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 ANDY SHANE AND THE PUMPKIN TRICK
Jennifer Richard Jacobson
illustrated by Abby Carter
Candlewick Press
ISBN-10: 0763626058
ISBN-13: 9780763626051
Ages 5-8
64 pages
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Andy Shane most certainly doesn't want to go to Dolores Starbuckle's birthday party. It's on the same day as Halloween! Anyway, Dolores is constantly ordering Andy around, making Andy lists on a clipboard or squawking about his marble collection. But when Dolores tells him that someone keeps smashing pumpkins outside of her house, the idea of catching the mischief makers is too appealing to resist. Maybe there's even a way to get rid of the tricksters and give Dolores a really great birthday present, all at the same time!
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 BEHIND THE MASK
Yangsook Choi
Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN-10: 0374305226
ISBN-13: 9780374305222
Ages 4-8
40 pages
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"What are you going to be?" the children ask one another as Halloween approaches. Kimin tells them that he will be his grandfather. "Going as an old man is not very scary," they tease. What the children don't know is that Kimin's grandfather was a Korean mask dancer. And what Kimin doesn't know is that the mask holds a very special secret for him.
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 FRANKENSTEIN MAKES A SANDWICH
Adam Rex
Harcourt Children's Books
ISBN-10: 0152057668
ISBN-13: 9780152057664
Ages 5-10
40 pages
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There are so much more to monsters than frightening villagers and sucking blood. Monsters have their problems, too. Poor Frankenstein's cupboard is bare, Wolfman is in need of some household help and Dracula has some unfortunate hygiene issues. What could be scarier? In nineteen hilarious poems, you'll learn about the secret lives of the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Bigfoot, Godzilla and others.
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 HOROWITZ HORROR: Stories You'll Wish You'd Never Read
Anthony Horowitz
Philomel Books
ISBN-10: 0399244891
ISBN-13: 9780399244896
Ages 9-up
208 pages
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Welcome to a world where everything seems normal. At first, at least. But the sinister and truly terrifying lurk just beneath the surface. Like a bathtub with a history so haunted, no one dares get in it. Or an ordinary-looking camera that does unspeakable things to its subjects. Or a mysterious computer game that has terrible consequences if you lose...
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 MONSTERS ARE AFRAID OF THE MOON
Marjane Satrapi
Bloomsbury USA Children's Books
ISBN-10: 1582347441
ISBN-13: 9781582347448
Ages 4-7
32 pages
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Every night as she climbs into bed, Marie gets a visit from three monsters. They only come out in darkness, so she knows they must be afraid of the light. Marie takes a huge pair of scissors, and cutting the moon out of the sky, hangs it right in her bedroom. No darkness, no monsters! Her plan works perfectly...or so she thinks. When the king tells Marie to return the moon to the sky, she won't agree --- not until she's sure that the monsters are gone.
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 THE MONSTROUS MEMOIRS OF A MIGHTY McFEARLESS
Ahmet Zappa
Random House
ISBN-10: 0375832874
ISBN-13: 9780375832871
Ages 8-12
224 pages
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Crack open the "creature-skin" cover of this book --- if you dare --- and enter the world of 11-year-old Minerva McFearless, her brother Max, and their mysterious coyote friend, Mr. Devilstone, as they battle the evil army of the king of all monsters --- the dreaded Zarmaglorg. This horrifying and hysterical novel features full-color illustrations throughout and offers "scientific" data on all the terrifying things that go bump in the night, as well as recipes for keeping the bloodthirsty beasts at bay.
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 PUMPKIN TOWN
Katie McKy
illustrated by Pablo Bernasconi
Houghton Mifflin
ISBN-10: 061860569X
ISBN-13: 9780618605699
Ages 4-8
32 pages
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If one pumpkin makes a tasty pie and two pumpkins can be carved into grinning jack-o'-lanterns, and a couple hundred more make for a decent pumpkin patch, then what happens when you gather one thousand pumpkins? You'll have a grand fall festival. But what if there's an accidental abundance of pumpkins in a town? A mountain of pumpkins? An EXPLOSION of pumpkins? Step into Pumpkin Town and find out what Jose and his brother do with all those pumpkins.
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 READY, FREDDY #8: HALLOWEEN FRAIDY-CAT
Abby Klein
illustrated by John McKinley
Blue Sky Press/Scholastic
ISBN-10: 0439784573
ISBN-13: 9780439784573
Ages 4-8
96 pages
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Vampires, monsters, ghosts and ghouls! In this story, Freddy and his friends are all planning on dressing up for the spookiest Halloween party ever. But the biggest scare is yet to come --- a frightful guest that nobody expected...
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 THE SQUAMPKIN PATCH: A Nasselrogt Adventure
JT Petty
illustrated by David Michael Friend
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10: 1416902740
ISBN-13: 9781416902744
Ages 9-14
256 pages
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Trouble starts for Milton and Chloe Nasselrogt when they can't find their parents in a department store. Unable to pronounce their last name, store security turns the kids over to the evil Y.K.K. Porifera, who operates a zipper factory run by orphaned children. On the run from Porifera, Milton and Chloe discover an abandoned house and adjoining candy store with a mysterious vegetable patch in the yard. As Halloween gets closer and the squampkins begin to grow, the siblings start to think that there's something a little bit scary about the squampkin patch....
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 THE THREE WITCHES
collected by Zora Neale Hurston and adapted by Joyce Carol Thomas
illustrated by Faith Ringgold
HarperCollins
ISBN-10: 0060006498
ISBN-13: 9780060006495
Ages 6-10
32 pages
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The three bad witches are HUNGRY! "Let's eat these children," they say. They may have teeth that are longer than their lips and they may wear high heels, but they are NO match for two smart children, their brave grandma, three hound dogs and a fast-running snake.
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 A VERY BRAVE WITCH
Alison McGhee
illustrated by Harry Bliss
Paula Wiseman Books/Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10: 0689867301
ISBN-13: 9780689867309
Ages 4-8
32 pages
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One Halloween, when a real, honest-to-goodness witch decides that she'd like to see what all the fuss is about trick-or-treating, she can't figure it out. "What is trick-a-tree," she wonders. "And why don't these witches look like me?" Then when she makes a friend, trick-or-treating starts to make sense and isn't so bad after all. And there is nothing better than a friend to share Halloween with! Maybe she'll even do it again next year.
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--- Compiled and written by Katie Mendelson
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