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Scary Stories

EARLY READERS

AUTHOR	TITLE	YEAR	CALL #
Benchley, Nathaniel	A Ghost Named Fred A small boy finds shelter from the rain in an old house and meets a ghost'named Fred.	1968	JER BENCH
Berenstain, Stan & Jan	Bears in the Night "Seven bears sneak out of bed, through the window, and across the dark countryside to investigate the source of a noise."	1998	JER BEREN
Berenstain, Stan & Jan	The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree Three scared little bears explore the inside of a mysterious old tree and go into, up, through, over, down, and out.	1978	JER BEREN
Capucilli, Alyssa Satin	Inside a House that is Haunted A cumulative rhyme in which the spider, ghost, cat, and other inhabitants of a haunted house wake up and startle each other.	2011	JER CAPUC
Charles, Veronika	Don't Touch That! Easy-to-read spooky tales.	2008	JER CHARL
Cosby, Bill	One Dark and Scary Night One night, little Bill is positive there are mean things in his dark closet and that they are just dying to get him. Only when Alice the great performs a magical tucking-in trick do the mean things go away for good.	1999	JER COSBY
Cushman, Doug	Dirk Bones and the Mystery of the Haunted House "Daily Tombs" newspaper reporter Dirk Bones, who also happens to be a skeleton, investigates when a family of ghosts fears that they are being haunted.	2006	JER CUSHM
Dussling, Jennifer	Eek! Stories to Make You Shriek: Bug Off! Bugsy, who delights in tormenting and destroying bugs, finds out what it is like to be small, helpless, and a victim of cruelty.	1997	JER DUSSL
Dussling, Jennifer	Eek! Stories to Make You Shriek: Creep Show Even though he tries to stay away, a boy keeps going back to an old theater where he is drawn into increasingly dangerous movies.	1996	JER DUSSL
Farber, Erica	Mercer Mayer's Critter of the Night: Kiss of the Mermaid When Vavooka turns all of the merpeople into stone, Thistle hopes to secure their release by winning a chess game against the evil sea witch.	1996	JER FARBE
Farber, Erica	Mercer Mayer's Critter of the Night: Midnight Snack A group of little monsters get hungry in the middle of the night.	1997	JER FARBE
Farber, Erica	Mercer Mayer's Critter of the Night: No Howling in the House Axel can't howl and Thistle can't fly, but they soon realize that there are things they can do.	1996	JER FARBE
Farber, Erica	Mercer Mayer's Critter of the Night: Ooey Gooey When Captain Short Bob, the pirate king, cooks up a dish of bubble gum and tuna fish, he loses his gold tooth to a sea beast.	1998	JER FARBE
Farber, Erica	Mercer Mayer's Critter of the Night: Roast and Toast Creatures enjoy food and fun on the beach at Midnight Bay.	1998	JER FARBE
Farber, Erica	Mercer Mayer's Critter of the Night: Zoom on My Broom A visit to Thistle Howl's house includes a snack of green cheese and rice and bug juice on ice and a zoom around the room on her broom.	1998	JER FARBE
Greer, Gery & Bob Ruddick	Billy the Ghost and Me Young Sarah, with the help of her friend Billy the Ghost, proves herself as a deputy by planning the perfect capture of two bank robbers in her Western town of Cactus Junction.	1997	JER GREER
Hall, Katy & Lisa Eisenberg	Creepy Riddles Riddles featuring ghosts, ghouls and other creatures can keep beginner readers busy for hours.	1998	JER HALL
Herman, Gail	Eek! Stories to Make You Shriek: The Haunted Bike When Emma acquires a haunted bike with strange powers, it takes her to the home of an oddly dressed boy who once had a similar bike.	1996	JER HERMA
Holub, Joan	The Spooky Sleepover While sleeping over at Emily's house, Jen and Emily tease Sara by telling scary stories, but Sara ultimately has the last laugh.	1999	JER HOLUB
	In a Scary Old House A child shares the story of a house that is filled with frightening things.	2006	JER IN
Keeler, Kathleen	I Dare you: Stories to Scare You A collection of three easy-to-read scary stories with humorous endings, including "The Cemetery," "Home scary home" and "Bones in the bed."	1999	JER KEELE
Keeler, Kathleen	I Double Dare You: More Stories to Scare You A collection of three scary stories, all set on Halloween night.	2001	JER KEELE
Kido, Yukiko	In a Scary Old House A child shares the story of a house that is filled with frightening things.	2006	JER IN
Kwitz, Mary DeBall	Little Vampire and the Midnight Bear Little Vampire discovers that he can fly when he needs to save his baby sister from the dreadful Midnight Bear.	1998	JER KWITZ
Levy, Elizabeth	Creepy Computer Mystery When the Invisible Inc. gang makes computer greeting cards to raise money to invite an author to school, they solve the mystery of the author's real name	1996	JER LEVY
Man-Kong, Mary	Theodore and the Scary Cove Two tugboats decide to go to a cove where, in the dark, everything looks spooky and frightening	2000	JER MAN
Rocklin, Joanne	This Book is Haunted This book's "not too scary" ghost host tells five spooky stories.	2002	JER ROCKL
Shebar, Sharon Sigmond	Night Monsters The frightening sounds heard at bedtime turn out not to be monsters.	1993	JER SHEBA
Speregen, Devra	Eek! Stories to Make You Shriek: The Wax Museum While lost in a creepy wax museum, Jordan has a strange encounter with one of its inmates.	1996	JER SPERE
Wigand, Molly	Aaahh!!!! Real Monsters: Aaaahh! School Lunch The Real Monsters try to scare some school children by replacing their lunches with scary monster food. Based on the television program "Aaahh! Real monsters."	1996	JER WIGAN
Wigand, Molly	Aaahh!!!! Real Monsters: Hide and Scare Three young monsters play a game of "hide and scare" in the dump on a warm spring night.	1997	JER WIGAN
Wigand, Molly	Aaahh!!!! Real Monsters: Monster Camp-Out A group of monsters try to scare off some children who are camping out.	1997	JER WIGAN

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