Scary Book Reviews
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It Creeps!
Dotti Enderle (2009), 80 pages
Illustrated by Howard McWilliam
Audience: 2nd Grade - 4th Grade
When Malcom finally gets the Exto-Handheld-Automatic-Heat-Sensitive-Laser-Enhanced Specter Detector he ordered from a science magazine, he can't wait to use it. He and his best friend, Dandy, plan to visit the Freaky McBleaky house after dark to test it out, but will Grandma Eunice's story about the brothers who used to live there make them loose their nerve? Find out in 'It Creeps!' Book 1 in the Ghost Detectors series.
Book Series: Ghost Detectors
Reviewed by: caroll
Date read: 10/12/2010
ISBN-10: 1602706905
ISBN-13: 9781602706903
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Living with Vampires
Jeremy Strong (2000), 58 pages
Illustrated by Scoular Anderson
Audience: 3rd Grade - 6th Grade
Every hundred years a human is born to vampires. Kevin Vlad is that one human child. Will Kevin deal with the embarrassment of his parents at a school dance for a chance with Miranda? Why does everyone end up screaming?
Reviewed by: rn
Date read: 10/30/2009
ISBN-10: 1902260678
ISBN-13: 9781902260679
Newbery Halloween : A Dozen Scary Stories
Martin H. Greenberg (1993), 208 pages
Illustrated by Charles G. Waugh
Audience: 3rd Grade - 8th Grade
This collection contains a great variety of Halloween tales from Newbery Award-winning authors. Read The Baddest Witch in the World by Beverly Cleary, or The Ghost in the Attic by Eleanor Estes, for some fun and heartwarming tales. If you are interested in a little bit scarier tale, follow Lynn and Mouse as they rid a witch by casting a spell of their own in Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's, The Witches Eye.
Reviewed by: sc
Date read: 4/14/2009
ISBN-10: 0385310285
ISBN-13: 9780385310284
The short stories in this book are not just your run of the mill scary stories. Some stories are thought provoking while other stories will touch your heart. Other titles in the series to enjoy: Nighttime: Too Scared to Sleep and Nighttime: Too Dark to See.
Reviewed by: jb
Date read: 10/21/2009
ISBN-10: 0545124751
ISBN-13: 9780545124751
Diana and her little brother Georgie have been living in the woods behind the old Willis place, a decaying Victorian mansion, for what already seems like forever. They are bound by a set of rules, such as not being allowed to leave the property or show themselves to anyone. When a new caretaker comes to live there with his young daughter, Diana is tempted to break the mysterious rules so she can finally have a friend. But Georgie keeps reminding her about the rules' and YOU CAN'T BREAK THE RULES!!!
Reviewed by: sc
Date read: 4/28/2009
ISBN-10: 0618430180
ISBN-13: 9780618430185
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