psychic ability

Rinne and Sakura's teacher begins receiving strange messages from the Peeking Ball, then a ghost scythe becomes attached to Sakura and she must exorcise seven souls to get rid of it.

As the New Year approaches, Rinne thinks a haunted shopping mall is the answer to his financial problems. Then Rinne is given a weekend at a luxury hot springs inn, but unfortunately the other guests there are up to no good.

First the peeking ball causes trouble at school, then the school's vending machine begins taking everyone's money. Rinne is blamed so he vows to uncover the truth about the machine. Meanwhile, the Christmas holiday draws near.

Rinne, Sakura, and their friends keep busy with the spirits over the summer. Then school resumes and a mysterious new teacher wants to use Rinne's otherworldly knowledge.

On a Shinigami high school field trip, Rinne and Sakura pretend to be dating and end up hating each other. Hopefully a homemade lunch together will repair their friendship.

"Willow knows she's different from other girls. And not just because she loves tinkering around with cars. Willow has a gift. She can look into people's futures, know their dreams, their hopes and their regrets, just by touching them. She has no idea where she gets this power from ... "--OCLC.

"In the middle of the night . . . in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV . . . Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents--telekinesis and telepathy--who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, 'like the roachmotel,' Kalisha says. 'You check in, but you don't check out.' In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don't, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute"--Provided by publisher.

While struggling to cope with major changes in her life, fourteen-year-old Cassandra decides to help others by using her ability to see what animals are thinking, beginning with finding a lost cat.

Sixteen-year-old Maddie Flynn cannot help but see the death date of everyone she meets or sees in a photograph or on-screen, and her alcoholic mother exploits this by having her do readings for money, but when Maddie predicts the death of a young boy, she becomes the center of an FBI investigation.

Twelve-year-old Sophie discovers the abilities that have always caused her to stand out are because she is actually an elf and, after she is brought to Eternalia where she can hone her skills, Sophie learns she harbors certain secrets that others would kill to learn.