From: Nancy Silverrod <nsilverrod>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:45:28 -0700

For the very young, I've always liked Mercer Mayer's "There's a Nightmare in My Closet" and the sequel, "There's an Alligator Under My Bed."

 

Edgar Allan Poe is always a good choice for upper elementary and middle school, along with Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

 

I can't remember if anyone mentioned Patricia McKissack's "The Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural," and James Haskins' The Headless Haunt and Other African-American Ghost Stories."

 

And there's an interesting ghost story for teens that just came out: "A Certain Slant of Light" by Laura Whitcomb. Not exactly scary, but eerie and thought-provoking.

 

 

Nancy Silverrod, Librarian

San Francisco Public Library

100 Larkin St.

San Francisco, CA 94102

415-557-4417

nsilverrod at sfpl.org

 

 

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. -James Russell Lowell, poet, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891)

 
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