Title: Here Comes the Shaggedy
Author: R.L. Stine
Published: Feb. 23, 2016
Publisher: Scholastic
Pages: 140
Genre: Children ages 8 on up
Review: Paperback
The infamous, Most Wanted Goosebumps characters are out on the loose and after you.. Kelli and Shawn Anderson are not excited about having to move to another state - especially because their new home is directly next to a giant swamp. But their dad is a scientist and he's going down there to study the local flora and fauna. Unfortunately for Kelli and Shawn, there seem to be some very strange creatures that live around their house. They keep hearing about the legend of the Shaggedy, an ancient beast that lives far below the surface of the swamp and can cause a whole lot of damage. Can Kelli and Shawn convince their dad to move back home before it is too late?"
We actually got this for a good price as we bough this book along with another one from our school library.
I have never read Here Comes the Shaggedy so I wasn't sure what it was going to be about. Looking at the cover it seems to have a creature almost like a snapping turtle.
Instead of a snapping turtle it is a swamp beast, one that lives in the swamp near where Kellie and Shawn will be living, since they have to move. They will hear stories, and meet creepy people, but nothing will prepare them for what actually comes from the middle of the swamp. Maybe they shouldn't mess around with things they don't know much about.
For a Stine book it really was not that scary, we learn who is behind the swamp beast it was actually pretty neat how it all came about. K was in awe on that part.
Overall it was a good read with a good story plot.
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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