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VaughanPL: Teen Reads: Summer Scares

Camps in dark, mysterious woods. Isolated vacation homes. Beaches with lots and lots of water. And worst of all, summer jobs. Summer can be a pretty scary time, with horrors that aren't afraid to stand in broad daylight. Embrace the terror with these YA books.

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  • "One year after Nan's three best friends disappear, no one is more surprised than her when one of them returns -- because she is the one who killed them."
    Book, 2025New York : Delacorte Press, [2025] — YA FIC Power
  • "Seventeen-year-old Haitian American zombie Brielle seeks revenge on the wealthy elites responsible for her immigrant family's pain."
    Book, 2025New York : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2025. — YA FIC Mouli
  • "Seventeen-year-old Devon, her twin sister, and her friends face a demonic force who seemingly follows horror movie tropes, propelling the group to flip the script and use their horror movie knowledge in order to survive."
    Book, 2024New York : Simon & Schuster, 2024. — YA FIC Welli
  • Charity has a job playing the Final Girl at Camp Mirror Lake, a fully immersive horror experience recreating scenes from a classic slasher film. But when her fellow staffers start disappearing, or turning up dead, Charity will have to discover who…
    Book, 2023New York : Bloomsbury, 2023. — YA FIC Bayro
  • "It has Hikaru's face. It has Hikaru's voice. It even has Hikaru's memories. But whatever came down from the mountains six months ago isn't Yoshiki's best friend. Whatever it is, it's dangerous. Carrying on at school and hanging out as if nothing…
    Book, 2023New York : Yen Press, 2023. — YA Mokum
  • A summer horror classic. "Four teenagers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery figure seeking revenge."
    Book, 2010New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2010] — YA FIC Dunca
  • "Three girls who arrive to an abandoned island must outwit and outlast the mysterious killer who awaits them there."
    Book, 2023New York : HarperTeen, [2023] — YA FIC Durst
  • "Forced to spend her summer in her aunt's strange small town, a teen girl discovers dark secrets hidden in the woods."
    Unknown, 2023Delacorte Press, 2023
  • Also available on Hoopla. "Soon after arriving in the tiny tourist town of Nightfall, Oregon, siblings Theo and Marco break their grandmother's rule not to leave the house after dark and befriend a mysterious group of beguiling girls who are far…
    Book, 2023New York : Delacorte Press, [2023] — YA FIC Young
  • "A visit to a private amusement park is the trip of a lifetime for a group of teen influencers, until they learn that getting off the island alive is not part of the plan."
    Book, 2023New York : Delacorte Press, [2023] — YA FIC Prest
  • "When five estranged friends return to a summer lake house on the anniversary of their friend's death, unexplainable events begin happening, old betrayals rise to the surface, and the group suspects a killer among them is intent on revenge."
    Book, 2022New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2022. — YA FIC Mele
  • After his twin sister dies mysteriously and horrifically, genderfluid Mars takes her place at a summer academy. While trying to get close to her friends to find out what happened to his sister, Mars realizes something is hunting him in this strange…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : PUSH, [2022] — YA FIC LaSal
  • Arlee is sent by her high-achieving mother to a college-prep summer camp, and at first, despite her reservations, Arlee feels like she's found a group of like-minded teens. When that goes awry, Arlee is asked to join a secret society that claims to…
    Book, 2022New York : Wednesday Books, 2022. — YA FIC Rubin
  • "After a traumatic school year, camp counselor Goldie Easton is excited to reunite with her two best friends at an elite summer camp, but when a local boy is found dead on the grounds, all three must reveal a dark secret to find the murderer."
    Book, 2022New York : Razorbill, 2022. — YA FIC Goodm
  • "Twenty five girls are invited to attend the mysterious Camp So-and-So over the summer where they work with their cabin mates to compete in the All-Camp Sports 7 Follies."
    Book, 2017Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Lab, [2017] — YA FIC McCoy
  • "Sixteen-year-old fledgling mediums Mina and Evelyn navigate their growing attraction as they investigate the connection between a vengeful spirit and murders that rocked their costal Long Island town six years ago."
    Book, 2022New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. — YA FIC Herma
  • Rafi finds herself in the Caribbean at Fly Fest, hoping to get closer to the sole headliner to interview him for her true crime podcast (his girlfriend disappeared just before he rose to stardom). But Rafi and the other influencers on the island…
    Book, 2022New York : Henry Holt Company, 2022 — YA FIC Molda
  • "A body in the pool. A friend who might be an enemy. A vacation they'll never forget . . . Linden has always felt like an outsider and spending the summer at his best friend's vacation house, surrounded by money and privilege is doing nothing to…
    eBook, 2023[United States] : Random House Children's Books, 2023.
  • "Seventeen-year-old Dare plans to spend her summer debunking a haunting at an historic estate with a dark past, but she finds herself in a life-or-death struggle against a malignant ghost."
    Book, 2021New York : Razorbill, [2021] — YA FIC Marsh
  • "After taking a summer job with a Chicago ghost tour company, eighteen-year-old Megan is interrogated for murder, when the reports of "real" ghost sightings increase along with the number of missing tourists."
    Book, 2017New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2017. — YA FIC Selze