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 JERRY SEINFELD HALLOWEEN
Jerry Seinfeld
illustrated by James Bennett
Little Brown & Co
ISBN: 0316134546
Ages 4-8
32 pages
Do you remember the first time you went trick-or-treating? When everyone in the neighborhood was giving out candy? And you were like, "I gotta be a part of this!"
Jerry Seinfeld takes readers on a wild ride through his candy-filled version of Halloween. Everyone will identify with the Seinfeld rules of Halloween --- from what constitutes a good costume to what is acceptable as trick-or-treat candy. Join what looks like a young Jerry on a quirky quest for more and more candy.
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 GHOST TOWN: Seven Ghostly Stories
Joan Lowery Nixon
Yearling Books
ISBN: 0440416035
Ages 9-12
Set in real American towns of the gold rush, you can learn about gun-toting outlaws, desperadoes as mean as snarling dogs, and sheriffs who tried to keep the law. Of course after the gold was gone, everyone abandoned these little towns, leaving behind nothing but tumbleweed. Or did everyone leave? Read about the Lost Mine in Maiden, Texas, or the Bad Man from Bodie, California, who's still searching for his lost finger…
Joan Lowery Nixon puts together seven spooky stories, great for reading around the fireplace on a late night. Town facts and other informative resources follow the stories, including practical advice for exploring ghost towns.
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 GHOSTLY FRIGHTS FOR HALLOWEEN NIGHTS
Shauna Mooney Kawasaki
Sterling Publications
ISBN: 1402701187
Ages 9-12
96 pages
Which do you love more --- to scare others or be scared yourself? Haunted houses prove that the answer is both! This book provides you with fast and simple projects to turn your house into the scariest one on the block. The windows of your front door can become a goblin's glowing eyes with a toothy grin dripping with blood. Fill your house with the bats, skeletons, pumpkins, and lots of ghosts!
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 PORKENSTEIN
Kathryn Lasky
illustrated by David Jarvis
Blue Sky Press
ISBN: 059062380X
Ages 4-8
40 pages
Dr. Smart Pig has been lonely since the Big Bad Wolf ate his brothers. Sadly thinking about another Halloween alone, he decides to invent a fabulous, wolfproof pig to keep him company. But this plan backfires! His first creation is a pig fish; his second, a pig bat. The third time's the charm, when he concocts a giant pig that rapidly consumes every bit of food in the house, including the garbage.
News spreads about the giant monster-pig, Porkenstein, and the Big Bad Wolf gets very excited. Posing as a trick-or-treater on Halloween night, he goes to Dr. Smart Pig's house and knocks on the door…
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 HALLOWEENIES
David Wisniewski
Harpercollins Juvenile Books
ISBN: 0060005130
Ages 9-12
80 pages
Get ready to shriek...with laughter! Within the covers of this book lurk five horror spoofs just waiting to tickle your funny bone. Can it withstand the shenanigans of Frankenstein's Hamster? Or the giggles of Attack of the Space Toupees? You think it can? Then you better grab your popcorn. The lights are going down and the curtains are going up. It's time for Halloweenies!
Wisniewski has taken five popular horror films and written comical revisions illustrated with numerous black-and-white cartoons. Even those not familiar with the movies will find these rewrites hilarious.
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 PURE DEAD WICKED
Debi Gliori
Knopf
ISBN: 0375814116
Ages 9-12
224 pages
Things are rotten in the caste of Strega-Borgia. For starters, Signor Luciano Strega-Borgia has been kidnapped. Signora Baci Strega-Borgia is struggling with her spells at the Advanced Witchcraft Institute. And Titus and Pandora don't trust their suspiciously cheerful new nanny. Baby Damp has been accidentally shrunk, e-mailed, and lost on the Web. Not to mention there's a gangster in a bunny suit lurking about. This over-the-top, bizarre romp will surprise readers with something unique on each page.
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 SKELETON HICCUPS
Margery Cuyler
illustrated by S. D. Schindler
Margaret McElderry
ISBN: 068984770X
Ages 4-8
32 pages
Did you know skeletons get the hiccups? They seem a little less scary this way, and this skeleton can't get rid of them. Not in the shower, not when brushing his teeth, not while polishing his bones, carving a pumpkin, raking leaves, or even playing baseball with his friend Ghost (who tries to scare them away with a Boo!). Luckily for Skeleton, Ghost knows the best tricks to shake off the hiccups. But when these don't work, what's left to try?
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 SPOOKY ABC
Eve Merriam
illustrated by Lane Smith
Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0689853564
Ages 4-8
32 pages
"A is for apple" sounds nice enough, that is, until you see the creepy claw holding the fruit above the flames and the words, "Delicious, / malicious; / one bite and / you're dead." B is for bat, as you might predict, C is for crawler, D for demon…
From A to Z, these chilling poems do not shy away from the dark corners of human fear. Designed to frighten youngsters all year round, the previously published HALLOWEEN ABC (1987) is now SPOOKY ABC.
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 SUPERHERO MAX
Lawrence David
illustrated by Tara Calahan King
Doubleday
ISBN: 0385327463
Ages 4-8
32 pages
Wiffle Biffle! That's all Max has to say and --- BAM! --- he turns into a superhero. This is good, since it's almost Halloween and Max doesn't have any friends at his new school. When the teacher invites all the kids to come in costume for the big day, Max knows just what he'll be. Wiffle Biffle! He becomes Captain Crusader, Superhero. The problem is, Captain Crusader doesn't want to change back into a regular kid--and that means trouble for everybody, especially Max Pilner. Can a regular boy ever learn to be himself?
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 TRICK OR TREAT?
Bill Martin Jr., Michael Sampson
illustrated by Paul Meisel
Simon & Schuster (Juv)
ISBN: 0689849680
Ages 4-8
32 pages
Trick-or-treating in his apartment with his mother, Dracula collects candy until the magician on the 10th floor hits him with a trick: "Now everything is WACKBARDS!" Thanks to the man who calls himself Merlin everything in the bag is wrong. Whoever heard of paramel cops, beanut putter, or twicorice lists? Or stocolate chicks? Or belly jeans?
Will the magician's Halloween spell be broken? Children will giggle, and salivate, at this bit of Halloween fun.
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