In the twelfth installment of our Facebook Live video series, Live From Our Library, Scholastic Librarian Deimosa Webber-Bey recommended silly and spook-tacular books inspired by Halloween across all age bands. Celebrate this exciting holiday with pumpkin carving, costume making, and of course, a good book for every grade. Take a look at these fun and frightening titles below.
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Clifford’s Halloween by Norman Bridwell
You Are My Pumpkin by Joyce Wan
Frankencrayon by Michael Hall
Monster’s New Undies by Samantha Berger
Kindergarten - 2nd Grade
The Notebook of Doom #10: Snap of the Super-Goop by Troy Cummings
Mary McScary by R.L Stine
The Too-Scary Story by Bethanie Deeney Murguia
Goodnight Goon by Michael Rex
3rd - 5th Grade
Graveyard Shakes by Laura Terry
Happily Ever Afterlife #1: Ghostcoming! by Orli Zuravicky
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Shadow House #1: The Gathering by Dan Poblocki
6th - 8th Grade
Goosebumps SlappyWorld #3: I Am Slappy’s Evil Twin by R.L Stine
Frozen Charlotte by Alex Bell
Beanstalker and Other Hilarious Scarytales by Kiersten White
The Apprentice Witch by James Nicol
High School and Adult
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater
Remember Me by Christopher Pike
The Singing Bones by Shaun Tan
Deimosa’s Favorites
IT by Stephen King
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland