Introducing Poison Apple Books, a line of spine-tingling stand-alone stories for tweens! Modeled after our successful Candy Apple line, these books will be written by both established authors and fresh new voices. The storylines and package are perfect for girls 8–12 who love thrilling ghost stories, spectacular supernatural tales, and spooky mysteries.

The Dead End
By Mimi McCoy
Casey Slater can’t believe her bad luck.
It’s the summer before seventh grade,
and while her friends
will be hanging out at the local pool, Casey is in a remote country town, where her parents are restoring an old, creaky, creepy house.
Worst of all, everyone else in town thinks the old house is haunted. And soon Casey thinks so, too—objects fly across the room on their own, the hallway floorboards creak when everyone is in bed, mysterious writing shows up in the dust on her mirror—and it seems like the ghost doesn’t want them there. Casey thought she’d be dying of boredom, but now she’s scared to death!



This Totally Bites!
By Ruth Ames
Twelve-year-old Emma-Rose Paley has always felt different from her bubbly, outgoing parents. Unlike them, Emma-Rose has pale skin and jet-black hair, is quiet and moody, and prefers gray weather to sunshine. She also hates the taste of garlic, has very sharp incisors, loves rare burgers. Emma-Rose thinks the only person who understands her is her best friend Gabby. But when Emma-Rose’s Great Aunt Margo comes to visit from the Carpathian Mountains in Romania, Emma-Rose realizes that she and her aunt are very similar. And when her aunt shares a family secret with her, Emma-Rose has a sudden realization. Could Emma-Rose be a vampire?