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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Halloween approaches, the three Malloy sisters find themselves continually trying to get even with the four Hatford brothers, who have been playing tricks on them since the Malloys moved from Ohio to West Virginia.
2) Double down
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The pressure's really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wants her son to put down the controller and explore his creative side. As if that's not scary enough, Halloween's just around the corner and the frights are coming at Greg from every angle. When Greg discovers a bag of gummy worms, it sparks an idea. Can he get his mom off his back by making a movie... and will he become rich and famous...
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Nikki's diary describes a frightful Halloween, on which she helps with her sister's ballet class party at the same time she is Brandon's date for their middle school Halloween dance, where she has promised to spend the evening with her two best friends.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
In this story told mostly through letters, busybody Dick Tater tries to ban Halloween and ghost stories, as well as to break up the popular writing team of I. B. Grumply, ghost Olive C. Spence, and eleven-year-old illustrator Seymour Hope.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 42
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Moldy mozzarella! It was only a few days before Halloween when all of the pumpkins in New Mouse City disappeared. A thief was on the loose, and there was only one person I could count on to help me solve this peculiar mystery--my detective friend Hercule Poirat. But would we be able to figure out what was going on in time to save Halloween?"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Newton dresses up as an unusual superhero for Halloween, he decides to keep wearing the costume after the holiday to help save townspeople and eventually his injured brother.
Author
Series
Saranormal volume 3
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
With Halloween around the corner, the ghosts in Sara's New Jersey Shore town put her abilities to the test.
Author
Series
Animal Rescue Team (Sue Stauffacher) volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The Carter family's Halloween preparations are complicated by a deer with a pumpkin stuck on its head and a puppy that is part dog, part coyote.
Author
Series
Magic shop books (Bruce Coville) volume 1
Publisher
Magic Carpet Books
Pub. Date
2008, c1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: Favorite Halloween Books for Older Kids
Children's Special Topics: Halloween Fiction
Children's Special Topics: Halloween Fiction
Description
A timid boy, eager to frighten the school bully on Halloween night, acquires a magic ring and the power to change himself into a hideous monster.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While her father is away fighting in World War II, Molly finds her life full of change as she eats terrible vegetables from the victory garden and plans revenge on her brother for ruining her Halloween.
Author
Series
The Quirks volume 4
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The Quirks, a magical family living in Normal, Michigan, look forward to Halloween and the arrival of Uncle Cork from Scotland.
12) The haunter
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
On Halloween, Sammy and his friends go to the haunted Barlow house where he has a strange, frightening experience, but what he doesn't realize is that he is possessed by a ghost that wants to turn him into a ghost as well.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"What should Carly Beth be for Halloween this year? Terrified! Late at night, an ugly green mask is mysteriously calling out to her, and ugly green masks don't like to be ignored" --
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 70
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Geronimo visits Cacklefur Castle for a vacation, but a ghostly thief on the grounds is targeting the von Cacklefurs' special pumpkins.--
Author
Series
Mallory McDonald books volume 28
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After having an awful Halloween, Mallory organizes a Thanksgiving food drive at her school, but it is harder than she expects and she has to consider whether she is doing it for the right reasons.
Author
Series
Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
©1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
On Halloween night, seventh grader Sammy stumbles onto a mystery involving a twenty-year-old family feud and some heirlooms stolen by a man in a skeleton costume.
Author
Series
Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sammy Keyes and her friends take a detour through a graveyard on Halloween night and find themselves in the middle of a mystery involving missing people, human skulls, and a ghoulish embalmer, while school presents its own set of tricks and treats.
18) Callie's rules
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
©2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Eleven-year-old Callie Jones tries to keep track of all the rules for fitting in that other middle schoolers seem to know, but when the town decides to replace Halloween with an Autumn Festival, Callie leads her large family in an unusual protest.
Author
Series
Stick Dog volume 7
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Stick Dog and his friends discover candy while on their usual hunt for food and navigate crowds of trick-or-treating children, a haunted house, and other spooky surprises in order to get more.
Author
Series
Jessica Darling's It list volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Jessica Darling receives another cryptic list from her older sister, Bethany. While hosting a slumber party and planning a Halloween costume, Jessica tries to navigate the seventh grade social scene, with mixed results"--
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