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The days are getting shorter. The temperature is cooling off. Football is on the TV. We’ve entered the BER months! For families, the BER months mean scouts, fall sports, dance classes, holidays, chili cook-offs, festivals, and family traditions! For library life, October means cardigans, pumpkins, and of course, Halloween!

October is the perfect time to embrace a little fright, and what better way to get into the Halloween spirit than with a scary story? What makes a book scary? Maybe it’s a creepy story that you couldn’t put down, or one you had to put down because it was too scary. Maybe a particular scene stayed with you long after you finished the book, or maybe you read something as a child (or as an adult!) that made you think twice about turning off the lights at bedtime. We asked our library staff to...

Reading anxiety can affect readers of all ages. For school-aged readers, many are worried about reading fluently, others are worried about pronouncing words correctly, and some students worry about losing concentration while reading; even simple mistakes, such as skipping a line in the text, can be flustering. Reading aloud compounds these issues. What is that old saying? Practice makes perfect? Practicing reading is not especially fun if you struggle with any type of reading anxiety, but...