I don't know what it was called or if this book was even real, but I read it when i was 8-9 years old and I'm assuming I just got it randomly from the kid's section, someone probably put it there by mistake. I remember an edgy looking female goth with white-out eyes on the cover, half her face was a skeleton. The book was just a bunch of short stories, but they were disturbing as hell. TW cause it's probably not a children's book and I probably shouldn't have read this as a child.

>!Graphic depictions of someone disemboweling themselves and playing with their guts as they die, a girl who was too caught up in trying to look pretty that she cut her own lips off, one story where someone attempted to suffocate themselves by peeing into a toilet bowl full of bleach--I'm pretty sure I learned that peeing in bleach releases a toxic gas in this book--and one story about a glowing cat and fireflies.!<

This book literally haunts me lmao. I want to find it again just to prove to myself that I didn't hallucinate it. If anyone knows the book, I would very much like to know. It's probably this book's fault I like horror now as an adult.

Another one was Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix. There were laws against having more than two child per family and this family hid an extra kid under their house. Read the first book in middle school and couldn't stop reading the rest.