Spooky Reads for Half Term!

By Norfolk Children's Book Centre

Spooky Reads for Half Term!

WoooOOOOoooo! We love Autumn - pumpkin soup, colourful falling leaves and dark nights drawing in. It's the perfect time to get cosy in your favourite chair and read a good spooky story together. We have put together a list of lovely ghost stories, with only-slightly-creepy picture books, chapter books suitable for younger readers all the way up to teenage and young adult readers.

Peekaboo Pumpkin

Camilla (Editorial Director) Reid and Ingela P Arrhenius

£7.99

£7.59

Gustavo, the Shy Ghost

Flavia Z. Drago

£7.99

£7.59

Funnybones

Allan Ahlberg and Janet Ahlberg

£7.99

£7.59

Draw With Rob at Halloween

Rob Biddulph

£7.99

£7.59

No Such Thing

Ella Bailey

£7.99

£7.59

Little Country Cottage: An Autumn Treasury of Recipes, Crafts...

Angela Ferraro-Fanning and AnneliesDraws

£9.99

£9.49

Pumpkin Soup: Celebrate 25 years of this timeless classic

Helen Cooper

£7.99

£7.59

Princess Minna : The Wicked Wood

Kirsty Applebaum and Sahar Haghgoo

£6.99

£6.64

Grimwood: Laugh your head off with the funniest new series of...

Nadia Shireen

£6.99

£6.64

Magnificent Mabel and the Very Important Witch

Ruth Quayle and Julia Christians

£5.99

£5.69

There's a Ghost in this House

Oliver Jeffers

£20.00

£19.00

Ivy Newt and the Storm Witch

Derek Keilty and Magda Brol

£7.99

£7.59

Spooky Sleepover

Emma Finlayson-Palmer and Heidi Cannon

£6.99

£6.64

Grandpa Bert and the Ghost Snatchers

Malorie Blackman and Melanie Demmer

£6.99

£6.64

The Worst Witch

Jill Murphy

£7.99

£7.59

Leila, the Perfect Witch

Flavia Z. Drago

£12.99

£12.34

Gotcha!

Clotilde Perrin

£20.00

£19.00

The Haunted Lake

P.J. Lynch

£8.99

£8.54

Leina and the Lord of the Toadstools

Myriam Dahman, Nicolas Digard, et al.

£12.99

£12.34

Agent Zaiba Investigates: The Haunted House

Annabelle Sami and Daniela Sosa

£6.99

£6.64

Creeping Beauty: Fairy Tales Gone Bad

Joseph Coelho and Freya Hartas

£7.99

£7.59

Sticky Pines: The Bigwoof Conspiracy

Dashe Roberts

£6.99

£6.64

Godfather Death

Sally Nicholls and Julia Sarda

£12.99

£12.34

The Haunting of Aveline Jones

Phil Hickes and Keith Robinson

£6.99

£6.64

Mary and Frankenstein: The true story of Mary Shelley

Linda Bailey and Julia Sarda

£7.99

£7.59

The Ghost Garden

Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez

£6.99

£6.64

A Girl Called Corpse

Reece Carter and Eleonora Asparuhova

£7.99

£7.59

Alcatoe and the Turnip Child

Isaac Lenkiewicz

£9.99

£9.49

The Monsters of Rookhaven

Padraig Kenny and Edward Bettison

£7.99

£7.59

The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

Jon Klassen

£14.99

£14.24

Crater Lake

Jennifer Killick

£7.99

£7.59

The Storm and the Minotaur

Lucy Strange and Pam Smy

£7.99

£7.59

A World Full of Spooky Stories: 50 Tales to Make Your Spine...

Angela McAllister and Madalina Andronic

£14.99

£14.24

The Invasion of Crooked Oak

Dan Smith and Chris King

£7.99

£7.59

Island of Whispers

Frances Hardinge and Emily Gravett

£14.99

£14.24

The Witchstone Ghosts

Emily Randall-Jones

£7.99

£7.59

The Hideaway

Pam Smy

£14.99

£14.24

Strange Tales

Daniel Morden

£10.99

£10.44

The Stars Did Wander Darkling

Colin Meloy

£8.99

£8.54

The October Witches

Jennifer Claessen

£7.99

£7.59

The Ghost of Gosswater

Lucy Strange

£6.99

£6.64

The Haunted Hills

Berlie Doherty

£7.99

£7.59

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell

£7.99

£7.59

The Secret of Helmersbruk Manor: A Christmas Mystery

Eva Frantz and Elin Sandstrom

£16.99

£16.14

Still Water

Chris Priestley

£7.99

£7.59

The Owl Service

Alan Garner

£7.99

£7.59

Read, Scream, Repeat

£7.99

£7.59

Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase: Book 1

Jonathan Stroud

£7.99

£7.59

Dark Peak

Marcus Sedgwick

£7.99

£7.59

The Mystery of Raspberry Hill

Eva Frantz

£7.99

£7.59

Ghostlight

Kenneth Oppel

£7.99

£7.59

Good Boy

Mal Peet and Emma Shoard

£7.99

£7.59

The Deathless Girls

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

£8.99

£8.54

Curse of the Chosen Vol 1: A Matter of Life and Death & A...

Alexis Deacon

£14.99

£14.24

The Haunting of Tyrese Walker

J P Rose

£8.99

£8.54

All Our Hidden Gifts

Caroline O'Donoghue

£8.99

£8.54

A Taste of Darkness

Melinda Salisbury, Amy McCaw, et al.

£8.99

£8.54

Harrow Lake

Kat Ellis

£7.99

£7.59

Witch

Finbar Hawkins

£8.99

£8.54

Mina and the Undead

Amy McCaw

£7.99

£7.59

The Big Book of Mysteries

Tom Adams and Yas Imamura

£16.99

£16.14

The Changing Man

Tomi Oyemakinde

£8.99

£8.54

World of Weird: A Creepy Compendium of True Stories

Tom Adams and Celsius Pictor

£16.99

£16.14

Season of the Witch: A Spellbinding History of Witches and...

Matt Ralphs and Nuria Tamarit

£12.99

£12.34

An Illustrated History of Ghosts

Adam Allsuch Boardman

£16.99

£16.14

This list represents a tiny glimpse into our fantastic shop! If you're interested in finding more book recommendations, please get in touch with us via phone (01263761402) or email ([email protected]). If you're a teacher, ask for an Approval Collection to be sent to your school - we tailor each Approval Collection to any topic, age range and budget!