Spooky-Ooky Stories!

BOO! Did we scare you?

Kat
Kat

Halloween is just around the corner, so celebrate the spooky season with these middle grade books about ghosts, demons, creatures, and anything that goes bump in the night.

Oct 13, 2026

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In the Catalog

A Little Too Haunted

A Little Too Haunted

Justine Pucella Winans

After Luna’s moms are revealed to have been faking hauntings in the houses they’ve renovated and posted on social media, Luna begins to believe that their current house might actually have a ghost.

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Benji Zeb Is A Ravenous Werewolf

Benji Zeb Is A Ravenous Werewolf

Deke Moulton

A young boy must balance his anxieties around preparing for his upcoming bar mitzvah and covering up his family’s secret – that they’re werewolves.

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Camp Twisted Pine

Camp Twisted Pine

Ciera Burch

In the middle of her parents’ divorce, eleven-year-old Naomi and her brothers are sent to camp where children disappear and monsters stories are real.

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Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave

Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave

Ally Russell

Abandoned in a cemetery and raised in a funeral home, Mystery James, who can see and smell the supernatural, must solve the mystery of a priceless heirloom stolen from her family’s business.

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Camp Sylvania

Camp Sylvania

Julie Murphy

Girls whose parents send them to fat camp that is rumored to be haunted… but the camp ghost might be the least scary thing there.

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Remember Me, Daphne

Remember Me, Daphne

Celia Krampien

Timid sixth-grader Flora befriends Mac, her charismatic new neighbor, but as eerie events unfold in the old house across the street, she begins to suspect that her new friend’s family is hiding a chilling secret.

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X Marks the Haunt

X Marks the Haunt

Lindsay Currie

When a lost crypt key awakens a dark force at Graceland Cemetery, twelve-year-old Will, armed with his graveyard know-how, teams up with his friends to uncover the spirit’s identity and end the haunting for good.

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Free Piano (not Haunted)

Free Piano (not Haunted)

Whitney Gardner

Margo, a lonely aspiring songwriter, discovers her secondhand synthesizer is haunted by a 1980s pop star, leading to an unexpected bond and a journey of self-discovery as she grapples with the true meaning of making music and fame.

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The Ojja-wojja

The Ojja-wojja

A Horror-mystery, or Whatever

Magdalene Visaggio

When a class project about Bolingbroke’s supernatural history leads to a for-real ghost sighting, two friends realize their small town isn’t as boring as they thought it was.

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The Girl in the Walls

The Girl in the Walls

Meg Eden Kuyatt

Sent to spend the summer with her seemingly critical Grandma Jojo, neurodivergent and artistic V discovers a ghostly girl in the walls and must uncover the ghost’s desires and her grandmother’s secrets before their relationship is irreparably damaged.

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Wump

Wump

Tony DiTerlizzi

Timothy has always been a good kid…until a shadowy monster appears and begins feeding on his darkest thoughts. Facing bullies both at home and at school, Timothy cocoons himself in the monster’s shadows, where he is consumed by a desire for revenge. But how much of himself can Timothy give up before he is completely transformed?

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The House Next Door

The House Next Door

Ellen Oh

Rory Parker becomes convinced that the house next door is haunted following a frightening encounter with an elderly apparition, who cautions Rory that children aren’t safe there. His suspicions solidify when one of the home’s human residents–a fellow middle schooler–is injured in a mysterious incident.

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