Friday, March 2, 2018

Seven YA books set in spooky small towns

At the BN Teen Blog, Nicole Hill tagged seven top YA books set in spooky small towns, including:
The Grave Keepers, by Elizabeth Byrne

Death isn’t a far away eventuality in Laurel and Athena’s upstate New York hometown, and graves aren’t just a place you go when you die: they’re a profoundly meaningful personal space, tended meticulously by the people who will one day inhabit them. While the premise alone is enough to give you goosebumps, it’s the outside world that intrudes upon the quiet life of the sisters, raised in relative seclusion by their cemetery owner parents. Well, and the scheming ghost. The scheming ghost is pretty intrusive, too.
Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue