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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

• The Lonely Below

  Davis, G. Haron,

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  A new student at Blythe Academy, Eva is suddenly able to see ghosts and discovers that a tragic event which occurred 50 years earlier was no accident but caused by a malevolent force that’s back, prompting Eva to find a way to save her fellow…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Secret Dead Club

  Strong, Karen,

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  Moving to the family home in Alton, Georgia, Wednesday discovers she’s not the only one who can see ghosts when she meets a group of girls who invite her to join the Dead Club and help them banish evil from their town.

• The No-brainer's Guide to Decomposition

  Cuevas, Adrianna

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  This spooky middle grade novel follows Frani as she fights to stop the undead from rising in her father's body-farm laboratory -- that is, if she can embrace the true nature of her brain and its ADHD.

• A Bite Above the Rest

  Virnig, Christine,

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  Moving to Samhain, Wisconsin, where every day is Halloween, Caleb becomes an outcast at school because he doesn't like Halloween, and when things get even weirder, he's the only one who realizes danger is brewing and must save a town that doesn't…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Creepening of Dogwood House

  Royce, Eden,

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  At night, Roddie still dreams of sitting at his mother’s feet while she braids his Afro down. But that’s a memory from before. Before his aunt brought him to Dogwood House, the creepiest place Roddie has ever seen. It was his family’s home for over…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• It Came From the Trees

  Russell, Ally,

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  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 fight the monster…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Pumpkin Princess and the Forever Night

  Banbury, Steven,

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  When Eve accepts the offer to become the Pumpkin King's daughter after fleeing an unpleasant orphanage, she's whisked away to the misty Hallowell Valley--home to witches and vampires, ghosts and goblins, and all that go bump in the night--but just…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tales From Cabin 23. The Boo Hag Flex

  Ireland, Justina,

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  Moving to the Shady Pines trailer park, Tasha hears rumors of a terrifying creature sucking the life from its victims after an elderly neighbor dies suddenly, and as more people become unwell, Tasha fears the stories are true--and that danger is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bumps in the Night

  Howard, Amalie,

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  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 herself to destroy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Give Me Something Good to Eat

  Gillespie, D. W. (Novelist),

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  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.

• Nox Winters and the Midnight Wolf

  Hassan, Rochelle,

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  Motivated by desperation and brotherhood, a boy must venture deep into the Nightwood to find a cure for his mysteriously sick brother.

• Wishbone

  Winans, Justine Pucella,

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  When they find a two-tailed cat they name Wishbone, Ollie, when all his wishes come true, learns magic comes at a price, wishes have consequences and a shadow man called The Mage is after Wishbone, forcing Ollie to choose between fighting evil and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Zombie Train

  Gill, David Macinnis, 1963-

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  While twelve-year-old Wyatt rides out the zombie apocalypse on his crew's cobbled together train, a mysterious girl arrives with stories of a potential cure for the zombie parasite.

• Monster Movie!

  Wendig, Chuck,

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  Twelve-year-old Ethan is afraid of everything, but he must overcome his fears to save his town from a cursed videotape turned monster on the loose.

• Dread Detention

  Killick, Jennifer,

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  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.

• Finch House

  Burch, Ciera,

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  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.

• The Wandering Hour

  Clark, Zack Loran,

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  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. It’s all in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• It Found Us

  Currie, Lindsay,

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  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.

• The Otherwoods

  Winans, Justine Pucella,

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  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 world.