I would understand this except that Ethan has physically hurt both Brittany and her best friend Molly before, giving them bruises and making them bleed every time he's previously visited. But Brittany's parents are apparently the only ones who can take him in and all they tell her is that she has to be the adult between the two of them. I couldn't even figure out an undertone of why they had left. I understand that Ethan is in need of a place to stay but the only reason we're given is that his parents have gone away for awhile and don't know when they'll be back. However, this time around it was bordering on emotional abuse. It was Ethan using the unawakened Slappy doll for pranks until the very end.Īs almost always in Goosebumps books the parents are frustrating. And Slappy wasn't even the actual antagonist until the last few chapters of that first part. The first and majority part of this book didn't take place in Horrorland and, while I understand the importance of setting up the plot, I felt it took a little too long. So I'm going to give the next book a shot in hopes it's more. Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history.

Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences.

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