Check It Out: Top 15 Spooky Titles on LightSail

The Check It Out series highlights the most popular texts on LightSail based on our user data. Every month we’ll share which books LightSail readers can’t stop checking out. These insights helps us curate book lists for our schools that we know will keep students engaged and growing.

With Halloween approaching and the weather getting chilly, there’s nothing better than curling up with a spooky book – besides, of course, getting free candy. Lately, LightSail students across the country are loving books about monsters, mummies, witches, aliens, and other wonderfully creepy topics appropriate for the season.

At LightSail, we love data so much it’s scary. And because LightSail tracks all kinds of student reading behaviors, from how long a student actively reads to which books are checked out most frequently, we’re able to share exactly which titles students like best.

Check out the top 15 most popular spooky titles on LightSail:

Title	Checkouts	Lexile	# of pages
1. All About Bats	792	260L	12
2. All About Spiders	608	240L	9
3. Hansel and Gretel	524	490L	12
4. Zombies!	298	110L	69
5. Aliens for Breakfast	265	420L	36
6. Aliens for Lunch	226	510L	36
7. Ghost Mountain	222	150L	73
8. Blood of the Witch	204	730L	128
9. Ghosts	178	750L	81
10. Flesh of the Zombie	164	760L	130
11. Ghost Wolf	126	400L	31
12. Frankenstein	110	650L	65
13. Fang of the Vampire	108	700L	145
14. A Haunted House	102	1060L	8
15. A Ghost Named Wanda	77	570L	29

With books at a variety of Lexiles and lengths, these top texts reflect readers across all interests and levels. The list also contains a good mix of nonfiction (All About Bats), Classics (Hansel and Gretel), humor (A Ghost Named Wanda), and scary series (numbers 8, 10 ,and 13 are part of Tommy Donbavand’s Scream Street series).

What Halloween-themed books are your students loving lately? Share with us on Facebook and Twitter using #spookybooks.