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- What it is
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Within the walls of a school · properly scary
- Genre
- Historical fiction Horror Young adult
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
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The closest to yours
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Properly scary and school setting
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Properly scary and unflinching
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School setting and unflinching
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Fierce and defiant · comedy with teeth
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It tells it with no filter · it stirs you up inside
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Only properly scary
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Grouped with yours in Ghost stories where the dead won't leave
18 books · Alike in just one
Only school setting
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Fierce and defiant · it makes you cry, in a good way
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In common with yours: school setting · it's hiding a secret
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Shirley Jackson 2002
Readers put them together in Ghost stories where the dead won't leave
Greenglass House
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In common with yours: closed setting · odd and endearing
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne 2000
In common with yours: closed setting
Fourth Wing
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In common with yours: school setting · love in the middle of danger
Fish in a Tree
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In common with yours: school setting · sad, but it leaves you hopeful
Wonder
R. J. Palacio 2001
In common with yours: school setting · it makes you cry, in a good way
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2020
In common with yours: closed setting · the truth comes out bit by bit
Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery 1993
Like yours: school setting · comforting, like coming home
A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin 1992
In common with yours: school setting · one to read slowly
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J. K. Rowling 1997
In common with yours: school setting · odd and endearing
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss 2007
In common with yours: school setting · a story hidden inside another
Because of Mr. Terupt
Rob Buyea 2010
In common with yours: school setting · it makes you cry, in a good way
House in the Cerulean Sea
T. J. Klune 2019
Like yours: closed setting · odd and endearing
2 books · Alike in just one
Only unflinching
Book Thief
Markus Zusak 1998
It leaves you shaken · sad, but it leaves you hopeful
Beloved
Toni Morrison 1987
Readers put them together in Ghost stories where the dead won't leave
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It raises the temperature · love in the middle of danger
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It hurts, and then it heals · you'll finish it in two nights
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