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21) Boo!
Author
Publisher
Flying Eye Books, an imprint of Nobrow Ltd
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Scared you! This little mouse thinks he's the bravest animal around, but it seems that he's not the only one ... All the animals are keen to show off their bravery from the crocodile with his mighty jaws, to the tiger with her scary claws! But who will be the bravest of them all?
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Kids have big feelings, but none of their feelings are too big for God. In this picture book from licensed counselor Michelle Nietert and Tama Fortner, young readers will explore what it means to feel scared and discover how to manage their emotions in a healthy way. Scared is a feeling that can be hard, but if we listen to it, we can learn things about ourselves. In God, I Feel Scared, kids discover that it's okay to be scared and that God is with...
25) The dark
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Co
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Laszlo is afraid of the dark which lives in the same big, creaky house as him, until one night the dark pays him a visit.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"There are new things in Friday's house: a new bed, a new bowl, a new toy mouse. There are new smells and new noises, too. Friday is scared. What do these things mean? Is it a monster...or could it be a new little sister?"--
27) Cabin fever
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Middle-schooler Greg Heffley is the prime suspect when it is discovered that school property has been damaged, but when a surprise blizzard hits and school is closed, Greg is stuck indoors with his family, unable to prove his innocence.
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Immediate, user-friendly, and effective strategies designed to help you overcome the physical, mental, and emotional symptoms of anxiety. Includes step-by-step exercises that you can do in the moment without having to understand the subtleties of the most often used therapies for treating anxiety.
32) Creepy carrots!
Author
Series
Jasper Rabbit volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The carrots that grow in Crackenhopper Field are the fattest and crispiest around and Jasper Rabbit cannot resist pulling some to eat each time he passes by, until he begins hearing and seeing creepy carrots wherever he goes.
33) Maya
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The electricity in Maya's house has gone out again. Worse, she is afraid of the dark -- and her fear has been even worse since her father died. Now it feels as if the darkness will never go away. Mayas mother distracts her with a legend about the banyan tree, which saved the world from the first monsoon by drinking up the floodwaters, and growing tall and strong. Later that night, unsettled by the noises around her, Maya revisits the story in her...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Monster may think he wants to be in a scary story, but then again . . . A hilarious return by the team that brought us Hoot Owl, Master of Disguise. Our author would like to write a funny story, but his main character -- Monster -- has a different idea. He wants to be the star of a chilling, petrifying, utterly terrifying SCARY story. But scary stories . . . well, they can be very scary -- especially for their characters! Particularly when they involve...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Farnoosh Torabi is familiar with fear. Growing up in the 1980s as the daughter of Iranian immigrants, she was warned to proceed with caution and play it safe. She spent her childhood immersed in fear-of rejection, loneliness, missed opportunities, and falling short of her potential. Of course, now her mother says, "It all worked out, didn't it?" Funnily enough, it did. Farnoosh came to the realization that fear never limited her. Instead, it has...
36) Pearl
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie Josh Malerman comes the legend of a strange new monster unlike any other in horror. There's something strange about Walter Kopple's farm. At first it seems to be his grandson, who cruelly murders one of Walter's pigs in an act of seemingly senseless violence. But then the rumors begin--people in town whisper that Walter's grandson heard a voice that commanded him to kill. And that...
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