Could Someone Recommend Some Creepy Young Adult Books

Can anyone reccommend me some creepy and disturbing books?

Many people have offered great suggestions, but I will put forth one of a more unorthodox point of view.Have you ever read any books by John Bellairs?Very gothic, very creepy, full of ghosts and a very realistic wizard. Most books are even illustrated by Edward Gory, the king of creepy.The only caveat is they are novels written for young adults, but I must say, they are well written and stand the test of time. That means, as much as I loved them as a kid, I've gone back and read some in my thirties and they are still very readable and creepy.He wrote many books, though they're not necessarily chronological, they are mostly written about two main characters and their paranormal adventures.I recommend my two personal favorites:

Can you share some book recommendations for a young child (currently 10) who can read at 10th to 11th grade level, but is sensitive and doesn't like violence or scary stories?

The one I wrote!I’m pleased to say it’s pretty wholesome. There’s no violence or anything scary. The vocabulary is fairly advanced, even though it’s a young adult novel. If you child reads on a high school level, he or she will have no problems with the vocab.There is a reference to meth, but we never see it or see anyone take it. It’s all alluded to and not glorified.Here’s the synopsis from the publisher’s website:Minnie Mornap: Teen Reporter is is a young adult mystery novel in the spirit of Nancy Drew. In this book, the first in the series, Minnie is a tenth grader at Succotash Central High School, where she takes a journalism class and discovers her natural talent for investigative reporting and then determines the real reason for an explosion at school.Her journalism teacher, Mr. Hecht (who likes to be called Chief), nurtures her gift for reportage and jumpstarts her career as a professional reporter.Along the way, she meets her first boyfriend, Morton Damm, the photographer who shoots the pictures that illustrate her articles.You can purchase it through Minnie Mornap.Enjoy!

What are some authors you would recommend a young adult / teenager read instead of Ayn Rand?

"His Dark Materials" series by Philip Pullman ("The Golden Compass", "The Subtle Knife" and "The Amber Spyglass.")  A multi-universe fantasy story in which a teenage girl takes on the corrupting forces of organized religion."Dune" series by Frank Herbert (but not the later books written by his son).  These stories feature teenage protagonists and lots of debate about what makes for good leadership.  What's often missed is that these are anti-heroic stories - they're about the danger of putting too much power into individuals, and the ways that gifted people will be manipulated by institutions to fulfill other people's agendas."The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson.  A poor girl finds a magic book and learns how to hack technology and the class system in a Neo-Victorian colony in futuristic China.If you like paranormal / sci-fi / conspiracy stuff - "Illuminatus!" and "Schroedinger's Cat" by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea are fun, though all the 1960's counterculture stuff might seem a little dated today.Books are important cultural signifiers, and as a teen, they're almost like entry passes into secret societies.  Some of these secret societies can be fulfilling and encourage you to grow into a better person, and some can make you prematurely cynical and feed a teenager's impulse to be self-centered.The danger of reading somebody like Rand at a young age (and even James Joyce if you take it to heart) is that it will affect your personality negatively - if you take her ideas to heart, you'll only be friends with other cynical people who've read Rand and most people will think you're obnoxious or creepy.   You won't think "maybe my arrogance is making me a difficult person to be friends with" but instead "I'm so smart and superior that nobody else is good enough for me" and unless you've been born into a very privileged family, you'll grow up alone and unhappy and not know why.

What age should you stop reading young adult books?

Hi, I’m Kat and my favorite authors include Jane Austen, Judith Flanders (non-fiction historian), Pearl Buck, and Robert Graves. I will soon be 40 years old and, this past Halloween, in between passing out candy to children, I read Bunnicula to pass the time. It was my first “scary” book (as scary as books aimed at 8–10 year olds can be anyway, lol) and it still has a special place in my heart. A couple years ago, I did a complete re-read of the Harry Potter novels, and I’d done the Hunger Games not long before that. Every few years, I do The Chronicles of Narnia and Little House On the Prairie books as well. The last 3 fictions authors I’ve read were Dickens, Asimov, and Stephen King and, in that same span, I’ve been up to my elbows in histories. Yet I can still get pleasure from reading about a misunderstood vampire bunny who sucks the juice from vegetables…My rather long-winded point is that there’s no maximum age at which you can derive pleasure from a work. The reasons you enjoy it may change (and should, as we evolve as readers, which hopefully we do for our whole lives), but there’s nothing less pure, mature, intellectual, or acceptable in enjoying a work targeted at a younger audience. There are any number of reasons an older person might prefer a book targeted at a younger audience. They tend to be faster reads. There’s usually less moral ambiguity (except when there’s more). The situations may, for whatever reason, be more relatable (YA novels may write more about feelings of alienation and helplessness, but those don’t go away when you hit 25). Or LESS relatable (who wants to sit down with a book at the end of a 60-hour work week and read about some dude having trouble paying the mortgage?). The world-building or characters may just be spot-on and suck you in.There are very few WRONG reasons for enjoying a novel. I would never recommend sticking to a single genre, age group, etc when choosing which books to read, but that’s mainly because those can be so totally superfluous. Every book is different, and that’s what makes you want to keep picking up more and more different ones (when you’re not going home to old favorites). Variety’s the spice of life, so if a book is good or looks interesting, never let anyone stop you from reading it (even if it is a lesson about learning to accept people who are different, disguised as a book about vampire bunnies, and written for 8 year olds).