Summer is over and fall is finally here, which means it’s time to take full advantage of these fleeting days of cooler weather. The New Orleans Public Library has tons of great ways to make the most of the season, including these fun fall reads:

Children

With sliding-tab surprises, Jump in the Leaf Pile by Kelly Green & Kasia Nowowiejska is a lively board book that invites young readers to celebrate fall’s vibrant colors by raking, running, dancing, playing, and jumping in the leaves.

In Fall Parade by Camelia Kay & Allyn Howard, little ones are invited to follow Daddy and Baby Fox as they welcome a festive parade of autumn fun, with falling leaves, shiny red apples, acorns, and all their beloved friends.

Get excited for trick-or-treating alongside two siblings in Halloween Night! by Candice Ransom as they quickly put on their costumes and participate in a fun-filled night of silly scares, a parade and lots and lots of candy. 

Middle Grade

When tickets for the Fall Festival go missing, the pie-eating contest is sabotaged and a suspiciously large pumpkin shows up, Math Mysteries: The Fall Festival Fiasco’s Prime Detectives—Abby, Cam, and Gabriel—use geometry and logic to do the math and discover the truth in this charming mystery by Aaron Starmer & Marta Kissi.

Give Me Something Good to Eat by D. W. Gillespie takes place in Pearl, a town obsessed with Halloween: the spooky decorations, the costumes, the candy. But, no one seems to notice that every October 31st, a kid goes missing – except for Mason Miller.

When Mason’s sister, Meg, vanishes while they’re trick-or-treating, Mason and his friends are pulled into an underworld where monsters roam the streets.

In A Bite Above the Rest by Christine Virnig, every day is Halloween in Samhain, Wisconsin, where new kid Caleb is having a hard time adjusting. Outcast at school because he doesn’t like Halloween, but as things get even weirder, he’s the only one who realizes danger is brewing and must save a town that doesn’t want saving. 

Teen

Following the murder of their leader and friend, a tight-knit coven of queer teens takes on a wish-granting demon lurking in their town in Freddie Kölsch’s YA paranormal mystery Now, Conjurers.

An Outbreak of Witchcraft: a Graphic Novel of the Salem Witch Trials by Deborah Moyes & Melissa Duffy takes a spellbinding narrative straight from history. The book transports readers back to 1692 when fear reigned in Salem, Massachusetts, as widespread panic, mistrust, and false accusations led to one of the longest witchcraft trials in America, which cost more than 20 innocent lives.

Malicia by Steven Dos Santos follows Ray and his best friends Joaquin, Sofia, and Isabella on a stormy Halloween weekend of documentary-making at Malicia, the abandoned theme park off the coast of the Dominican Republic where his mother and brother died in a mass killing 13 years ago. But what should be an easy weekend trip quickly turns into something darker.