Ages 3-8
Determined to pull off another (not so) successful heist, Rocket and Groot find themselves trapped in the forest with a mysterious cloaked figure. The problem? They can't actually leave the woods until they tell the scariest story ever heard. Zombie aliens? Not scary enough. B...
How does a dinosaur say "trick or treat"When walking down with kids down a Halloween street?Does he stomp on the pumpkins and throw around bits?Does he fear he will slip and then slide into splits?It's Hal...
Bat just wants to make friends, but everyone is scared of him!When other animals see Bat’s shadow at their window, they’re terrified and think he’s a monster. How can Bat show them that he just wants to share some cake?This is the p...
Clifford’s Thanksgiving Visit brings readers along as Clifford travels to the city to spend the holiday with his mom. Can Clifford find her apartment in time for Thanksgiving dinner?This classic storybook is back in print with an updated cover and a full pa...
On a teeny tiny farm, While the moon shone bright, All the forest creaturesPrepared for party night. This teeny tiny turkey doesn't know what to bring to a harvest party with all of her f...
Commended
An Amazon Best Children's Book of 2021Celebrated, bestselling creator Peter H. Reynolds brings his signature touch of love and kindness to this special, timely picture book, as families now, more than ever, are rediscovering and reevaluating what means the mos...
On the day before Thanksgiving, a group of children visit a turkey farm and meet Farmer Mack Nuggett and his coop of cockerels: Ollie, Stanley, Larry, Moe, Wally, Beaver, Shemp, and Groucho. The children and turkeys giggle and gobble, and everything is gravy. As the trip comes to...
There was an old lady who swallowed a turkey.I don't know why she swallowed the turkey,But she's always been quirky! It's Thanksgiving and this time the Old Lady is swallowing a turkey, a ball,...
We all love pumpkins, there are so many kinds.How many pumpkins can you find?From the bestselling team of THE BIGGEST PUMPKIN EVER! this search-and-find novelty board book puts all of the attention on the often overlooked hero of autumn and Halloween: PUMPKINS! Searc...
On Halloween, Lance decides that he is going to paint his face instead of dressing up. He tries three times until he gets it just right — scary enough that his father falls over when he sees it. Then he goes out trick-or-treating. He goes to two houses, where the adults fall...
Ages 8-12
Molly Teng sees things no one else can.By touching the belongings of people who have died, she gets brief glimpses into the lives they lived. Sometimes the “zaps” are funny or random, but often they leave her feeling sad, drained, and lonely.The last ...
Nominated
For over 20 years, kids across Canada have delighted in the spooky stories of the Haunted Canada series! And now, for the first time, four of these tales from award-winning author Joel A. Sutherland have been adapted into chilling graphic novellas and bro...
Are you wearing the mask-- or is the mask wearing you?Carly Beth needs the perfect Halloween mask. One that will scare everyone she comes across—including her annoying little brother and the bullies from her school. A visit to a strange costume store provides just...
In Oz, most girls and boys with magical powers are sent from the north, south, east, and west to renowned witch academies, where they are elevated and taught all the finer ways to be a responsible witch. But if you misbehave? Or are thought to harbor darker magic? You're sent ...
Shortlisted
It’s the summer before high school and Jacob and his friends are determined to make it a memorable one. This may be the last couple of months they have together; once school starts, they’ll be going their separate ways: Ichiro’s family is moving to Japan, and while Jacob...
You know the protocol. You've completed countless drills. Yet nothing can truly prepare you for what’s coming. No one is ever ready for zombie season . . .Joule refuses to evacuate with her mom. She can't leave town while her dad's still missing. He's out t...
Karen thinks there's a ghost in her house! But she's never really seen the ghost of Old Ben Brewer -- until now. Karen and her stepsister Kristy have found out that Ben Brewer and his spooky friends are going to have a birthday party in her ...
Mary Anne should never have thrown away that chain letter she got in the mail. Ever since she did, bad things have been happening to everyone in The Baby-sitters Club. With Halloween coming up, Mary Anne's even more worried -- what kind of spooky thing will happen next?
"You can't have Thanksgiving without turkey. That's like Fourth of July without apple pie, or Friday with no two pizzas." - Joey TribbianiCelebrate all your favorite Friends holiday moments i...
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Prepare to scream!Darius is excited that his cousin, Ryan, is coming to stay for a weekend in October. Though they used to be close, Darius hasn't seen his cousin since Ryan moved to Vancouver from central B.C. several years before. The visit doesn't ge...
Ages 12+
"What does it mean if our own sense of right and wrong isn't enough to keep us from committing the unspeakable?" When Beatrice Fletcher joins her father on a work trip to the University of New Mexico, she knows she's sacrificing time with her friends back...
Beholder 12+
No one survived the party at the penthouse. Except Athan.Athanasios "Athan" Bakirtzis has made it far in life relying on his charm and good looks, even securing an invitation to a mysterious penthouse soiree for New York City's artsy elite. But when he sneaks off to the...
Frustrated by an unfair arcade game, Colton throws himself into re-engineering the device at any cost... Mott quickly flushes his brother's creepy new pets down the drain, but the creatures have other plans... Aimee finally works up the courage to ditch her loud-mouthed, annoy...
Ruin Road 12+
Sometimes a little fear is a good thing... Cade Webster lives between worlds. He’s a standout football star at the right school but lives in the wrong neighborhood--if you let his classmates tell it. Everywhere but home, people are afraid of him ...
The Other Ones 12+
Salem Amani is a world-weary sixteen-year-old living with his mother and older sister in a haunted house. But all Sal really wants is to be ordinary, which is hard to do when you live in a house full of ghosts. And when a strange boy arrives on his doorstep asking more questio...
When Cal Ware wins a scholarship to an elite New England boarding school, he's thrilled to leave his past behind. Back home in Mississippi, he was the poor, queer kid who never fit in. But at Essex Academy, he'll be able to reinvent himself. Or so he hopes...But at ...
Everyone has secrets. Mags’s has teeth. Magdalena Herrera is about to graduate high school, but she already feels like an adult with serious responsibilities: caring for her ailing grandmother; working a part-time job; clandestine makeouts with a girl w...
Wyatt Westlock has one plan for the farmhouse she's just inherited -- to burn it to the ground. But during her final walkthrough of her childhood home, she makes a shocking discovery in the basement -- Peter, the boy she once considered her best friend, strung up in chains and...
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