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👻 Boo-ks for Every Age: Halloween Reads at Auburn Avenue

Get Your Spook On This October at AARL! 👻 Looking for the perfect Halloween read? Your favorite librarian has curated spine-tingling stories from our collection for every age group - from friendly ghost tales for little ones to thrilling mysteries for teens and bone-chilling horror for young adults. Whether you want gentle scares or genuine frights, we've got something to make your October reading unforgettable!

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  • Duppy Stories

    Ghosts, Gremlins and Rolling Calves

    Brailsford, David
    A collection of supernatural stories from Jamaica featuring ghosts, gremlins and rolling calves. Some are true', some sinister, some amusing, but all bring to life the underbelly of a country which, while devoutly religious, is very much open to the…
    Book, 2002Kingston, Jamaica : LMH ; London : Turnaround, 2002. — 398.2 BRAILSFORD
  • A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the…
    Book, 2023New York : Saga Press, 2023. — FICTION DUE
  • A collection of short stories from three talented authors exploring ghosts and hauntings by drawing upon African and African-American ancestral myths and beliefs. In Brandon Massey's The Patriarch' a young writer travels to the hushed backwoods of…
    Paperback, 2008New York : Dafina Books/ Kensington Pub., 2008. — 813.0873 ANCESTORS
  • Stanford Solomon's shocking, thirty-year-old secret is about to change the lives of everyone around him. Stanford has done something no one could ever imagine. He is a man who faked his own death and stole the identity of his best friend. Stanford…
    Book, 2020New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020 — FICTION CARD
  • Duppy Talk

    West Indian Tales of Mystery and Magic

    Hausman, Gerald
    Includes six ghost stories from Jamaica which are based on the country's legends and have their roots in African folklore; each story is accompanied by a section about the teller of the tale.
    Book, 1994New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1994. — 398.2 HAUSMAN
  • Akos is a happy teenager living with her family in a fishing village. When her father drowns trying to save another man's life, everything changes and she is sent to be a housemaid in Accra. When a local man, Mr Ewusi, teases her about ghosts, she…
    Book, 1998Accra, Ghana : Afram Publications, c1998. — 823 DJOLETO
  • "After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--
    Book, 2018New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — J RHODES
  • Discovering her ability to see ghosts when a cruel act ends her father's life and forces her to move in with relatives in 1920s Pittsburgh, young Ophelia forges a helpful bond with a spirit whose own life ended suddenly and unju
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — J IRELAND
  • The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown…
    Graphic Novel, 2017New York : Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc., [2017] — Y 741.5973 MEDINA
  • To win a $5000 reward, a chef named Dan agrees to stay in a haunted house overnight and when he meets a very hungry ghost, he gets more than he had expected.
    Picture Book, 1997New York : Scholastic, c1997. — J PICTURE MEDEARIS
  • The Dark-thirty

    Southern Tales of the Supernatural

    McKissack, Pat, 1944-2017
    A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty -- the half hour before sunset -- when ghosts seem all too believable.
    Book, 1992New York : A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1992. — J MCKISSACK
  • Fourteen-year-old Tree, resentful of her working mother who leaves her in charge of a retarded brother, encounters the ghost of her dead uncle and comes to a deeper understanding of her family's problems.
    Book, 1982New York, N.Y. : Philomel Books, 1982. — J HAMILTON
  • This brilliantly written thriller explores the lives--and deaths--of two girls, and what they will do to win justice. Sure to be one of the most talked-about books of the year! Nothing's been the same for Beth Teller since the day she died. Her…
    Paperback, 2019New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2019] — Y FICTION KWAYMULLINA
  • When eleven-year-old Iris sneaks out at night to make snow angels, she was not expecting to raise the ghost of Avery Moore, a girl her own age; but bringing to light the segregated and abandoned black cemetery seems like the perfect way to help…
    Book, 2019New York : Scholastic Press, 2019. — J BROWN
  • Moaning Bones

    African-American Ghost Stories

    Haskins, James, 1941-2005
    More than fifteen tales from the oral tradition probably originally recorded in the 1920s and 1930s such as "The Haunted Stateroom, ""Black Tom, " and "The Ghost in the Back Seat."
    Book, 1998New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard/Morrow, c1998. — J 398.2508 HASKINS
  • Color photographs and text portray children celebrating Halloween.
    Picture Book, 2002New York : Scholastic, c2002. — J PICTURE PARKER
  • In October of 1938, on their farm homestead in Ohio, a black family is caught up in the fear generated by the Orson Welles "Martians have landed" broadcast.
    Book, 1983New York : Greenwillow Books, c1983. — J HAMILTON
  • Sister Louisa, who cares for Jenny Reen while her parents work in the field, warns the young slave girl about a monster, known from long-told tales, who comes out on Halloween.
    Picture Book, 1996New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1996. — J PICTURE SMALLS-HECTOR
  • Corduroy's Halloween

    Based on the Character Created by Don Freeman

    Hennessy, B. G. (Barbara G.)
    It's trick-or-treat time for everyone's favorite bear, who is now celebrating his 50th anniversary! Corduroy loves Halloween. Lift the flaps and share his holiday fun! Corduroy has lots to do to get ready. He visits the pumpkin patch and finds a…
    Picture Book, 1995New York : Viking, c1995. — J PICTURE HENNESSY