The theme for this week’s Butler Bookshelf is spooky Halloween stories, featuring Monstrous by Jessica Lewis. Lewis tells the haunting tale of 17 year-old Latavia Johnson who is living with her grandmother in Sanctum, Alabama for six weeks before heading to college. Sanctum is a strange town with even stranger residents who treat Latavia as an outsider. One night, Latavia is yanked out of her home into the Red Wood, a forbidden forest on the outskirts of town, and is given up as a human sacrifice to a bygone monster. Latavia will do whatever it takes to survive including becoming a monster herself. For more amazing titles, check out the list below!

Camp Sylvania

Written by Julie Murphy

Published by Harper Collins

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Ham Helsing: Raising the Stakes

Written by Rich Moyer

Published by Penguin Random House

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Hatchet Girls

Written by Diana Rodriguez Wallach

Published by Delacorte Press

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Misfit Mansion

Written by Kay Davault

Published by Simon & Schuster

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Monstrous

Written by Jessica Lewis

Published by Delacorte Press

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The October Witches

Written by Jennifer Claessen

Published by Simon & Schuster

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