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After Dark
by James Leck
What it's about: After dreaming all year of a beach vacation, lazy, privileged Charlie Harker spends his summer fleeing from monsters instead. Charlie was horrified when his mom dragged him to the poky little town of Rolling Hills and forced him to help her flip the family's dusty old mansion. But he didn't understand real horror until he met Miles Van Helsing, an eccentric neighbor kid whose crackpot theories about supernatural activity and "zompire" sightings prove, shockingly, to be true. Blending sly humor with paranormal peril, After Dark is as funny as TV's Gravity Falls, but with a snarky, scary edge.
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Substitute creature
by Charles Gilman
What it's about: Supernatural Fiction. While stuck in the Lovecraft Middle School during a blizzard, Robert Arthur and his companions face off against an evil substitute teacher and an army of beasts.
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Rise of the balloon goons
by Troy Cummings
What it's about: Discovering an old notebook after moving to a new hometown, Alexander reads top-secret information about monsters while tackling a wacky band of arm-waving, balloon-wielding brutes.
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The zero degree zombie zone
by Patrik Henry Bass
What it's about: ​Struggling through a bad day after his latest clash with a popular kid, shy fourth-grader Bakari Kitari Johnson finds a magical ring that his best friend and he must use to protect against their rivals and hostile intruders from a fantastical world. Illustrated by the creator of the award-winning Mama's Boyz comic. .
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The last kids on Earth
by Max Brallier
What it's about: After a monster apocalypse hits town, average thirteen-year-old Jack Sullivan builds a team of friends to help slay the eerily intelligent monster known as Blarg.
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What's lurking in the woods?
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| Small Spaces by Katherine ArdenIntroducing: Ollie, a bookish sixth-grader who realizes that the scary antique book she's been reading is actually local history -- and that her entire class might be in danger.
Featuring: scarecrows, shapeshifters, a smiling specter, and a frightening journey through a fog-shrouded forest.
Series alert: This spooky chiller is the 1st in a series, followed by Dead Voices. |
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The great ghost rescue
by Eva Ibbotson
What it's about: Humphrey the Horrible, a very unsuccessful ghost--much to the chagrin of his mother--enlists the help of brilliant, politically savvy schoolboy Rick Henderson to help him fight for a sanctuary for the ghosts of Britain--a mission that leads him to the home of the Prime Minister and into the path of danger.
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Serafina and the Black Cloak
by Robert Beatty
What it's about: Living secretly in the basement of a grand estate where her pa works as a maintenance man, young Serafina narrowly escapes a black-cloaked man who has been abducting local children and who Serafina, aided by a youth from the estate, endeavors to expose.
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Skeleton man
by Joseph Bruchac
What it's about: After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange "great-uncle," Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even for her life.
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Patrick Carman's Skeleton Creek
by Patrick Carman
What it is: Although housebound following an eerie accident, teenaged Ryan continues to investigate the strange occurences in his hometown of Skeleton Creek, recording his findings in a journal and viewing email video clips sent by fellow detective Sarah. This book begins a series.
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Doll Bones
by Holly Black
What it is: Horror Fiction. It's normal to outgrow your toys…but what if your toys won't let you go? A creepy old china doll is the central figure in an epic, imaginary game played by 12-year-old friends Zach, Poppy, and Alice. Just as Zach (pressured by his dad to "grow up") suddenly quits the game, Poppy is visited by the ghost of a murdered girl named Eleanor. Eleanor's ashes are inside the china doll, and her spirit won't rest unless the three friends journey to her grave and bury her ashes. But can their changing friendship survive the quest? Find out in this eerie, bittersweet adventure, which won a Newbery Honor in 2014.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 10-13!
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Central Mississippi Regional Library System
100 Tamberline Street
Brandon, Mississippi 39042
601-825-0100
http://www.cmrls.lib.ms.us
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