Spooky Stories
Spooky, Scary Stories for Kids
A bite above the rest
Virnig, Christine, author
2024
Sixth-grader Caleb discovers that at Samhain Intermediate School every day is Halloween, and everybody wears costumes--the trouble is that in the town of Samhain some of the monsters are real, and out for blood.
The boo hag flex
Ireland, Justina, author
2024
The last thing Tasha Washington wants is to move from her home in Savannah to a trailer park in Middle-of-Nowhere, Georgia. But when her mother dies and Tasha is taken in by her father--a man she's never met, who abandoned her mom when Tasha was just a baby--she doesn't have much of a choice. At least, she thinks, she won't have to spend much time with him--something that becomes clear when he dumps Tasha with her grandmother and disappears to be with his new girlfriend. The Shady Pines trailer park seems like a miserable place to spend a summer, even before an elderly neighbor suddenly passes away. But then Tasha meets a girl named Ellie who says she knows what really killed old Mr. Harold: a terrifying creature that stalks the trailer park at night, sucking the life from its victims. Tasha doesn't believe it, but when she discovers a book of hoodoo legends in her grandmother's trailer, and more people around Shady Pines start to appear unwell, she begins to fear the stories are true--and that danger is much closer than she thinks.
Brick dust and bones
Fournet, M. R., author.
2023
Twelve-year-old Marius Grey has a job as a Cemetery Boy, looking after the ghosts in his family's graveyard, but he also hunts monsters and, along with his flesh-eating mermaid friend, must race against the clock to save the ghost of his dead mother.
Eerie tales from the School of Screams
Annable, Graham, author, illustrator.
2023
"School is tough. School is scary. School is EERIE. No one knows this better than Davis and Emily. But they're not scared of school because of tough tests or merciless vice-principals. No, they're scared because their teacher wants her students to present the class with the spookiest, most chilling stories they can think of"-- Provided by publisher.
Gustavo, the shy ghost
Drago, Flavia Z., author
2020
Gustavo is good at doing all sorts of ghostly things: walking through walls, making objects fly, and glowing in the dark. And he loves almost nothing more than playing beautiful music on his violin. But Gustavo is shy, and some things are harder for him to do, like getting in a line to buy eye scream or making friends with other monsters. Whenever he tries getting close to them, he realizes they just can't see him. Now that the Day of the Dead is fast approaching, what can he do to make them notice him and to share with them something he loves?
Looking for a jumbie
Baptiste, Tracey author
2021
I'm looking for a jumbie, I'm going to find a scary one. But Mama says jumbies exist only in stories. So Naya sets out on a nighttime adventure to find out for herself. No such thing, say the friends she makes along the way. But Naya is sure that jumbies are real. Some have big mouths. Or thick fur. Or glowing skin. Or sharp teeth. Kind of like her new friends... Looking for a Jumbie is a gentle, bouncy, and creepily fun read-aloud inspired by traditional Caribbean tales.
The Pumpkin Princess and the forever night
Banbury, Steven, author
2024
"A runaway orphan is adopted by the fabled Pumpkin King and whisked away to a land of undead creatures"-- Provided by publisher.
Scary stories for young foxes
Heidicker, Christian McKay, author
2019
Cozy and her littermates are driven from their suburban den because something is killing the foxes in their area, and so they travel to a strange new world, the City, to confront a new set of dangers, where they meet 0-370, an injured fox who has escaped from a fur farm and who gives them a new mission--return to the farm, defeat the humans, and free the caged foxes.
Scary stories to tell in the dark : three books to chill your bones
Schwartz, Alvin, 1927-1992, author.
2019
Traditional and modern-day tales and "jump" stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, haunts, superstitions, monsters and horrible scary things.
The school is alive!
Chabert, Jack, author
2014
Sam Graves discovers that his elementary school is alive and plotting against the students, and, as hall monitor, it is his job to protect them--but he will need some help from his friends.
She made a monster : how Mary Shelley created Frankenstein
Fulton, Lynn, author
2018
On a stormy night two hundred years ago, a young woman sat in a dark house and dreamed of her life as a writer. She longed to follow the path her own mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, had started down, but young Mary Shelley had yet to be inspired. As the night wore on, Mary grew more anxious. The next day was the deadline that her friend, the poet Lord Byron, had set for writing the best ghost story. After much talk of science and the secrets of life, Mary had gone to bed exhausted and frustrated that nothing she could think of was scary enough. But as she drifted off to sleep, she dreamed of a man that was not a man. He was a monster.
Spooky lakes : 25 strange and mysterious lakes that dot our planet
Rutherford, Geo, author, illustrator.
2024
There's a ghost in this house
Jeffers, Oliver, author, illustrator
2021
A young girl lives in a haunted house, but has never seen a ghost. Are they white with holes for eyes? Are they hard to see? She'd love to know! Step inside and turn the transparent pages to help her on an entertaining ghost hunt, from behind the sofa, right up to the attic. With lots of friendly ghost surprises and incredible mixed media illustrations, this unique and funny book will entertain young readers over and over again!
Trick-or-treating in the city
Jackson, Tiffany D., author
2024
"A girl's Halloween tradition gets upended and she turns to her New York City neighbors to find other ways to celebrate"-- Provided by publisher.
Zombie season
Weinberger, Justin, author
2023
Summer is zombie season in California and there are some kids who do not evacuate: Joule searches for her missing father, Regina worries about the secrecy surrounding the new anti-zombie technology her parents are developing, and Oliver is trying to convince the grownups that the zombies are becoming stronger.