The CCBC has created bibliographies and booklists of recommended books on a wide range of themes and topics. We have organized them into the following categories...
All of us - adults, teens, and children - enjoy a scary chill: the anticipation of a creaking door opening in slow motion, waiting for someone - or something - to walk through, and then a wind gust slamming that door shut. BANG! What better time of year to indulge in stories that make our spines tingle than Halloween? So bring them on - ghosts and ghouls, wizards and witches, haunted houses and black magic.
Here are a few non-fiction texts that I would include in an intermediate grade classroom library. Some of these texts you might want to group together into a read aloud text set or as a set of inquiry texts that students would read together in small groups.