she immediately falls under its spell, loving the way it erases, even if only briefly, her past. But as she becomes alienated from her friends and family, she becomes a shell of her former self, and longs to be whole again. With help from an artist named Moses and her friend Kaylee, she's able to begin to rewrite her story and start to move on from her addiction. Incorporating Laurel's bittersweet memories of life before and during the hurricane, this is a stunning novel by one of our finest writers. Jacqueline Woodson's haunting - but ultimately hopeful - story is beautifully told and one readers will not want to miss.

Olivia "Livvy" Archer Morrison returns with her little girl to her childhood home on a northern Louisiana plantation only to be tortured by nightmares of her mother's violent death and the uneasy feeling that they are somehow connected to multiple murders committed 20 years ago by a serial killer who preys on young girls. Only her stepcousin Seth Archer, a scion of the Archer clan who played the role of a bossy brother figure to Livvy when they were children, may be able to save her and her daughter from the encroaching terrors of the past.

A freed slave from a parallel universe, Quinn has come to this world on a vital mission. But then she’s stopped in her tracks by the seductive attentions of a mysterious spirit. He’s a ghost named Caleb Marshall—a werewolf who was supposedly murdered by the ancestors of her dearest friends. When Caleb finds a way to take over a human body, Quinn can no longer resist her overwhelming desire, even though she’s not sure she can trust him. But soon she discovers that they have a shared enemy—and if she doesn’t act fast, she may lose the man she’s come to love, along with her life.

Something chilling lurks underground, and two step-siblings must unite to uncover the truth in this “engrossing mystery” (Booklist). Katie knows that something eerie is happening in the old, deserted town where she, her stepbrother, and her newly widowed mother are spending the summer taking care of Uncle Frank. Sometimes, when Katie puts her ear to the ground in Uncle Frank’s backyard, she hears a groaning noise that sounds almost human. But when a crippled ghost-girl appears to her out of the gloom in an abandoned mine, Katie is at once terrified and puzzled. Could the girl’s chilling appearance have something to do with a tragic mining accident thirty years before? In a fiery climax, Katie and her rebellious stepbrother learn the truth about the past and discover things about each other that strengthen their fragile relationship.

In the late 1870s, young Jim Doolen travels to New Mexico, where he befriends Bill Bonney and ends up in the middle of the Lincoln County War.