 | Scary Books for 3rd-5th Grades |
| Please note: some titles listed are more appropriate for the older kids in this age group. Also, some are available in paperback; look for them on the J paperback carousels. | |
Children’s Fiction (J)
| Alcock | The Stonewalkers |
| Avi | Something Upstairs: A Tale of Ghosts |
| Bauer | The Blue Ghost |
| Bellairs | The House with a Clock in Its Walls |
| Beware | Beware!: R.L. Stine Picks His Favorite Scary Stories |
| Brittain | The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree |
| Bunting | Is Anybody There?: A Novel |
| Cameron | The Court of the Stone Children |
| Clifford | Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library |
| Coville | The Ghost Wore Gray |
| Cross | Mystery at Loon Lake |
| Embry | The Blue-Nosed Witch |
| Faces | Faces in the Dark: A Book of Scary Stories |
| Fine | Bad Dreams |
| Gibbons | Hook Moon Night: Spooky Tales from the Georgia Mountains |
| Gorog | In a Creepy, Creepy Place and Other Scary Stories |
| Griffin | The Ghost Sitter |
| Gutman | Nightmare at the Book Fair |
| Hahn | The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story |
| Hahn | Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story |
| Hamilton | Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny: An Original African American Scare Tale |
| Hardinge | Well Witched |
| Hurst | The Wrong One |
| Ibbotson | The Beasts of Clawstone Castle |
| Irving | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
| Kehret | Terror at the Zoo |
| Levy | Dracula Is a Pain in the Neck |
| Lively | The Ghost of Thomas Kempe |
| Mayne | Hob and the Goblins |
| McKenzie | The Witches of Dredmoore Hollow |
| McKissack | The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural |
| Medearis | Haunts: Five Hair-Raising Tales |
| Newbery | A Newbery Halloween: A Dozen Scary Stories by Newbery Award-Winning Authors |
| Nixon | Ghost Town: Seven Ghostly Stories |
| Oxford | The Oxford Book of Scarytales |
| Pearce | Who's Afraid?: And Other Strange Stories |
| Roberts | The View from the Cherry Tree |
| Seabrooke | The Haunting at Stratton Falls |
| Sleator | Among the Dolls |
| Snyder | The Ghosts of Rathburn Park |
| Sommer-Bodenburg | If You Want to Scare Yourself |
| Spooky | Spooky Stories for a Dark & Stormy Night |
| Stine | Nightmare Hour (also Y Stine) |
| Vande Velde | Ghost of a Hanged Man |
| Walker | The Scared Ghost, and Other Stories |
| Wallace | Peppermints in the Parlor |
| Whitcher | Real Mummies Don't Bleed: Friendly Tales for October Nights |
| Woodruff | The Ghost of Lizard Light |
| Wright | A Ghost in the House |
| Wright | The Dollhouse Murders |
| Wright | The Ghost Comes Calling |
| Yolen | The Bagpiper's Ghost |
Nonfiction, Folktales & Poetry
| J133.1 CO | Ghostly Warnings |
| J398.2 Favorite | Favorite Scary Stories of American Children |
| J398.2 San Souci | More Short & Shivery: Thirty Terrifying Tales |
| J398.2 Scared | Scared Witless: Thirteen Eerie Tales to Tell |
| J808.1 CO | Cobwebs, Chatters, and Chills: A Collection of Scary Poems |
| J808.83 LU | Spooky Tales About Witches, Ghosts, Goblins, Demons and Such |
| J808.83 SC | The Scary Book |
| J821 McN | Making Friends with Frankenstein: A Book of Monstrous Poems and Pictures |
| Y398.2 Ask | Ask the Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World |
| Y398.2 Haskins | The Headless Haunt and Other African-American Ghost Stories |
| Y398.2 Olson | More Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World |
| Y398.2 Schwartz | Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark |
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Wilmette Public Library Youth Department
www.wilmettelibrary.info/kids Last Updated 10/09 |