ALT Cover for IF I HAVE TO BE HAUNTED by Miranda Sun. A Chinese American girl in a burgundy cable-knit sweater stands in front of a blond white boy wearing a faded blueish-gray hoodie. Blue butterflies flutter around him. They are both surrounded by swirls of red magic. Around them rises a forest in full autumn with blazing orange and red leaves. The tagline at the top says: "Some ghosts, you just can't ignore." The title font is in see-through letters that appear ghostly. The author's name is in solid blue. The background for the cover reveal graphic is a deep blue, starry night sky.

ALT Cara Tang doesn’t want to be haunted. Look, the dead have issues, and Cara has enough of her own. Her overbearing mother insists she be the “perfect” Chinese American daughter—which means suppressing her ghost speaking powers—and she keeps getting into fights with Zacharias Coleson, the local golden boy whose smirk makes her want to set things on fire. Then she stumbles across Zach’s dead body in the woods. He’s even more infuriating as a ghost, but Cara’s the only one who can see him—and save him. Agreeing to resurrect him puts her at odds with her mother, draws her into a dangerous liminal world of monsters and magic—and worse, leaves her stuck with Zach. Yet as she and Zach grow closer, forced to depend on each other to survive, Cara finds the most terrifying thing is that she might not hate him so much after all. Maybe this is why her mother warned her about ghosts.