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Summary: The Secret Path
Review: Adam a new person who moved to Springville is shocked when he hears about the past of Springville otherwise known as
Spooksville. He follows a secret path and sees terrors from
withes to evil black knights and dead people roaming around!
He is helped to win this adventure and many others as he
learns just how unusual Spooksville can be
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Summary: Spooksville
Review: Adam Freeman moves from Kansas City to Springville a.k.a. Spooksville. He meets Sally Wilcox. She introduces him to Watch setting off an adventure into the unknown.
Watch seeks The Secret Path and bribes a bum with a sandwich to gain information about it. He tells them to, "Follow the life of the witch. Follow her all the way to her death, and remember, when they brought her to her grave, they carried her upside-down. They buried her face down, as they do all witches. All those they are afraid to burn." Bum was the town mayor until he upset Ann Templeton and she laid a curse on him. Ann is the great-great-great-great granddaughter of Madeliane Templeton the witch who founded the town 200 years ago.
The children discover that the town lapses into other realities via that path stumbling into one themselves and Adam Freeman learns that his new home will be far from boring. There are often legends written about certain places on the planet where bizarre phenomenon is said to occur often. Christopher Pike has created a series that plays on such stories. A fun and scary read!
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Summary: Spooksville
Review: Adam Freeman moves from Kansas City to Springville a.k.a. Spooksville. He meets Sally Wilcox and introduces him to Watch setting off an adventure into the unknown.Watch seeks The Secret Path and bribes a bum with a sandwich to gain information about it. He tells them to, "Follow the life of the witch. Follow her all the way to her death, and remember, when they brought her to her grave, they carried her upside-down. They buried her face down, as they do all witches. All those they are afraid to burn." Bum was the town mayor until he upset Ann Templeton and she laid a curse on him. Ann is the great-great-great-great granddaughter of Madeliane Templeton who founded the town 200 years ago. The children discover that the town lapses into other realities via that path stumbling into one themselves and Adam Freeman learns that his new home will be far from boring. There are often legends written about certain places on the planet where bizarre phenomenon is said to occur often. Christopher Pike has created a series that plays on such stories. A fun and scary read!
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Summary: The First Spooksville!
Review: Cool!. The Freemans' are moving to Kansas City and they are now living in Spooksville. He had some friends there. The city is named Spookswville because spooky thing happen there. Then they taught their might be a Secret Path in Spooksville so they search the path. Wow!. They found the Secret Path. The Secret Path is a magical path that leads into the other Spooksvilles. Adam, Watch and Sally will go through the dark doorway. On the other side of Sppooksville, they found a huge spider.... They Also found a witch who loves to make dolls out of kids.
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Summary: Spooksville-Not Just For Little Kids
Review: Finally, a series of Pike books for little kids. I started reading these aloud to my little brother, but soon became fascinated by them as well. His creative genuis really flows in these books, I guess because pretty much anything can happen in Spooksville. Pike also exercises his utterly BRILLIANT sense of humor in the Spooksville series, through the witty and hilarious character Sally. My little brother actually didn't get some of the jokes that I loved, which just shows that older people are probably even more likely to enjoy these books than little kids (not that kids won't enjoy them!!) The plots of these books are complex and fascinating, and always carefully done. So many kids books just seem to throw logic out the window. Pike obviously knows what he's talking about when his plots concern the complexities of time travel or spacecraft. Still, it's never too complex for little kids. Because this is a series, the characters can develop over time into very complex people without spending too much time on character development in each book (I know my brother hates that--he wants to get to the action). And instead of explaining his characters as Adam, the leader, Sally, the witty sarcastic one, Cindy, the goody-goody, he actually shows us this, consistently, through their actions. These characters seem like real people, in particular the mysterious Watch and the witty Sally. Cindy and Adam, the newcomers to Spooksville, are a bit more bland and normal, but kids will be able to relate to them better. For any parent who's sick of their kids reading that R.L. Stine crap, get your kids some "Spooksville" books!!
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Summary: A boy who moves to a new town learns it is full of danger
Review: I feel this book is okay. It started off slow but then got better. The story is about a young man named Adam who comes to a town named Springville learns it is called Spooksville for all the weird stuff that happens there.After meeting a few kids there they go on a secret path they heard of, a path to a land of danger.
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Summary: This is a very good series of books!
Review: I love the Spooksville series. They are always having new adventures and getting smarter throughout the series. I especially like Adam. These are very refreshing books after all the murders in the R.L.Stine books. I would advise this to lots of kids. I hope to see more in the series!
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Summary: A series of fond memories.
Review: I read this series when I was young, and was positively dismal when my bookstore stopped selling them after I read book #14. This series holds some of my fond memories of book reading days, along with Animorphs, and various other series of my (not too far away) youth. That being said, Christopher Pike is an excellent writer, and even a grown person can falll for the charms of these books. He may write them for children, but the plots are enjoyable enough for anyone.
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Summary: Spooksville
Review: I think that the most important thing that the author wants the reader to know is not to take your pride too seriously and keep a grip on reality, I think that because Adam did not believe in the things and did not keep an open mind no matter how crazy it might of been got him into a lot of trouble and mishap.
Christopher Pike wants the reader to know this is to prevent being a situation like that. By ignoring things you could be increasing your chances of being in great danger all because of your pride and/or ego.
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Summary: Spooksville
Review: It's been a long, long time since I first picked up Spooksvillenumber one ... , but I'll never forget the great feeling it left me with at the end. It was the first book of Mr. Pike I had ever read. Christopher Pike is, and probably always will be, my fave. author, becuase of his uncanny ability to know what people want and deliver. I'm approaching ... but I still look for more Spooksville titles along with the Matt Reilly and Tom Clancy I read today. It's a great series for youngsters because it doesn't treat them like fools who run to their mommies at the first sign of trouble expecting them to be believed. The charcters, young as they are, take matters into their own ahnds and rely on each other rather than adults. .... In conclusion,read every Spooksville you can find because the stories are sensational and the characters are BELIEVABLE. Also, stop at nothing to read anything with Christopher Pike's name on it, especially The Last Vampire Series.
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