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Post by Kylie90210 on Nov 11, 2008 23:33:11 GMT -5
Please discuss this book here.
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Post by annieb on Dec 16, 2008 13:50:57 GMT -5
I heard that this story was not even that scary as Karen portrayed it to be! ;D
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tiff85
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Post by tiff85 on Dec 19, 2008 19:26:26 GMT -5
This book wasn't all that spooky! Karen, Hannie, and Nancy looked pretty spooked though. I think the book was a good read and kept me guessing until the very end.
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scrounge
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Post by scrounge on Jan 1, 2009 2:33:57 GMT -5
This book was so strange because Sam and Charlie, who as far as I can recall have never fought in the entire rest of the Baby-sitter's/Little Sister series, are at each other's throats throughout the whole thing. It's like someone who knew absolutely nothing about the characters wrote the book. The whole plot was far-fetched and strange too, and I really wish Karen would be less of a brat to Druscilla when she shows up in LS books.
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lilafowler
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Post by lilafowler on Aug 24, 2010 15:30:42 GMT -5
I just realized this is the only LS I don't have in any form, so I went to Amazon to add a copy to my cart. I found this review:
3.0 out of 5 stars MY OPINION, March 23, 1998 By A Customer i THOUGHT THAT THIS BOOK WAS REALLY SCARY. I DON'T THINK THAT YOU SHOULD READ IT BEFORE YOU GO TO BED BECAUSE YOU MIGHT HAVE NIGHTMARES LIKE I DID. I AM GOING TO BE 13 THIS YEAR AND I THOUGHT IT WAS REALLY SCARY SO I THINK THAT IT SHOULD BE READ BY PEOPLE AGED 20 AND OVER. AMANDA.
At last, my advanced age and love of the BSC are cooperating.
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Post by booboobrewer on Aug 24, 2010 16:27:27 GMT -5
I don't have this one! Sounds like it'd be right up my alley...
Poor Amanda ;D
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Post by anzuhana on Aug 26, 2010 9:40:15 GMT -5
I thought Karen was a bit of a brat to Druscilla. So what if Druscilla want to be Cinderella on Halloween? It seemed a bit odd to read about Charlie and Sam fighting with each other since they usually got along.
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Post by virgoscorpio on May 29, 2012 17:41:52 GMT -5
So it seemed like they were trying to say that either ghosts or Druscilla rigged all the doors with the ash buckets. I wonder why one of the kids in Charlie or Sam's class wasn't considered as a "suspect". Also, check out the picture of Sam and Charlie at the end of the book - it's HORRIBLE! Charlie looks like a hair thinning middle aged guy.
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Post by zoar3 on Sept 6, 2013 20:34:02 GMT -5
What a very strange LS book! I finally got this from paperbackswap today and was hoping for a little better since it was the last (new to me) LS story. Scrounge, ITA with everything you said. Garbielle Charbonnet, the ghostwriter, has written some of my very favorite LS stories such as Unicorn, Sleigh Ride, and Cowboy. This one seemed like it was written by a ghostwriter for a ghostwriter. Also, we never even got to read about Sam or Charlie's classes decorating their rooms or really anyone else. I should say I'm not a fan of this type of haunted house, I don't like things jumping out at me and I also am not a joke or prank fan at all. When I read about "Homes for Families" (Organization that had bought this old house and was planning to use the money raised from the Haunted House to fix up the home for a family)I was so hoping that would be the subplot. Instead it was all about Karen being not very kind to Dru. My favorite part was the very beginning when Karen is pretending to be a leaf monster with Hannie. That reminds me of the scene in one of the BSC books when Karen and others are pretending to be "leaf chiefs." I don't remember what book that was right now but it was a cute scene. :)My favorite BSC Halloween will always be when Jamie and Jessi read Georgie's Halloween in "MA's Bad Luck Mystery."
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Post by sparklymouse on Oct 21, 2021 15:27:37 GMT -5
This one didn't have much to snark on since they were in a room in what sounded like a condemned house (with a working phone line. Who was paying for that?) for the majority of it. I'm confused how the wealthy residents of the big house neighborhood would allow such an eyesore for so long. It sounded like the house was going to be made into some sort of homeless shelter after the Halloween fundraiser? That also doesn't sound like it would fly with that neighborhood. All of the money raised would have been spent on repainting all of the horrible black and red walls that the kids did anyway! One thing that I liked was Natalie trying to make happy, smiling skeletons (because they were at a party having fun) and everyone shutting her down.
I have dealt with bats in my house. It was traumatizing, lol. I don't care if they eat every mosquito in my backyard. They are not getting their own little bat house to hang out in.
Costumes in this one: Karen, Cinderella at the Ball Druscilla, Cinderella in her dirty rags Andrew, dinosaur Hannie, butterfly Nancy, pumpkin (Nancy consistently has lame costumes IMO) Kristy, Bride of Frankenstein
David Michael and Emily Michelle were not even mentioned in this one. Odd.
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Post by anzuhana on Oct 21, 2021 16:43:49 GMT -5
^ Having bats in a house can be a health issue. Beside the fact that bats can carry rabies and transmit it to humans (by biting one, of course), their guano can cause illness in humans, such as histoplasmosis, a fungal infection that primarily affects the lungs.
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Post by sparklymouse on Oct 21, 2021 19:13:45 GMT -5
Yeah, I said it was traumatizing, thanks. We had to call the "Bat Man" to come and bat proof the house. Basically he put these little chicken wire looking one way doors on all the little spots in our siding that bats were getting in. So, they could leave but not come back in. We were getting bats in 2-3 times per week. One night I turned my bedroom light off and could almost immediately hear flapping. One had gotten into my room and couldn't get back out because the ceiling fan was running. Our fear was the cats would try to catch them but fortunately they were lazy chickens.
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Post by anzuhana on Oct 21, 2021 19:24:35 GMT -5
^ Your bat infestation story reminds of a segment from You Think You'd Survive where a man had his roof swarmed by bats and had to have it replaced with a different roof type. It also reminds me of a story a professor told a story about how a bat got into his and his wife's bedroom. He wasn't worried about the bat flying into them because he figured it'd use echo location to avoid them but it ended up flying into his face. They got it out though, with the help of a blanket I think.
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livvy
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Post by livvy on Jan 18, 2023 17:17:04 GMT -5
So who put the bucket over the doorway of their room? Bobby?
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