LibraryAware October 2025

All Forsyth County Public Library programs are free and open to the public.

For a full listing of Forsyth County Public Library's programs, check out our online event calendar.

Tween Tuesday: Project Runway Skeletons
Tuesday, Oct. 28, 3:30 p.m.
Central Library Storytime Room
We’re celebrating the spooky season with a skeleton fashion show! Create unique outfit designs for your skeleton and show them off on the runway. Will your design be magic or tragic? Designers, make it work! Recommended for children ages 8-12.

Movie Day
Thursday, Oct. 30, 4:30 p.m.
Carver School Road Library
Unwind from the school day with a screening of a G or PG movie. On Oct. 30 we'll be showing "The Haunted Mansion" (2003) (Rated PG).

Snack Around the World
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 4 p.m.

Clemmons Branch Library, Storytime Room

Challenge your brain with food facts and tasty trivia while you delight your taste buds with snacks from other countries. We'll learn about Indonesia this month. Recommended for ages 8-15.

Food waiver required. Supplies are limited, please register here.

Books That Will Scare Away Adults (But Not Kids!)

Serafina and the Black Cloak
by Robert Beatty

Living secretly in the basement of a grand estate where her pa works as a maintenance man, young Serafina narrowly escapes a black-cloaked man who has been abducting local children and who Serafina, aided by a youth from the estate, endeavors to expose. (Ages 9-12)

The Vanquishers
by Kalynn Bayron

Idolizing The Vanquishers, vampire hunters who wiped out the undead decades before, 12-year-old Malika and her crew suspect a vampire is involved when a new student goes missing and know who to call to protect their town. (Ages 8-11)

Doll Bones
by Holly Black

Playing an endless make-believe game about pirates, mermaids and warriors under the rule of a formidable Great Queen china doll, best friends Zach, Poppy and Alice find their bond tested when Zach is compelled to give up their shared adventures and Poppy begins having dreams about the doll. By the co-author of the best-selling Spiderwick Chronicles. (Ages 9-12)

Spirit Hunters
by Ellen Oh

The Raine family's new house may be haunted and may be causing Michael Raine to act out in strange ways, but his sister Harper has a strong feeling of déjà vu and she thinks recovering her repressed memories will somehow help her brother. (Ages 8-12)

The Witches
by Roald Dahl

A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice in this classic Roald Dahl tale. (Ages 8-12)

A Tale Dark & Grimm
by Adam Gidwitz

Follows Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales, encountering witches, devils, warlocks, kindly strangers, and other helpful folk as they take charge of their own happily ever after. (Ages 10+)

Hide and Seeker
by Daka Hermon

Joining his friends for a game of hide-and-seek at the welcome back party of a young neighbor who mysteriously went missing for a year and came back rather changed, Justin watches in horror as players are pulled into a nightmarish alternate world where they are terrorized by a mysterious Seeker. (Ages 9-12)

Spirit Service
by Sarena and Sasha Nanua

A group of twelve-year-old girls start a small business helping their local neighborhood spirits pass on to the other side. (Ages 8-12)

Contact your librarian for more great books!