Library Adventures: Spooky

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Updated September 25, 2024
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Spookermarket
Bently, Peter
Paper Book
A frighteningly funny picture book, perfect for sharing at Halloween and beyond! Where do werewolves get their greens? Where do banshees buy their beans? Where do ogres get supplies of tasty ear-and-eyeball pies? Welcome...
Day of the Dead - día de Los Muertos: Day of the Dead : a Bilingual Book for Kids in English and Spanish
Boan, Marisa
Paper Book
Best Educational Children's Picture Book medal awarded in the 2023 International Latino Book Awards! Learn all about the Day of the Dead - Día de los Muertos traditions with this bilingual book highlighting this festive holiday's customs and traditions. Day of the...
A Most Mysterious Monster
Brown, Matt.
Paper Book
When Kevin and his family get stuck in a strange town, they accidentally wake up something OLD and VERY HUNGRY. It's up to Kevin to save everyone - or else! The first in a brilliantly funny fantasy adventure series.
The girl, the ghost and the lost name
Carter, Reece
Paper Book
Greta and the ghost hunters
Copeland, Sam
Paper Book
Greta Woebegone did not believe in ghosts until the day she was knocked over by a car and almost died. Then everything changed... Now Greta can not only see the spirits that haunt her ancestral home - she can talk to them too, from her grumpy Grandpa Woebegone and Percy the poo...
The witches
Dahl, Roald
Paper Book
BEWARE. Real witches dress in ordinary clothes and look like ordinary women. But they are not ordinary. They are always plotting and scheming with murderous, bloodthirsty thoughts - and they hate children. The Grand High Witch hates children most of all and plans to make...
Ghosts : read all about the nasty bits!
Deary, Terry
Paper Book
  Boo! Discover all the frightful stories behind iconic ghost tales and legends from around the world with history's most horrible headlines: the ghost and ghouls edition. The master of making history fun, Terry Deary, turns his attention to spooks and spirits. From...
The baddies
Donaldson, Julia
Paper Book
The brand-new picture book from superstar author and illustrator Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler is a riot of slapstick fun and silliness.The Baddies are the meanest, nastiest ghost, witch and troll in the land. They just adore being bad, and fight over who is the worst. When a little girl...
Vlad, the fabulous vampire
Drago, Flavia Z
Paper Book
Gustavo the shy ghost
Drago, Flavia Z.
Paper Book
Leila the Perfect Witch
Drago, Flavia Z.
Paper Book
The graveyard book
Gaiman, Neil
Paper Book
Discover the bewitching, classic children's novel The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, featuring spellbinding illustrations from Chris RiddellWINNER of the 2010 CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL and the 2009 JOHN NEWBERY MEDAL. ONE OF BBC'S HUNDRED GREATEST CHILDREN'S BOOKS OF ALL TIME...
Coraline
Gaiman, Neil.
Paper Book
When Coraline explores her new home, she steps through a door and into another house just like her own . . . except that it's different. It's a marvelous adventure until Coraline discovers that there's also another mother and another father in the house. They want Coraline to stay with them and...
The haunting of Aveline Jones
Hickes, Phil
Paper Book
Turn on your torches and join Aveline Jones!Aveline loves reading ghost stories, so a dreary half-term becomes much more exciting when she discovers a spooky old book. Not only are the stories spine-tingling, but it belonged to a girl called Primrose Penberthy, who vanished mysteriously, never to be...
The bewitching of Aveline Jones
Hickes, Phil; Robinson, Keith
Paper Book
The second in a deliciously spine-tingling, spooky series. Turn on your torches and join Aveline Jones!Aveline is thrilled when she discovers that the holiday cottage her mum has rented for the summer is beside a stone circle. Thousands of years old, the local villagers refer to the...
The vanishing of Aveline Jones
Hickes, Phil; Robinson, Keith
Paper Book
The third thrilling, chilling mystery in this frightfully spooky series. Turn on your torches and join Aveline Jones!Aveline is determined to discover the truth behind her uncle's mysterious disappearance when she travels to his home with Mum and Aunt Lilian. After years of hoping...
There's a ghost in this house
Jeffers, Oliver
Paper Book
A captivating new picture book with interactive transparent pages, from world-renowned artist Oliver Jeffers. Hello, come in. Maybe you can help me? A young girl lives in a haunted house, but has never seen a ghost. Are they white with holes for...
Deadly deep
Killick, Jennifer
Paper Book
The brand new must-read middle-grade novel from the author of super-spookyCrater Lake. Perfect for 9+ fans of R.L.Stine's Goosebumps and Stranger Things! It's summer term and time for a school trip with a difference! Year 8 are on a boat off the coast of France, learning about ocean...
Dread Wood
Killick, Jennifer
Paper Book
The must-read middle-grade novel from the author of super-spooky Crater Lake. Perfect for 9+ fans of R.L.Stine's Goosebumps. "Deliciously scary and hilarious comedy-horror, perfectly pitched for eight-plus." The Guardian "Brilliantly...
Evolution
Killick, Jennifer
Paper Book
It's five months since the nightmare Year Six School trip to Crater Lake, and something has gone very wrong in Lance's home town of Straybridge. There's been an explosion at the University, a mysterious test creature is missing and no one is allowed in or out of the town. On top of this Lance has...
Fear ground
Killick, Jennifer
Paper Book
The brand new must-read middle-grade novel from the author of Crater Lake. Perfect for 9+ fans of R.L.Stine's Goosebumps. There's a new craze at Dread Wood High. Flinch is a game of fear. The more you scare your friends, the more points on the app you get. At first it's fun, but soon...
Flock horror
Killick, Jennifer
Paper Book
The brand new must-read middle-grade novel from the author of super-spooky Crater Lake. Perfect for fans of R.L.Stine's Goosebumps. Angelo and his friends know that together they can handle any pretty much anything - including giant mutant spiders or snake-like parasites that burrow...
The skull
Klassen, Jon
Paper Book
Monster hunting for beginners
Mark, Ian
Paper Book
"A MAGNIFICENTLY HILARIOUS MASTERPIECE OF MONSTER PROPORTIONS. I HOWLED WITH LAUGHTER!", JENNY PEARSON, THE SUPER MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF FREDDIE YATES A monstrously funny new adventure series. Readers of 8+ and fans of Mega Monster and Shrek will adore the first in the...
Monsters bite back
Mark, Ian
Paper Book
'A MONSTROUSLY FUNNY NEW VOICE,' MAZ EVANS, WHO LET THE GODS OUT? The second seriously silly adventure in the hilarious series that turns everything you thought you knew about monsters upside down! Perfect for young monster hunters aged 8+ and...
A world full of spooky stories
McAllister, Angela
Paper Book
Get ready for Halloween with this child-friendly collection of spooky stories from all over the world.
Dead good detectives
McLachlan, Jenny
Paper Book
A super funny and exciting pirate adventure for readers 8+ by the author of the bestselling Land of Roar series. Perfect for fans of BBC's Ghosts! SUNDAY TIMES CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK 30-10-22 Sid Jones loves hanging out in the graveyard with her best...
Watch Out! There's a Monster Coming!
Newson, Karl.
Paper Book
Freeze
Priestley, Chris
Paper Book
Award-winning master of scary stories Chris Priestley returns with a spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales to chill you to the bone ... Award-winning master of scary stories Chris Priestley returns with a spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales to chill you to the bone ... ...
The Witchstone Ghosts
Randall-Jones, Emily
Paper Book
  A spooky gothic adventure, perfect for fans of Frances Hardinge and for curling up with on a rainy night ...  WINNER OF THE TIMES/CHICKEN HOUSE CHILDREN'S FICTION COMPETITION  WINNER OF THE MSLEXIA NOVEL AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE BRANFORD BOASE AWARD...
Spinechillers
Shadow, Nick
Paper Book
Read ... if you dare! Six spooky stories to send shivers down your spine. A collection of six really scary stories, perfect for campfires, sleepovers, reading aloud and reading alone in the dark ... if you dare! Among the chilling stories there's a pair of trainers with a mind...
The ghost of Gosswater
Strange, Lucy
Paper Book
  A thrilling Gothic tale from the author ofOur Castle by the Sea, shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. 'Told in deft and luminous language, The Ghost of Gosswater is storytelling at its very best.'Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of THE GIRL OF INK & STARS<...
Festergrimm
Taylor, Thomas
Paper Book
Malamander
Taylor, Thomas
Paper Book
Nobody visits Eerie-on-Sea in the winter. Especially not when darkness falls and the wind howls around Maw Rocks and the wreck of the battleship Leviathan, where even now some swear they have seen the unctuous Malamander creep... Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, knows...
Mermedusa
Taylor, Thomas
Paper Book
Shadowghast
Taylor, Thomas
Paper Book
"When townspeople start disappearing after the arrival of a magician who knows about his past, Henry must separate truth from sleight-of-hand to solve the mystery of the Shadowghast lantern before they are all swallowed by darkness"--
Molly Thompson and the crypt of the blue moon
Tomlinson, Nick
Paper Book
The scariest legends just got scarier! When two journalists are sent to Howlfair to write about the world's scariest town, they want amateur historian Molly to be their guide. But there's something creepy about them - they seem a little too interested in a local legend of a phantom known as the...
Bella Bright and the Ghost Game
Ward, Carolyn.
Paper Book
Eleven-year-old Bella Bright has just moved into Darkling House in Castleton. On her first day at her new school, she is spotted by a pair of manipulative mean girls, Skylar and Regan. They push her into inviting them to a Halloween sleepover. Another much friendlier girl, Lex, comes to Bella's...

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