Scary Stories and Frightful Tales for Grades 6-8

Scary Stories and Frightful Tales for Grades 6-8 - Arlington Heights Memorial Library

Into the Dark
Into the Dark
By Abrahams, Peter
2008-03 - Laura Geringer Book
9780060737092 Check Our Catalog

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In Echo Falls, secrets buried in the past don't always stay there.

An idyllic day of snowshoeing on Grampy's land with Joey Strade turns out to be less than idyllic when thirteen-year-old super sleuth Ingrid Levin-Hill stumbles upon a body lying in the snow. This discovery sends the town of Echo Falls into a tailspin in which secrets long hidden are revealed and Grampy gets sent to jail. While Ingrid works to clear Grampy's name and uncover what really happened to the man in the snow, she discovers even more secrets she wishes she never knew. Just like the character Gretel, whom Ingid is playing in the Prescott Players' production of "Hansel and Gretel," Ingrid must go deep into the darkness to find the truth.

In the third book in the Edgar Award-nominated and national bestselling Echo Falls series, Peter Abrahams's talent for building suspense shines as Ingrid embarks on her most harrowing adventure yet.

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The Improbable Cat
The Improbable Cat
By Ahlberg, Allan
Illustrator Bailey, Peter
2004-08 - Delacorte Press
0385731868 Check Our Catalog

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It all begins when David's family takes in a stray kitten. At least that's what the creature appears to be. But David and his faithful dog, Billy, immediately sense something terribly amiss. Then indeed "something crazy--impossible--horrific" happens. . . .

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Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator
Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator
By Allison, Jennifer
2005-07 - Dutton Books
0525473750 Check Our Catalog

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Ever since her father died two years ago, Gilda has been working on sharpening her psychic skills, both in an attempt to communicate with him and to solve spooky mysteries.

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The Book Without Words
The Book Without Words
By Avi
2005-05 - Hyperion Books
0786808292 Check Our Catalog

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The Book Without Words appears to be a volume of blank parchment pages. But for a green-eyed reader filled with great desire, it may reveal the forgotten magical arts of making gold and achieving immortality. For generations, its magic has been protected from those who would exploit it. But on a terrible day of death and destruction, The Book Without Words falls into the hands of a desperate boy.

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Eighth Grade Bites: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod
Eighth Grade Bites: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod
By Brewer, Heather
2007-08 - Dutton Books
9780525478119 Check Our Catalog

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Junior high really sucks for 13-year-old Vladimir Tod. Bullies harass him, the principal is dogging him, and the girl he likes prefers his best friend. Oh, and Vlad has a secret: his mother is human, but his father is a vampire.

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The Dark Pond
The Dark Pond
By Bruchac, Joseph
Illustrator Comport, Sally Wern
2004-08 - HarperCollins
0060529954 Check Our Catalog

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As soon as he arrives at the North Mountains School, Armie senses something strange about the dark pond in the forest. An eerie presence haunts his dreams and calls to Armie, begging him to come out and play. But Armie knows this is no game. Whatever lives in the dark pond plays for keeps.

In the past, Armie has always turned to the tales of his Shawnee ancestors for help, and this time is no different. He does his research, and when spring break arrives Armie knows this is his chance to discover what lives deep in the still, black waters of the dark pond. But this time, he may need to call upon more than his wits to help him survive.

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Skeleton Man
Skeleton Man
By Bruchac, Joseph
2001-08 - HarperCollins
0060290757 Check Our Catalog

2005 Nutmeg Intermediate Award Winner

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Molly wakes up one morning to find her parents have vanished. Social Services turns her over to the care of a great-uncle, a mysterious man Molly has never met nor heard of. Now Molly is having dreams about the Skeleton Man from a spooky old Mohawk tale her father told her--and these dreams are trying to tell her something.

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The Lambkins
The Lambkins
By Bunting, Eve
Illustrator Keegan, Jonathan
2005-08 - Joanna Cotler Books
0060599073 Check Our Catalog

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Kidnapped. Injected with a shrinking formula. Held prisoner in a bizarre dollhouse.

Kyle Wilson, once a regular kid, is now the size of a doll, but still alive. He is the fourth Lambkin in crazy Mrs. Shepherd's collection. She'll keep them safe, she says. She loves them like her own children, she says. She would never harm them ... as long as they don't make her angry.

John made her angry. Look what happened to him. One thing is certain. Kyle and the others must figure out how to escape, and fast. Otherwise they'll end up as Lambkins forever ... or worse.

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Revenge of the Witch
Revenge of the Witch
By Delaney, Joseph
Illustrator Arrasmith, Patrick
2005-09 - Greenwillow Books
9780060766184 Check Our Catalog

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Capturing witches. Binding boggarts. Driving away ghosts.

For years, Old Gregory has been the Spook for the county, ridding the local villages of evil. Now his time is coming to an end. But who will take over for him? Twenty-nine apprentices have tried-some floundered, some fled, some failed to stay alive.

Only Thomas Ward is left. He's the last hope; the last apprentice.

Can Thomas succeed? Will he learn the difference between a benign witch and a malevolent one? Does the Spook's warning against girls with pointy shoes include Alice? And what will happen if Thomas accidentally frees Mother Malkin, the most evil witch in the county ... ?

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The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs
The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs
By DeFelice, Cynthia C.
2001-08 - Farrar Straus Giroux
0374380465 Check Our Catalog

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In this sequel to "The Ghost of Fossile Glen", 11-year-old Allie Nichols, who helped police catch Lucy Stiles's killer with the help of Lucy's ghost, is visited by another disembodied voice. This one is connected with the school's fearsome cafeteria lady, Mrs. Hobbs. Allie is determined to understand the connection, and help the ghost find peace.

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Coraline: Deluxe Modern Classic
Coraline: Deluxe Modern Classic
By Gaiman, Neil
Illustrator McKean, Dave
Illustrator Gaiman, Neil
2002-07 - HarperCollins
0380977788 Check Our Catalog

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When Coraline steps through the locked doors in her family's new flat, she finds a world which caters to her every whim. But when she wants to leave, things turn unpleasant. To save other trapped children, her parents, and herself, Coraline must fight with all her wits and courage.


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The Graveyard Book
The Graveyard Book
By Gaiman, Neil
Illustrator McKean, Dave
2008-09 - HarperCollins
9780060530938 Check Our Catalog

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Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.

He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead.

There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer.

But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack--who has already killed Bod's family.

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Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story
Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story
By Hahn, Mary Downing
1986-09 - Clarion Books
0899194532 Check Our Catalog

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Molly and Michael dislike their spooky new stepsister Heather but realize that they must try to save her when she seems ready to follow a ghost child to her doom.

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Groosham Grange
Groosham Grange
By Horowitz, Anthony
2008-08 - Philomel Books
9780399250613 Check Our Catalog

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Sent to Groosham Grange as a last resort by his frustrated parents, thirteen-year-old David Eliot quickly discovers that his new boarding school is very peculiar. New pupils are made to sign their names in blood . . . the French teacher cancels classes on days there's a full moon . . . there are chilling secrets hidden in the assistant headmaster's office. What's the meaning of the black rings everyone wears? Where do the other pupils vanish to at night? Suddenly, his biggest problem isn't staying in school, it's getting out alive.

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Raven's Gate
Raven's Gate
By Horowitz, Anthony
2005-06 - Scholastic Press
9780439679954 Check Our Catalog

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After witnessing a crime, Matt is sent to live with a new foster mom, as part of a government scheme called The Leaf Project. But Matt's new guardian is involved in very sinister things, and the whole town seems to be on her side.

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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: A Pop-Up Book
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: A Pop-Up Book
By King, Stephen
Illustrator Dingman, Alan
Adapted by Abrahams, Peter
2004-10 - Little Simon
0689862725 Check Our Catalog

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Peter Abraham's pop-up adaptation of Stephen King's widely-acclaimed, award-winning novel is a fairy tale that's grimmer than Grimm, yet aglow with a young girl's indomitable spirit. It tells the story of nine-year-old Trisha McFarland who is lost in the wilderness of the Appalachian Trail with only her radio and her imaginary companion, Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Tom Gordon to keep her company.

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Witch's Sister
Witch's Sister
By Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
2002-09 - Aladdin Paperbacks
0689853157 Check Our Catalog

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A classic from the Newbery Medalist is now back in print. Lynn and her best friend Mouse are convinced their neighbor, old Mrs. Tuggle, is a witch. But no one believes them. Lynn and Mouse are sure that Mrs. Tuggle has plans to harm them. And the longer they wait, the more dangerous Mrs Tuggle becomes.

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The Book of Dead Days
The Book of Dead Days
By Sedgwick, Marcus
2004-10 - Wendy Lamb Books
0385730551 Check Our Catalog

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The days between Christmas and New Year's Eve are dead days, when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our lives. A magician called Valerian must save his own life within those few days or pay the price for the pact he made with evil so many years ago. But alchemy and sorcery are no match against the demonic power pursuing him. Helping him is his servant, Boy, a child with no name and no past. The quick-witted orphan girl, Willow, is with them as they dig in death fields at midnight, and as they are swept into the sprawling blackness of a subterranean city on a journey from which there is no escape.

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Vampire Mountain
Vampire Mountain
By Shan, Darren
2004-11 - Little, Brown Young Readers
9780316905749 Check Our Catalog

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In the fourth book of the bestselling Cirque Du Freak series, Darren Shan and Mr. Crepsley embark on a dangerous trek to the very heart of the vampire world. But they face more than the cold on Vampire Mountain-the vampaneze have been there before them.
Will a meeting with the Vampire Princes restore Darren's human side, or turn him further toward the darkness? Only one thing is certain-Darren's initiation into the vampire clan is more deadly than he can ever have imagined.

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The Unseen
The Unseen
By Snyder, Zilpha Keatley
2004-04 - Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers
0385730845 Check Our Catalog

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When Xandra Hobson rescues a beautiful wounded bird, she is convinced that the glowing white feather it leaves behind must be magical. She is surprised to find that Belinda, a weird girl at school, is interested, too. Belinda calls the feather a key. But a key to what?

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Being Dead
Being Dead
By Vande Velde, Vivian
2001-09 - Harcourt Children's Books
0152163204 Check Our Catalog

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The author explores the world of the dead--and the undead--in this collection of unnerving tales that feature a 16-year-old girl falling in love with a 200-year-old ghost; a newly dead boy who is robbed by his unscrupulous boss; and a heartless man who finally agrees to dance with his wife after she's passed away.

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