It's Spooky Season, Mustangs! Check out some scary books/movies available at McFarland, find costume inspo, or take a break with some spooky season stress-busters and celebration suggestions.
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Take a break and and click on the links below to celebrate the season!
Coloring Pages:
Virtual Escape Room:
Hogwarts Virtual Escape Room (Krawiec, 2020)
Ideas for Celebrating Halloween:
Ways to Celebrate Halloween (Kletter, 2020)
Historical Costume Ideas (lsimon, 2020)
NYT article "Literary Inspiration for a Sad Covid Halloween at Home" (Olien, 2020)
Call #: PS3561.I483 N4 1991
Summary: The town of Castle Rock, Maine has seen its fair share of oddities over the years, but nothing is a peculiar as the little curio shop that's just opened for business. Its mysterious proprietor, Leland Gaunt, seems to have something for everyone out on display at Needful Things.. interesting items that run the gamut from worthless to priceless. Nothing has a price tag in this place, but everything is certainly for sale. The heart's desire for any resident of Castle Rock can easily be found among the curiosities... in exchange for a little money and -- at the specific request of Leland Gaunt -- a whole lot of menace against their fellow neighbors. Everyone in town seems willing to make a deal at Needful Things, but the devil is in the details. And no one takes heed of the little sign hanging on the wall: Caveat emptor
Call #: PS 3552.U827 F47 2005
Summary: Fledgling, Octavia Butler's new novel after a seven year break, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly inhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted - and still wants - to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself. Fledgling is a captivating novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human (summary source: goodreads.com)
Call #: PR 6037.T617 D7 2003
Summary: The novel narrates the story of Dracula, who attempts to move from Transylvania and go to England to find some new blood and try to spread the curse of the undead. It also tells the story of the fight between Dracula and a group of men and women who had Professor Abraham Van Helsing as their leader. The text of Dracula is made of diary entries, telegrams, letters, journal and newspaper clippings (summary source: booksummary.net)
Call #: JUV 398.25 SCH
Summary: More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, "jump" stories and scary songs.
Call #: PS 2612 .A3 1986
Call #: PS 3503.R167 S66 1983
Summary: For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin. Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. A calliope’s shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. Two boys will discover the secret of its smoke, mazes, and mirrors; two friends who will soon know all too well the heavy cost of wishes…and the stuff of nightmares. (summary source: goodreads.com)
Call #: PS 3613.E979 T95 2006
Summary: When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
Call #: PS 3606.R37523 P35 2010
Summary: Palo Alto is the debut of a surprising and powerful new literary voice. Written with an immediate sense of place--claustrophobic and ominous--James Franco's collection traces the lives of an extended group of teenagers as they experiment with vices of all kinds, struggle with their families and one another, and succumb to self-destructive, often heartless nihilism. In "Lockheed" a young woman's summer--spent working a dull internship--is suddenly upended by a spectacular incident of violence at a house party. In "American History" a high school freshman attempts to impress a girl during a classroom skit with a realistic portrayal of a slave owner—only to have his feigned bigotry avenged. In "I Could Kill Someone," a lonely teenager buys a gun with the aim of killing his high school tormentor, but begins to wonder about his bully's own inner life. (summary source: goodreads.com)
