Barrington Area Library

Kids' Catalog | Scary Stories

Grade 3 | Grades 4–5 | Grades 6–8

Grade 3

Beginning Readers | Chapter Books | Nonfiction

Beginning Readers

Brown, Marcy.  The Well-Mannered Ghost.
Cazet, Denys.  Minnie and Moo Meet Frankenswine.
Christian, Mary Blount.  Go West, Swamp Monsters!
Cole, Joanna.  Bony-Legs.
Cushman, Doug.  Dirk Bones and the Mystery of the Haunted House.
Dodds, Dayle Ann.  Ghost and Pete.
Dussling, Jennifer.  A Very Strange Dollhouse.
Frith, Margaret.  Mermaid Island.
Hay, Samantha.  Creepy Customers.
Herman, Gail.  The Big White Ghost.
Herman, Gail.  The Haunted Bike.
Herman, Gail.  Scooby-Doo Readers series.
Holub, Joan.  The Spooky Sleepover.
Howe, James.  Bunnicula and Friends series.
Impey, Rose.  Wanda Witch and the Wobbly Fang.
Low, Alice.  The Witch Who Was Afraid of Witches.
Moser, Lisa.  The Monster in the Backpack.
Scary Stories to Read When It's Dark.
Schwartz, Alvin.  In a Dark, Dark Room, and Other Scary Stories.
Stamper, Judith Bauer.  Five Creepy Creatures.
Standiford, Natalie.  The Headless Horseman.
Steinberg, David.  The Monster Mall, and Other Spooky Poems.
Thiesing, Lisa.  A Dark and Noisy Night: A Silly Thriller with Peggy the Pig.
Van Leeuwen, Jean.  Amanda Pig and the Awful, Scary Monster.

Chapter Books

Bauer, Marion Dane.  The Blue Ghost.
Benton, Jim.  Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist series.
Berenstain, Stan.  The Berenstain Bears and the Galloping Ghost.
Brown, Marc Tolon.  Arthur and the Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club.
Colfer, Eoin.  Eoin Colfer's Legend of Captain Crow's Teeth.
Dadey, Debbie.  Adventures of the Bailey School Kids series.
Farber, Erica.  Critters of the Night series.
Gelsey, James.  Scooby-Doo Mysteries series.
Hurst, Carol Otis.  The Wrong One.
Jones, Marcia Thornton.  Bailey City Monsters series.
Jones, Marcia Thornton.  Ghostville Elementary series.
Keane, David.  The Haunted Toolshed.
Keene, Carolyn.  The Gumdrop Ghost.
Klein, Abby.  Halloween Fraidy Cat.
Levy, Elizabeth.  Dracula Is a Pain in the Neck.
Levy, Elizabeth.  The Vampire State Building.
Murphy, Jill.  The Worst Witch Saves the Day.
Roy, Ron.  The Haunted Hotel.
St. George, Judith.  The Ghost, the White House, and Me.
Selznick, Brian.  The Boy of a Thousand Faces.
Wright, Betty Ren.  Princess for a Week.

Nonfiction

Donkin, Andrew.  Spooky Spinechillers: True Ghost Stories.
Goode, Diane.  Diane Goode's Book of Scary Stories & Songs.
Haskins, Lori.  Spooky America: Four Real Ghost Stories.
Helmer, Marilyn.  Spooky Riddles.
Hoberman, Mary Ann.  You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Scary Tales to Read Together.
King, Penny.  Spooky Things.
Martin, Michael.  Ghosts.
Perry, Janet.  Morph Monsters.
Singer, Marilyn.  Monster Museum.

Grades 4–5

Fiction | Nonfiction

Fiction

Ahlberg, Allan.  The Improbable Cat.
Alter, Stephen.  Ghost Letters.
Amato, Carol.  The Phantom Hunters.
Barrows, Annie.  Ivy + Bean and the Ghost That Had to Go.
Brittain, Bill.  Who Knew There’d Be Ghosts?
Bruchac, Joseph.  Whisper in the Dark.
Burgess, Melvin.  The Ghost behind the Wall.
Carus, Marianne, ed.  That's Ghosts for You: 13 Scary Stories.
Chase, Mary.  The Wicked, Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House.
Ciencin, Scott.  Godzilla: Journey to Monster Island.
Clifford, Eth.  Never Hit a Ghost with a Baseball Bat.
Coville, Bruce.  Goblins in the Castle.
deFelice, Cynthia C.  The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs.
deFelice, Cynthia C.  The Ghost of Cutler Creek.
Delaney, M. C.  The Great Sockathon.
Freeman, Martha.  Who Stole Halloween?
Funke, Cornelia.  Ghosthunters series.
Gaiman, Neil.  Coraline.
Griffith, Helen V.  Cougar.
Griffiths, Barbara.  Frankenstein's Hamster: Ten Spine-Tingling Tales.
Gutman, Dan.  The Million Dollar Strike.
Hahn, Mary Downing.  Witch Catcher.
Howe, James.  Nighty-Nightmare.
Ibbotson, Eva.  Dial-a-Ghost.
Jarvis, Robin.  The Whitby Witches.
Jenkins, Jerry B.  Haunted Waters.
Kehret, Peg.  Horror at the Haunted House.
Lerangis, Peter.  Watchers series.
Mahy, Margaret.  The Horribly Haunted School.
McMullan, Kate.  The Ghost of Sir Herbert Dungeonstone.
Medearis, Angela Shelf.  Haunts: Five Hair-Raising Tales.
Montgomery, R. A.  The Haunted House: Choose Your Own Adventure.
Ogilvy, Ian.  Measle and the Mallockee.
Olander, Johan.  A Field Guide to Monsters: Googly-Eyed Wart Floppers, Shadow-Casters, Toe-Eaters, and Other Creatures.
Patneaude, David.  Haunting at Home Plate.
Preller, James.  Godzilla.
Reiss, Kathryn.  Sweet Miss Honeywell's Revenge: A Ghost Story.
Shreve, Susan Richards.  Ghost Cats.
Stine, R. L., comp.  Beware! R. L. Stine Picks His Favorite Scary Stories.
Stine, R. L.  Mostly Ghostly series.
Tan, Shaun.  The Haunted Playground.
Wallace, Barbara Brooks.  Ghosts in the Gallery.
West, Tracey.  Scream Shop series.
Whybrow, Ian.  Little Wolf's Haunted Hall for Small Horrors.
Woodruff, Elvira.  The Ghost of Lizard Light.
Yee, Paul.  Dead Man's Gold, and Other Stories.

Nonfiction

Brucken, Kelli M.  Haunted Houses.
Gee, Joshua.  Encyclopedia Horrifica: The Terrifying Truth about Vampires, Ghosts, Monsters, and More.

Guiberson, Brenda Z.  Tales of the Haunted Deep.
Halls, Kelly Milner.  Tales of the Cryptids: Mysterious Creatures That May or May Not Exist.
Hill, Douglas.  Witches and Magic Makers.
Holub, Joan.  The Haunted States of America: Haunted Houses and Spooky Places in All 50 States...and Canada, Too.
Moore, Lillian.  Beware, Take Care: Fun and Spooky Poems.
Pepper, Dennis, comp.  The New Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories.
Rex, Adam.  Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich, and Other Stories You're Sure to Like, Because They're All about Monsters, and Some of Them Are Also about Food. You Like Food, Don't You? Well, All Right Then.
San Souci, Robert D.  Triple-Dare to Be Scared: Thirteen Further Freaky Tales.
Schultz, Sam.  Monster Mayhem: Jokes to Scare You Silly!
Schwartz, Alvin.  Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
Sierra, Judy.  The Gruesome Guide to World Monsters.
Tingle, Tim.  Spirits Dark and Light: Supernatural Tales from the Five Civilized Tribes.
Wood, Ted.  Ghosts of the West Coast: The Lost Souls of the Queen Mary, and Other Real-Life Hauntings.
Sierra, Judy.  Monster Goose.