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• Nightmares!

  Segel, Jason, 1980-

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  Also available as an eBook and Audiobook CD. Charlie Laird’s nightmares become a reality when he discovers a portal to the Netherworld. Charlie’s widowed father has recently remarried, and Charlie hates it. He hates his stepmom. He hates that his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Beast and the Bethany

  Meggitt-Phillips, Jack,

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  A droll tween take on The Picture of Dorian Gray. For more than five centuries, the superficially polite Ebenezer Tweezer has resided in an enormous house teeming with riches provided by an attic-dwelling beast. Their arrangement is simple: Ebenezer…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Field Guide to the Supernatural Universe

  Noël, Alyson,

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  Also available as an eBook. A tween spends the summer with his eccentric grandfather, ghosts, and more. After a viral video taken on the last day of sixth grade solidifies his status as “Class Weirdo,” Maxen Smith wants nothing more than to be…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sneaks

  Egan, Catherine, 1976-

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  Sixth-grader Ben Harp and two of his classmates must stop an alien invasion in their small town. Eleven-year-old Ben has had a miserable start to Livingston Middle School. He’s having trouble finding his footing socially since Ashok, his best…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Night of the Living Ted

  Hutchison, Barry,

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  Teddy bears come to life—and they’re evil. Lisa Marie loves both big words and the Create-a-Ted store. On Halloween, while shopping with her new older stepbrother, Vernon, she sees that Create-a-Ted has a sign declaring a new owner—and it’s giving…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dead City

  Ponti, James

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  Middle schooler Molly excels at judo and fencing—both necessary skills when combatting New York City’s 1,000-plus zombies. The summer before starting at a science magnet school on Roosevelt Island in the East River, Molly spends Friday afternoons at…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Mortification of Fovea Munson

  Heider, Mary Winn,

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  Fovea Munson’s mortification isn’t unfounded: Her parents are surgeons…who operate on dead people (“Sorry. Cadavers”). Fovea, whose name means “eyeballs” in “medical lingo,” would rather spend the summer at “a chewed-gum landfill” or in “a yurt in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No Place for Monsters

  Merritt, Kory,

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  Children are snatched from their beds and erased from all memory. Levi and Kat often feel like they’re the only ones out of place in their small suburban town of Cowslip Grove. The two children feel a slight remove from their classmates and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Middle School Bites

  Banks, Steven, 1954-

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  All Tom Marks wants is to be an ordinary kid—invisible, in fact. But it’s hard to be invisible when you’re a Vam-Wolf-Zom. Tom’s many plans for middle school include the “Girlfriend Plan,” the “Easy Grade in Art Class Plan,” and, most importantly,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Supernatural Society

  Ogle, Rex,

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  Will Hunter thought his life couldn't get any worse - his parents just got divorced ; his best (and only) friend now is his dog, Fitz ; and his Mom moved them from New York City to a middle-of-nowhere town called East Emerson. But Will was wrong -…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Haunted Mustache

  McGee, Joe, 1972-

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  Also available as an eBook. Fifth graders get into a hairy situation. After an unnamed narrator’s full-page warning, readers dive right into a Wolver Hollow classroom. Mr. Noffler recounts the town legend about how, every Oct. 19, residents don fake…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Strangeville School Is Totally Normal

  Miller, Darcy, 1981-

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  Also available as an eBook. New fifth grade student Harvey Hill discovers Strangeville School more than lives up to its name. After attending four different schools in the space of four years, Harvey is familiar with the role of new kid. However,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Zombie Kid

  Savage, J. Scott (Jeffrey Scott), 1963-

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  Striking the perfect balance between rib-tickling humor and bone-chilling adventure, the first novel in Savage’s new middle-grade series is sure to please young readers looking for a thrill. Nick, Carter, and Angelo, otherwise known by their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Haunting of Henry Davis

  Siebel, Kathryn,

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  Henry, the new boy in Barbara Anne Klein’s fifth-grade class, dresses oddly, but that isn’t the strangest thing about him. Henry and narrator Barbara Anne (or Bitsy as her parents and grandmother call her) bond over their need to escape their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Small Zombie Problem

  Campbell, K. G. (Keith Gordon), 1966-

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  Hot sauce, butterflies, and zombies—oh my! When you’re a lonely little boy who would like nothing more than to make friends, it is decidedly unhelpful that you are white as a sheet and often confused with a ghost due to having lived your entire…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Curse of the Werepenguin

  Woodrow, Allan,

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  Also available as an eAudiobook. An unwanted orphan awakens to his destined werepenguin powers and faces an evil immortal threatening war and domination under penguin rule. Twelve-year-old boy Humboldt thinks his only talent is bolting under beds…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Demon Dentist

  Walliams, David, 1971-

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  Also available as an eAudiobook. All over town, children have been putting lost teeth beneath their pillows and, instead of money, getting cat poo, oozing scabs, and like rewards. Worse yet, following shocked comments about the state of 12-year-old…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Max Helsing and the Thirteenth Curse

  Jobling, Curtis,

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  A series opener about a middle school monster hunter. Max Helsing, of the Van Helsing family, has been raised in the monster-hunting life. Although Max has no problem helping malicious beasts to their eternal rests, he prefers to befriend those…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Kids on Earth

  Brallier, Max,

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  It’s been 42 days since the Monster Apocalypse began, and 13-year-old Jack Sullivan, a self-proclaimed “zombie-fighting, monster-slaying tornado of cool” is on a quest to find and rescue his not-so-secret crush, June Del Toro, whether she needs it,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Beanstalker and Other Hilarious Scary Tales

  White, Kiersten,

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  Zombies and vampires and Grimm, oh my! Nothing is quite what it seems in these morbidly fractured fairy tales. In the prologue, readers meet a prince with no eyebrows and a Rapunzel with a mohawk. But wait—what about her fair hair? A simple but…Read moreRead more of this annotation