Start with high-confidence kids: body, mind & spirit books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Ghosts
Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce
Leprechauns and Irish Folklore
What Do We Know About Bigfoot?
Steve Korté
What Do We Know About Crop Circles?
Ben Hubbard
¿qué Sabemos Sobre El Chupacabras?
Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso
What Do We Know About Zombies?
Meg Belviso
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts
Edna Barth
Basher History: Legendary Creatures
Mary Budzik
The Book of Mythical Beasts and Magical Creatures
Stephen Krensky
Bigfoot
Erin Peabody
Zombies
Dragons
The Dragon Atlas
Anna Claybourne
Where Is the Bermuda Triangle?
Megan Stine
The Very Short, Entirely True History of Unicorns
Sarah Laskow