Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep
9 best books like Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep (Jack Prelutsky): Guts, The Unteachables, Bunnicula, More Tales to Chill Your Bones, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have), More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Pinkerton, Behave!, Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen
Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes...
| Author | Gordon Korman |
| ISBN | 0062563912 |
What happens when the worst class of kids in school is paired with the worst teacher?
The Unteachables are a notorious class of misfits, delinquents, and academic train wrecks. Like Aldo, with anger management issues; Parker, who can’t read; Kiana, who doesn’t even belong in the class—or...
| Author | James Howe |
| ISBN | 1416928170 |
(This review is from 2004.)
Since it’s Halloween, I thought I’d talk about something frightening: Bunnies. Vampire bunnies. Ninja vampire bunnies. Okay, so, maybe not that ninja part. But definitely vampire bunnies—one in particular.
So, my roommate (Mr. “I’m not...
More Tales to Chill Your Bones
| Author | Alvin Schwartz |
| ISBN | 0439518326 |
Storytellers know — just as they have for hundreds and hundreds of years — that everyone enjoys a good, scary story!
Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories 3 joins his other popular collections of scary folklore, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark and More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, to give...
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
| Author | Alvin Schwartz |
| ISBN | 0590431978 |
This spooky addition to Alvin Schwartz's popular books on American folklore is filled with tales of eerie horror and dark revenge that will make you jump with fright.
There is a story here for everyone—skeletons with torn and tangled flesh who roam the earth; a ghost who takes revenge on her...
Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have)
| Author | Sarah Mlynowski |
| ISBN | 0061701246 |
2 girls + 3 guys + 1 house - parents = 10 things April and her friends did that they (definitely, maybe, probably) shouldn't have. If given the opportunity, what sixteen-year-old wouldn't jump at the chance to move in with a friend and live parent-free? Although maybe "opportunity" isn't the right word,...
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
| Author | Alvin Schwartz |
| ISBN | 0397320825 |
All those who enjoyed shuddering their way through Alvin Schwartz's first volume of Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark will find a satisfyingly spooky sequel in this new collection of the macabre, the funny, and the fantastic.Is it possible to die -- and not know it? What if a person is buried too soon? What...
| Author | Steven Kellogg |
| ISBN | 0803727224 |
Pinkerton, Behave, by Steven Kellogg is about a dog named Pinkerton, who is trying to be trained by his owners. They take him to a dog school to learn how to fetch and attack a burglar, but he has problems learning these skills. At the end of the book though, a burglar comes to their house and Pinkerton does...
Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen
| Author | Marjorie M. Liu |
| ISBN | 1534313362 |
Maika and Corvin make their way through a warped and lethal land in search of Kippa, who is faced with her own terrible monsters. But when Maika comes face-to-face with a stranger from her deep past, startling truths are uncovered, and at the center of it all lurks a dangerous conspiracy that threatens...
