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Scary Books for Kids

Today is 3/11/2010

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Booklists are available in the publication rack of the Youth Services Department.

MIDDLE LEVEL FICTION

My Haunted House (J ARA VI)

     Book 1 of Araminta Spookie series by Angie Sage

Secret of the Painted House (J BAU) by Marion Dane Bauer

The Monster’s Ring (J COV) by Bruce Coville

The Watertower (J CRE) by Gary Crew

Ghosthunters and the Incredibly Revolting Ghost (J GHO V1, J CD FUN)

     Book 1 of Ghosthunters series by Cornelia Funke

Hook Moon Night: Spooky Tales from the Georgia Mountains (J GIB)

     by Faye Gibbons

In a Creepy, Creepy Place and Other Scary Stories (J GOR) by Judith Gorog

The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Super Natural (J MCK)

     by Patricia C. McKissack

House on Hackman’s Hill (J NIX) by Joan Lowery Nixon

Clockwork (J PUL) by Philip Pullman

In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories (ETR E SCH, J 398.2 SCH)   

     by Alvin Schwartz

Dracula (J STO) by Bram Stoker, adapted by Stephanie Spinner

Ask the Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World (J 398.2 ASK)

     by Arielle North Olson and Howard Schwartz

 

UPPER LEVEL FICTION

The Seer of Shadows (J AVI, J CD AVI) by Avi

The Doom of the Haunted Opera (J BEL) by John Bellairs

The Ghost of Fossil Glen (J DEF, J CD DEF) by Cynthia DeFelice

The Half-a-Moon Inn (J FLE)  by Paul Fleischman

The Graveyard Book (J GAI, J CD GAI) by Neil Gaiman

The Ghost Sitter (J GRI) by Peni R. Griffin

The Old Willis Place (J HAH) by Mary Downing Hahn

Groosham Grange (J HOR) by Anthony Horowitz

Horror at the Haunted House (J KEH) by Peg Kehret

In the Land of the Lawn Weenies and Other Warped and Creepy Tales

     (J LUB) by David Lubar

Peppermints in the Parlor (J WAL) by Barbara Brooks Wallace

Crandall’s Castle (J WRI) by Betty Ren Wright

When the Chenoo Howls: Native American Tales of Terror (J 398.2 BRU)

     by Joseph Bruchac

The Skull Talks Back and Other Haunting Tales (J 398.2 HUR)

     by Zora Neale Hurston

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (J 398.2 SCH) by Alvin Schwartz