Halloween Audiobooks: Listens for the Spooky Season
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Penguin Random House Audio
The weather is finally cooling down and there’s candy abound as everyone gears up for Halloween! We’ve got perfect listens for young ghosts and ghouls to enjoy as they decorate, carve pumpkins, and prepare for trick-or-treat madness. Enjoy these audiobooks for kids of all ages. Happy haunting!
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Magic Tree House: A Good Night for Ghosts
The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time brings history to life with a fantastic twist - all read by the author herself, the beloved Mary Pope Osborne. In A Good Night for Ghosts, Jack and Annie meet some real ghosts - and a young Louis Armstrong - in New Orleans as they complete a quest for Merlin. Looking for more spooky audiobooks in the Magic Tree House universe? Haunted Castle on Hallows Eve finds the pair on a frightening adventure in Camelot, while Mummies in the Morning takes them to ancient Egypt.
(Ages 7-10; available in digital download)
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Amelia Fang and the Barbaric Ball
Vampire girl Amelia Fang would rather hang out with her pet pumpkin Squashy and her friends Florence the yeti and Grimaldi the reaper than attend her parents' Barbaric Ball. But when the King of Nocturnia's son captures Squashy, Amelia and her friends have to plan a daring rescue - and realize things in their world may not be what they seem. This middle grade series is perfect for reluctant listeners, and is brimming with dark details about a place in which darkness reigns supreme, glitter is terrifying, and unicorns are the stuff of nightmares.
(Ages 7-10; available in digital download)
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A Small Zombie Problem
When a zombie follows August DuPont home from school, he is confronted by a number of small problems: a wild child, a white alligator, an unimaginable family secret… and the zombie, of course. K. G. Campbell colors this strange and wonderful story with a touch of Tim Burton - perfect for young readers just starting to explore spooky stories.
(Ages 8-12; available in digital download)
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Nightmares!
When Charlie's dad marries a woman he's pretty sure is actually a witch, they move into her creepy mansion - and Charlie's nightmares start coming to life. Jason Segel reads this trilogy about facing your fears with the help of your friends. A welcome message year-round.
(Ages 8-12; available in retail CD & digital download)
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A Tale Dark and Grimm
Grim, Grimmer, Grimmest podcaster and author of the Newbery Medal-winning The Inquisitor’s Tale, Adam Gidwitz, opens a beloved trilogy in which Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into other classic Grimm and Grimm-inspired fairy tales. Gidwitz serves as narrator for this madcap journey through a forest brimming with menacing foes, as well as for its sequels, In a Glass Grimmly and The Grimm Conclusion.
(Ages 10 & up; available in digital download)
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
A golden oldie, Harry Potter is plenty spooky on its own - with trolls, terrifying potions masters, and Harry's mysterious destiny to chase after. But Jim Dale's narration brings this tale of a young boy battling - and vanquishing - the darkest wizard in a generation to the next level, with hundreds of different voices over the course of the series. The perfect listen to keep young witches and wizards busy while carving pumpkins or getting ready to go trick-or-treating!
(Ages 10 & up; available in retail CD & digital download)
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Stranger Things: Runaway Max
Hawkins, Indiana is full of strange things and odd phenomena - it's a lot for new girl Max Mayfield to adjust to when she moves there from sunny California. But when she befriends classmates and fellow Dig Dug gamers Mike, Dustin, Lucas, and Will, her world turns upside down.
(Ages 12 & up; available in digital download)
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Inspired by found photography of freak shows and other turn-of-the-century oddities, this series introduces readers to the hidden world of the Peculiars: people with extraordinary talents like flight, invisibility, and preternatural command of bees. Those with special abilities are being hunted by Wights, former Peculiars themselves who consume Peculiars in a quest for immortality. This delightfully spooky story has more in store this winter - with the fifth book in the series coming January 2020!
(Ages 13 & up; available in retail CD & digital download)
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One of Us Is Lying
Five students walk into Monday afternoon detention. Only four come out - and the fifth, Simon, had planned to post juicy reveals about the other four on their high school's notorious gossip app. Are these four students guilty of murder? Or are they a convenient scapegoat for a killer who remains at large? The first in a series optioned by E! for development on NBC's streaming network, this mystery is perfect for fans of The Breakfast Club and Pretty Little Liars.
(Ages 14 & up; available in digital download)
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The Haunted
Moving to the tiny town of Drearfield, New York is supposed to give Henricks Becker-O'Malley the clean slate she desperately needs. But the house her family has moved to is notoriously haunted, and Hendricks can't tell if it's haunted by the demons of her past … or the demons of the present.
(Ages 14 & up; available in digital download)
