SJPL Picks: Scary Stories (~Grades 3-7)Like this list

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• A Bite Above the Rest

  Virnig, Christine,

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  Grades 4-7. Comic horror. "When Caleb’s mom decides they are moving to her childhood home in Wisconsin, Caleb is not thrilled. Moving schools, states, and time zones would be bad enough, but Mom’s hometown is Samhain, a small and ridiculously…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Read at Your Own Risk

  Lai, Remy,

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  Grades 3-6. "When Hannah and her friends play a Ouija-style game in their school attic, they unleash an evil spirit that curses Hannah and communicates with her through her diary."

• The Lonely Below

  Davis, G. Haron,

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  Grades 4-7. "Eva Mauberry thought boarding school was going to be hard, but she didn’t expect it to be haunted.After her beloved MawMaw Septine passes away, 12-year-old Eva’s parents need to leave Tennessee and travel to Louisiana to settle her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Give Me Something Good to Eat

  Gillespie, D. W. (Novelist),

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  Grades 3-7. "On Halloween night, seventh-grader Mason travels into an alternate world to save his sister from an evil witch and break a curse that has plagued his town for years."

• It Came From the Trees

  Russell, Ally,

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  Grades 4-7. "Jenna, determined to save her best friend Reese, who was taken by a creature unlike anything she’s ever seen, joins a new local scout troop and ventures into the woods where, when the unthinkable happens, they must band together to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Waking the Dead and Other Fun Activities

  Lyall, Casey,

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  Grades 4-7. Comic horror. "Twelve-year-old Kimmy Jones discovers secrets about her heritage and learns about a witch who has been wreaking havoc for centuries."

• It Watches in the Dark

  Strand, Jeff,

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  Grades 4-8. "Twins seek medical help in a remote village after their father is in a canoeing accident...only to discover the scarecrow that stands watch in town may have a stronger hold over the residents than expected."

• Seven Ghosts

  Priestley, Chris, 1958-

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  Grades 3-7. "Jake and the other finalists in a writing competition have been invited to a stately house for a tour like no other. As their guide leads them through grand rooms, hidden nooks and magnificent grounds, they hear the stories of seven…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dread Detention

  Killick, Jennifer,

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  Grades 3-7. "While in Saturday detention, Hallie, Angelo, Gustav and Naira must work together to survive when unspeakable horrors emerge from the shadows and the evil grows stronger by the minute."

• Bumps in the Night

  Howard, Amalie,

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  Grades 4-7. "Sent to her grandmother's estate in Trinidad, Rika meets a group of kids with elemental powers called Minders, who reveal that her long-lost mom is in danger, sending Rika on a magical adventure where she must learn to believe in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wandering Hour

  Clark, Zack Loran,

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  Grades 3-7. "New Rotterdam is no place for a kid―and that’s what Emrys Houtman likes about it. Emrys obsessively documents his town’s urban legends and cryptid sightings in a Wiki, along with his neighbors and fellow horror fans Hazel and Serena.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Scarewaves

  Henderson, Trevor (Comics artist),

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  Grades 4-6. "Guided by a mysterious radio host, a group of kids comes face to face with the horrors hiding within their town of Beacon Point, a place plagued by strange phenomena for years, as they follow clues to a terrifying secret before it eats…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Otherwoods

  Winans, Justine Pucella,

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  Grades 2-6. "Born with the ability to see monsters and travel to The Otherwoods, River Rydell has no choice but to confront this place they've only seen in their nightmares when their only friend (and crush) Avery is dragged into this terrifying…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nightmare King

  Hermon, Daka,

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  Grades 5-7. "Coming back from the dead after a tragic accident, Shane is pulled into a dark world where the evil Nightmare King collects children and keeps them as treasure, forcing him to hold onto the good in himself long enough to destroy the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• It Found Us

  Currie, Lindsay,

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  Grades 5-8. "When her brother's best friend Everett vanishes during a game of hide-and-seek in the cemetery, 12-year-old Hazel Woods must unravel the terrifying clues that started appearing since that night to save Everett before he's gone forever."

• Finch House

  Burch, Ciera,

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  Grades 2-6. "Warned by her Poppop to stay away from the haunted Victorian-era Finch House, 11-year-old Micah enters and becomes trapped there after her Poppop disappears and must convince the house to release its hold on her and her family."

• Peril at Price Manor

  Parnum, Laura,

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  Grades 2-6. "In this good-humored romp, horror film mega fan Halle Thompson, 12, leaps at the chance to deliver flowers to the lavish home of Maximus Price, creator of one of her favorite movies, The Manic Marmoset Invasion. Meanwhile, on the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Extra Normal

  Marshall, Kate Alice,

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  Grades 2-6. ""Un-super" in a household of supernatural siblings, Charlie Greer is convinced that his "too nice and too normal" new neighbors are up to something and must uncover the truth, proving you don't need special powers to stop evil."

• The Nightmare House

  Allen, Sarah Elisabeth,

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  Grades 5-8. "I saw a person with blank, colorless eyes . . . and this time, I wasn’t dreaming. Penny Hope used to be brave, but that was before she met the Fear Maker. Years later, he still haunts her nightmares―a tall, thin man with red eyes, in a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Horrible Bag of Terrible Things

  Renzetti, Robert,

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  Grades 2-6. "Eleven-year-old Zenith journeys into a bizarre, macabre world within a mysterious bag where he struggles to save his older sister from a living hairball and survive a trio of bloodthirsty mouths, a sentient sawdust-stuffed giant, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation