I’m hopeful that young readers will find my chapter books The Blue Ghost and The Red Ghost just spooky enough to be fun—but it turns out that a little bit of spookiness can also be good for them. “When reading a scary book, children know that it’s not real—but at the same time, it allows them to emotionally rehearse how they might feel or behave in a similar situation,” says Rachel Burge in “This Is Why You Should Give Kids Scary Stories to Read” for the HuffPost.