Dark Kids Books July 2024

Dark Side of the Library

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A is for Alien Little Golden Book (July 9, 2024)

The not-gory adventures of Ripley and her cat Jonesy. Even little Chestburster makes an appearance. It’s an ABC book.

https://amzn.to/3zXQ58L

Benji Zeb Is a Ravenous Werewolf, by Deke Moulton (Tundra Books, July 2, 2024)

Benji is being bullied at school, but he’s actually a werewolf. His family runs a wolf sanctuary as cover.

https://amzn.to/4cfBRhe

Boo the Library Ghost, by Becky Paige (Dolphin Books, July 16, 2024)

The library is Poppy’s favorite place to go, but it’s currently haunted by a ghost named Boo. Poppy thinks she knows why Boo is acting out – he can’t read! She determines to help him.

https://amzn.to/3SuQ0zU

The Creepening of Dogwood House, by Eden Royce (Walden Pond Press, July 30, 2024)

A Southern gothic book for the middle grade readers. Hoodoo and a creepy house.

https://amzn.to/4ftZSDK

The Cryptid Club #4: You Don’t Know Jackalope, by Michael Brumm (HarperAlley, July 9, 2024)

Graphic novel; grades 1-5.

https://amzn.to/3AgdVg3

Disney Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Welcome to Halloween Town! By Autumn B. Heath (Studio Fun International, July 9, 2024)

An interactive lift-the-flap pop-up book tour of Halloweentown.

https://amzn.to/4d17iNb

The Ghostkeeper, by Johanna Taylor (GP Putnam, July 23, 2024)

A gothic graphic novel for grades 7-9. Dorian, who can see ghosts, helps the spirits try to recover the Key to Deaths Door that has been stolen, so that they can move on.

https://amzn.to/3LOkWaC

Ghostly, Ghastly Tales: Frights to Tell at Night, by Anastasia Garcia (Gibbs Smith, July 30, 2024)

Spooky short stories for grades 3-7.

https://amzn.to/3WNYrJm

The Ghosts of Nameless Island, by Carly Anne West (Andrews McMeel, July 23, 2024)

Gus can see ghosts and helps them “move on.” His dad goes missing and his mom moves them to Nameless Island to help renovate a house called Rotham Manor.

https://amzn.to/3LOkF7K

Griselda Snook’s Spectacular Books, by Barry Timms (July 2, 2024)

Griselda runs a Halloween themed bookstore that caters to Halloween characters. Can Henry find the right book for him?

https://amzn.to/3SxExQ5

Guess Who? Boo to You! By Katie Woolley (Nosy Crow, July 2, 2024)

A lift-the-flap picture book where characters take turns “booing” at each other’s houses.

https://amzn.to/4dn5w95

A Halloween Mystery: Scooby Doo and Friends Little Golden Book (July 2, 2024)

Daphne and Velma try to figure out who sabotaged the haunted house.

https://amzn.to/3yoEOxV

How to Be a Ghost – A LEGO Little Golden Book (July 2, 2024)

Another Halloween spooky book for little ones.

https://amzn.to/4c6FR3i

How do Dinosaurs Say Trick or Treat? By Jane Yolen (Scholastic Press, July 2, 2024)

A rhyming book about the mischief a dinosaur might get into on Halloween.

https://amzn.to/3A23AEx

I Am Sally and I Am Jack (Nightmare Before Christmas) Little Golden Books (July 2, 2024)

Of course Sally’s book is mostly about a love story and Jack’s book is full of adventure and Christmastown and Santa. I Am Santa doesn’t come out until September, sheesh.

https://amzn.to/4drCNjx

https://amzn.to/3Wo5gQl

I Am Wednesday (Addams) Little Golden Book (July 2, 2024)

The entire plot of the first season of the Netflix show, in just a few cute pages. And yes, she does the Wednesday Dance!

https://amzn.to/3SrGL3q

I Got the Spooky Spirit, by Connie Schofield-Morrison (Bloomsbury, July 23, 2024)

A picture book with carving pumpkins, leaves crunching underfoot, and a ghostly dance party.

https://amzn.to/46vnMut

Into the Goblin Market, by Vikki VanSickle (Tundra Books, July 30, 2024)

Preschool to grade 3. A picture book based on Christina Rossetti’s famous poem.

https://amzn.to/3STAUV1

It Came from the Trees, by Ally Russell (Delacorte Press, July 30, 2024)

A Bigfoot retelling in which a girl and her scout troop leave the safety of their camp to search for their missing friend Reese.

https://amzn.to/4dobUgh

Kill the Beast, by Serena Valentino (Disney Villains Book 11) (Disney Hyperion, July 30)

Gaston wants very badly to be the hero who kills the Beast in this Beauty and the Beast reimagining.

https://amzn.to/3SpEtBJ

The LEGO Halloween Games Book: Ideas for 50 Games, Challenges, Puzzles, and Activities (DK Books, July 2, 2024)

https://amzn.to/4d66rLa

Little Ghost Makes a Friend, by Maggie Edkins Willis (Simon & Schuster, July 16, 2024)

Adorable picture book about a shy ghost who wants to make friends with the new neighbor girl next door, so he invites her over to a Halloween party. What should he wear so she’ll want to be friends with him?

https://amzn.to/4fsVV26

The Little Green Witch, by Linda Blackmoor (Caledonia Forest, July 22, 2024)

A little witch named Wren has a talent for herbal medicine, lives in the forest and conjures spells in her kitchen.

https://amzn.to/4fjpxPw

Markless, by C.G. Malburi (Levine Querido, July 23, 2024)

A dark fantasy for grades 7-12, featuring a society where a mark on your palm determines your magic and your worth in the society.

https://amzn.to/3Ag7OZ9

Meesh the Bad Demon #2: The Secret of the Fang, by Michelle Lam (July 23, 2024)

Meesh banded together with a fairy princess to save the underworld. Now an evil force wants to destroy all fox-kind. Can it be stopped? It’s a graphic novel.

https://amzn.to/3YJV1bZ

Millie Fleur’s Poison Garden, by Christy Mandin (Orchard Books, July 2, 2024)

For ages preschool to grade 3. Millie comes to town and finds their gardens boring, so plants things like Fanged Fairymoss and Sneezing Stickyweed. The townsfolk call her garden poison. But some come around. The message is to be yourself, even if you’re weird.

https://amzn.to/4dfWdb6

Mind Over Monsters, by Betsy Uhrig (Margaret McElderry, July 16, 2024)

Monsters are invading Cranberry Bog Middle School!

https://amzn.to/4doEazd

The Night Librarian, by Christopher Lincoln (Dial Books, July 30, 2024)

Twins Page and Turner investigate a world they never knew existed, and it has something to do with their dad’s copy of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and characters missing from the pages of books. Middle grade series.

https://amzn.to/3LKQnTa

The Old Willis Place, by Mary Downing Hahn (Clarion Books, July 16, 2024)

A ghost story graphic novel with a creepy house.

https://amzn.to/3LLkr0Y

Prunella, by Beth Ferry (Simon & Schuster, July 16, 2024)

Prunella is born with a purple thumb instead of a green one like her parents. She prefers corpse flowers to carnations and poison ivy to petunias. Her creepy garden scares all the other kids away, until one day a peculiar weed takes hold in her garden..

https://amzn.to/3SuRAC2

The Quacken, by Justin Colon (Simon and Schuster, July 16, 2024)

A monstrous duck terrorizes Cucumonga Campground.

https://amzn.to/3Swi99E

Stranger Things Inside, Outside, Upside Down Funko Pop Little Golden Book (July 9, 2024)

Funko pop versions of Eleven, Dustin, Max, Erica, Lucas, etc. have adventures.

https://amzn.to/3yiC8C2

Supernatural: An Official Spooky Picture Book, by Micol Ostow (Running Press Kids, July 16, 2024)

Sam and Dean Winchester go check out the haunted Waverly Hills Boarding House after reading about it in their dad’s journal. Preschool to grade 3.

https://amzn.to/4dfwbVg

The Tale of the Twisted Toymaker (Are You Afraid of the Dark Volume 2) by Danielle Valentine (July 23, 2024)

About a twisted doll who wants something from you. Ms. Mabel’s Doll Emporium can make a doll that looks just like you. But when Layla stashes the doll in her closet, she hears creepy whispering coming from it at night.

https://amzn.to/3Ae5Ok5

Trick or Treat on Scary Street, by Lance Bass from Nsync (Union Square Kids, July 23, 2024)

Thirteen trick-or-treaters wander down Scary Street on Halloween.

https://amzn.to/3WI3wTo

Trunk or Treat, by Chris Ayala-Cronos (Clarion, July 16, 2024)

A picture book for kids preschool to grade 3 about the community trunk-or-treat tradition.

https://amzn.to/4ftEpL8

The Twisted Tower of Endless Torment #2 (The Horrible Bag Series), by Rob Renzetti (Penguin Workshop, July 23, 2024)

Middle-grade horror series about a horrible bag and the spine chilling world hidden within. Action packed.

https://amzn.to/4c5tC79

¡Vamos! Let's Celebrate Halloween and Día de los Muertos: A Halloween and Day of the Dead Celebration, by Raul the Third (Versify, July 16, 2024)

Little Lobos celebrates both holidays in a festive manner. Preschool to grade 3.

https://amzn.to/3A1H5zI

Welcome to Scare School (1) (Scare School Diaries), by Jarrett Lerner (Aladdin Publishing, July 16, 2024)

A chapter book about Bash, a ghost who isn’t good at “ghost stuff” so he has to go to ghost school.

Wolfgang in the Meadow, by Lenny Wen (Clarion Books, July 16, 2024)

A ghost loves being in the meadow, hugging trees, stargazing etc, but also wants to become the Great Spirit of the Dark Castle and haunt it. Yet that would mean leaving his beloved meadow.

https://amzn.to/4c9n4EH

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