Tara Goedjen loves anything mysterious. She is the author of The Breathless (2017) and the new novel, No Beauties or Monsters.[My Book, The Movie: The Breathless; Writers Read: Tara Goedjen (December 2017); The Page 69 Test: The Breathless]
At CrimeReads Goedjen tagged six favorite "genre-bending young adult novels with speculative elements," including:
White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson (thriller + ghost story).Read about the other entries on the list.
California teenager Marigold Anderson is forced to move with her newly blended family to the Midwest for a fresh start. But the renovated house onMaple Street isn’t exactly idyllic, and the neighbors aren’t very welcoming either. On top of that, her younger step-sister keeps warning Mari that her imaginary friend wants her dead. As Mari gets closer and closer to the truth about the house on Maple, she places herself in increasingly treacherous situations, and the lies she tells her family start to stack up. White Smoke is unsettling—both for its illumination of racial and social inequalities, and its chilling, otherworldly scenes.
--Marshal Zeringue
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