Spooky Season: Books for Kids

Updated September 18, 2025
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Spooky Season: Books for Kids

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If you ever meet a skeleton
Evans, Rebecca (Author)
Paper Book
Skeletons might seem frightening, but if you look closer, there's nothing much to fear. They can't run fast, they're terrible at hide-and-seek, and they're scared of everything. When a group of trick-or-treaters runs into an actual skeleton on an enchanted Halloween night, they do whatever...
Pumpkin heads
Minor, Wendell
Paper Book
The perfect Halloween book for kids, this fall picture books celebrates picking pumpkins and carving them into pumpkin heads--jack-o'-lanterns of every shape and size! Award-winning author and artist Wendell Minor uses simple language and striking autumn settings to celebrate...
Living ghosts & mischievous monsters : chilling American Indian stories
Jones, Dan C.
Paper Book
Perfect for fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark! A shiver-inducing collection of short stories to read under the covers, from a breadth of American Indian nations. Dark figures in the night. An owl's cry on the wind. Monsters watching from the edge of the wood. Some of...
Hanging with vampires : a totally factual field guide to the supernatural
Fitzpatrick, Insha
Paper Book
Discover everything about vampires in this laugh-out-loud nonfiction handbook packed with spooky legends, fascinating history, and weird facts perfect for middle-grade readers and mythology fans! Are vampires real? Who was Vlad the Impaler? Do vampire bats ever feed on humans?...
Spooky, scary skeletons
Gold, Andrew
Paper Book
Spooky, scary skeletons...will send shivers down your spine in this adorable sing-along picture book based on the TikTok viral song by Andrew Gold (best known for writing The Golden Girls theme song, "Thank You for Being a Friend.") Follow along as five little skeletons go...
Nightmare in the backyard
Strand, Jeff
Paper Book
Chloe, Avery, and Madison can't wait to spend the night camping in the backyard. Smores! Spooky stories! Trading secrets! It's going to be awesome. Sure, Elijah the kid next door keeps trying to prank them, but it's all in good fun. Who doesn't like a little scare after the sun has set and the...
The haunted house next door
Miedoso, Andres
Paper Book
Meet Desmond Cole! A fearless eight-year-old who runs his own ghost patrol, looking for ghosts, monsters, and mischief makers everywhere. Oh, and he just so happens to be my new best friend...and thank goodness! Because I'm afraid of everything. Welcome to Kersville, a town with...
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