Children

Recommended Reading

Scary Stories

• The Seer of Shadows by Avi
• Something Upstairs by Avi
• Bearwalker by Joseph Bruchac
• The Ghost of Windy Hill by Clyde Robert Bulla
• The Empty Mirror by James Lincoln Collier
• The Witches by Roald Dahl
• The Ghost of Fossil Glen by Cynthia C. DeFelice
• The Great Sockathon by Michael Delaney
• Walking with the Dead by L. M. Falcone
• Disappearing Act by Sid Fleischman
• Overnight by Adele Griffin
• Ghost Hunt: Chilling Tales of the Unknown by Jason Hawes
• Groosham Grange by Anthony Horowitz
• The Beasts of Clawstone Castle by Eva Ibbotson
• The Whitby Witches by Robin Jarvis
• Horror at the Haunted House by Peg Kehret
• Scepter of the Ancients by Derek Landy
• Haunts by Angela Shelf Medearis
• The Witch Doll by Helen Morgan
• More Bones: Scary Stories From Around the World by Arielle North Olson
• The Nightmarys by Dan Poblocki
• Clockwork by Philip Pullman
• Scared Stiff by Willo Davis Roberts
• Sweet Miss Honeywell’s Revenge by Kathryn Reiss
• Guys Read: Thriller by Jon Scieszka
• Haunted Houses by Robert San Souci
• The Mysterious Matter of I. M. Fine by Diane Stanley
• It's the First Day of School -- Forever!  by R. L. Stine
• Spellbinder by Helen Stringer
• Who's There? by Stephanie Tolan
• Rosemary's Witch by Ann Turner
• There's a Dead Person Following My Sister Around by Vivian Vande Velde
• Stolen by Vivian Vande Velde
• The Shadows by Jacqueline West
• Ghosts Don't Get Goosebumps by Elvira Woodruff
• Crandall's Castle by Betty Ren Wright