# The Library of Shadows

**Author:** Rachel Moore
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**Page count:** 258
**Genre:** Young Adult Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780063284654`
**ISBN-10:** `0063284650`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-library-of-shadows
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Funny, moving, and heart-achingly real, this romantic romp and paranormal romcom debut—through a haunted library with trapdoors, ghosts, and memories—is full of great love that triumphs over even death, perfect for fans of Ninth House and Cemetery Boys. Radcliffe Prep. The third most haunted school in the country, where a student disappearance isn’t uncommon and no one dares stay in the library after dark. And Este Logano enrolls with the hopes of finding her dead father. Not literally, of course. She doesn’t believe in ghosts. Going to her dad’s school just seems like her best hope at figuring out who he was. But then Este meets Mateo, who is maybe—probably—definitely—a real ghost. And an annoying one at that. When Mateo frames Este for the theft of a rare book from the library’s secret s

## Where this book is assigned

### South Carolina Young Adult Book Award

- **recommended** · 9th grade · South Carolina — [source: South Carolina Young Adult Book Award (South Carolina Association of School Librarians) — 2025-2026 nominees, grades 9-12; SC students read the slate and vote. Nominee list via the SC State Library StudySC portal + SCASL. — 2025-2026 nominee](https://www.scasl.net/young-adult-book-award)
- **recommended** · 10th grade · South Carolina — [source: South Carolina Young Adult Book Award (South Carolina Association of School Librarians) — 2025-2026 nominees, grades 9-12; SC students read the slate and vote. Nominee list via the SC State Library StudySC portal + SCASL. — 2025-2026 nominee](https://www.scasl.net/young-adult-book-award)
- **recommended** · 11th grade · South Carolina — [source: South Carolina Young Adult Book Award (South Carolina Association of School Librarians) — 2025-2026 nominees, grades 9-12; SC students read the slate and vote. Nominee list via the SC State Library StudySC portal + SCASL. — 2025-2026 nominee](https://www.scasl.net/young-adult-book-award)
- **recommended** · 12th grade · South Carolina — [source: South Carolina Young Adult Book Award (South Carolina Association of School Librarians) — 2025-2026 nominees, grades 9-12; SC students read the slate and vote. Nominee list via the SC State Library StudySC portal + SCASL. — 2025-2026 nominee](https://www.scasl.net/young-adult-book-award)

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