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Monday, October 8, 2012

31 Days::: Scary Books...for kids...

So I know I said that I hate scary, but I think there is a difference between a wonderfully crafted story that has scary elements (where the ending brings closure to all things scary) and fright fest type scary.

When I was in upper elementary/middle school, I spent a lot of time reading Christopher Pike and RL Stein (pre Goosebumps) but there was one scary book that was my favorite...


...I loved, loved, loved The Dollhouse Murders.  Seriously.  The right amount of mystery and creepy with a happy ending...absolutely perfect for my 10 year old self.  And even though this book is almost 30 years old, I still recommend to readers looking for scary and they still love it!  Betty Ren Wright is definitely one of my go-to scary authors for kids. 

My other go-to author to recommend is Mary Downing Hahn...


I first read Wait Till Helen Comes almost 10 years ago (although the book is much older than that) and having been reading her books ever since.  I just have to make sure that I have a day set aside for it so that I can start and finish in the same day (I need to resolution to the scariness before bedtime, thankyouverymuch.)

I have made sure to have these books well stocked in my libraries...and they are almost always checked out!  I love that these authors have many titles to their name - easy to hook a reader and then KEEP them reading! 

20 comments:

Janelle said...

The Dollhouse Murders and Wait Till Helen Comes were two of my favorites as a young girl! I'll have to look up some of the other Mary Downing Hahn books.

Angie said...

Janelle - You have to try Deep and Dark and Dangerous and All the Lovely Bad Ones - oooohhhhh, scary!

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