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The Ghost Next Door (Goosebumps Series) (Paperback)
by R.L. Stine
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Fiction, Scary and horror story, Ages 4-8, Children's books |
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A horrible but truly exciting and interesting story for kids a bout a girl and her mysterious neighbor. |
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Author: R.L. Stine
Publisher: Scholastic
Pub. in: September, 2003
ISBN: 0439568323
Pages: 144
Measurements: 7.7 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BC00178
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The Ghost Next Door is a really exciting book for kids. After Hannah had a bad dream about a fire, her neighborhood got a little weird. She lives in Big Horn, WY. A boy moved in, but she doesn't know when he did. The house looked so deserted the day before. Hannah ponders the boy, Danny, is a ghost because he just keeps disappearing? One day, she arose from bed and went to Danny's house. She played soccer with him. She smashed the soccer ball to him, and he slipped over the ball. Hannah undertook to help him up, but her hand went right through his. Is Hannah a ghost, or is Danny a ghost? I recommend this book to all readers. This book is exciting, interesting, and weird.
Target readers:
Kids aged4-8
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However believable his plots seem to his readers, Stine insists he has never lived one of his stories. "I've never turned into a bee – I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life. For example, one Halloween my son, Matt, put a mask on and then had trouble pulling it off. That gave me the idea for The Haunted Mask."
Although he never experienced terror first hand, he did enjoy reading about it. "When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called Tales From The Crypt and The Vault of Horror. They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous. I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I wouldn't miss any of these comic books. I had no hair at all when I was a kid!"
His ideas came from two sources: his memory and his imagination. "When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books." He also keeps a tribal mask and a skeleton hanging in his writing studio to provide eerie surroundings. Although he handles the writing by himself, Stine says he gets "lots of help from my editors, my readers, and my friends."
Kids reading Goosebumps may be looking for a scare, but the laughs they get are no accident. Before he was R.L., he was Jovial Bob, author of such works as 101 Silly Monster Jokes, and Bozos on Patrol and editor of Bananas magazine. His ability to know what kids will laugh at , as well as what will frighten them, makes the Goosebumps series all the more enjoyable for his readers.
Stine started writing when he was 9 years old! He would write stories and jokes on an old typewriter and hand them out at school. "The teacher would grab them and take them away," Stine says, 'but I kept doing it." He wrote for his high school newspaper in Columbus Ohio. After graduating from Ohio State University, he moved to New York City, where he worked on a variety of writing jobs.
Although his books are fun and exciting, writing them is serious stuff. He treats writing "...like a job." To unwind after work he enjoys playing the pinball machine conveniently located in his own apartment.
For aspiring authors, Stine feels reading is as important as writing. He offers this advice:"If you want to be a writer, don’t worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles. You can learn all kinds of ways to say things." As a boy he read Norse legends, Greek myths, Edgar Allan Poe and baseball stories. "And Mad Magazine changed my life" His favorite thriller? Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury.
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Hannah's boring summer changes when a new boy moves in next door. No big deal right? Well, the problem is that when he moved in she never saw a moving truck, and she lives right next door! When Danny (the new neighbor) moved in, everything got really weird. Every time Hannah talks to him he disappears. To top it all off, a strange shadow figure is following Hannah and knows her name. Can Hannah's new neighbor be the ghost next door?
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A reader, USA
<2006-12-22 00:00>
"Nooooooo!" Hannahs wail echoed in the darkness that surrounded her. Hannah has a very strange and difficult life. Hannah got very frighten when she found out she had next door neighbors without her noticing they moved in one summer day. Hannah family wasn't there so she couldn't talk out her problems with her family about her new next door neighbor. If I were in the character's shoes I would go home and not wander around like Hannah did. I really enjoyed this book because I like the way R.L.Stine used a lot of descriptive words. That helped me understand the book and visualize what was going on. I recommend this book to anyone who likes scary and horror books like this one. |
A reader, USA
<2006-12-22 00:00>
I actually thought the book was so great it's sad (SnifSnifSniff Hey if I'm sniffing like a dog it's not funny sorry) the main character is a girl named Hannah who lives in a town called Greenwood Falls. She's so lonely and her friends haven't been answering her letters. Then one day she runs into a boy named Danny who says he lives in the house next door. But Hannah knows that's impossible because the house was deserted the night before. Danny also disappears really strangely... could Hannah be haunted by a ghost? She thinks so, until she learns, one night, she learns terrifying truth... This book is filled with scary surprises but the ending and everything in a way RL Stine this may sound crazy, but it was beautiful! I almost cried! I love it! U need to pick this book up, u won't be able to blink while reading it! |
A reader, USA
<2006-12-22 00:00>
Gosh! Surprise ending! It's shocking, really, when I found out about the truth. It's pretty sad, though. It's a great book. If there was a Best Kid's Storybooks Awards, I'll say, give The Ghost Next Door a chance. It would certainly win something. If I don't care whether it's horror or not, its point would be 10 out of 10, fantastic! I think all the kids in the world should read this, and they're very lucky. |
A reader, USA
<2006-12-22 00:00>
The Best! I was baffled through the whole book and was shocked and surprised when I got to the end! The same goes with all of his first books. Then R.L.Stine lost his touch! Great Book. |
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