Halloween is my favorite holiday and I love to find ways to celebrate this spooky day all month long. One of my favorite ways to get into the Halloween spirit is by indulging in delicious candy and reading scary books. With only 3 days left until Halloween, grab yourself some sweets and check out our selection of books perfect for reading during this chilling time of year. Be sure to check out this listing of even more Halloween books.
My Pumpkin
By Lily Karr, Illustrated by Doreen Mulryan Marts (Ages 2-4)
This pumpkin-shaped board book with a shiny, full-foil cover is the perfect treat for your little trick-or-treater! Join one adorable monster as he picks out the best pumpkin to make a most spectacular jack-o’-lantern! This book is a sweet introduction to the most popular Halloween and autumn traditions.
The Hallo-wiener
By Dav Pilkey (Ages 3-5)
Oscar is short, like all dachshunds,and all the other dogs make fun of him. On Halloween he takes more ridicule than ever in his hot-dog costume, but one brave act makes him a Grade A hero--proving that a little wiener can be a real winner!
Eerie Elementary #1: The School is Alive! (A Branches Book)
By Jack Chabert, Illustrated by Sam Ricks (Ages 6-8)
This series is part of Scholastic’s early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow! In this first book in the series, Sam Graves discovers that his elementary school is ALIVE! Sam finds this out on his first day as the school hall monitor. Sam must defend himself and his fellow students against the evil school! Is Sam up to the challenge? He’ll find out soon enough: the class play is just around the corner. Sam teams up with friends Lucy and Antonio to stop this scary school before it’s too late!
The Haunted Museum #1: The Titanic Locket (A Hauntings novel)
By Suzanne Weyn (Ages 8-12)
It looks like the high point of Samantha's spring vacation is going to be a glimpse of a cute boy she sees at The Haunted Museum in England. She and her sister, Jessica, and their parents are taking a cruise on the Titanic 2, a replica of the original Titanic, and there's not even wifi! At least the Titanic exhibit at The Haunted Museum had wax figures and beautiful jewels to look at. But from their first day, Samantha and Jessica notice strange things happening. Their cabin number keeps changing. There are creepy scratching sounds coming from between the walls. And a locket that Jess opened at the museum seems to be... following them. Is the locket haunted? Or could it be the ship itself? Samantha will have to unravel the threads tying her and her sister to the past, or they could go down with the ship!
The Doll Graveyard (A Hauntings novel)
By Lois Ruby (Ages 8-12)
Shelby Tate isn’t happy about having to move to Thornewood Manor. But then she discovers a doll cemetery in the backyard of her new house, and soon she’s finding out all sorts of things about the dolls, their mysterious powers, and the girl who once owned them. If Shelby can put the doll’s souls to rest, she and her family might actually have a chance to be happy at Thornewood. But if she can't...the dolls will have their revenge.
Wickedpedia
By Chris Van Etten (Ages 14 and up)
Cole and Greg love playing practical jokes through Wikipedia. They edit key articles and 
watch their classmates crash and burn giving oral reports on Genghis Khan, the first female astronaut on Jupiter. So after the star soccer player steals Cole’s girlfriend, the boys take their revenge by creating a Wikipedia page for him, an entry full of outlandish information, including details about his bizarre death on the soccer field. It’s all in good fun, until the soccer player is killed in a freak accident...just as Cole and Greg predicted. The uneasy boys vow to leave Wikipedia alone, but someone continues to edit articles about classmates dying in gruesome ways...and those entries start to come true as well. To his horror, Cole soon discovers that someone has created a Wikipedia page for him, and included a date of death. He has one week to figure out who's behind the murders, or else he's set to meet a pretty grisly end.
Followers
By Anna Davies (Ages 14 and up)
When Briana loses out on a starring role in the school’s production of Hamlet, 
she reluctantly agrees to be the drama department’s “social media director” and starts tweeting half-hearted updates. She barely has any followers, so when someone hacks her Twitter account, Briana can’t muster the energy to stop it. After all, tweets like “Something’s rotten in the state of Denmark...and a body’s rotting in the theater” are obviously a joke. But then a body is discovered in the theater: Briana’s rival. Suddenly, what seemed like a prank turns deadly serious. To everyone’s horror, the grisly tweets continue...and the body count starts to rise. There’s no other explanation; someone is live-tweeting murders on campus. With the school in chaos and the police unable to find the culprit, it's up to Briana to unmask the psycho-tweeter before the carnage reaches Shakespearian proportions...or she becomes the next victim.
OOM readers, what books are getting you excited for Halloween?
