# Scare School Diaries: Welcome to Scare School

**Author:** Jarrett Lerner
**Grade range:** Grades 3–6
**Age range:** 8–12
**First published:** 2024
**Page count:** 73
**Genre:** Early Chapter Book
**ISBN-13:** `9781665922098`
**ISBN-10:** `1665922095`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/scare-school-diaries-welcome-to-scare-school
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Bash is a young ghost who has never been good at scaring anyone, and now he's nervous about his first day at Scare School. Jarrett Lerner's heavily illustrated early-chapter story is a gentle, funny take on first-day jitters. Selected for the 2025-2026 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List (grades 3-6), chosen annually by the Texas Library Association.

## Themes

- first day
- friendship
- confidence
- humor

## Where this book is assigned

### Texas Bluebonnet Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Texas — [source: 2025-2026 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List (Texas Library Association)](https://txla.org/news/2025-2026-texas-bluebonnet-award-list-released/)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Texas — [source: 2025-2026 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List (Texas Library Association)](https://txla.org/news/2025-2026-texas-bluebonnet-award-list-released/)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Texas — [source: 2025-2026 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List (Texas Library Association)](https://txla.org/news/2025-2026-texas-bluebonnet-award-list-released/)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Texas — [source: 2025-2026 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List (Texas Library Association)](https://txla.org/news/2025-2026-texas-bluebonnet-award-list-released/)

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