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Scary Stories for Youth - Very, Very Scary Chapter Books

9/20/2021

 
  • Shutter, Courtney Alameda, print
  • Five Midnights, Ann Dávila Cardinal, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Darkdeep, Ally Condie & Brendan Reichs, print
  • Winterwood, Shea Ernshaw, print | ebook
  • Hex Hall, Rachel Hawkins, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Name of the Star, Maureen Johnson, print | ebook
  • Horrid, Katrina Leno, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Rot & Ruin, Jonathan Maberry, print
  • Campfire, Shawn Sarles, print
  • The Screaming Staircase, Jonathan Stroud, print | ebook | eaudio
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Scary Stories for Youth - Scary Short Story Collections

9/20/2021

 
  • Out to Get You: 13 Tales of Weirdness and Woe, Josh Allen, print
  • Ghosts, Ghouls and Other Nightmares, Gene Kemp, print
  • One-Minute Scary Stories, Shari Lewis, print
  • The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural, Patricia C. McKissack, print
  • Hush-a-Bye, Jody Lee Mott, print
  • Ask the Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World, Arielle North Olson, print | ebook
  • Hide and Don’t Seek: and Other Very Scary Stories, Anica Mrose Rissi, print
  • Beware!, R.L. Stine, print
  • Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Alvin Schwartz, print | ebook
  • Teeny Tiny Tingly Tales, Nancy Van Laan, print
  • Scary Stories for Sleep-overs, R.C. Welch, print
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Scary Stories for Youth - Middle-of-the-Road Scary

9/20/2021

 
  • Small Spaces, Katherine Arden, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Night Gardener, Jonathan Auxier print | ebook | eaudio
  • That One Spooky Night, Dan Bar-el, print
  • The House with a Clock in Its Walls, John Bellairs, print | ebook
  • Doll Bones, Holly Black, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
  • The Halloween Tree, Ray Bradbury, print | eaudio
  • The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding, Alexandra Bracken, print
  • The Weirn Books: Be Wary of the Silent Woods, Svetlana Chmakova, print
  • The Boggart, Susan Cooper, print | eaudio
  • The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs, Cynthia DeFelice, print
  • Watch Hollow, Gregory Funaro, print | eaudio
  • Ghost Knight, Cornelia Funke, print | audio | eaudio 
  • Coraline, Neil Gaiman, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
  • Coraline: the Graphic Novel, Neil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell, print
  • The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman, print | audio | ebook | eaudio | eaudio
  • The Graveyard Book: the Graphic Novel, Neil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell, vol 1 print | vol 2 print 
  • The Crossroads, Chris Grabenstein, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall, Mary Downing Hahn, print | ebook
  • The Girl in the Locked Room, Mary Downing Hahn, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Apocalypse Taco, Nathan Hale, print | ebook
  • Hide and Seeker, Daka Hermon, print
  • Can You Survive an Alien Invasion?, B.A. Hoena, print
  • The Last Halloween, Abby Howard, print
  • The List of Unspeakable Fears, J. Kasper Kramer, coming soon
  • Whispering Pines, Heidi Lang, print
  • The Stitchers (Fright Watch series), Lorien Lawrence, print
  • Billy Bones, Christopher Lincoln, print
  • Thirteens, Kate Alice Marshall, print
  • Spirit Hunters, Ellen Oh, print | ebook
  • The Nest, Kenneth Oppel, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
  • City of Ghosts, Victoria Schwab, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Can You Survive a Zombie Apocalypse?, Anthony Wacholtz, print
  • Nightbooks, J.A. White, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
  • The Ghosts of Mercy Manor, Betty Ren Wright, print
  • The Monstrumologist, Rick Yancey, print
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Scary Stories for Youth - Fun & Scary

9/20/2021

 
  • A Very Scary Ghost Story, Joanne Barkan, print
  • Beneath the Bed and Other Scary Stories, Max Brallier, print | ebook
  • Shadow in the Woods and Other Scary Stories, Max Brallier, print | ebook
  • A Small Zombie Problem, K.G. Campbell, print
  • Witches of Brooklyn, Sophie Escabasse, print | ebook
  • Scary Stories for Young Foxes, Christian McKay Heidicker, print | playaway | ebook | eaudio 
  • Scary Stories for Young Foxes: The City, Christian McKay Heidicker, print
  • Bunnicula (series), Deborah & James Howe, print | audiobook | ebook | eaudio
  • Beetle & the Hollowbones, Aliza Layne, print | ebook
  • The Spooky Box, Mark Gonyea, print
  • Edgar & Ellen (series), Charles Ogden, print
  • Creepy Carrots!, Aaron Reynolds, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Creepy Pair of Underwear!, Aaron Reynolds, print | ebook
  • The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter, Aaron Reynolds, print
  • The Dark, Lemony Snicket, print
  • Scaredy Squirrel (series), Melanie Watt, print | ebook
  • Dust & Grim, Chuck Wendig, coming in October
  • Leonardo the Terrible Monster, Mo Willems, print
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We Remember September 11 - Kids & Teens

8/16/2021

 
Children's:
  • Nine, Ten: a September 11 Story, Nora Raleigh Baskin, print | audio | ebook | eaudio 
  • America Is Under Attack, Don Brown, print
  • Cows for America, Carmen Agra Deedy, print
  • The Breadwinner Trilogy, Deborah Ellis, print | ebook
  • Saved by the Boats: the Heroic Sea Evacuation of September 11, Julie Gassman, print
  • Ground Zero, Alan Gratz, print | ebook
  • Fireboat: the Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey, Maira Kalman, print
  • Messages to Ground Zero, Shelley Harwayne, print
  • A Nation Challenged, ed. Nancy Lee, et al., print
  • What Were the Twin Towers?, Jim O’Connor, print | ebook
  • Towers Falling, Jewell Parker Rhodes, print | ebook
  • This Very Tree: a Story of 9/11, Resilience, and Regrowth, Sean Rubin, print
  • I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001, Lauren Tarshis, print | ebook
  • Nasreen’s Secret School, Jeanette Winter, print
Teen:
  • In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers, Don Brown, print
  • Hope and Other Punchlines, Julie Buxbaum, print
  • An Emotion of Great Delight, Tahereh Mafi, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Memory of Things, Gae Polisner, print
Adult books that may be appropriate for children and teens:
  • American Heroes, print
  • Understanding September 11, Mitch Frank, print
  • New York September 11, print
  • 9-11: A Tribute, print
Download this list (PDF).
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Celebrate Pride: Young Adult Books

6/7/2021

 
  • Kate in Waiting, Becky Albertalli, print | ebook
  • Cinderella is Dead, Kalynn Bayron, print | ebook
  • A Queer History of the United States for Young People, Michael Bronski, print | ebook
  • Felix Ever After, Kacen Callender, print | ebook | eaudio
  • This Book Is Gay, Juno Dawson, print | ebook | eaudio
  • I Wish You All the Best, Mason Deaver, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The New Queer Conscience, Adam Eli, print | ebook
  • Seeing Gender, Iris Gottlieb, print 
  • You Should See Me in a Crown, Leah Johnson, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Let's Talk About Love, Claire Kann, print 
  • Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out, Susan Kuklin, print | ebook
  • I'll Be the One, Lyla Lee,bprint | ebook
  • Boy Meets Boy, David Levithan, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Stay Gold, Tobly McSmith, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Miss Meteor, Tehlor Kay Mejia & Anna-Marie McLemore, print
  • Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World, Sarah Prager, print
  • Late to the Party, Kelly Quindlen, print 
  • Camp, L.C. Rosen, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Can't Take That Away, Steven Salvatore, print | ebook
  • Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, Mario Tamaki & Rosemary Vallero-O'Connell, print | ebook
  • Honor Girl, Maggie Thrash, print
  • The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, print | ebook
  • Beyond the Gender Binary, Alok Vaid-Menon, print | ebook
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Illustrated Books

6/3/2021

 
​These picks from throughout the library could help you earn the Peacock Badge for this year's Summer Reading Challenge on Beanstack!
  • Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio, Derf Backderf, print | ebook
  • The Madman’s Library, Edward Brooke-Hitching, print
  • Solutions and Other Problems, Allie Brosh, print | ebook
  • Love, the Tiger, Frederic Brremaud & Federico Bertolucci, print
  • BTTM FDRS, Ezra Claytan Daniels & Ben Passmore, print
  • Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record, Errol Fuller, print
  • Audubon: On the Wings of the World, Fabien Grolleau & Jérémie Royer, print
  • The Art of Drag, Jake Hall et al, print
  • Unlikely Friendships, Jennifer S. Holland, print | ebook
  • The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, Charlie Mackesy, print | ebook
  • Natural Wonders of the World, ed. Peter Frances, print
  • Oak Flat, Lauren Redniss, print | ebook
  • My Boyfriend Is a Bear, Pamela Ribon & Cat Ferris, print
  • This Book is Literally Just Pictures of Cute Animals that Will Make You Feel Better, print
  • Slaughterhouse-five, adapted by Ryan North, print
  • The Contradictions, Sophie Yanow, print
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Lester's Tales: Teen Tales

6/1/2021

 
  • The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
  • Tales of the Madman Underground: a Historical Romance, John Barnes, print
  • Lies Beneath, Anne Greenwood Brown, print
  • Through the Woods: Stories, Emily Carroll, print
  • All That I Can Fix, Crystal Chan, print
  • House of Dragons, Jessica Cluess, print
  • Little & Lion, Brandy Colbert, print | audio
  • Trickster: Native American Tales, Matt Dembicki, print
  • Deep Blue, Jennifer Donnelly, print | ebook | eaudio 
  • UnEnchanted: An Unfortunate Fairy Tale, Chanda Hahn, print
  • The Underdogs, Sara Hammel, print
  • Seraphina, Rachel Hartman, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Ginger Kid: Mostly True Tales from a Former Nerd, Steve Hofstetter, print
  • Talon, Julie Kagawa, print | ebook | eaudio
  • A Song Below Water, Bethany C. Morrow, print
  • Fireborne, Rosaria Munda, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Rest of Us Just Live Here, Patrick Ness, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Blazewrath Games, Amparo Ortiz, print
  • East, Edith Pattou, print | ebook
  • The Scorpio Races, Maggie Stiefvater, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, print | ebook
  • Once Upon a Time: Red’s Untold Tale, Wendy Toliver, print
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Grief & Loss for teens

5/12/2021

 
  • The Way Back to You, Michelle Andreani & Mindi Scott, print 
  • There Will Come a Time, Carrie Arcos, print
  • The Thing about Jellyfish, Ali Benjamin, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
  • The Meaning of Birds, Jaye Robin Brown, print 
  • Tyler Johnson Was Here, Jay Coles, print
  • Summerlost, Ally Condie, print | ebook | eaudio
  • There Is No Good Card for This, Kelsey Crowe & Emily McDowell, print 
  • Untwine, Edwidge Danticat, print
  • Love Letters to the Dead, Ava Dellaira, print | ebook
  • It’s OK that You’re Not OK, Megan Devine, print 
  • Dancing at the Pity Party, Tyler Feder, print | ebook 
  • The Great American Whatever, Tim Federle, print | audio | ebook
  • Sorry for Your Loss, Jessie Ann Foley, print
  • Breathe, Annie, Breathe, Miranda Kenneally, print | ebook
  • We Are Okay, Nina LaCour, print | audio | ebook | eaudio  
  • Imagine Wanting Only This, Kristen Radtke, print 
  • The Truth Is, NoNieqa Ramos, print | ebook
  • The Boy in the Black Suit, Jason Reynolds, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Long Way Down, Jason Reynolds, print | ebook | eaudio 
  • Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel, Jason Reynolds & Danica Novgorodoff, print | ebook
  • Opposite of Always, Justin A. Reynolds, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Way Home Looks Now, Wendy Wan-Long Shang, print | ebook
  • History Is All You Left Me, Adam Silvera, print | ebook 
  • Grief Girl, Erin Vincent, print | ebook  
  • After Life: Ways We Think About Death, Merrie-Ellen Wilcox, print 
  • The Beauty that Remains, Ashley Woodfolk, print | ebook 
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A handful of these books come from the children's or adult shelves. Every teen is different, and we encourage them to explore hard topics at any level they choose.

Mental Health

5/10/2021

 
  • Camouflage: The Hidden Lives of Autistic Women, Sarah Bargiela & Sophie Standing, print
  • 52 Small Changes for the Mind, Brett Blumenthal, print | ebook
  • Permission to Feel, Marc A. Brackett, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Life Inside My Mind, ed. Jessica Burkhart, print
  • The Emotional Life of Your Brain, Richard J. Davidson and Sharon Begley, print | ebook
  • Being Me with OCD, Alison Dotson, print
  • Notes on a Nervous Planet, Matt Haig, print
  • Reasons to Stay Alive, Matt Haig, print | ebook
  • ADHD 2.0, Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey, print
  • I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying, Bassey Ikpi, print | eaudio
  • Everything Is an Emergency, Jason Adam Katzenstein, print
  • The Hilarious World of Depression, John Moe, print | eaudio
  • Are u ok? A Guide to Caring for Your Mental Health, Kati Morton, print
  • Take Control of Your Depression, Susan J. Noonan, print
  • Look Me in the Eye, John Elder Robison, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Everything Isn’t Terrible, Kathleen Smith, print
  • The Noonday Demon, Andrew Solomon, print
  • Beyond the Baby Blues, Rebecca Fox Starr, print
  • My Anxious Mind: A Teen’s Guide to Managing Anxiety and Panic, Michael A. Tompkins & Katherine Martinez, print
  • How Not to Fall Apart, Maggy van Eijk, print
  • Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So, Mark Vonnegut, print
  • The Collected Schizophrenias, Esme Weijun Wang, print | ebook
  • First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, Sarah Wilson, print | eaudio
  • Emotional First Aid, Guy Winch, print | ebook
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    Booklists and reading suggestions from the team at Monroe Public Library.

    After each title, you'll find links to reserve these items on LINKcat and Wisconsin's Digital Library. In many cases, you can choose from print, large print, audio CD, and Playaway, or ebooks and eaudiobooks.

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    Titles with an asterisk * are available as ebooks and titles with an ª are available as digital audiobooks on Wisconsin's Digital Library.
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