Goblin Monday (Goosebumps House of Shivers #2)

by R. L. Stine

Overview

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Mario Galagos is joining his best friends Todd and Jewel on their annual holiday visit to snowy Vermont. Everything looks picture perfect at first. But then Mario finds a small statue of a strange, ugly creature in the garden and brings it inside. Little does he know the stone creature is actually a real, live goblin. By bringing it inside, Mario has just started a war with all of its hideous goblin friends!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781338752267
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	03/05/2024
Series:	Goosebumps House of Shivers
Sold by:	Scholastic, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	747,246
File size:	12 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

R.L. Stine is the creator of the bestselling Goosebumps series, which has more than 400 million copies in print worldwide and celebrated 25 years in 2017. Goosebumps is one of the bestselling children's series of all-time and inspired a popular television show, as well as a feature film starring Jack Black that opened at #1 at the box office. His other popular children's books include the series Fear Street, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room, and Rotten School, and his picture books, with Marc Brown, The Little Shop of Monsters and Mary McScary. R.L. Stine lives in New York City. You can connect with him on Twitter at @RL_Stine or Facebook: facebook.com/rlstine. For more information, visit rlstine.com and scholastic.com/goosebumps.

Hometown:

New York, New York

Date of Birth:

October 8, 1943

Place of Birth:

Columbus, Ohio

Education:

B.A., Ohio State University, 1965

Website:

http://www.rlstine.com

Editorial Reviews

2024-02-03
A winter break trip with new friends ends in a life-or-death struggle with angry goblins.

Having recently moved from Key West, Florida, to Philadelphia, Mario Galagos has never experienced snow. He’s excited to accompany his new neighbors and friends, siblings Todd and Jewel Simms, on a visit to see their grandparents in snowy Vermont, even though he doesn’t know them all that well yet. MomMom and Grampa Tweety turn out to be strange but fascinating; MomMom cooks and knits tiny green outfits, while Grampa Tweety is a bird-loving fantasy author full of stories about imps, gremlins, and goblins. Their home is as odd as they are, with a floor-to-ceiling birdcage and an array of birds, both inside and out. The longer Mario spends with the family, however, the more wrong things seem. A goblin encounter confirms his suspicions that this place is dangerous, and he’ll be lucky to escape it alive. This series entry zips along quickly and will be a particularly good fit for reluctant readers. Short chapters that end with leading questions or bits of foreshadowing propel readers through an evenly spaced narrative with plenty of surprises. Characters’ ethnicities are not specified.

Another entertaining middle-grade creep-fest from Stine. (Horror. 8-12)

Kirkus Reviews