Ghost Stories - Kids Fiction

A grumpy little ghost makes a new friend in this wryly funny, spooky-but-cute picture book with striking illustrations reminiscent of Brian Selznick.A little ghost lives in the attic of a big house. All alone: just how he likes it. Until one day a curious...

BabyLit (R) Macbeth: A Potions Primer introduces toddlers to Shakespeare's writing and his famous witches.Macbeth: A Potions Primer exposes little ones to the language of Shakespeare and the iconic witches from Macbeth, with their frenzied dancing and filling of the cauldron with eye of...

Halloween is here again, and the night is alive with the sounds of spookiness! Skeletons clatter, bats shriek, and one little ghost says . . . "Meow"? Ghost Says Meow! is a heartwarming tale about a ghost who dares to defy expectations. Her new...

Charlotte Cross didn't believe in ghosts, until she met one whose heart was as broken as her own...The spring before 7th Grade, tragedy strikes C. C. Cross. Dad won't be coming home from Afghanistan. When her mother packs her up and moves her across...

Three Spooktacular Short Stories That Will Make Your Skin Crawl! (ages 8 - 12) A horrible thunderstorm pales in comparison to the devilish stories told by Uncle Duke himself! Get lost in a world of boogie-dancing zombies, college dropout mad scientists and a vile...

Author: Michael BondISBN-10: 0008604010ISBN-13: 9780008604011Publisher: HarperCollins Children's BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2025Pages: 32Format: Hardcover

Author: Susan NiessenISBN-10: 160115741XISBN-13: 9781601157416Publisher: Treasure BayLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2025Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 9.06h x 5.98w x 0.24d

Lindsay Currie's Scritch Scratch meets The School for Invisible Boys in this fun romp of a middle grade novel about a newly dead boy who faces a spooky new school hiding an unearthly mystery. After an unlucky collision between a coconut and the top...

What happens when a big furry monster no longer wants to be scary? How can he figure out what his other talents are? In this installation of Sue Fliess and Simona Sanfilippo's Magical Creatures and Crafts series, an unhappy monster is hoping to get...

Ghostly adventures await! Dive into your favorite, SPINE-TINGLIEST tales from Texas!Welcome to Spooky Texas! In this thrilling anthology, spooky stories and ghostly tales bring the Lone Star State to life! Discover haunted cathedrals, phantom pirates, and eerie cities filled with secrets! From the "spirited"...

Written to appeal to readers in fifth through eighth grades, The Haunting has it all: ghosts, a pair of nasty villains, secret passages, supernatural effects, and orphans led to victory by a kid named Chance. The almost thirteen-year-old Chance discovers he can communicate with...

A campground full of ghosts?When Rowley Peters goes camping with her family at Black Hawk State Park, she learns it's thesite of mummy excavations, ghostly frog behavior, and the legendary lumberjack ghost ChickenMcGee. Rowley never liked camping, but when her best friend, Huey, and...

Shining a light from the attic window of Lacey Manor on Halloween night, is a rite of passage and now it's Todd's turn. He enlists the help of his best friend, Louise. She is afraid to go, but because of pinky promises, she must...

While traveling along the West Coast, Raul's family stops in Long Beach, California. They decide to stay in the RMS Queen Mary, an old moored cruise ship that was turned into a hotel. Trying to sleep that night, Raul hears a girl giggling. He...

Calvin is in St. Augustine, Florida, house-sitting for his friend. While walking the dog, he notices a little girl watching him. Later that night, she's outside his window, pointing to the St. Augustine Lighthouse a few blocks away. Unsure who the girl is or...

Being the kid of a MyVids travel host isn't easy. Kimmy gets to travel all over with her mom, but some places give her the creeps. While visiting the Lemp Mansion in St. Louis, Missouri, she discovers the hotel is haunted. At night, an...

Peter and Vicki have just moved into their new apartment in Chicago, Illinois. With time to kill before the moving truck arrives, they visit nearby Lincoln Park Zoo. Before long, strange things happen. A ghostly woman appears in the bathroom. The zoo's animals are...

Kev is touring the hauntingly historic Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He's hoping to take photos of ghosts but learns some of the prison's areas are closed off. Kev sneaks off where he doesn't belong and is caught and escorted from the site....

During an East Coast road trip, Nina and her dad make a wrong turn in the middle of the night. Their new route has them heading toward a historic covered bridge in Stowe, Vermont. As they drive through, something drags along the roof of...

The old hotel's bizarre paintings are hiding a secret. She can feel it.The very walls of 100-year-old Hotel Oregon vibrate with magic. But is it good magic? When ten-year-old Sara discovers ghost children trapped in one of the paintings by a witch's curse, she...

A wonderfully spooky title for younger readers from the award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea, Eva Ibbotson, with beautiful cover illustration by Alex T. Smith, creator of the Claude series.Author: Eva IbbotsonISBN-10: 1447265645ISBN-13: 9781447265641Publisher: MacMillan Children's BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/10/2015Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize:...

This is a beautifully illustrated picture book journey through a hundred-year-old New Orleans home in both English and Spanish.Claudie lives in a house in the oldest part of New Orleans, a city where Mardi Gras beads dance in the breeze and every corner is...

A cemetery-boy-turned-monster-hunter must race against time to save his recently-resurrected mother in Darkness and Demon Song, M.R. Fournet's eerie middle grade follow up to Brick Dust and Bones. Marius Grey's mom is back from the dead. After hunting monsters and performing forbidden spells, Marius...

Twin sisters. One dead, one living. But which is which in the latest horror novel from master storyteller K.R. Alexander.Chelsea has now traded places with her evil twins... and finds herself trapped in a ghost space while Angelica takes over. Is it possible for...

If you like haunted houses then this rhyming fiction story about haunted mansions is for you. Great for beginning readers who may require some reading support and, of course, a hand to hold.Author: Craig LopetzISBN-10: 1427129312ISBN-13: 9781427129314Publisher: Crabtree SeedlingsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2021Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize:...

The mist drifts up from the river, snaking through the orchard high on the hill behind the old blue house. Seven small figures, faint in the mist, waft slowly through the trees: searching, always searching. Where is she? Can't she hear them calling her?...

Author: P. E. WaringISBN-13: 9798987367032Publisher: Pw3 Enterprises, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2024Pages: 32Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.25d

Can Little Ghost move in? Little Ghost lives in a very cozy, very crowded attic with his big family. He can't find any peace and quiet for reading his books or practicing his booos. So he sets out to find somewhere a little more...

A simple pet-sitting job turns into a beast of a time in this twenty-sixth installment of the Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol series! Andres and Desmond are pet-sitting a toy poodle for a night. How hard could it be? But when the dog transforms into...

Netflix's Wednesday meets Jodi Lynn Anderson's The Memory Thief in this "spooky, fast-paced" (Kirkus Reviews) middle grade adventure about a girl's quest to save her cursed brother that takes her through perilous, monster-filled woods. The Grimsbane women have been hunting witches and monsters for...

A sleepover at an amusement park turns into a night of terror in this scary middle school read from the New York Times bestselling author of Mine and Camp Scare. Tonight is Brie's chance to finally be accepted by the Ems--the most popular girls...

Gus Greenburg can see ghosts. In this spine-tingling sequel to The Ghosts of Nameless Island, bestselling author Carly Anne West takes readers on a pulse-pounding, blood-curdling journey to a circus from the past and unravel the mystery of a malevolent spirit that's fighting to...

The Baby-Sitters Club meets Stranger Things in this "spooky, heart-filled" (Lora Senf, author of The Clackity) middle grade novel about friendship, fitting in, and the afterlife, following a girl who discovers she's not the only one at her new school who can see ghosts....

The next evolution in storytelling from New York Times bestselling, Newbery Medal Winning author Erin Entrada Kelly!Twelve-year-old Lila has two goals for the summer: 1. Win back the friends who ditched her for being "too dramatic"2. Stop being so dramaticBut then Lila's estranged Grandpa...

The creepy Ghost Tower on the hill has loomed over the town for as long as anyone can remember. Now boarded up and dangerous, it's due to be knocked down. But when Ryan and his friend Dot make a sneaky last visit to the...

Ghostly adventures await! Dive into your favorite, SPINE-TINGLIEST tales from America's Haunted Cemeteries!Welcome to America's Haunted Cemeteries! In this thrilling anthology, spooky stories and ghostly tales bring the nation's cemeteries to life! Discover wandering spirits, creepy crypts, and misty graveyards filled with secrets! From...

This adorable Halloween story celebrates finding one's place in the world and making space for others, perfect for fans of Flavia Z. Drago's The World of Gustavo series. A little ghost sets out into the world to find a place of his own to...

This spine-tingling ghost story follows a tween girl who's being literally haunted by loneliness until a new friendship upends her life. From the bestselling author of the Paola Santiago series! "Absolutely haunting!"--Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author of Mine Sadie Rivera has...

Max Pruitt has always known that ghosts don't exist. But when his best friends, Jacob and Frankie, decide to build a ghost-o-gauge to track down spirits in their small town of Bayfield, Wisconsin, Max finds himself along for the ride.What starts as a silly...

A Collection Of Short Creepy Horror Stories For Teenagers & Adults - BOOK 3BEWARE! Reading these stories in the dead of night and alone...could be hazardous to your health!...Within the pages of this book you will find scary, spooky stories that are perfect for...

A Short Horror Stories Anthology - BOOK 4I wonder...is it even worth locking all your doors and windows to keep the horrors out?I mean, they will eventually find a way in.They will eventually discover where you are hiding.Within these pages you will find horror...

When you're a quilt instead of a sheet, being a ghost is hard! A contemporary picture book classic, now available in a stunning special gilded edition -- a perfect gift for the little ghost lovers in your life. Ghosts are supposed to be sheets,...

All the children love to go to their Uncle Bob's house every Friday night to hear him tell ghost stories around his fire pit. One night when Uncle Bob decides to host a marshmallow pig roast, the kids are excited, even though they have...

The Great Blue Yonder by Alex Shearer is the quirky, gentle journey of a boy stuck between looking back, and moving on.'You'll be sorry when I'm dead.' That's what Harry said to his sister, before the incident with the lorry. And now he is...

Benny Ram?rez can see dead people . . . Well, one dead person, anyway. A hilarious and heartwarming story about a boy who can suddenly see the ghost of his famous musician grandfather! After moving cross-country into his late grandfather's Miami mansion, Benny discovers...

Author: Jenny McLachlanISBN-10: 0063329840ISBN-13: 9780063329843Publisher: StorytideLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/22/2025Pages: 384Format: Hardcover

The ghost at 632 Savannah Street is real . . . right? Gilbert often feels invisible, just like the ghost living at 632 Savannah Street. Despite his family's disbelief, Gilbert leaves gifts for the ghost: a friendship bracelet, a plate of cookies, even a...

There's nothing to be afraid of in graveyards... Clara and her family have always lived near graveyards. Most would find it creepy, but not Clara. After all, a graveyard is really nothing more than a big garden planted with tombstones. But Clara can't help...

Peg Kehret does it again in this spooky, suspenseful thriller What Josh thought would be the dullest summer of his life, spent with his eccentric great-aunt, turns chilling when he meets the ghost of a coal miner killed in a mine explosion. Willie has...

Set in the '60s at a summer camp, The Mystery of the Haunted Dancehall is a spooky, atmospheric middle-grade story for fans of classic ghost stories, unlikely friendships and intriguing mysteries. Bee's mom has a job in New York City for the summer, so...