18 books like The Midnight Horse

What to read after The Midnight Horse — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed Bruce Coville · 1991 · 185p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Nina Tanleven, six grader, and her best friend, Chris discover the tower room with its big brass bed and grieving little girl ghost. Shares: Ghosts in fiction, Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction

The Mystery on Blizzard Mountain Gertrude Chandler Warner · 2001 · ★ 3.7 · 121p · ≈ 4h · Moderate When the Alden children go camping on Blizzard Mountain, a place said to be inhabited by a ghost looking for buried treasure, they begin to think someone or something is trying to scare them off. Shares: Ghosts in fiction, Orphans in fiction, Orphans, Ghosts

Ark Angel Anthony Horowitz · 2005 · ★ 4.3 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The sniper's bullet nearly killed him. But Alex Rider managed to survive...just in time for more trouble to come his way. When kidnappers attempt to snatch a fellow patient from the exclusive hospital where Alex is recovering, he knows he has to stop him. But the boy he saves is no ordinary patient: He is the son of Nikolai Drevin, one of the richest men in the world. The eccentric billionaire… Shares: Adventure and adventurers in fiction, Orphans in fiction, Orphans, Adventure

The ghost wore gray Bruce Coville · 1988 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Nina ("Nine") Tanleven and her best buddy Chris Gurley are having a hard time. The play that led to them meeting a ghost and unraveling a mystery has ended. Now the rest of the summer looms ahead, looking dull after their great adventure.Luckily, Nine's dad gets a job designing the restoration of an old – and distressingly run down – hotel in the Catskill Mountains. Nine and Chris are more than… Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Adventure, Children's fiction

The Mysterious Benedict Society (The Mysterious Benedict Society #1) Trenton Lee Stewart · 2007 · ★ 4.2 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Moderate "Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?" Dozens of children respond to this peculiar ad in the newspaper and are then put through a series of mind-bending tests, which readers take along with them. Only four children--two boys and two girls--succeed. Their challenge: to go on a secret mission that only the most intelligent and inventive children could complete. To accomplish… Shares: Adventure and adventurers in fiction, Adventure fiction, Orphans, Adventure

Camp Princess 1 Kathryn Lasky · 2006 · ★ 3.1 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Camp Princess is just like any other summer camp. Okay, so it's not exactly summer, since the magical kingdom of Palacyndra has seasons that change at the drop of a tiara. And it's not exactly camp, since the princesses stay in fully furnished turrets, complete with chambermaids. But it is a chance to get away from home and enjoy activities such as arts and crafts (with diamonds, of course) and… Shares: Ghosts in fiction, Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction

The Ghost Belonged to Me Richard Peck · 1975 · ★ 4.8 · 183p · ≈ 6h · Moderate In this story set in 1913, Blossom Culp, Alexander Armsworth, adventurer Miles Armsworth, and Blossom's spiritualist mother set out to exorcise a ghost. Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction

Remember me 3 Christopher Pike · 1995 · ★ 3.0 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Someone did not like Shari Cooper writing her stories. Shari Cooper had died once, and then returned to earth as a Wanderer - a soul who had been given permission to take the place of another soul in a mature body. Shari has regained her memory of her previous life. More than that, she has realized her purpose in returning to mortal life. To write stories for young people to help them understand… Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Adventure, Children's fiction

Christina's Ghost Betty Ren Wright · 1985 · ★ 3.9 · 105p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Christina's summer in a spooky, isolated Victorian house with her grumpy uncle turns into a ghostly adventure. Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction

Black Beauty Anna Sewell · 1945 · ★ 4.3 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions, the Autobiography of a Horse is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was written from a horse as main characters perspective. She wrote it in the last years of her life, during which she was bedridden and seriously ill.Merriam-Webster (1995). "Black Beauty". Merriam Websters Encyclopedia of Literature. The novel became an immediate best-seller,… Shares: Horses, Children's fiction

The seer of shadows Avi · 1772 · ★ 4.1 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Demanding In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when Horace accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn. Shares: Ghosts in fiction, Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction

Nancy Drew ghost stories Carolyn Keene · 1983 · ★ 3.7 · 151p · ≈ 5h · Moderate WHEN NIGHT FALLS AND THE HORRORS RISE -- WILL NANCY STAND A GHOST OF A CHANCE? What strange dark secrets can a college professor reveal -- after she has risen from the grave? Do dogs howl at the moon . . .do their eyes glow in the night -- one hundred years after their death? What evil power lurks in the fortune-teller's den -- embodied in the sinister form of a terrifying froglike… Shares: Ghosts in fiction, Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction

The Ghost Next Door Robert Lawrence Stine · 1993 · ★ 3.8 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Hannah's boring summer changes when a new boy, who seems to disappear in the strangest ways, moves in next door. Shares: Ghosts in fiction, Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction

The Ghost of the Chattering Bones Gertrude Chandler Warner · 2005 · ★ 3.0 While vacationing at a friend's country home, the four Alden siblings try to find a long-missing, priceless brooch and investigate the existence of a ghostly stream. Shares: Orphans, Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Adventure

Black Beauty Anna Sewell · 1890 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Challenging An Apple Books Classic edition.With Black Beauty, author Anna Sewell hoped to make people care about the cruel abuses that cab horses were suffering—bought and sold, whipped, and worked to exhaustion. Sewell tells the story from the perspective of Beauty, a horse who lived an idyllic life on a farm in the English countryside until he was sold and forced to pull cabs in London. In this way, she… Shares: Horses, Children's fiction

The Reckoning Kelley Armstrong · 2010 · ★ 3.8 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Grade 8 Up Fifteen-year-old Chloe Saunders and her friends Tori, Simon, and Derek are genetically altered supernaturals on the run from the evil corporation that created them. Hiding out with a family friend, they are trying to make sense of their predicament and discover what sinister plans the Edison Group has in store for them. As a powerful necromancer who can raise the dead in her sleep,… Shares: Adventure fiction, Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Adventure

The Headless Ghost Robert Lawrence Stine · 1995 · ★ 3.7 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Everyone knows about Hill House. It's the biggest tourist attraction in town. That's because it's haunted. Haunted by the ghost of a thirteen-year-old boy. A boy with no head! Duane and Stephanie love Hill House. It's dark. And creepy. And totally scary. Still, they've never actually seen the ghost. Until the night they decide to go on a search. A search for his head... Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction

The house of the nightmare, and other eerie tales Kathleen Lines · 1967 · ★ 3.6 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate CONTENTS: 1 - FROM IMAGINATION The House Of The Nightmare by Edward Lucas White The Hauntings At Thorhallstead by Allen French His Own Number by William Croft Dickinson Gabriel-Ernest by Saki Hand In Glove by Elizabeth Bowen Mr. Fox (traditional english tale) by Anonymous Curfew by L.M. Boston John Bartine's Watch by Ambrose Bierce The Monkey's Paw by W.W.Jacobs My Grandfather, Hendry Watty by… Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction

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