We had the library ghost visit our library throughout the month of October and leave clues for Halloween or mystery books we enjoy in our library.
We started the month out by reading to our classes the book “The library Ghost” by Carole Boston Weatherford. We told our students that the library ghost would be visiting our library and leaving clues for them to find. The clues would give them hints about a particular book and if they could tell us the title of the book from the clues they would get a Halloween treat bag. We choose mystery books for the older grades such as “Dollhouse Murders” or “Wait till Helen Comes” and for the younger grades “Scary, Scary Halloween” or “Hallo-wiener.”
The students had to work alone, they couldn’t ask anyone but they could use the computer and they had to give us there guess before they left the library. If someone guessed the title of the book we would choose another book and put out more clues for that book. We then displayed the book that had been guessed along with the clues, in hopes that it would spark some excitement to read that book. It worked!! The kids seemed to really enjoy this.
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