All The Lovely Bad Ones

Use these links to supplement and complement students’ reading of the work and to increase their overall enjoyment of literature. Challenge them to discern parallel themes, engage through visual and aural stimuli, and delve deeper into the thematic possibilities presented by the title.

Recommended Texts for Pairing

How I Became a Ghost by Tim Tingle

• a middle-grade novel about a young Choctaw on the Trail of Tears
• shares the theme of Good Versus Bad and Evil
• contrasts with All the Lovely Bad Ones regarding the ghosts’ agency and intentions
• How I Became a Ghost on SuperSummary

“The Ghost of Tom Joad” by Bruce Springsteen

• a song that alludes to Steinbeck’s Tom Joad character as it critiques The Injustice of Class Disparities
• contrasts with actions of ghosts in All the Lovely Bad Ones
• Springsteen performs the song in this 4-minute video.

Other Student Resources

“Hauntings, Histories, & Campfire Tales: What Ghost Stories Tell Us” by Coya Paz 

• a 12-minute TEDx video by Coya Paz of DePaul University
• explores three types of ghost stories and their differing purposes

Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier

• 21-minute YouTube video silently presenting the text of Telgemeier’s work
• This graphic novel involves two sisters and their encounters with ghosts.