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Graveyard School #7
Slime Lake
Marc and his twin sister, Terri, are excited about spending the summer at their uncle Nicholas's lake house. Even though their uncle is an old grouch, Marc and Terri,enjoy the lake and their summer friends in Grove Hill.
But this summer is different. Suddenly the once placid lake has motorboats, fishermen, and crowds. Even worse is the gross green slime that's been popping up on boats and docks and swimmers. When Terri goes for a swim and doesn't return, Marc wonders what exactly is lurking under the water....
But this summer is different. Suddenly the once placid lake has motorboats, fishermen, and crowds. Even worse is the gross green slime that's been popping up on boats and docks and swimmers. When Terri goes for a swim and doesn't return, Marc wonders what exactly is lurking under the water....
112 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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December 3, 2022
Not at all impressed with my first Graveyard School book.
It's bland, uneventful, and not very well written. The (loose) plot of Mr. Quayle wanting to take over the lake and turn it into a resort was a mildly interesting mystery, but very little focus was given to it save for the reveal at the end, and its ties to the "lake monster".
It's bland, uneventful, and not very well written. The (loose) plot of Mr. Quayle wanting to take over the lake and turn it into a resort was a mildly interesting mystery, but very little focus was given to it save for the reveal at the end, and its ties to the "lake monster".
January 8, 2026
For some reason, Loch Ness Monster/Lake Legend stories in kids horror are extremely scarce, and that’s honestly bullshit since there’s untapped potential there. Graveyard School’s “Slime Lake” had a go at it, and… okay, maybe not the best example. This book has a really solid idea when laid out, with the reveals in the final fifteen pages being good and out-there and the real villain here being more grounded. Not to mention some heritage stuff, which is, again, out-there. I quite liked these ideas and I feel they worked well. The characters are okay, there’s some good horror moments (especially a particular dream-sequence) and a steady pace, but the book has a major fault: this sucker is boring. It’s not even that long-a-book; it’s dead on 100 pages. With that you’d expect more meat as this genre usually tries to cross that 120 mark, but no. The suspension of what’s happening is super drawn out through the first 90 pages, with the only real highlights being some scarier moments and the decent expositional bits. It’s too drawn out and should had Emmie come into the story in their full glory a bit sooner, and had the scares be more constant in favor of drawn out scenes and the random ass overbearing cast, which is my next thing. There’s randomly like five new kids introduced who serve no purpose outside of connecting these book (fine) and a boat race (not necessary but whatev’). Why were they here? They served nothing for the plot outside of dragging out the already meh first two acts. There’s some trite constants throughout the book (again, should’ve had more of the goods), a very rushed climax even if I did like some ideas there, and not as much payoff as I’d love in the final chapter. Overall, 5.5/10. It’s meh, edging on three-stars but with some of those greater elements near the end and solid moments here, but was mostly boring, mildly repetitive, and had unnecessary fat for how short this book is compared to most middle-grade horror. I need to lay off the summer reads—I mean, it’s fucking January, am I trying to achieve instantaneous burnout? Gooey Pond.
April 8, 2022
The story follows Marc and Terri, two twins who stay at Slime Lake over the summer with their uncle, a reclusive man named Nicholas Lochmon (a not-so-subtle reference to the Loch Ness Monster). The evil Mr. Quayle sees dollar signs in taking the lake over and turning it into a big time summer travel destination, and things continuously get weirder and weirder for the kids of Grove Hill (aka the students of Graveyard School) as the story progresses. I give this a 3/5 simply because there wasn't enough "horror." It had decent character development and kept me entertained the entire way through, but I felt almost every scare sequence was just a cheap 'cry wolf' scenario. I would recommend this to my niece when she's in second or third grade, but for an entry in a middle-grade horror series, this was pretty weak, even for 1995's standards.
November 1, 2024
I read book 7 of the Graveyard School series because why the hell not, and it turns out there IS an answer to Why The Hell Not?
Because this is a series. Kind of. Sort of.
Halfway into Slime Lake, it seemed there was something extra going on. Why were we spending so much time establishing the characteristics of, say, Jordie, a young girl who has a computer with her everywhere, and whose name being the same as the part-man, part-machine (part headband), character from Star Trek didn't escape me. Jordie has nothing to do with the plot here, but she and Skate and Jaws and a few other characters make repeat appearances, which clued me in: yes, There is a Graveyard School-iverse. Yes, characters appear in this book who have appeared in previous books, such as the aptly named "Skate" whose main hobby I’d like for you to guess…I was going to come up with two stupid choices and then put skateboarding third, but let’s be real, Skate starred in The Skeleton on the Skateboard. It’s on the nose, and pretending like it’s not is just something I don’t have the tolerance for. The Skeleton on the Skateboard starring Skate. C’mon.
Oh, I forgot a character: Polly Hannah, who someone in this book references in the form of "Being Polly Hannah-ish," which sent me down a whole thing. I thought it was Pollyanna. Is it Polly Hannah?
It's not, but I looked up the origin of Pollyanna. She's a Disney character, and, guys, did you know she's an orphan whose life philosophy centers around something she calls "the glad game" which involves finding something to be happy about, regardless of the situation?
For example, one Christmas, Pollyanna hopes to get a doll from a barrel of presents (I guess that's how presents are delivered to orphans, just a fuckin' barrel you reach into and hope for the best), but she instead gets a pair of crutches.
And her reaction is to see this as a good gift because she's like, "Well, at least I don't need crutches to walk!"
…
First of all, was the next kid in line desperately needing new crutches? Was he like, "Goddamn this cruel barrel system that denies me crutches and gives me a useless doll instead, so now the other kids are all calling me 'bohunk cripple'"? (this was 1913, folks, I’m not responsible for their language).
Secondly, crutches counts as a gift? Just a reminder that you are able-bodied? I don't mean to say anything cruel about people with disabilities, I just mean that a card that says, "It could always be worse" and specifies how, would that count as a decent birthday gift?
You could always get kicked in the stomach by a horse!
You could always lose an eye!
Or, maybe for my next anniversary, a list of men who are worse than me. “You could be married to, I don’t know, international recording artist John Mayer? Does he suck? Maybe he doesn’t suck. Shit, I’m going to have to do real research to make this list of worse guys.”
Third, what motherfucker put crutches in a present barrel for kids? Someone who had a miracle happen and was like, “My god, I can walk! Don’t need THESE anymore!” This is like the guy who puts expired black beans in the food bank donation or whatever and walks away like, I did a good thing just now. I’m a good guy.
Fourth, is there NO filter between the placement of items in the barrel and the kids receiving the items? So if someone put a severed head in there, keeping this Halloween, some kid would just get a severed head? How is that a good system? How is that even a system in any sense?
I knew Pollyanna-ish meant being a little too optimistic and naïve, but this is the first I'm finding out how annoying it is based on its origin. It's really upsetting.
Probably because I'm the opposite. Whenever I'm watching a reality show and someone loses, and they're like, "I got to show the world what I can do, and that's the real victory," I'm like, "Well, winning would have ALSO allowed you to show the world what you can do, plus you would've won, so I think you're maybe posing this as a false version of a zero sum game, here."
Or when they go with the classic, "My parents are proud of me, and that's all that matters." Well...I think your parents would have ALSO been proud if you won. I don't think winning would have lessened their pride in you. At WORST, same amount of pride?
Okay, enough about Polly Hannah. Let’s get to Slime Lake.
Opening line: His eyes were hurricane grey but darker.
Yikes.
A hurricane is something most people haven’t actually seen, and it’s certainly a variable color. It’s stupid to make a comparison like that where you’re like, “It’s like this thing, but not totally, not really.” Okay, if you’re going to make a comparison, it’s a fictional book, so you’ve got options here that don’t require you to make a statement, then back off of YOUR OWN STATEMENT. IN THE OPENING OF YOUR BOOK.
You can make the eyes hurricane grey. Are we going to quibble about the image in your mind being of eyes slightly darker than a quote-unquote “standard” hurricane? Wouldn’t the character be just fine if you lightened the eyes a tiny bit?
Or, you could use something dark. “His eyes were the dark grey of burnt, ashen wood.”
OR, you could make the analogy work by darkening the thing you chose: “His eyes were the dark grey of the skies during a hurricane, at night, just before the last light vanishes.”
These aren’t amazing, but I’m just saying, maybe a tiny bit of work would help, I mean, if you’re going to insist on starting the book with a character’s eye color, which is not super exciting, but whatever.
This book commits another sin when it attempts to do a Goosebumps-style fakeout, but terribly. Really, really terribly.
Okay, a chapter ends with a character screaming LOOOOOK OOUUUUT! and we hear a “roar”.
Now, we’re led to believe it’s some kind of monster. As in a creature, not a copy of the Metallica documentary that helped us all see that, hey, metalheads got feelings, too.
It turns out that the object in question is a motorboat.
If you were watching this as a movie, or if you were on the scene, it would be incredibly obvious that the kids were reacting to a motorboat, not a nessie. Nobody with visuals would mistake the danger of this scene for a sea monster as opposed to a boat, but because the book doesn’t give us the details outside of “It came toward him with a roar,” we don’t know that “IT” is not a monster.
It’s a stupid version of a Goosebumps, chapter end cliffhanger. It doesn’t work because the book is hiding information from the reader that is incredibly obvious to the characters. You can’t have a book where the characters know more than the reader, and when the reader finds out, they feel tricked and pushed out of the world of the book.
But there’s an EVEN WORSE cliffhanger later when Mark is experiencing something scary, slaps himself, and the book says, “It stung, It hurt…it proved he wasn’t dreaming.”
But then the chapter ends, the next chapter starts, and it turns out Mark WAS dreaming.
Okay, book. You can do a bullshitty dream fakeout, I’ll allow that much, but you can’t EXPLICITLY say a dream is not a dream and then say it was a dream. That is a bridge too far over these slime lake waters.
Let’s do the overall plot, there’s a snobs versus slobs thing happening where Mr. Quayle, possibly named after Dan Quayle, is doing a sort of hostile takeover of Slime Lake, trying to rename it Emerald Lake, and selling snacks and allowing speedboats and shit. Which is funny because I think kids would be cool with that, speedboats and snacks are fun, and most kids I know don’t exactly appreciate the fine feeling of being on a peaceful lake.
I looked it up, and Dan QUayle’s Vice Presidency ended in 1993, this book came out in 1995, so it’s entirely possible this is a sharp political barb placed inside this book.
Turns out Quayle (the one in the book, not in real life) kidnapped Pops(?), the lake’s owner(?), and is trying to basically…force pops to sell him the lake or something? It’s a classic tale in kids movies and books, many of which seem to involve corporate intrigue for reasons I do not understand. Why do writers think kids care about commercialization and corporate takeovers? This is not something I care about a ton today, let alone when I was a child.
The twist in this whole tale is that there’s a nessie living in the lake, who is friendly, of course, so all is good.
One of my favorite parts of this book, because i can see it becoming an R-rated version, is that the slime on the lake eats away at your clothes, but leaves your skin fully intact. This is prime 80s slasher bullshit where you need an excuse to get characters naked, and you do so by exposing them to a slime lake where the slime makes them naked. It’s the long way round, but in Leprechaun 4, Leprechaun in space, a lady flashes people her breasts because she says, in her culture, that’s the equivalent of a kiss of death. I give those writers props. Stupid reason to get boobs in a movie? Sure. But they worked for it, damn it. Nobody can take that away from them.
I just searched Leprechaun in Space to make sure it’s number 4 in the series, and I saw a YouTube cover art for a video titled “My First Time Watching Leprechaun 4.” Lady, you don’t have to specify it’s your first time. Every time someone watches that movie, it’s the first time. Nobody is going to do that shit twice.
Anyway, things work out, the kids save the lake from evil Asian condo developers or whatever 90s bullshit they were on about, and the kids become friends with the nessie and there seems to be promise of further adventures that I don’t think ever came to be.
Honestly, it’s something RL Stine rarely did, and I think it’s for the best: Very few Goosebumps end with the kids finding out that the threat was friendly all along, and I applaud that. I like when it’s not all “Oh, we just think this thing is bad because WE are the monsters!” No, sometimes, a sea monster eats people and is a monster.
The book promises a recipe for slime at the end, and it delivers with a guacamole recipe. Which may as well be some kind of paste or goo to a kid, most kids ain’t eating that shit. I also found it very funny that avocado plays a role in the recipe that follows this tale of gentrification. The flag of gentrification, if it was a country, would be an avocado on something that doesn’t necessarily need an avocado.
Slime Lake was not the worst Bumpoff I read, but it did start me down the road of appreciating RL Stine a bit more.
Because this is a series. Kind of. Sort of.
Halfway into Slime Lake, it seemed there was something extra going on. Why were we spending so much time establishing the characteristics of, say, Jordie, a young girl who has a computer with her everywhere, and whose name being the same as the part-man, part-machine (part headband), character from Star Trek didn't escape me. Jordie has nothing to do with the plot here, but she and Skate and Jaws and a few other characters make repeat appearances, which clued me in: yes, There is a Graveyard School-iverse. Yes, characters appear in this book who have appeared in previous books, such as the aptly named "Skate" whose main hobby I’d like for you to guess…I was going to come up with two stupid choices and then put skateboarding third, but let’s be real, Skate starred in The Skeleton on the Skateboard. It’s on the nose, and pretending like it’s not is just something I don’t have the tolerance for. The Skeleton on the Skateboard starring Skate. C’mon.
Oh, I forgot a character: Polly Hannah, who someone in this book references in the form of "Being Polly Hannah-ish," which sent me down a whole thing. I thought it was Pollyanna. Is it Polly Hannah?
It's not, but I looked up the origin of Pollyanna. She's a Disney character, and, guys, did you know she's an orphan whose life philosophy centers around something she calls "the glad game" which involves finding something to be happy about, regardless of the situation?
For example, one Christmas, Pollyanna hopes to get a doll from a barrel of presents (I guess that's how presents are delivered to orphans, just a fuckin' barrel you reach into and hope for the best), but she instead gets a pair of crutches.
And her reaction is to see this as a good gift because she's like, "Well, at least I don't need crutches to walk!"
…
First of all, was the next kid in line desperately needing new crutches? Was he like, "Goddamn this cruel barrel system that denies me crutches and gives me a useless doll instead, so now the other kids are all calling me 'bohunk cripple'"? (this was 1913, folks, I’m not responsible for their language).
Secondly, crutches counts as a gift? Just a reminder that you are able-bodied? I don't mean to say anything cruel about people with disabilities, I just mean that a card that says, "It could always be worse" and specifies how, would that count as a decent birthday gift?
You could always get kicked in the stomach by a horse!
You could always lose an eye!
Or, maybe for my next anniversary, a list of men who are worse than me. “You could be married to, I don’t know, international recording artist John Mayer? Does he suck? Maybe he doesn’t suck. Shit, I’m going to have to do real research to make this list of worse guys.”
Third, what motherfucker put crutches in a present barrel for kids? Someone who had a miracle happen and was like, “My god, I can walk! Don’t need THESE anymore!” This is like the guy who puts expired black beans in the food bank donation or whatever and walks away like, I did a good thing just now. I’m a good guy.
Fourth, is there NO filter between the placement of items in the barrel and the kids receiving the items? So if someone put a severed head in there, keeping this Halloween, some kid would just get a severed head? How is that a good system? How is that even a system in any sense?
I knew Pollyanna-ish meant being a little too optimistic and naïve, but this is the first I'm finding out how annoying it is based on its origin. It's really upsetting.
Probably because I'm the opposite. Whenever I'm watching a reality show and someone loses, and they're like, "I got to show the world what I can do, and that's the real victory," I'm like, "Well, winning would have ALSO allowed you to show the world what you can do, plus you would've won, so I think you're maybe posing this as a false version of a zero sum game, here."
Or when they go with the classic, "My parents are proud of me, and that's all that matters." Well...I think your parents would have ALSO been proud if you won. I don't think winning would have lessened their pride in you. At WORST, same amount of pride?
Okay, enough about Polly Hannah. Let’s get to Slime Lake.
Opening line: His eyes were hurricane grey but darker.
Yikes.
A hurricane is something most people haven’t actually seen, and it’s certainly a variable color. It’s stupid to make a comparison like that where you’re like, “It’s like this thing, but not totally, not really.” Okay, if you’re going to make a comparison, it’s a fictional book, so you’ve got options here that don’t require you to make a statement, then back off of YOUR OWN STATEMENT. IN THE OPENING OF YOUR BOOK.
You can make the eyes hurricane grey. Are we going to quibble about the image in your mind being of eyes slightly darker than a quote-unquote “standard” hurricane? Wouldn’t the character be just fine if you lightened the eyes a tiny bit?
Or, you could use something dark. “His eyes were the dark grey of burnt, ashen wood.”
OR, you could make the analogy work by darkening the thing you chose: “His eyes were the dark grey of the skies during a hurricane, at night, just before the last light vanishes.”
These aren’t amazing, but I’m just saying, maybe a tiny bit of work would help, I mean, if you’re going to insist on starting the book with a character’s eye color, which is not super exciting, but whatever.
This book commits another sin when it attempts to do a Goosebumps-style fakeout, but terribly. Really, really terribly.
Okay, a chapter ends with a character screaming LOOOOOK OOUUUUT! and we hear a “roar”.
Now, we’re led to believe it’s some kind of monster. As in a creature, not a copy of the Metallica documentary that helped us all see that, hey, metalheads got feelings, too.
It turns out that the object in question is a motorboat.
If you were watching this as a movie, or if you were on the scene, it would be incredibly obvious that the kids were reacting to a motorboat, not a nessie. Nobody with visuals would mistake the danger of this scene for a sea monster as opposed to a boat, but because the book doesn’t give us the details outside of “It came toward him with a roar,” we don’t know that “IT” is not a monster.
It’s a stupid version of a Goosebumps, chapter end cliffhanger. It doesn’t work because the book is hiding information from the reader that is incredibly obvious to the characters. You can’t have a book where the characters know more than the reader, and when the reader finds out, they feel tricked and pushed out of the world of the book.
But there’s an EVEN WORSE cliffhanger later when Mark is experiencing something scary, slaps himself, and the book says, “It stung, It hurt…it proved he wasn’t dreaming.”
But then the chapter ends, the next chapter starts, and it turns out Mark WAS dreaming.
Okay, book. You can do a bullshitty dream fakeout, I’ll allow that much, but you can’t EXPLICITLY say a dream is not a dream and then say it was a dream. That is a bridge too far over these slime lake waters.
Let’s do the overall plot, there’s a snobs versus slobs thing happening where Mr. Quayle, possibly named after Dan Quayle, is doing a sort of hostile takeover of Slime Lake, trying to rename it Emerald Lake, and selling snacks and allowing speedboats and shit. Which is funny because I think kids would be cool with that, speedboats and snacks are fun, and most kids I know don’t exactly appreciate the fine feeling of being on a peaceful lake.
I looked it up, and Dan QUayle’s Vice Presidency ended in 1993, this book came out in 1995, so it’s entirely possible this is a sharp political barb placed inside this book.
Turns out Quayle (the one in the book, not in real life) kidnapped Pops(?), the lake’s owner(?), and is trying to basically…force pops to sell him the lake or something? It’s a classic tale in kids movies and books, many of which seem to involve corporate intrigue for reasons I do not understand. Why do writers think kids care about commercialization and corporate takeovers? This is not something I care about a ton today, let alone when I was a child.
The twist in this whole tale is that there’s a nessie living in the lake, who is friendly, of course, so all is good.
One of my favorite parts of this book, because i can see it becoming an R-rated version, is that the slime on the lake eats away at your clothes, but leaves your skin fully intact. This is prime 80s slasher bullshit where you need an excuse to get characters naked, and you do so by exposing them to a slime lake where the slime makes them naked. It’s the long way round, but in Leprechaun 4, Leprechaun in space, a lady flashes people her breasts because she says, in her culture, that’s the equivalent of a kiss of death. I give those writers props. Stupid reason to get boobs in a movie? Sure. But they worked for it, damn it. Nobody can take that away from them.
I just searched Leprechaun in Space to make sure it’s number 4 in the series, and I saw a YouTube cover art for a video titled “My First Time Watching Leprechaun 4.” Lady, you don’t have to specify it’s your first time. Every time someone watches that movie, it’s the first time. Nobody is going to do that shit twice.
Anyway, things work out, the kids save the lake from evil Asian condo developers or whatever 90s bullshit they were on about, and the kids become friends with the nessie and there seems to be promise of further adventures that I don’t think ever came to be.
Honestly, it’s something RL Stine rarely did, and I think it’s for the best: Very few Goosebumps end with the kids finding out that the threat was friendly all along, and I applaud that. I like when it’s not all “Oh, we just think this thing is bad because WE are the monsters!” No, sometimes, a sea monster eats people and is a monster.
The book promises a recipe for slime at the end, and it delivers with a guacamole recipe. Which may as well be some kind of paste or goo to a kid, most kids ain’t eating that shit. I also found it very funny that avocado plays a role in the recipe that follows this tale of gentrification. The flag of gentrification, if it was a country, would be an avocado on something that doesn’t necessarily need an avocado.
Slime Lake was not the worst Bumpoff I read, but it did start me down the road of appreciating RL Stine a bit more.
February 8, 2023
Alright, after some setbacks we're back to it with Graveyard School. This one I had interest in so I was looking forward to it. There isn't too much to say for this one but let's see what we got.
Marc and Terri Foster are visiting their Uncle Nicholas at Slime Lake, which they do every year. It's a small lake community that is a bit odd but they usually like it fine. But this time, something is a bit different. This guy Mr. Quayle has come and has basically bought it out, turning it into a tacking tourist attraction. The old owner, Pops, just vanishes and they don't know how/why he sold it off.
Then odd accidents start happening, and there are hints a monster may be popping up in the lake. So the first thing I have to note is pretty notable and interesting: The protagonists are specifically mentioned as having "brown skin". That's right, unless they somehow mean something else which I doubt, these are our first black protagonists in any of these I've covered, to my knowledge. Not exactly the first non white as Shivers had some kids from Columbia recently but this came first.
Those words are all we got but it's something. They are written to be typical for these but whatever. Marc follows the formula these have as he starts as being kinda jerk-y to Terri for reasons but gets better as it goes. I don't know we haven't had a protag we can say is fully good from page 1 yet. Terri is good though, being very nice and putting on a smile even when dealing with jerks.
There's a couple cameos here, like Polly Hannah and Skate who I know is in a couple others. As for the plot itself, well to take it back to Shivers, this is like Pool Ghoul because. that's right, it's an environmental story. It feels like a 90's family movie where you got this guy making this tourist trap and straight up saying he cares about money instead of the environment.
Honestly I find that kinda cute as it's not too preachy about it at least. That does make it predictable, from the start I knew where it was going especially with the monster. The pacing can be off at times, it does sometimes get meandering even with it being 99 pages. It's not too scary but there is some solid writing (decent word choices here, one vocab word even) and atmpshere in places. More fake outs than usually, including a dream that made me go "oh screw you", although the dream itself was gnarly.
"Cute" is a good word to describe this one. It can lack in some of the pacing and plotting but it has some fun stuff in there with the action and mystery going on. Where it goes is obvious but it works fine at least. I wish the climax was a bit longer but the ending is decent at least.
This falls right in the middle for me. It's good not that /that/ good as far as this series goes. There's nothing amazing here but there's nothing too bad. For the flaws there's nothing too terrible. It could be better but I liked the setting and cute story of it all. Not one to rush to read but its not bad. I can see some being less into it and there's better but this was fine.
That's...really about it. Pretty basic one here that happens to be break ground with two simple words lol. So yeah, that about it does it. Next time, we go to Bone Chillers as we escape ghostwriters and go back to the og Betsy Haynes.
See ya then.
Marc and Terri Foster are visiting their Uncle Nicholas at Slime Lake, which they do every year. It's a small lake community that is a bit odd but they usually like it fine. But this time, something is a bit different. This guy Mr. Quayle has come and has basically bought it out, turning it into a tacking tourist attraction. The old owner, Pops, just vanishes and they don't know how/why he sold it off.
Then odd accidents start happening, and there are hints a monster may be popping up in the lake. So the first thing I have to note is pretty notable and interesting: The protagonists are specifically mentioned as having "brown skin". That's right, unless they somehow mean something else which I doubt, these are our first black protagonists in any of these I've covered, to my knowledge. Not exactly the first non white as Shivers had some kids from Columbia recently but this came first.
Those words are all we got but it's something. They are written to be typical for these but whatever. Marc follows the formula these have as he starts as being kinda jerk-y to Terri for reasons but gets better as it goes. I don't know we haven't had a protag we can say is fully good from page 1 yet. Terri is good though, being very nice and putting on a smile even when dealing with jerks.
There's a couple cameos here, like Polly Hannah and Skate who I know is in a couple others. As for the plot itself, well to take it back to Shivers, this is like Pool Ghoul because. that's right, it's an environmental story. It feels like a 90's family movie where you got this guy making this tourist trap and straight up saying he cares about money instead of the environment.
Honestly I find that kinda cute as it's not too preachy about it at least. That does make it predictable, from the start I knew where it was going especially with the monster. The pacing can be off at times, it does sometimes get meandering even with it being 99 pages. It's not too scary but there is some solid writing (decent word choices here, one vocab word even) and atmpshere in places. More fake outs than usually, including a dream that made me go "oh screw you", although the dream itself was gnarly.
"Cute" is a good word to describe this one. It can lack in some of the pacing and plotting but it has some fun stuff in there with the action and mystery going on. Where it goes is obvious but it works fine at least. I wish the climax was a bit longer but the ending is decent at least.
This falls right in the middle for me. It's good not that /that/ good as far as this series goes. There's nothing amazing here but there's nothing too bad. For the flaws there's nothing too terrible. It could be better but I liked the setting and cute story of it all. Not one to rush to read but its not bad. I can see some being less into it and there's better but this was fine.
That's...really about it. Pretty basic one here that happens to be break ground with two simple words lol. So yeah, that about it does it. Next time, we go to Bone Chillers as we escape ghostwriters and go back to the og Betsy Haynes.
See ya then.
July 25, 2019
Not bad! This one starts out with twins, Marc & Terri, going to stay with their great-Uncle Nicholas for the Summer like they do every year! They get excited about seeing Pops, who owns The Wreck- a concession stand and swimming area. Unfortunately, they come to the Wreck to find something totally different! It’s been painted over in green and is now called Emerald Shores. Pops is gone and a Mr. Quayle is running the area. He even owns a motorboat that he drives around the lake like a crazy person. There was a rule against any kind of motorboats and jet skis.
Something else the twins notice is the lake is a lot slimier than normal and it’s staining clothes! They also notice something creeping around in the water but they can’t put their finger on it. One night, they are kidnapped by this thing and taken down into a cave. Their uncle explains that he is the keeper of the lake. The monster is like a Loch Ness monster. The twins are to be the next keepers of the lake. They also find Pops. Quayle kidnapped him and threatens to murder him if he doesn’t sign off the right to his land.
Something else the twins notice is the lake is a lot slimier than normal and it’s staining clothes! They also notice something creeping around in the water but they can’t put their finger on it. One night, they are kidnapped by this thing and taken down into a cave. Their uncle explains that he is the keeper of the lake. The monster is like a Loch Ness monster. The twins are to be the next keepers of the lake. They also find Pops. Quayle kidnapped him and threatens to murder him if he doesn’t sign off the right to his land.
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July 1, 2022
Los mellizos Terri y Marc van a pasar el verano en la casa del lago de su tío Nicolas. Pero esta vez las cosas son diferentes, ya que hay un magnate que planea comprar el lugar y llenarlo de hoteles y alquilar lanchas de motor (que no están permitidas allí). Además, un lodo verdoso se apodera de las aguas y los bañistas sienten que algo les tira de los pies cuando se sumergen en ella.
Estos mellizos tendrán que averiguar qué es lo que está pasando.
Me gustó mucho la novela. No es de mis preferidas, pero es disfrutable.
Estos mellizos tendrán que averiguar qué es lo que está pasando.
Me gustó mucho la novela. No es de mis preferidas, pero es disfrutable.
December 15, 2017
Great read for a teenaged kids level.
January 18, 2022
CYKL: "SZKOŁA PRZY CMENTARZU" (TOM 7)
Mark i Terri Fosterowie są rodzeństwem. Ich wujek Nicholas zaprosił ich do swojego domu nad jeziorem. O ile niechętny na tą propozycję jest Marc, o tyle jego siostra skacze ze szczęścia na wieść o spędzeniu wakacji u wuja. Jezioro Szlamno, nad którym jest położony dom wuja Nicholasa słynie z rożnych dziwnych (mniej lub bardziej prawdopodobnych) opowieści. Czy to, co ludzie opowiadają o jeziorze jest prawdą czy wytworem wyobraźni? Czy rodzeństwo i ich przyjaciele - Stacey, Szczęki, Maria, Polly i Vickie - spędzą wakacyjny czas w spokoju? Czy mogą się czuć w pełni bezpieczni? I dlaczego wujek Nicholas zachowuje się co najmniej dziwnie?
"Jezioro Szlamno" jest siódmym tomem z serii "Szkoła przy cmentarzu". Według mnie trochę przypomina "Autobus widmo" między innymi ze względu na motyw sprzeczającego się rodzeństwa. Czyta się ją lekko i szybko. Akcja wciąga i nie nudzi. Jedynym rozczarowaniem może być zakończenie, ale to nie ujmuje ogólnego wrażenia.
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Mark i Terri Fosterowie są rodzeństwem. Ich wujek Nicholas zaprosił ich do swojego domu nad jeziorem. O ile niechętny na tą propozycję jest Marc, o tyle jego siostra skacze ze szczęścia na wieść o spędzeniu wakacji u wuja. Jezioro Szlamno, nad którym jest położony dom wuja Nicholasa słynie z rożnych dziwnych (mniej lub bardziej prawdopodobnych) opowieści. Czy to, co ludzie opowiadają o jeziorze jest prawdą czy wytworem wyobraźni? Czy rodzeństwo i ich przyjaciele - Stacey, Szczęki, Maria, Polly i Vickie - spędzą wakacyjny czas w spokoju? Czy mogą się czuć w pełni bezpieczni? I dlaczego wujek Nicholas zachowuje się co najmniej dziwnie?
"Jezioro Szlamno" jest siódmym tomem z serii "Szkoła przy cmentarzu". Według mnie trochę przypomina "Autobus widmo" między innymi ze względu na motyw sprzeczającego się rodzeństwa. Czyta się ją lekko i szybko. Akcja wciąga i nie nudzi. Jedynym rozczarowaniem może być zakończenie, ale to nie ujmuje ogólnego wrażenia.
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