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
IT'S HALLOWEEN! One of the best-loved activities of the year is picking out your favorite pumpkin and carving a smiling, frowning, or scary face -- a pumpkin head! Using simple language and dramatic settings, award-winning painter Wendell Minor presents a delightful range of glowing pumpkins,...
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...
Scaring and daring : terrifying takes on 15 classic tales : a Horror Writers Association anthology
Guignard, Eric J.
Paper Book
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!  Get ready for a terrifying spin on some of literature's most beloved tales--no story is safe! From Captain Hook's run-in with dark magic to Sherlock Holmes narrowly escaping graveyard spirits to a happily never after for Cinderella,...
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?...
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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