Horror for Tweens

Welcome to another installment of Tween Reads!  This week the focus will be on horror titles, but keep your eyes peeled for other genres as the weeks go by.  This list isn’t meant to be exhaustive, but to give tweens and parents some initial guidance as they make their way over to the young adult shelves.  And some of these are titles that are new to the Children’s shelves or might have flown under the radar.  What are your favorite tween horror reads?

Mer’s Tween Horror Picks:

• Skellig by David Almond
• Seer of Shadows by Avi
• Fiendish Deeds by P.J. Bracegirdle (series)
• Eighth Grade Bites by Heather Brewer (series)
• Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac (sequel available)

• The Dead Boys by Royce Buckingham
• The Empty Mirror by James Lincoln Collier
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• A Tale Dark & Grimm by Adam Gidwitz
• The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein

• Picture the Dead by Adele Griffin
• Groosham Grange by Anthony Horowitz (series)
• House of Dark Shadows by Robert Liparulo (series)
• The Light by D.J. MacHale (series)
• The Hunt for the Seventh by Christine Morton-Shaw

• The Nightmarys by Dan Poblocki
• Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Death and Dementia by Edgar Allan Poe
• A Living Nightmare by Darren Shan (series)
• Killer Pizza by Greg Taylor
• There’s a Dead Person Following My Sister Around by Vivian Vande Velde

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