Juvenile / Curiosities & Wonders

Ghost Mysteries: Unraveling the World's Most Mysterious Hauntings

by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld & Nathan Hale

Readers will delve deep—if they dare—into the history of ghosts and their portrayal in literature, art, and pop culture. From the spooky world of haunted castles to the subject of ghost-hunting, this book...

Dogs Have the Strangest Friends (And Other True Stories of Animal Feelings)

by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson & Shirley Felts

The author of the adult best-sellers When Elephants Weep and Dogs Never Lie About Love has reached into his treasure trove of stories about the emotional lives of animals to tell fifteen fascinating stories...

Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers: Gross but True Things You Don't Want to Know About Your Body

by Francesca Gould & JP Coovert

You won't be able to resist picking this one!

Itching to know what bugs live in your eyelashes, why you get goose bumps, or how ants can be used to heal a wound? Use this delightfully disgusting collection of...

Uncle John's Bathroom Reader For Girls Only!: Mystery, History, Gossip & Secrets

by Bathroom Readers' Institute

We locked the bad boys at the BRI in the water closet and let the smarter gender run things for a while. The result: For Girls Only!--our secret stash of stories just for girls of all ages. In what other book...

The Other Side: A Teen's Guide to Ghost Hunting and the Paranormal

by Marley Gibson, Patrick Burns & Dave Schrader

It used to be you needed a crystal, a psychic, or a Oijia board to make contact with the spirit world. So who would think science would make it possible for just about anyone to experience a ghostly connection?...

God Went to Beauty School

by Cynthia Rylant

A deeply compelling collection of poems about God and our everyday world from a Newbery medalist.

Cynthia Rylant takes teens on an invigorating spiritual journey as she explores what God's life on Earth might...