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• Book Match

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  Fill out a survey with information about your reading tastes, and one of our Matchmakers will send you a personalized reading list within two weeks. You can select a specific Matchmaker, or you can fill out a general survey and one of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Small Spaces

  Arden, Katherine,

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  Perfect atmospheric read set in fall, where Ollie, an eleven year-old who loves reading as a way to cope with her mother's death, finds a woman throwing a book into the river. Ollie rescues the book and the woman warns her to stay in small spaces.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Jumbies

  Baptiste, Tracey,

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  Based on Caribbean folklore, jumbies are ancient, shape-shifting spirits. Most on the island no longer believe jumbies exist, but Corinne is about to discover that the spirits are very much alive ...

• Camp Murderface

  Berk, Josh,

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  "Two kids team up to unravel a sinister, supernatural summer-camp mystery in 1983."

• Scritch Scratch

  Currie, Lindsay,

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  "Claire has absolutely no interest in the paranormal. She's a scientist, which is why she can't think of anything worse than having to help out her dad on one of his ghost-themed Chicago bus tours. She thinks she's made it through when she sees a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Coraline

  Gaiman, Neil

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  Coraline is bored, and goes looking for adventure. She ventures through a mysterious door and finds herself in an alternate world, very much like her own, except a for small oddities and one sinister creature.

• A Tale Dark & Grimm

  Gidwitz, Adam

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  Fractured fairy tales based on the stories of the Brothers Grimm. "Follows Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales, encountering such wicked creatures as witches, along with kindly strangers and other helpful…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Thirteenth Cat

  Hahn, Mary Downing,

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  The house next door to Aunt Alice's is surrounded by a creepy forest, and a group of wild black cats that seem to always be watching Zoey. When Zoey rescues an apparently neglected white cat from the neighbor, she had no idea how much danger she was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girl and the Ghost

  Hanna Alkaf,

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  "Suraya is delighted when her witch grandmother gifts her a pelesit. She names her ghostly companion Pink, and the two quickly become inseparable. But Suraya doesn’t know that pelesits have a dark side--and they are not above hurting others to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Scary Stories for Young Foxes

  Heidicker, Christian McKay,

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  "When Mia and Uly are separated from their litters, they discover a dangerous world full of monsters. In order to find a den to call home, they must venture through field and forest, facing unspeakable things that dwell in the darkness: a zombie who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Living Ghosts & Mischievous Monsters

  Chilling American Indian Stories

  Jones, Dan C., 1951-

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  "Thirty-two short stories chosen from the tradition of ghost stories from American Indian cultures across North America, featuring witches, walking dolls, hungry skeletons, skinwalkers, and other supernatural beings"

• Whispering Pines

  Lang, Heidi,

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  "When several kids go missing and then show up like zombies with their eyes removed, many locals brush it off. But Caden has a dark secret, one that may explain why someone is stealing eyes. And Rae, who knows how it feels to not be believed, may be…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rise of Zombert

  LaReau, Kara,

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  "9-year-old Mellie Gore rescues Bert the cat from behind the YummCo Foods factory, and Mellie soon wonders if the mystery surrounding Bert's behavior is connected to the powerful YummCo Foods company or could he truly be a zombie?"

• The Stitchers

  Lawrence, Lorien,

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  "Thirteen-year-old Quinn Parker knows that there’s something off about her neighbors. She calls them the Oldies because they’ve lived on Goodie Lane for as long as anyone can remember, but they never seem to age. Are they vampires? Or aliens? Or…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Suee and the Shadow

  Ly, Ginger,

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  "Twelve-year-old Suee transfers to Outskirts Elementary and discovers her shadow has come to life causing risk to her new friends"

• Ghost Girl

  Malinenko, Ally,

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  "Zee Puckett loves ghost stories. She just never expected to be living one. It all starts with a dark and stormy night. When the skies clear, everything is different. People are missing. And Zee is seeing frightening things: large, scary dogs that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No Place for Monsters

  Merritt, Kory,

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  "Cowslip Grove seems like the perfect place to raise a family until the children start disappearing. Nobody looks for the children because nobody can remember them. Nobody except Levi and Kat. Now they must figure out what terrible presence is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hide and Don't Seek

  and Other Very Scary Stories

  Rissi, Anica Mrose,

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  A collection of short stories including "a game of hide-and-seek goes on far too long... A look-alike doll makes itself right at home... A school talent show act leaves the audience aghast"

• Thornhill

  Smy, Pam,

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  Two stories intertwine (one is set in 1982 and one is set in 2016) and are told in alternating parts as the history of Thornhill is revealed. The two stories are told in different mediums (one in text and one in artwork).