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Horror for 4th and 5th grade from Multcolib Kids

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  • Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home. First book in a series
    Book, 2015Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, [2015] — j BAPTISTE 2015
  • When Katia runs away from her private boarding school her sister Victoria goes looking for her, accidentally stumbling into the underworld of a nearby graveyard inhabited by ghosts and a man named Nikola, who is preparing a sinister spell. Graphic…
    Graphic Novel, 2017New York : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2017. — jgn TERRY 2017
  • "When Asim moves to a new town, he must save his new teacher when an evil spirit from Guyanese folklore begins to wreak havoc"-
    Book, 2022New York : Random House Children's Books, [2022] — Green Reader DEEN 2022
  • When 11-year-old Ollie happens upon a woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn't think--she just acts, stealing the book and running away. As she begins to read the slender volume, Ollie discovers a chilling story…
    Book, 2018New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018] — j ARDEN 2018
  • "Molly Teng sees things no one else can. By touching the belongings of people who have died, she gets brief glimpses into the lives they lived. The last thing Jade remembers from life is dying. For more than 100 years she's been trapped in the same…
    Book, 2024New York : Scholastic Press, 2024. — j HUNG 2024
  • When Lila's grandfather dies, she has to spend the summer in Ohio while her parents decide what to do with Grandpa Clem's creepy Victorian Inn. After a scary car accident (no one is hurt), the remainder of the trip is... odd. Lila sees and hears…
    Book, 2025New York : Scholastic Press, 2025. — j KELLY 2025
  • Blue and Herschel seek a cursed treasure buried beneath their middle school, but there is one problem; It's haunted by those who tried... and died in their attempt to get the treasure for themselves!
    Graphic Novel, 2024Miami, Florida : Papercutz, an imprint of Mad Cave Studios, [2024] — jgn ERMAN 2024
  • Rory Parker knows not to step a foot in, on, or around the house next door. But when Jack and his family move into the house next door, Rory makes it his duty to protect them at all costs. But the vicious forces lying within the house are plotting…
    Book, 2025New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025] — j OH 2025
  • When middle schooler Charlotte reads a mysterious book called Liber de Monstrum, she unleashes strange events in her town and must team up with her friends to track down a missing teacher, stop a possible werewolf, and set things right.
    Graphic Novel, 2026New York, NY : Viking, 2026. — jgn FITZPATRI 2026
  • Guaranteed to scare readers silly, this collection of five terrifying tales follows Davis and Emily as they listen to their classmates tell the spookiest, most chilling stories ever.
    Graphic Novel, 2023New York : First Second, 2023. — jgn ANNABLE 2023
  • "Keenan loves running. He is good at it. He is a track star, after all. Now he and his mother are escaping his father, trying to start a new life in Tennessee. But he has never been on the run like this before. This new town has monsters of its own.…
    Book, 2026New York : Scholastic Press, 2026. — j HERMON 2026
  • In the middle of her parents' divorce, eleven-year-old Naomi and her brothers are sent to camp where children disappear and monsters stories are real.
    Book, 2024New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2024] — j BURCH 2024
  • When twelve-year-old African American Jackson Freeman is forced to move from Raleigh, North Carolina to Chicago he finds himself suddenly in a world of talking glasses and clocks, magical inheritance, and daredevil train porters in a fight against a…
    Book, 2024Los Angeles : Freedom Fire, Disney-Hyperion, 2024. — j MBALIA 2024
  • Guest

    a Changeling Tale

    Hahn, Mary Downing,
    Young Mollie traverses eerie, perilous lands to retrieve her baby brother, Thomas, from the Kinde Folke, malicious sprites who snatched him and left a hideous changeling in his place.
    Book, 2019Boston, MA ; New York : Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019] — j HAHN 2019
  • "A collection of six connected stories that follows a group of fox kits as they fight to survive in an unforgiving wilderness"-
    Book, 2019New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2019. — j HEIDICKER 2019
  • When twelve-year-old River's only friend is kidnapped and dragged to the terrifying spirit world of The Otherwoods, they have no choice but to face the world's monsters and their own fears to become the hero they were destined to be.
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Bloomsbury Children's Books, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2023. — j WINANS 2023
  • A group of sixth graders participating in an annual Halloween tradition to pacify the ghost of Abigail Snook quickly realize that the Bellwoods contains an even bigger threat to their town.
    Book, 2023New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2023] — j KRAMPIEN 2023
  • Don't Turn Out the Lights

    a Tribute to Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

    A collection of terrifying stories--in tribute to Alvin Schwartz's classic Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series--that will chill readers to the bone.
    Book, 2020New York, NY : HarperCollins Children's Books, [2020] — j DONT 2020