Burlington Public Library

"Olive and her adopted siblings, Darwin and Charlotte, are spending the summer with their estranged grandma at her creepy hotel and it's all work and no play. They're stuck inside doing boring chores but they soon stumble upon an incredible secret... The simple turn of a knob transports them to a distant magical world filled with space pirates. Behind the next door are bearded wizards. Down the hall is a doorway to a cotton-candied kingdom. But once...

"Tensions run high as the boys prepare for their movie, from figuring out which characters survive, to finding the perfect shade of red for their fake blood, and Will trying to make a comedic spin on the project. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards." --

Whitney and Ben are two middle school students on a field trip to a college library for a research project; but the bored teens venture through a door marked "Special Collection Sinister History" and meet the evil Archivist who collects tales of the world's oldest, most terrifying creatures and uses magic to bring them to life--she is looking to bring a local legend called The Stalker into the real world and only the Librarian can save Ben and Whitney...

Five scary tales written in comic book format.

"A woman walks alone at the foot of Mount Sengoku. A man appears, saying he's been waiting for her, and invites her to a nearby village. Surprisingly, the village is covered in hairlike volcanic glass fibers, and all of it shines a bright gold. At night, when the villagers perform their custom of gazing up at the starry sky, countless unidentified flying objects come raining down on them--the opening act for the terror about to occur!'"--Amazon.

After escaping the swarm of bees, Parker and Annie run into aliens Zammy and Juniper who decide to possess the children to figure out a way home. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

"Ruthie and Ezra Dillon’s dad and uncle just bought an old Hollywood movie studio, known for all the best horror flicks of the 50s! The family plans to revive the old place and start making scary movies for the modern era, which Ruthie and Ezra are eager to star in. What they don’t realize, though, is that the old classic monsters like Wolfenscreem, the Lagoonatics, and the Wasp-Keeper are all a little bit TOO real...and they’re coming back...

"This supernatural mystery set in the world of Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos features a brilliant detective and his partner as they try to solve a horrific murder. The complex investigation takes the Baker Street investigators from the slums of Whitechapel all the way to the Queen's Palace as they attempt to find the answers to this bizarre murder of cosmic horror! From the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, Nebula award-winning,...

Middle-school-age kids face situations that take them just beyond the real world to places of fantasy and fright in this series of stories. Whether they're facing deadly creatures in the halls of their school or out in the woods, they must rely on themselves to get out of nightmare scenarios.

Five teenagers sneak into the abandoned Penn Mills Galleria to take a last look around before it is demolished, but while the mallt has been closed for years, the teens must contend with its sprawling, transformative cosmic horror, or be trapped inside forever.