Great Juvenile Spooky Reads

Selection of favorite spooky, paranormal books to send a shiver down your spine!

Updated June 10, 2025
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Took : a ghost story.
Hahn, Mary Downing
Paper Book
"Folks say Old Auntie takes a girl and keeps her fifty years--then lets her go and takes another one."   Thirteen-year-old Daniel Anderson doesn't believe Brody Mason's crazy stories about the ghost witch who lives up on Brewster's Hill with Bloody Bones,...
Ghosts beneath our feet /
Wright, Betty Ren.
Paper Book
During a summer in an abandoned mining town, Katies relationship with a rebellious stepbrother improves as they probe the past to find out why there seem to be ghosts, literally, beneath their feet.
Small spaces.
Arden, Katherine
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story destined to become a classic. Now in paperback. After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie who only finds solace in...
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Schwartz, Alvin
Ebook
The iconic anthology series of horror tales that's now a feature film! Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a timeless collection of chillingly scary tales and legends, in which folklorist Alvin Schwartz offers up some of the most alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and...
Doll bones
Black, Holly.
Paper Book
Discover the Newbery Honor winner Doll Bones, from Holly Black, the cocreator of the Spiderwick Chronicles. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book. A School Library Journal Best Book. A Booklist Editor's Choice Books for Youth. A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book. A...

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