Cascone, Annette and Gina The Beast of Baskerville (Deadtime Stories)
192 pgs. Starscape, 2012. $11.13. (Rating: Violence G, Language G, Sexual G)
Poor Jimmy is
the town nerd, on top of that he lives in a cursed house that all the kids
avoid –they have heard about the witch and her son, the beast of Baskerville. Ditching
Jimmy’s birthday party, the other kids have a neighborhood camp out and street
games. When one by one they start to go missing, even Jimmy, the beast is
constantly blamed. Adam tries to keep his head, but things are really going
downhill.
This has been my
favorite Deadtime story so far. The cover is sort of dumb, but the story was
really fantastic, each cliffhanger being a something easily explainable. I like
the interaction between the kids too, which flowed really well, and was very
believable. Which makes the supernatural component even more scary. Students
who like to play outside in the summer will be totally creeped out by this
book!
ELEMENTARY – ADVISABLE
Reviewer: Stephanie Elementary Librarian & Author.
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