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Kate Alice Marshall - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

It's hard to fight the supernatural when you're naturally "un-super." This chilling middle grade is perfect for fans of Stranger Things and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark...even if they don't have any special powers.. Charlie Greer is nothing special - at least...
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Nightmare Island

Shakirah Bourne - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

From rising star Shakirah Bourne, author of Josephine Against the Sea, comes a mysterious adventure that explores one of the most chilling tales in Caribbean mythology: the faceless douen children.Twelve year-old Serenity Noah has never told anyone about her recurring nightmares -- the haunting...
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What Stays Buried

Suzanne Young - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

In her first book for middle grade readers, New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Young brings together a thrilling ghost story, a heartfelt coming of age journey, and a poignant reminder that those we've loved and lost are never far away - perfect for fans of Bone Hollow and The Peculiar...
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Come See the Fair

Gavriel Savit - ‎Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: April 11

An unforgettable story of magic, mediums, and séances set during the Chicago World's Fair from the author of the National Book Award finalist The Way Back.Twelve-year-old orphan Eva Root travels the country pretending to channel spirits at séances. Her audiences swear their loved...
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The Jumbies

Tracey Baptiste - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The jumbies are coming! Corinne La Mer isn't afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her, and certainly not jumbies. She knows that jumbies aren't real; they're just creatures parents make up to frighten their children. But on All Hallows' Eve, Corinne chases an agouti...
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The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

Jon Klassen - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Caldecott Medalist and #1 New York Times best-selling author-illustrator Jon Klassen delivers a deliciously macabre treat for folktale fans.. Jon Klassen's signature wry humor takes a turn for the ghostly in this thrilling retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale. In a big abandoned...
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Scary Stories for Young Foxes

Christian McKay Heidicker - Thorndike Striving Reader; Large type / Large print edition
Format: Hardcover

Into the finest tradition of storytelling steps Christian McKay Heidicker with these highly original, bone-chilling, and ultimately heart-warming stories. All that's needed is a blazing campfire and a delicious plate of peaches and centipedes." --Kathi Appelt, Newbery honoree and National...
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Took: A Ghost Story

Mary Downing Hahn - Harcourt
Format: Print 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, her man-eating...
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Hide and Don't Seek: And Other Very Scary Stories

Anica Mrose Rissi - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

A contemporary collection of original short stories by Anica Mrose Rissi that is sure to elicit chills, laughs, and screams, even from the most devoted fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark! A game of hide-and-seek goes on far too long ... A look-alike doll makes itself right at home...
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Coraline

Neil Gaiman - HarperCollins
Format: Paperback

This edition of New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Neil Gaimans modern classic, Coraline - also an Academy Award-nominated film - is enriched with a foreword from the author, a readers guide, and more."Coraline discovered the door a little while after they...
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The Thirteenth Cat

Mary Downing Hahn - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

Danni loves spending the summer with her Aunt Alice, and her aunt's new house is the perfect place to cozy up with a good book. But she's unnerved by the overgrown forest next door, which is creepy even in the daytime and full of eerie sounds at night. Worse, there are rumors in town...
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Spirit Hunters

ELLEN OH - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

We Need Diverse Books founder Ellen Oh returns with Spirit Hunters, a high-stakes middle grade mystery series about Harper Raine, the new seventh grader in town who must face down the dangerous ghosts haunting her younger brother. A riveting ghost story and captivating adventure, this tale...
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Only If You Dare: 13 Stories of Darkness and Doom

Josh Allen - Holiday House
Format: Hardcover

You never know what's out to get you. Though you might think you're safe from monsters and menaces, everyday objects can turn against you, too. A mysterious microwave. A threatening board game. A snowman that refuses to melt. Even your own heartbeat has its secrets. Thu-thump. Thu-thump....
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Hide and Seeker

Daka Hermon - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

I went up the hill, the hill was muddy, stomped my toe and made it bloody, should I wash it?Justin knows that something is wrong with his best friend.Zee went missing for a year. And when he came back, he was . . . different. Nobody knows what happened to him. At Zee's welcome home...
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Last Laugh

K. R. Alexander - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Paperback

What's scarier than a collection of clown dolls in a secret locked room?How about... those clown dolls coming to life. And hunting you down.
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Dread Detention (Creatures & Teachers Book 1)

Jennifer Killick - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

The Breakfast Club meets Stranger Things in this middle grade horror novel for fans of Goosebumps! Detention turns even scarier when a group of classmates discover dangers lurking in their school.. When classmates Hallie, Angelo, Gustav and Naira are forced to come to school on a Saturday,...
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Out to Get You: 13 Tales of Weirdness and Woe

Josh Allen - Holiday House
Format: Paperback

Thirteen ordinary kids. Thirteen ordinary towns. Danger lurks around every corner!"Wonderful and weird, compelling and unsettling." - Gary Schmidt, two-time Newbery Honor authorGet ready for a collection of thirteen short stories that will chill your bones, tingle your spine,...
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City of Ghosts

VICTORIA SCHWAB - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Ever since Cass almost drowned (okay, she did drown, but she doesn't like to think about it) , she can pull back the Veil that separates the living from the dead . . . and enter the world of spirits. Her best friend is even a ghost.So things are already pretty strange. But they're about...
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This Appearing House

Ally Malinenko - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Ghost Girl comes another standalone spooky middle grade for fans of Nightbooks and Ghost Squad, about a terrifying house and the girl haunted by her experience with cancer, grief, and healing. Are you brave enough to step inside?For as long as anyone could remember there...
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No Place for Monsters

Kory Merritt - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In this spellbinding, lavishly illustrated story that Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney calls "wildly imaginative and totally terrifying," two unlikely friends face down their worst fears in order to stop their small town - and themselves - from disappearing. Levi and Kat are about...
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They Threw Us Away

Daniel Kraus - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

"A deliciously macabre fairy tale, full of snuggles." -- Holly Black, award-winning author of Doll Bones and co-creator of The Spiderwick ChroniclesBuddy wakes up in the middle of a garbage dump, filled with a certain awareness: he's a teddy bear; he spent time at a Store...
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It Found Us

Lindsay Currie - Sourcebooks Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Scritch Scratch and The Girl in White comes a new spooky mystery about a girl detective who must decode a series of ominous clues tied to a century-old tragedy to find a missing teenager before it's too late ... Twelve-year-old Hazel Woods has always had an unusual...
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SERAFINA AND THE TWISTED STAFF

ROBERT BEATTY - DISNEY PR
Format: Paperback(Reprint)

Serafina's defeat of the Man in the Black Cloak has brought her out of the shadows and into the daylight realm of her home, Biltmore Estate. Every night she visits her mother in the forest, eager to learn the ways of the catamount. But Serafina finds herself caught between her two worlds:...
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Watch Hollow

Gregory Funaro - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Gregory Funaro brings us into a world where magic exists, monsters roam in the shadows, and wooden animals come to life.Deep within the enchanted woods in the town of Watch Hollow stands the once-grand Blackford House, whose halls hold a magical secret:...
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Nightmares!

Jason Segel - Delacorte Pr
Format: Print book

"Coraline meets Monsters, Inc. in this delightfully entertaining offering from actor [Jason] Segel and co-author [Kirsten] Miller." - Publishers WeeklyThe hilariously frightening, middle-grade novel Nightmares! is a Texas Bluebonnet nominee...
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Gallowgate

K. R. Alexander - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling horror master K.R. Alexander comes this twisted take on a school for magic, where the line between life and death grows thinner with every nightfall.. Sebastian Wight is cursed.He sees things other kids don't see. Things he shouldn't see.Ghosts. Monsters. Ghouls....
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