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Hallow-Reads 2025 - Recommendations for Teens

Time for chills and thrills to get ready for the Halloween season.

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  • Marjorie Glatt feels like a ghost. A practical thirteen-year-old in charge of the family laundry business, her daily routine features unforgiving customers, unbearable P.E. classes, and the fastidious Mr. Saubertuck who is committed to destroying…
    Graphic Novel, 2018St. Louis, Missouri : Lion Forge, 2018. — GN J THUMMLER, B.
  • One year has passed since Sally wed her beloved Jack Skellington and stepped into her role as queen of Halloween Town. Even with her Jack at her side, though, being a ruler isn't easy, and Sally feels uncertain of her future.
    Book, 2025Los Angeles : Disney Press, [2025] — YA FIC SHEPHERD, M.
  • Alice is sent back to the night of her sister's murder and has until midnight to figure out who the killer is or risk losing her sister forever.
    Book, 2022New York : Razorbill, 2022. — YA FIC VALENTINE, D.
  • Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends. Every autumn, all through high school, they've worked together at the world's best pumpkin patch. They say good-bye every Halloween, and they're reunited every September 1. But this Halloween is different.…
    Graphic Novel, 2019New York : First Second, [2019] — GN YA ROWELL, R.
  • Ostracized by the elite community of Amontillado, Ohio, after the disappearance of her parents, Tress organizes a Halloween costume party at an abandoned house, where she launches a macabre plan to force a popular former friend to confess what she…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — YA FIC MCGINNIS, M.
  • Charity Curtis has the summer job of her dreams, playing the "final girl" at Camp Mirror Lake. But the last weekend of the season, Charity's co-workers begin disappearing. And when one ends up dead, Charity's role as the final girl suddenly becomes…
    eBook, 2023New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.
  • Fans will be spellbound by a fresh retelling of the original film, followed by the all-new sequel that continues the story with the next generation of Salem teens.
    Book, 2018Los Angeles : Freeform Books, an imprint of Disney Book Group, 2018. — YA FIC JANTHA, A.
  • After moving to a new town for her father's job, Clara learns that kids go missing from Pender every October and that a monster named the Mumbler may be responsible.
    Book, 2019New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — YA FIC FRENCH, G.
  • Halloween is near, and Hughie Wolfe is volunteering at a new rural attraction: Harvest House.
    Book, 2023Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2023. — YA FIC SMITH, C.
  • Told in interconnected stories, three witchy best friends brew a love potion on Halloween that is said to produce a love that will last forever as long as it is sealed by true love's kiss before the stoke of midnight.
    eAudiobook, 2022Macmillan Audio, 2022
  • The Backstagers are back in (stage) blacks, for a festive collection of Valentine's Day and Halloween stories!
    Graphic Novel, 2019Los Angeles, CA : Boom! Box, a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc., 2019. — GN YA TYNION, J. VOL. 3
  • Quinn Maybrook just wants to make it to graduation. She might not make it to morning.
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — YA FIC CESARE, A.
  • Bessie and her classmate's spring break party at a remote English castle turns deadly as a storm traps them with a killer, forcing them to unravel growing suspicions while the body count rises.
    Book, 2024New York : Delacorte Press, [2024] — YA FIC PRESTON, N.