Kids’s and YA Books for Halloween 2022

As Halloween approaches, younger readers are in for a trick and a deal with with these eerie titles starting from light-hearted image e book scares to haunting YA mysteries.

Image Books, Board Books, and Chapter Books

Beatrice Likes the Dark

April Genevieve Tucholke, illus. by Khoa Le. Algonquin, $18.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-6437-5157-3. Ages 4–8. On this gothic-tinged image e book debut, Beatrice who enjoys all issues darkish, whereas her polar reverse sister loves sunshine. When Beatrice creates a potion one night time that makes Roo much less afraid of the darkish, Roo teaches Beatrice a track to mitigate the sensory overload she feels throughout the day.

Building Website Will get a Fright!

Sherri Duskey Rinker, illus. by AG Ford. Chronicle Books, $12.99 (16p) ISBN 978-1-79720-432-1. Ages 2-4. The vehicles on a building web site discover spooky surprises on the lot on Halloween night time.

A Costume for Charly

C.Okay. Malone, illus. by Alejandra Barajas. Beaming, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5064-8405-1. Ages 4–12. Charly makes an attempt to seek out the right costume to painting their bigender id.

The Crayons Trick or Treat

Drew Daywalt, illus. by Oliver Jeffers. Philomel, $9.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-593-62102-8. Ages 4–8. A bunch of crayon mates face comedic missteps on their first night time of trick-or-treating.

Día de Los Muertos

Rosie Pajaro, illus. by Gaby Zermeño. Cottage Door Press, $7.99 (12p) ISBN 978-1-64638-641-3. Ages 1 to 4. Readers be taught the festive traditions of the Day of the Lifeless with this interactive image e book.

Emi Isn’t Fearful of Monsters

Alina Tysoe. Orchard, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-338-75565-7. Ages 4–8. A lady named Emi doesn’t concern the monsters creeping at the hours of darkness and makes plans to seize one. However when her canine escapes into the darkish, Emi must enterprise into monster territory to save lots of him.

A Friend for Ghost

Suzanne Kaufman. Vacation Home/Porter, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4852-4. Ages 4–8. A lonesome ghost longs for friendship and finds it in a stray balloon.

Goodnight Practice Halloween

June Sobel, illus. by Laura Huliska-Beith. Clarion, $8.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-358-62607-7. Ages as much as 4. Passengers climb aboard the Goodnight Practice because it takes a particular Halloween journey crammed with surprises.

Joyful Owl-Oween! A Halloween Story

Laura Gehl, illus. by Lydia Nichols. Abrams, $14.99 (24p) ISBN 978-1-4197-4312-2. Ages 3–5. Readers can comply with together with the Owl household as they plan their costumes, go trick-or-treating, and extra on this rhyming image e book.

Easy methods to Catch a Witch

Alice Walstead. illus. by Megan Joyce. Sourcebooks Wonderland, $10.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-72821-035-3. The Catch Membership Youngsters’ Halloween plans are interrupted when a witch opens a portal permitting ghastly creatures into their neighborhood.

If Animals Trick-or-Handled

Ann Whitford Paul, illus. by David Walker. FSG, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-38852-2. Ages 3–6. The favored If Animals Kissed Good Evening sequence, with greater than one million copies in print, continues with this Halloween-themed image e book imagining animals partaking within the vacation hunt for sweet.

If Your Babysitter Is a Bruja

Ana Siqueira, illus. by Irena Freitas. Simon & Schuster, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5344-8874-8. Ages 4–8. A baby considers if their caretaker might doubtlessly be a witch as Halloween night time approaches.

Kit and Caboodle

Anna Pignataro. Little Hare, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-76050-633-9. Ages 3–5. After a century of dwelling alone, witch Package makes a brand new buddy when winged bat Caboodle is in want of assist.

Leila, the Perfect Witch

Flavia Z. Drago. Candlewick, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5362-2050-6. Ages 3–7. Leila Wayward, a talented and gifted witch, goals of turning into the very best of the very best by successful a bake-off.

Little Pumpkin: A First Halloween Story

Lisa Edwards, illus. by Kat Kalindi. Viking, $7.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-593-46518-9. Ages 1–3. On this addition to the You Are the Gentle sequence, Little Pumpkin and Large Pumpkin greet their nighttime mates, from bats to cats to owls and past.

The Monsters on the Broom

Annemarie Riley Guertin illus. by Shauna Lynn Panczyszyn. Little Simon, $8.99 (14p) ISBN 978-1-66591-146-7. Ages 0 and up. Set to the tune of “The Wheels on the Bus,” Halloween creatures set off on their brooms for a journey.

The Most Haunted House in America

Jarrett Dapier, illus. by Lee Gatlin. Abrams, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4197-5246-9. Ages 4–8. Skeleton drummers on a visit to the White Home uncover that it’s haunted with a number of eerie creatures.

Our Day of the Dead Celebration

Ana Aranda. Penguin/Paulsen, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-5255-1428-2. Ages 3–7. Siblings Mar and Paz excitedly put together to have fun day of the lifeless with their household.

Snowmen at Halloween

Caralyn M. Buehner, illus. by Mark E. Buehner. Dial, $8.99 (28p) ISBN 978-0-593-52910-2. Ages 1 to three. When a bunch of youngsters abandon their snowmen for trick-or-treating, the snowmen throw a Halloween get together of their very own.

Truck or Deal with

Hannah Eliot, illus. by Jen Taylor. Little Simon, $7.99 (18p) ISBN 978-1-66591-597-7. Ages 0 and up. On Halloween night time, the vehicles on the development web site showcase their spooky costumes.

The Witchling’s Wish

Lu Fraser, illus. by Sarah Massini. Bloomsbury, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5476-0906-2. Ages 3–6. Trying to make use of a spell to conjure up a buddy, a younger witchling finds friendship with an surprising visitor.

Trick or Treat: The Story of the Switch Witch and How She Came to Be

Antoinette Corley-Newman, illus. by Noor Alshalabi. Summit Avenue, $24.99 (54p) ISBN 978-1-63877-585-0. Ages 4–7. A younger witch who enjoys the treats mortals obtain on Halloween begins to make offers with trick-or-treaters in alternate for extra sweets.

Vampire Child!

Elias Barks illus. by Zoe Persico. Hazy Dell, $8.95 (12p) ISBN 978-1-948931-35-9. Ages 0 to 4. A vampire child makes his manner by way of a haunted citadel on Halloween night time.

Witch in the City (Crimson Twill #1)

Kallie George, illus. by Birgitta Sif. Candlewick, $14.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-5362-1463-5. Ages 7–9. Crimson Twill might not be fairly like different witches, however a transfer to a brand new metropolis showcases her know-how and compassion.

Novels

Daybreak on Raven Island

Fleur Bradley. Viking, $17.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-593-40463-8. Ages 8–12. Staying behind after a category area journey, three seventh graders should endure a creepy night time on the grounds of a long-shuttered island jail on this atmospherically heightened thriller.

Dead Flip

Sara Farizan. Algonquin, $17.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-64375080-4. Ages 12 and up.

Maz, Cori, and Sam, all 12, used to do all the things collectively, till Sam disappeared on Halloween night time in 1987. Now it’s 1993, and Maz and Cori haven’t spoken since Sam’s funeral, the place the 2 had a falling-out; Cori believes Sam is lifeless, however Maz is satisfied he was sucked into their beloved pinball machine. A serendipitous run-in on the mall places Cori and Maz again on one another’s radar. See our profile on Farizan.

Double, Double, Twins and Hassle

Luna Graves. Aladdin, $17.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-66590-623-4. Ages 7–10.

Twin witch sisters’ unintended magical outbursts threat exposing their hidden suburban monster neighborhood on this first e book on this center grade sequence.

The Glass Witch

Lindsay Puckett. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-338-80342-6. Ages 8–12. Younger witch Adelaide by chance triggers a curse, which transforms her bones into glass. Now she’s being stalked by a mystical hunter that has possessed a member of an area witch-hunting household.

Man Made Monsters

Andrea L. Rogers, illus. by Jeff Edwards. Levine Querido, $19.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-64-614179-1. Ages 12 and up. Rogers recounts the previous, current, and future trials and tribulations of 1 Cherokee household on this spine-tingling horror assortment.

Monsters Growling in the Background: Halloween Poems for the Brave

Kenn Nesbit et al., illus. by Martin Ontiveros. Reycraft, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4788-7041-8. Ages 8–14. This assortment of poems compiles haunting works from up to date authors and illustrations from Ontiveros.

Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Tales

Ed. by Yamile Saied Méndez and Amparo Ortiz, illus. by Ricardo López Ortiz. Algonquin, $19.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-64375-183-2. Ages 14–18. This anthology of brief tales encompasses a spread of genres, from horror to romance and extra, that includes mythology and 15 authors from throughout the Latin American diaspora.

The Pug Who Wished to Be a Pumpkin

Bella Swift. Aladdin, $17. 99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-5344-8691-1; paper $7.99 ISBN 978-1-5344-8690-4. Ages 7–10. Peggy and Chloe should conquer their fears to go trick-or-treating within the fifth story in The Pug Who Wished to Be illustrated center grade sequence starring Peggy the pug.