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How to Catch a Witch

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Big Pumpkin

Erica Silverman · 32 pages

A witch trying to pick a big pumpkin on Halloween discovers the value of cooperation when she gets help from a series of monsters.

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Los Gatos Black on Halloween

Marisa Montes · 32 pages

Easy to read, rhyming text about Halloween night incorporates Spanish words, from las brujas riding their broomsticks to los monstruos whose monstrous ball is interrupted by a true horror.

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Popcorn

Frank Asch · 40 pages

Sam’s Halloween party is popping—with a massive amount of popcorn! Find out how he and his friends handle the delicious surplus in this reissue of a classic picture book from celebrated and award-winning author and illustrator Frank Asch.

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The Good, the Bad, and the Spooky

Jory John · 32 pages

Halloween is the Bad Seed’s favorite holiday of the year. But what’s a seed to do when he can’t find a show-stopping costume for the big night? Postpone trick-or-treating for everyone, of course! Can he get a costume together in time? Or will this seed return to his baaaaaaaaad ways?

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Cinderella Skeleton

Robert D. San Souci · 32 pages

This book is a rhyming retelling of the story of a young woman who finds her prince at a Halloween ball despite the efforts of her wicked stepmother. The main characters are skeletons. Meet Cinderella Skeleton, as sweetly foul as only a ghoul can be. Poor Cinderella has no one to help her hang the cobwebs and arrange dead flowers -- certainly not her evil stepsisters. But the Halloween Ball is jus

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The Ex Hex

Erin Sterling · 308 pages

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Mercy Watson: Princess in Disguise

Kate DiCamillo · 80 pages

When the Watsons decide to zip their porcine wonder into a formfitting princess dress for Halloween – complete with tiara – they are certain that Mercy will be beautiful beyond compare. Mercy is equally certain she likes the sound of trick-or-treating and can picture piles of buttered toast already. As for the Lincoln Sisters next door, how could they know that their cat would lead them all on a H

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Junie B., First Grader: Boo...and I Mean It!

Barbara Park · 86 pages

With Halloween approaching, Junie B. needs to find a costume that will scare off the real witches and ghosts that she believes will be out on the holiday.

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The Runaway Pumpkin

Kevin Lewis · 32 pages

The Baxter brothers find a wonderful pumpkin for Halloween, but first they must catch up with it when it rolls down the hill.

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Froggy's Halloween

Jonathan London · 32 pages

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It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Charles M. Schulz · 48 pages

Linus waits for the Great Pumpkin, Snoopy has a run in with the Red Baron, and all Charlie Brown gets for trick-or-treat is a rock.

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There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat!

Lucille Colandro · 32 pages

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Scaredy-Cat, Splat!

Rob Scotton

It's Halloween, and Splat is determined to be the scariest cat in the class. Unfortunately, he's just too much of a scaredy-cat. He's afraid of a little spider, and everyone says his costume looks more silly than scary. And when Mrs. Wimpydimple tells a ghost story in the dark, Splat gets so frightened that he tips over his jack-o'-lantern. But when the lights go back on, the entire class is scare

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Boris and Bella

Carolyn Crimi · 32 pages

Bella Legrossi and Boris Kleanitoff, the messiest and cleanest monsters in Booville respectively, do nothing but argue until the night of Harry Beastie's Halloween party.

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Arthur's Halloween

Marc Brown · 31 pages

Arthur finds everything about Halloween scary, including his little sister's costume, his morning snack, and the big house on the corner.

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In the Haunted House

Eve Bunting · 32 pages

Summary, A little girl and her father tour a dark, mysterious house, eventually revealved to be a "Halloween House.".

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AlphaOops: H Is for Halloween

Alethea Kontis

While putting on a Halloween pageant, the alphabet mixes things up with some spooky, and funny, results.

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A Night in the Lonesome October

Roger Zelazny · 280 pages

Zelazny manages to cleverly combine Jack (the Ripper), Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Frankenstein, and Dracula together with witches, werewolves, druids and many others in this amusing tale of an approaching confrontation that, on the Halloween of a full-moon, will change the cosmic balance of power between good and evil. Told through the eyes of Snuff, Jack's guard dog, who performs magical calculations i

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The Biggest Pumpkin Ever

Steven Kroll · 32 pages

Two mice, each without the other's knowledge, help a pumpkin grow into "the biggest pumpkin ever"--but for different purposes.

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The Witch Family

Eleanor Estes · 223 pages

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Scaredy Squirrel Prepares for Halloween: A Safety Guide for Scaredies

Melanie Watt

In this book Scaredy Squirrel shares his ideas about how the anxious can deal with the scary time of Halloween. Very funny, but also helpful and thoughtful.

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