Last Days of Freedom Giveaway Hop

We are super excited to be hosting a giveaway for our first ever hop!!! *Mikey is doing the happy dance right now*  

We want to say thank you to very nice people at I Am a Reader, Not a Writer and The Elliot Review  for putting this together for everyone!!

So everyone knows that we are huge Goosebumps fans.  In fact, our long time wish is to meet R.L. Stine and have dinner with him.  Then we will talk about all of his wonderful books and give him some of our ideas about Goosebumps.  (Oh it will happen...eventually)

We have already started school here :(  We aren't exactly jumping for joy for it either, well Mikey is but he is always jumping anyways.  

Anyways, we really wanted to giveaway a Goosebumps book that we have read and just know that everyone else would like these too.  So we are giving away 1 used paperback copy of Piano Lessons Can Be Murder by R.L. Stine.   Here is the book blurb of it:

Practice till you drop . . . dead. When Jerry finds a dusty old piano in the attic of his new house, his parents offer to pay for lessons. At first, taking piano seems like a cool idea. But there's something creepy about Jerry's piano teacher, Dr. Shreek. Something really creepy. Something Jerry can't quite put his finger on. Then Jerry hears the stories. Terrifying stories. About the students at Dr. Shreek's music school. Students who went in for a lesson . . . and never came out.    -Goodreads summary

You guys can enter below and remember that if you are under 16 you need to make sure you have a parent/or guardian's permission.    Hope ya'll enjoy your last days....of freedom too!  





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Conner's Review: Goosebumps: Don't Scream by R.L.Stine

                       Title: Goosebumps: Don't Scream

            Series: Hall of Horrors # 5

Author: R. L. Stine

   Publisher: Scholastic

                 Publication Date: Jan.1, 2012

                             Source: library, paperback, 160 pages

Welcome to the Hall of Horrors, HorrorLand's Hall of Fame for the truly terrifying.

Jack Harmon finds a cell phone on the school bus. He raises the phone to his ear and hears a girl's voice: "Hi, Jack. Don't scream. I've been waiting for you. I'm your new friend." Jack thinks it's a joke. He tries to end the call, then turn the phone off, but the girl's voice won't go away: "Don't make me angry, Jack. I'm warning you." Jack is puzzled and a little frightened. He must obey her every wish. She appears in all sorts of electronic devices-he can't escape her. "Don't scream, Jack. I'm just a voice. But you're going to be my body." She begins to force him to do dangerous things like stealing a laptop from school. But Jack finally outwits the voice when she jumps into his wristwatch. The school bully has been after that watch all year, so Jack finally lets him have it.

-goodreads summary

Conner:  I really liked this book because of a lot of reasons.  One, it is a Goosebumps book and we are huge collectors of this series.   

I also liked this story because the boy in the story, Jack, finds a cell phone and hears a ghostly voice on it talking to him.  I can really relate to this book because I was walking with my Nana one day and I found a cell phone in the grass too.  

Of course no one mysterious talked to me on it but what if?  

I liked his little sister who likes macaroni and cheese.  She reminded me of my little brother who is crazy about mac and cheese too.  

This book isn't as scary as the other R. L. Stine books I have read.  I wasn't scared once reading  this.  

I would have to give this story five smiley faces!  

Anthony's Take: The Night of Living Dummy

I recently read R.L. Stine's The Night of the Living Dummy, and I have to say I like it!

It's about two sisters named Linda and Kris Powell who share the same room.  Linda finds a dummy in the trash and decides to keep it and name it Slappy.  Kris gets jealous of the prize she finds and really wants her own dummy.  So their dad, Mr. Powell, finds Kris her own dummy at an antique shop and brings it home.  Kris decides to name it Mr. Wood.  Then strange happenings begin to take place around their home.  For example, Kris gets up to get a drink of water and wakes Linda up; as Linda is falling back to sleep she hears her sister scream.  She dashes down the stairs and finds the refrigerator has been dumped out completely, and Mr. Wood is sitting in the middle of the mess with a piece of chicken on his lap.
The two dummies are a good find in the beginning but now are starting to become a nightmare for the two sisters.

It's not very scary to me and I am 8 years old but it could be a little frightening for someone younger than me.  I would recommend this book for both boys and girls.
If I had to rate this I would have to say: four thumbs up!

Curse of Camp Cold Lake (Goosebumps # 56)

Conner recently read this Goosebumps goodie called Curse of Camp Cold  Lake and Conner loved it! Here is his review of it:

It is about a girl named Sara who has to go this camp.  Little does she know, that it is haunted, and the ghost is interested in Sara. The ghost wants Sara to become a ghost with her.  Will Sara fall for this ghost's tricks or will Sara get away before it is too late?
I really enjoyed this book and even though it is spooky, I wasn't afraid.  It might be too scary for someone under 8 years old.  I feel like girls and boys could both like this book because the main character is a girl but it also has her brother in it.

I rate this book with five smiley faces!