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Horror novels that are classroom appropriate can be tricky to find. Finding recommendations for horror-loving students that wouldn’t get me fired used to be difficult. After lots of reading, I have found seven spooky YA novels your high school students will love. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These reads are perfect for independent reading while the leaves are changing and temperatures are dropping. Some are scarier than others, but they all evoke that magical October feeling.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spooky YA Novels Your High School Students Will Love #1: The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

No book feels more conventionally horror than The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall <\/em>by Katie Alendar<\/a>.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Delia inherits her grandmother’s home, she’s shocked to find out that it actually used to be an insane asylum for young girls. The more she explores, the more strange events seem to occur in the house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book has everything your horror-craving students are looking for–a spooky setting, ghosts, and a surprising twist. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read my full review of The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall<\/em> right here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spooky YA Novels Your High School Students Will Love #2: The Grace Year<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Grace Year<\/em> by Kim Liggett<\/a> has serious The Village<\/em> vibes to me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every year, Garner County sends out its young girls of Garner County to expel their magic. This year is Tierney’s grace year. Even though Tierney has never felt this supposed magic. Or seen it. Nor has anyone else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some girls are never seen again after the grace year.<\/strong> Others come back, broken and irrevocably changed. This year is Tierney’s grace year, and nothing can prepare her for the horrors waiting in the woods. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an English teacher, I appreciate this novel’s themes of survival and friendship and the complex female relationships portrayed. But as a reader, it’s the creepy atmosphere and the “truth is more horrifying than fiction” ending that gets me. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out my full review of The Grace Year here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Spooky YA Novels Your High School Students Will Love #3: A Monster Calls<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you need a great October read for younger, more reluctant, or struggling reads, look no further than A Monster Calls<\/em> by Patrick Ness<\/a>. With many beautiful illustrations, it’s an approachable book for those easily scared off by long stories. However, A Monster Calls<\/em> remains an incredibly powerful read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the monster in this novel turns out to be more metaphorical than real, that doesn’t change the fact that the monster is very real to Conor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The monster comes for Conor again and again at night. If Conor can’t give the monster what it wants, then the monster will take what it wants from Conor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fear in this novel starts as a giant, scary monster only to become something worse and even more real and terrifying at the end. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read my full review of A Monster Calls<\/em> here.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n