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This middle grade novel is an excellent choice for tween readers in grades 5 to 6, especially during homeschooling. It's a fun way to keep your child entertained and engaged while not in the classroom.
IT TAKES A GRAVEYARD TO RAISE A CHILD. Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy--an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack--who has already killed Bod's family.

We are in a small room with the vampire, face-to-face. He pours out the hypnotic, shocking, and erotically charged confessions of his first 200 years as one of the living dead. He carries us back to the night when he departed human existence as heir--young, romantic, cultivated--to a great Louisiana plantation, and was inducted by the radiant and sinister Lestat into the "endless" life. He takes us back to the crucial moment in a dark New Orleans street when he finds the exquisite lost child, Claudia. We see how Claudia is made a vampire--trapped forever in the body of a small child--and how they arrive at a passionate and dangerous alliance. They embark on a search across Europe for others like themselves, desperate to discover the world they belong to. In Paris, footsteps behind them steer them to the doors of the Théâtre des Vampires. The eerily magnetic Armand brings them, at last, into intimacy with a whole brilliant and decadent society of vampires, which becomes sudden terror when they are compelled to confront what they had feared and fled.

Originally published in 1971, The Exorcist is now a major television series on FOX. It remains one of the most controversial novels ever written and went on to become a literary phenomenon. Inspired by a story of a child's demonic possession in the 1940s, William Peter Blatty created an iconic novel that focuses on Regan, the eleven-year-old daughter of a movie actress residing in Washington, D.C. A small group of overwhelmed yet determined individuals must rescue Regan from her unspeakable fate, and the drama that ensues is gripping and unfailingly terrifying.