Get ready for a spook-tacular adventure with this collection of eerie
and exciting reads for kids! Whether you’re looking for playful pop-up
monsters for little ones, thrilling mysteries with daring detectives, or
creepy tales that will give just the right amount of shivers, this
round-up has it all. From silly ghost stories perfect for preschoolers
to action-packed adventures for older readers, these books are sure
to spark imagination and send chills down spines. Perfect for Halloween
or anytime a little spooky fun is needed, these stories will entertain
and delight young readers of all ages.
3 – 6 years old
Pop Up Peekaboo: Monster
by Clare Lloyd
This colourful pop-up peekaboo book follows adorable little monsters as they hide around the house. The lively, read-aloud rhymes encourage literacy and early learning, while the surprise pop-up scenes will delight curious preschoolers. With the help of parents and caregivers, toddlers will have fun turning the sturdy board book pages, guessing what's hiding under each flap, and then lifting the flaps to reveal the little monsters and play peekaboo! Ideal for interactive preschool play, Pop-up Peekaboo! Monsters will appeal to both parents and children and is certain to keep little ones entertained time and time again!
6 – 9 years old
Zoo Patrol Squad 02: Run, Monster, Run!
by Brett Bean
There's a giant monster trampling the 35th Annual Fast and Furry Tourney Race in Wild Zoo Yonder! Sounds like a job for the Zoo Patrol Squad! Fennlock Fox and Penny the Pig team up for their second adventure, as they look for clues to track down the monster and keep the race contestants safe. Will the Zoo Patrol Squad be able to find out who is ter-roar-izing the competition in time, or will the tournament end in a mammoth disaster? Crack the case with the Zoo Patrol Squad in this series of fun graphic novels for young readers filled with zany animals, wild adventures, and unbelievable mysteries. Perfect for fans of Dogman and InvestiGators!
Creepy Stories
by Kelly Anne McLellan
Make any night in more exciting with this thrilling collection of 16 tales that are creepy, funny, mysterious, and strange. Feel shivers down your spine as you read about ringing bells in a cemetery, ghostly underpants, fairies that create dreams, and more! Perfect for story time—These stories are short, simple, and easy to read aloud at a sleepover, in the car, around the campfire, or anytime! A terrific range of tales—Explore updated retellings of all the classic stories, like The Hook" and "The Ghost of the Bloody Finger." Not too scary— Each story is written to be fun and silly for kids as young as 6, with just enough detail to make them spooky, but not too spooky! Fun and spooky stories for everyone to read together. From a mysterious fog to two heads in a suitcase, these stories are sure to excite and delight kids and adults of all ages.
The Worst Witch to the Rescue
by Jill Murphy
It isn't actually a known spell. I sort of made it up myself ... Lovable but disaster-prone Mildred Hubble is possibly the worst ever trainee witch to darken the doors of Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches. Mildred just knows this term will be different. She's done the best holiday project ever and she's sure fearsome Miss Hardbroom will be impressed but when even her arch-enemy, Ethel Hallow, begins to be nice to her - all seems too good to be true. . . could this spell trouble? The Worst Witch to the Rescue is the sixth adventure in Jill Murphy's hilarious Worst Witch series full of fun, magic and mayhem.
9 – 12 years old
21% Monster 03: Serpent Strike
by PJ Canning
For once, 21% monster teenage-boy Darren Devlin thinks he has the upper hand over Xastris, the secret organisation that transformed him into a genetically-modified superhuman. Since joining forces with 19% alien boy Marek Masters, 17% sabre-tooth polar-bear Aurora Valero, and now 16% alien girl Genie, Darren has never been in a stronger position...but neither have Xastris. For they are planning an attack on the world's greatest superpowers, with the fate of millions at stake. Can Darren and the team intercept Operation Serpent Strike...or will Xastris land their deadliest bite yet? Fun, fast-paced, high-octane action adventure, 21% Monster is a perfect page-turning series for fans of Alex Rider, Percy Jackson and the MCU generation.
Diary of an Accidental Witch 05: Stage Fright
written by Honor and Perdita Cargill, Illustrated by Katie Saunders
Friday 18th February. Binxy has just reminded us that we have to put on this play in front of the WHOLE SCHOOL and now we’re a mixture of excited and SCARED! When Bea’s class is tasked with putting on the school play, she can’t wait to get started. Her friends are nothing if not dramatic, and now her magic is getting stronger, perhaps she can use that to create some special effects! But before long the drama takes over the school – with overenthusiastic set design, nervous performers and transformation mishaps. It’s time for Bea and her friends to put their teamwork to the test and put on an unFROGettable performance.
The Sea of Monsters
by Rick Riordan
Half Boy. Half God. ALL Hero. You can't tell by looking at me that my dad is Poseidon, God of the Sea. It's not easy being a half-blood these days. Even a simple game of dodgeball becomes a death match against an ugly gang of cannibal giants - and that was only the beginning. Now Camp Half-Blood is under attack, and unless I can get my hands on the Golden Fleece, the whole camp will be invaded by monsters. Big ones ... The second exciting adventure in Rick Riordan's bestselling series.
The Witches
by Roald Dahl
'One child a week is fifty-two a year. Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear.' This is a story about REAL WITCHES. Real witches dress in ordinary clothes, have ordinary jobs and look very much like ordinary people. But they are not ORDINARY … Most of all, they hate children. Hate them with a red-hot sizzling hatred. And The Grand High Witch, leader of all the witches, has a plan to make each and every child disappear. That is, unless one boy and his grandmother can stop her … The much-loved Roald Dahl story, updated for a whole new generation of readers with an exciting new interior design and cover look.
Escape from Grimstone Manor (Monsterious, Book 1)
by Matt McMann
In a mansion on a hill lived Hezekiah Crawly, a man who raised the dead with dark magic. Zari has always been fascinated by the spooky stories about Crawly, the inspiration behind her local amusement park's haunted house. Excited to visit with her friends Mateo and Taylor, they hop on the last ride of the day. But when the ride breaks down, the trio is trapped inside for the night! Things take a terrifying turn when they discover a hidden crypt that doesn’t seem like part of the attraction—and they’re not alone. Could the legends about Crawly and his sinister experiments be real? As the night unfolds, Zari, Mateo, and Taylor must find a way to survive. Perfect for fans of Goosebumps, this series blends monsters and mysteries in a spine-chilling adventure.
The Boy Who Made Monsters
by Jenny Pearson & Katie Kear
A one-of-a-kind tale of love, loss, laughter and hope, from award-winning author Jenny Pearson. Benji McLaughlin is a visionary. He believes in things other people think are impossible, like that he and his brother Stanley will be happy living with their uncle, and that the Loch Lochy monster is real, and that his parents will come home safely one day. So when he finds out that Uncle Hamish's holiday business is struggling, Benji's not worried. He has a visionary plan. Together with his new friends, Murdy and Mr Dog, he sets off to prove that the Loch Lochy monster exists, and bring tourists flooding in. But Benji might have to confront different monsters to the one he expects.
Alex Neptune, Monster Avenger
by David Owen
Get ready for an epic mission INSIDE a water dragon in Alex Neptune's third fast and funny adventure - perfect for fans of Percy Jackson and Dragon Realm! The sea creatures near Haven Bay are acting very strangely, attacking boats, and Alex senses some dark power is controlling them. When he tracks down his friend the water dragon, he finds it's been infected too. If he can't find a way to stop it, the deadly parasite it's carrying could spread throughout the seas. After battling storms, electric eels and an army of angry crabs, Alex realises that the only way he and his team can save the dragon and all their ocean friends is by going inside the dragon...gulp!
Mary Anning's Grewsome Beasts
by Deshan Tennekoon
This book tells the true story of a scientist named Mary Anning. The fossils she found helped invent the science of palaeontology. If you’ve heard of Ichthyosaurs, Plesiosaurs or Pterosaurs you already know her work but there’s so much that’s been hidden or forgotten. This visual biography contains many deaths and one squirrel; a handsome puppy and 200-million-year-old poop.
Project Helix 01: 21% Monster
by P.J. Canning
Fun, fast-paced, high-octane action adventure, 21% Monster is a perfect page-turning new series for fans of Alex Rider, Percy Jackson and the MCU generation. When Darren Devlin is arrested for destroying his school with his bare hands, it's not just the police who are after him. Enter Marek Masters, 14 years old, 19% alien, and the most intelligent, most wanted "almost human" alive. Marek is here to tell Darren the truth - he is 21% monster, and together they must take down the secret organisation that created them. Darren and Marek are wanted, powerful and dangerous. And now it's payback time.
Young Adults
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, and spurred on by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror - killing once, he must kill again and again, and the dead return to haunt him. A story of war, witchcraft and bloodshed, Macbeth also depicts the relationship between husbands and wives, and the risks they are prepared to take to achieve their desires.
Penguin Readers Level 3: Ghost Stories
by M. R. James
A strange whistle, a dangerous curse, a buried crown and a hotel without a room 13. Don't read these four frightening ghost stories by M.R. James late at night!
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