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Here are our favorite horror books for middle grade readers. These titles are classified as Teen Middle School (TM) and can be found in the Teen section of the library.
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Wretched Waterpark
by Kiersten White
While staying with their Aunt Saffronia, the Sinister-Winterbottom siblings visit the Fathoms of Fun waterpark where they find themselves submerged in a mystery.
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Thirteens
by Kate Alice Marshall
Observing strange phenomena after moving to the quiet and prosperous community of Eden Eld, Eleanor is warned by new friends to pretend she cannot see the supernatural disturbances, which are believed to be the reason that three teens go missing every 13 years.
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Bumps in the Night
by Amalie Howard
Sent to her grandmother's estate in Trinidad, Rika meets a group of kids with elemental powers called Minders, who reveal that her long-lost mom is in danger, sending Rika on a magical adventure where she must learn to believe in herself to destroy evil.
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Dread Detention
by Jennifer Killick
While in Saturday detention, Hallie, Angelo, Gustav and Naira must work together to survive when unspeakable horrors emerge from the shadows and the evil grows stronger by the minute.
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The Circus of Stolen Dreams
by Lorelei Savaryn
Discovering a magical dream world in the woods near her home, a girl mourning the disappearance of her brother agrees to give up a memory in exchange for entry.
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What Stays Buried
by Suzanne Young
With only a few weeks before she loses her ability to see or speak with spirits, 12-year-old Calista Wynn must stop an angry spirit called the Tall Lady before she loses her powers and everyone she has left.
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Nightmare Island
by Shakirah Bourne
Twelve-year-old Serenity has a recurring nightmare, but things get real when her parents take her brother, Peace, to Duppy Island for "treatment" and Serenity is confronted by the creepy Dr. Whisper and the faceless douen children who are trapped between the living and the dead.
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The Keeper
by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Moving to a “perfect” new town, James and his sister begin receiving threatening letters from someone called the Keeper and must find out who is behind all this in order to stay alive. 25,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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It Found Us
by Lindsay Currie
When her brother's best friend Everett vanishes during a game of hide-and-seek in the cemetery, 12-year-old Hazel Woods must unravel the terrifying clues that started appearing since that night to save Everett before he's gone forever.
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The Horrible Bag of Terrible Things
by Robert Renzetti
Eleven-year-old Zenith journeys into a bizarre, macabre world within a mysterious bag where he struggles to save his older sister from a living hairball and survive a trio of bloodthirsty mouths, a sentient sawdust-stuffed giant, and other horrors.
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The Stars Did Wander Darkling
by Colin Meloy
When the cliff beneath the old, some say cursed, Langdon place is opened up, horror movie fanatic Archie Coomes and friends must save the town from the deadly grip of an ancient, long-buried evil.
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The Ghost of Spruce Point
by Nancy Tandon
To save his family's beloved Maine motel, 12-year-old Parker and his best friend Frankie must break a curse amid spooky things that are happening, leading them to seek help from a year-rounder with supernatural abilities.
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Gravebooks
by J. A. White
In this thrilling sequel to Nightbooks, Alex is forced to complete a scary story each night when the witch who held him captive enters his dreams in a new way, plunging him into a nightmare literally.
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1-2-3-4, I Declare a Thumb War
by Lisi Harrison
As the 100th anniversary of the electrocution of the town's most infamous killer approaches, five friends meet a surprise storyteller at the cemetery, inspiring the first-ever-meeting of the Graveyard Girls, during which they hear a terrifying tale that they'll never forget.
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Unmasked
by Lorien Lawrence
When fourteen-year-old Marion's latest mask creation, Winston, comes to life and possesses her crush, Tyler, turning him into a red-flannel and Converse high-top wearing creature from Connecticut, she must find a way stop the monster or risk it staying forever.
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Paola Santiago and the River of Tears
by Tehlor Kay Mejia
Carefully avoiding a local river where a schoolmate drowned a year earlier, a space-loving 12-year-old and her best friends organize a night of telescope stargazing before spotting a being who superstitious locals believe to be a malevolent ghost.
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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.
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City of the Plague God
by Sarwat Chadda
Thirteen-year-old Sikander Aziz has to team up with the hero Gilgamesh in order to stop Nergal, the ancient god of plagues, from wiping out the population of Manhattan.
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Archimancy
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J. A. White
Sent to a strange boarding school in New Hampshire where she discovers that she can see ghosts, Cordelia teams up with a fellow medium and the class genius to uncover their school’s sinister origins.
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The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle
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Janet S. Fox
Believing that there is a logical explanation for everything despite strange occurrences at drafty Rookskill Castle where children have been sent to escape the London Blitz, 12-year-old Katherine discovers, in the wake of numerous disappearances, that the castle's overseer has been harboring a Nazi spy.
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