Goosebumps Boxed Set, Books 13 - 16: Piano Lessons Can Be Murder / The Werewolf of Fever Swamp / You Can't Scare Me! / and One Day at HorrorLand

by R.L. Stine

Volume 13 Includes:
- Piano Lessons Can Be Murder
- The Werewolf of Fever Swamp
- You Can't Scare Me!
- One Day at HorrorLand

Piano Lessons Can Be Murder: 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 fingers on.Volume 14: The Werewolf Of Fever Swamp: There's something horrible happening in Fever Swamp. Something really horrible. It started with the Strange howling at night. Then there was the rabbit, torn to shreds. Everyone thinks Grady's new dog is responsible. After all, he looks just like a wolf. And he seems a little on the wild side.Volume 15: You Can't Scare Me!: Courtney is a total show-off. She thinks she's so brave and she's always making Eddie and his friends look like wimps. But now Eddie's decided he's had enough. He's going to scare Courtney once and for all. And he's just come up with the perfect plan. He's going to lure Courtney down to Muddy Creek. Volume 16: One Day At Horrorland: The Morris family got lost trying to find Zoo Gardens Theme Park. But that's okay. They found another amusement park instead. It's called Horrorland. In Horrorland there are no crowds. No lines. And the admission is free. It seems like a pretty cool place. But that was before that heart-stopping ride on the deadly Doom Slide. And that terrifying experience in the House of Mirrors.

Genres: Horror

Paperback

First published September 1, 1994

About the author

Robert Lawrence Stine known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series.

R. L. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold.

Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. He lives in New York, NY.

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Reviews

[Whitney · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was wicied cool. I love wolfs.Werewolf of Fever Swamp is cool.

[Sinaan Haadi]

Always Like the Chill in the Goosebumps.

[Sumeet]

nice book to read once

[Sally · Rating 5 out of 5]

cool

[Crystal Stine · Rating 5 out of 5]

English 425 Submitter’s name: Crystal Alexander
Book Bank Book Bank subject: Horror

Reference information:
Title: One Day in Horror Land
Author: R.L. Stine
Publisher: Year:1996
# of pages:130 Genre: Horror
Reading level: 5th or 6th Grade Interest level: Relcuent Reader
Potential hot lava: If a child was easily scared it may not be a good book for them to read.


General response/reaction: I read this book a long time ago when I as in 5th grade and I hated it. I didn’t want to do it. When I read it again today it was so easy, so I think that I was reading it and the reason that I didn’t like it was due to the fact that I wasn’t on that level yet.

Subjects, Themes, and Big Ideas: The subject his horror and the ideas are that teens and tweens are put in challenging situtionations and they have to figure out how to get out of them.

Characters: Lizzy; she is 12 years old and she is the main character in the book.
Luke; Lizzy’s little brother, thinks that everything is fun and pinching is really fun.
Clay; Luke’s friend who comes on many vacations with them.
Mom and Dad; side characters that don’t really move the story much until the end.

Plot summary: Lizzy and her family are headed to Zooland for a family vacation, when they get lost and find themselves going in circles. When one of their circles leads them to Horrorland, they decide that they should go in and take a look around, when their car blows up and the rides seem to come alive, can they get out in time to live through Horrorland?

Strengths (including reviews and awards): I didn’t find any awards that this book received. But I believe that this book would be good for a reluctant reader, it is written in a way that is fun and I think that it would help extend vocabulary.

Drawbacks or other cautions:

Teaching ideas: I would do a unit on R.L. Stine. I think that he is a good author and that he keeps kinds interested. I think that it would be a book that parents would not disagree with, and it could be something fun to get everyone to read. I would have the students read the book and then come up with ways to present it; they could act it out, do posters or a book report.

[Landon · Rating 5 out of 5]

it was a good book and good detail