Find that book!

[jacebruh]

Okay so i only remember scattered things about this book, but I'm trying to find it. So, here goes nothing.

1) it was a young adult book, i read it in like 2015.

2) so the main character is a boy. His parents died in some sort of accident, so he moved in with his aunt, maybe his grandmother, in a small town. He made friends with the florist's daughter, i think they were an Indian family. He screws up his neighbor's garden and has to fix that, sparking a sort of friendship. He thinks she's a witch. Turns out there is a portal in his town that leads to hell and in hell there is a people zoo where the demons can look at the people and change their appearance to look like the humans. The florist's daughter gets kidnapped and taken there. With the help of his neighbor he gets his friend back. His neighbor turns out to be a demon.


3) i think the main character's name was Jacob

YA-Horror/Thriller, possibly from 80s or 90s, short paperback type

[nothingwasthesame_26]

I have been looking for this book for years! I vaguely remember the title for the book but every search I have made comes up with the wrong book.

The front of the book has a house with a tower room and I remember leaves and trees being apart of the scenery. Possibly fall but could have been spring. The window is a main focus of the tower and I'm not sure if a light was on.

The title from what I can remember is something a long the lines of the ghost in the tower or the secret tower room. Maybe even the girl in the tower? It is not a part of a series and is more of a young adult short read.

I read this book back in 2002-2003, but I'm pretty sure it's from the 80s or 90s. It had an older feel to it and the illustration on the front was not from a recent time.

The plot for the book is about a girl and her father who move into a new house with his girlfriend and her son I believe. The daughter and son do not get a long very well and I don't think the girl likes her fathers new love interest. They let her have a room with a door in it that leads to a tower. It has a special key that locks it. She loves painting or drawing and that is where they believe she can have her own little art studio to feel more at home in this new house. Later weird things start happening and she discovers theres an evil presence that lives in the tower and so she tries to keep the door locked. I believe she also tries to tell her dad & new stepmom, but no one will believe her. They blame her for all the weird stuff happening as they think she hates it there and her new family. In the end the ghost in the tower tries pushing her out of the window or maybe pushes the little boy out? Something crazy and bad happens and she finally figures out why the ghost was trapped up there and "releases" it. At the very end they have a nice picnic in the backyard and everything is back to normal again.

I really hope someone knows what this book is because it was such a good book I'm sad I can't remember it or even find it anywhere.

Tween/Teen Book Series about Viking girl?

[livmcneilreads]

I have been looking for this book for years and I cannot find it anywhere!
It doesn’t help that I don’t remember the name or author! PLEASE HELP!!!!
For reference graduated high school in 2016 and I read this book my 8th grade year in middle school.
The covers always have an animated girl with a side braid and blonde hair. The books involved a little bit of magic if I remember correctly, and I specifically remember one of the book covers she had a glowing green neckalace on. Another book cover she was surrounded by what looked like a forest of plain, pointed sticks.
It was about a young girls travels (I’m pretty sure she was a Viking of sorts) aboard a ship and on land as she landed at different places.
I want to re read these because I liked them as a young teen but I didn’t get much out of them. I’d like to refresh my memory and be re kindled with a book series I once loved.
If anyone has any info PLEASE LET ME KNOW!
Thank you!!! :)