"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."
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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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- "Seventeen-year-old Haitian American zombie Brielle seeks revenge on the wealthy elites responsible for her immigrant family's pain."
- "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."
- 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…
- "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…
- 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."
- "Three girls who arrive to an abandoned island must outwit and outlast the mysterious killer who awaits them there."
- "Forced to spend her summer in her aunt's strange small town, a teen girl discovers dark secrets hidden in the woods."
- 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…
- "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."
- "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."
- 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…
- 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…
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- 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…
- "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…
- "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."
- "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."
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