SUPERNATURAL / PARANORMAL
FICTION BY CAROL MATAS
FOR MIDDLE GRADES, TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS
Tales of a Reluctant
Psychic
Fifteen-year-old Jade is different from most girls her
age.
When a near-death experience opens up a new world of psychic ability
and possibility,
Jade is forced to make sense of her new gift…or is it a curse?
In Tales of a
Reluctant Psychic, Carol Matas’s three critically acclaimed
“Freak” novels—The Freak, Visions, and Far—are
gathered together, revealing Jade’s adventures from the very beginning.
As she
learns to cope with and accept her new-found talent (solving a few
mysteries
along the way), Jade must also confront the challenges of being a
teenage
girl—from friendships to boyfriends, to searching for answers about
what it all
means.
Carol discusses how she wrote the Freak series.
Key Porter Books, 2009.
The Freak
The First Adventure
What if, one day, you
woke up psychic? What if, suddenly, you could see things, know
things-about your friends and family, even your new boyfriend-that you
couldn't, and maybe shouldn't, know? What would you do? When
fifteen-year-old Jade wakes up from a life-threatening illness with
some unexpected new abilities, her life takes an interesting turn. What
she knows-and inadvertently tells-about her friends' most personal
thoughts and feelings isn't exactly improving her social life. In fact,
many of her friends are beginning to avoid her now that she's
different; now that she's a freak. Jade would do anything to be normal
again. But what if something is about to happen, something terrible,
and she alone knows it. Can she really do nothing to stop it?
From Key Porter Books
Visions
The Second Adventure of The Freak
Jade
is having nightmares. It's been a few months since the episode at the
synagogue-a few months since she discovered her strange new "powers" -
and she's pretty sure that a dream is no longer just a dream.
Especially these dreams. How else do you explain seeing someone in your
sleep who ends up on the front page of the morning paper-the victim of
a murder?
And what happens when one of the intended victims turns out
to be someone a little too close to home? This time, Jade is more than
willing to use her abilities to solve the murder. But will she figure
it out in time?
From Key Porter Books.
Far
The Third Adventure of The Freak
Ever
since Jade discovered her “abilities,” she’s been looking for
answers—answers to questions about what her powers means, and how best
to use them. Now, she’s hoping that a family trip to Palm Springs,
California, will answer these questions and more. A local university
boasts an entire division devoted to psychic testing, and Jade is eager
to see what these experts will make of her. But as excited as she is to
share her experiences and talk to others like herself, Jade hates being
away from Jon.
Does the dark feeling she’s been having about his new
tutoring student mean Jon is in some kind of danger? And what about the
“accidents” that keep happening to her and her family? Are they omen of
terrors yet to come?
From Key Porter Books.
The Hunt for the Haunted Elephant
Molly and Adam Barnett have had more than enough trouble
lately. First, they learned that ghosts do exist. Then, they
uncovered an old family curse. And things just got even
worse. Turns out the emerald in Reggie’s ring isn’t just a
valuable jewel. It was once an eye on an ancient, Indian elephant
carving. The other eye—a sapphire—is nowhere to be
found, which is really too bad, since the separation of the
two jewels led to the family curse. Even worse? If the eyes
aren't soon returned to the elephant, the world will be
doomed. The Barnetts head off to the old family home outside
of Oxford, England, in search of the elephant. Will
Molly and Adam—and some new ghostly friends—be able
to find the elephant, and the missing eye, in time?
In The Hunt for the Haunted Elephant, Carol Matas and
Perry Nodelman offer a satisfying conclusion to their Ghosthunters trilogy filled with thrills, chills, and more than a few laughs.
Key Porter Books, 2010
The Curse of the
Evening Eye
In The
Ghosthunters 2: The
Curse of the Evening Eye, Molly
and Adam take the show (and grandpa) on the road as they attempt to
outwit a very nasty spirit. Along the way, they’ll need to rely on a
few kindly ghosts, as well as a Reggie Crankshaft look-alike who knows
more than he should about their family history. Picking up where The
Proof That Ghosts Exist leaves off, The Curse of the Evening Eye
is
another gangbusters spook story complete with the authors’ trademark
chills, thrills, mysteries, and laughs. Key Porter Books, 2009
On YouTube
The
Proof that Ghosts Exist
In The
Proof That Ghosts Exist — the first installment in The
Ghosthunters trilogy — Molly and Adam managed to save
their father from
a family curse, and near-certain death on the day before his 35th
birthday. Or did they?
An unfortunate “error” on their dad’s birth
certificate means that he’s still at risk, and it’s up to Molly and
Adam — and their ghostly grandfather — to keep him safe. But
how are
they going to manage that when he’s off to Palm Springs, California for
a film festival?
Key Porter Books, 2008.
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Past
Crimes
 After the shocking murder
of her husband, nineteen-year-old Ros and her baby relocate to her
childhood home to live with her parents. Palm Springs — full of
sunlight, small and safe — should be the perfect place to bring up a
child. But things aren't always as they appear.
Soon, an unexpected tragedy sets a dangerous
series of events into motion. Someone, it seems, is out to get Ros. As
she struggles to uncover the identity of her mysterious enemy, Ros
finds herself looking for answers in the most unusual places. Could the
attacks have something to do with her increasingly disturbing dreams?
And how many people close to her need to get hurt before she figures it
out?
Now available from Key
Porter Books.
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The
Dark Clone
"It wasn't me!" I say, but I know it's in
vain. They'll have it on tape."
Miranda is scared. Someone is committing crimes,
and the police have video evidence that proves it's her. She knows
she's innocent, but could it be one of her two identical, cloned
sisters? Or could there be another clone out there—one programmed for
evil?
To make matters worse, the clones' creator, Dr.
Mullen, is talking to the media. If her secret is revealed, Miranda's
existence as she knows it will be over. She'll be exposed as a freak,
an outcast.
Soon Miranda realizes that even her life may be in
danger. She needs to figure out what's really going on…before it's too
late.
Now available from
Scholastic Canada
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The
Second Clone
Miranda has survived a deadly disease, rescued her
secret clone, and adopted the girl as a sister. Everything is
perfect…for a while. But something very weird is going on. The clone is
acting strange, and Miranda's parents don't even seem to notice.
Suddenly Miranda is living in a world of lies and
suspicion, kidnappers and conspiracies, and asking herself: is this really
my sister?
Available from
Scholastic Canada.
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Cloning Miranda
Miranda
has it all: beauty, brains, talent, perfect health. Then one day her
vision gets a little blurry, and the doctor tells her it's the first
symptom of a fatal genetic disease.
Her parents are prepared to fight for her life
with everything they have: wealth, connections, determination. Miranda
won't lose her life, or her sight. Instead, she'll begin to see things
about her parents, about her life, that surprise her. Shock her. Scare
her.
Save her.
Published by Scholastic Books
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