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Chills: 12 Chilling Tales and Exciting Adventures with Exercises to Help You Learn
The Goodman's Five-Star Stories series is a collection of high-interest anthologies on 10 reading levels featuring well-known short stories from around the world. The selections provide hours of reading pleasure while improving reading and literature skills.
139 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1996
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April 23, 2019
This book was a fun and quick read. It contains 12 short, creepy stories. They have unexpected twist endings, which of course is always fun to read. After each story there are a few questions one could answer, as the book is like a textbook in a way but it's easy enough to just read the stories. I just simply enjoyed the stories. The stories are not gory so the book is great for kids.
There is a wide variety of stories in the book ranging from a haunted house to a magic shop to an alien planet, stories set in Mexico and China and Portugal. Lots of variety.
My favorite stories were "A Helping Hand" and "The Ghost of Wan Li Road". In both the main characters used their intelligence to get themselves out of tricky situations. I've always enjoyed short stories of that nature.
My least favorite one was "The Family" as it was about rich people doing crooked stuff and blaming it on a poor innocent servant. It's an over used idea and well, just not right. The woman in the artwork that accompanies the story looks very hostile and grumpy. But I admit I do like how the servant handled the problem.
The book also contains nice little black and white illustrations.
There is a wide variety of stories in the book ranging from a haunted house to a magic shop to an alien planet, stories set in Mexico and China and Portugal. Lots of variety.
My favorite stories were "A Helping Hand" and "The Ghost of Wan Li Road". In both the main characters used their intelligence to get themselves out of tricky situations. I've always enjoyed short stories of that nature.
My least favorite one was "The Family" as it was about rich people doing crooked stuff and blaming it on a poor innocent servant. It's an over used idea and well, just not right. The woman in the artwork that accompanies the story looks very hostile and grumpy. But I admit I do like how the servant handled the problem.
The book also contains nice little black and white illustrations.
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