Includes index.

Something you ought to know / Lemony Snicket -- The chicken or the egg / Jerry Spinelli -- In hiding / Kenneth Oppel -- The old man in the picture / Richard Sala -- The babysitter / Erin Hunter -- Grand entrance / James Patterson -- Halloween mask / Sonya Sones -- Tenton / Tom Genrich & Michele Perry -- Nanny / Angela Johnson -- The legend of Alexandra & Rose / Jon Klassen -- What's coming / Arthur Slade -- An easy gig / M.T. Anderson -- Mr. Black / Yvonne Prinz -- The foot dragger / M.E. Kerr -- Trick / Adam Rex -- Hank / Dean Lorey -- One of a kind / Sarah Weeks -- A walk too far / Gloria Whelan -- A very short story / Holly Black -- Deep six / Faye Kellerman -- The turn of the screw by Henry James, A novel as told by Lisa Brown in fewer than 30 seconds / Lisa Brown -- The attack of the flying mustaches / Pseudonymous Bosch -- Takowanda / Nadia Aguiar -- Heart stopper / Sienna Mercer -- Up to my elbow / Jack Gantos -- Four gleams in the moonlight / Stephen Marche -- The goblin book / Brad Meltzer -- Worms / Lane Smith -- The dare / Carol Gorman -- The ballad of John Grepsy / David Rich -- Soup / Jenny Nimmo -- The creeping hand / Margaret Atwood -- Wet sand, little teeth / Mariko Tamaki -- A thousand faces / Brian Selznick -- Chocolate cake / Francine Prose -- At the water's edge / Ayelet Waldman -- My worst nightmare / R.L. Stine -- The beast outside / Adele Griffin -- Unannounced / Aliza Kellerman -- Kruger's Sausage Haus / Mark Crilley -- There's something under the bed / ALlan Stratton -- Cat's paw / Sarah L. Thomson -- Horrorku / Katherine Applegate -- The itch / Avi -- The new me: a pantoum / Gail Carson Levine -- Always eleven / David Stahler Jr -- Aloft / Carson Ellis -- Skittering / Tui T. Sutherland -- Stuck in the middle / Abi Slone -- All finger and thumbs / Joseph Delaney -- Don't wet the bed / Alan Grats -- The final word / Josh Greenhut -- The shadow / Neil Gaiman -- A day at the lake / Lesley Livingston -- Whispered / Jon Scieszka -- A disturbing limerick / Vladimir Radunsky -- Through the veil / Alison McGhee -- The rash / Daniel Ehrenhaft -- Where nightmares walk / Melissa Marr.

6-9.

720 Lexile

Ages 10 up.

A Junior Library Guild selection