Book of Screams (Book of Screams #1)
by Jeff Szpirglas (Author) Steven P Hughes (Illustrator)
Tanya is a huge fan of horror author Joel Southland...and he's coming to visit her school!
Even though she is his biggest fan, she barely gets a chance to say hello. But he does give her a signed bookmark: For Tanya. Stay Scared! Reading later that night, she figures it's just her eyes playing tricks on her when she sees the ink on the bookmark move a little. But when the ink slithers toward her, it's too late...
As Tanya tries to get to the bottom of Southland's nefarious schemes, the book is broken up by nine other creepy tales, including one about middle-school horror movie fans who track down the scariest horror movie of all time, another about a kid whose "baby eye" is beginning to fall out, and yet another about a vampire suffering due to a virus that is keeping people indoors.
A mix of squirmy, funny and downright terrifying, these tales will leave readers thinking twice about the things that go bump in the night.
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Gr 4-7--A collection of scary short stories that run the horror gamut. The first story, "Masks," lets readers know these tales will not have happy endings. "Tanya and the Ink" is a throughline narrative of a young horror fan trying to solve nefarious mysteries, told in five parts throughout. Some entries are stronger than others; "Words on the Wall" centers a young boy who sees words of warning written on walls of his school, but his friend doesn't believe they are there. "Baby Eyes" is one of the more unique stories and is about a girl who loses her "baby eye." This collection's spectrum of horror makes it a challenging one to recommend for a specific age group or audience. The levels of scary run at opposite ends, so true horror fans will find some not scary at all, but the tales may be too intense for younger readers. The entries do get a little repetitive, and "Tanya and the Ink" would be stronger as a single entry; some of the later parts feel like they could be skipped. VERDICT An additional purchase where Josh Allen's horror collections are popular.--Michelle Lettus
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Jeff Szpirglas is the author of several works for young people, including the horror collections Tales from Beyond the Brain and Tales from the Fringes of Fear. He is also the co-author, with Danielle Saint-Onge, of a number of Orca Echoes titles, including Shark Bait!, X Marks the Spot! and Messy Miranda. Jeff has worked at CTV and was an editor at Chirp, Chickadee and Owl magazines. In his spare time, he teaches grade school. Jeff lives with his family in Kitchener, Ontario.
Steven P. Hughes is an award-winning Canadian illustrator whose clients include the Globe and Mail, Reader's Digest and Scientific American. He graduated from Sheridan College with a BAA in illustration. He lives in Bolton, Ontario.
JUV018000 - Juvenile Fiction | Horror
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