Category Archives: Scary stories

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  The Stone Child

  Posted on January 15, 2010 by Children's Department Staff in Fantasy, Mysteries, Scary stories

  by Dan Poblocki I don’t normally read scary books, but for some reason, I decided to pick this one up. I ended up reading it almost straight through. If you like your mysteries to be just a little creepy, give this one a try. Eddie doesn’t want to move, but he is excited to discover [...]

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  The Graveyard Book

  Posted on January 9, 2010 by Children's Department Staff in Mysteries, Newbery, Scary stories

  by Neil Gaiman The Graveyard Book opens with an air of mystery as a whole family is murdered. The only survivor is a baby who has crawled out of the house. The local residents of the graveyard adopt the boy, calling him Nobody Owens. Nobody, or “Bod” for short, grows up in the graveyard learning [...]

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  The Green Ghost

  Posted on December 2, 2009 by Victoria in Early Chapter Books, Mysteries, Scary stories

  The Green Ghost by Marion Dane Bauer This is a good choice for younger readers who want a shorter scary story. On Christmas Eve, a young girl’s family slides off the icy road into a snowbank. Kaye and her family are stranded in the woods until they come across an isolated cabin. The elderly woman [...]

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  Coraline

  Posted on October 9, 2009 by Jennifer in Scary stories

  by Neil Gaiman Coraline came out in 2002, and at the time I thought it had to be the only truly scary children’s book I had ever read. I still feel that way. But it’s a good kind of scary – really creepy and fascinating, and you just want Coraline to figure things out and [...]

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  All the Lovely Bad Ones

  Posted on June 22, 2009 by Victoria in Scary stories

  by Mary Downing Hahn Has your child read all the Goosebumps and is hungry for more chills? All the Lovely Bad Ones: a ghost story by Mary Downing Hahn is a great next step for older readers. It’s the tale of a mischievous brother and sister visiting their grandmother’s remote Vermont inn. Fox Hill Inn [...]

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  The 13 Clocks

  Posted on May 29, 2009 by Victoria in Classics, Family Read-Aloud, Fantasy, My Favorite, Scary stories

    James Thurber’s classic The 13 Clocks has been re-issued with the original illustrations by Thurber’s friend Marc Simont. Not exactly a fairy tale, not exactly a ghost story, not exactly a novel, it’s a little gem of a tale. An easy read, but filled with wonderful phrases and images telling a mystifying tale. Neil [...]

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  Found

  Posted on May 23, 2009 by Jennifer in Adventure, My Favorite, Scary stories, Science Fiction

  by Margaret Peterson Haddix Fans of Haddix’s other books like Among the Hidden (or the whole “Shadow Children” series) or Running Out of Time (one of my personal favorites) will not be disappointed with Found. Jonah, who knows he is adopted, and his family move to a new town and strange things start happening. He [...]

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