# Tales from Cabin 23: The Boo Hag Flex

**Author:** Justina Ireland
**Grade range:** Grades 3–6
**Age range:** 8–12
**First published:** 2024
**Page count:** 141
**Genre:** Horror
**ISBN-13:** `9780063287839`
**ISBN-10:** `0063287838`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/tales-from-cabin-23-the-boo-hag-flex
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

At Camp Apple Hill Farm, few campers have found the mysterious hidden Cabin 23 — or heard the chilling stories told there. Justina Ireland opens a spooky middle-grade anthology series drawing on Black folklore, including the Boo Hag. Selected for the 2025-2026 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List (grades 3-6), chosen annually by the Texas Library Association.

## Themes

- folklore
- fear
- storytelling

## Content notes

- scary scenes

## 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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