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Summary: horror
Review: Have you ever been scared by a story that you heard from a friend that had to do with a monster that lived in a chicken coop? Well, if you haven't, here is a review of such a story. This is a story taken from The Dark Thirty by Patricia C.
McKissack. It goes all the way back to July 8, 1960 with a little girl named Missy who was nine years old. Her parents have been married for ten years but on July 8,1960 they got divorced. As soon as her parents split up she was sent off to a school in Tennessee. As few years later Missy is now living in the country with her grandma and grandpa. They raise cows, horses, and chickens. One night Missy heard a weird sound coming from the chicken coop. One of her friends dared her to go over and see what was in the chicken coop. As she went towards the chicken coop she heard the sound again. That scared her. She ran back into the house. Every night for a week she would hear the same sound and she would do the same thing, run scared back to the house. Each night she became more frightened, not ever knowing for sure what was making the noises until the end. This is a conflict of self vs. self because what she feared was much larger than the real thing.This book was not what I expected it to be. It was classified as a horror book, and the illustration on the cover showed a girl running and that gave me an expression that she might be in trouble. It seemed the book would be about scary stories. One of the stories that I read did not seem that suspenseful. The story was about a monster in the chicken but it did not seem scary to me. I would not recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good horror novel.
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Summary: A Must-Have Book for Secondary Teachers
Review: I am a middle school reading teacher who was given a copy of this book when it was first released. I fell in love with the stories as did my students! Each school year I start by reading "The Chicken Coop Monster" with every emotional fiber in my body. I require my students to write down the 10 rules randomly disclosed in the through out the story. This school year the book is completely worn out and I purchased another! No story will disappoint you in this book. This book leaves my students in awe as I read the stories each year! Equally pleasing is the art work by Brian Pinkney.
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Summary: A Must-Have Book for Secondary Teachers
Review: I am a middle school reading teacher who was given a copy of this book when it was first released. I fell in love with the stories as did my students! Each school year I start by reading "The Chicken Coop Monster" with every emotional fiber in my body. I require my students to write down the 10 rules randomly disclosed in the through out the story. This school year the book is completely worn out and I purchased another! No story will disappoint you in this book. This book leaves my students in awe as I read the stories each year! Equally pleasing is the art work by Brian Pinkney.
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Summary: The new review
Review: I read this book when I was in 6th grade with my class. We would read a story every day or week.(whenever we had the time) When it came time t read a story everyone would get real quiet.(which was surpising since I had a real bad class in 6th grade) The stories are spooky and also mysterious. You would start reading and you couldn't put the book down because you would just have to know the ending. This book was great!!!!!!!! How did you like my review?
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Summary: A must read book!
Review: I read this book when I was in middle school, and I haven't forgotten it since! I remember sitting in my living room and being very frightened when I read that book. The most harrowing tale (and the one that kept me up at night) was the one about the gingi from the Nigerian legend. McKissack's uses wonderful imagery and diction to convey stories not soon to be forgotten!
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Summary: This book is DA BOMB!!!!!!!
Review: I read this book when I was in sixth grade with my class. I had a really bad class in sixth grade but we would always be good when we went to reading class so we could read The Dark Thirty. From the first few pages that you read in the beginning you just wanna keep on reading so you could know what happens in the end. Then, when you read the end you would be stunned by what happened. In my class, we were always saying,"Can we read another story,PLEASE!!!!" This book is excellant!
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Summary: LOVE THIS BOOK!
Review: I used to read this book all the time when I was in middle school. The stories are very disturbing and frightening. Not really a book for middle schoolers. It sure did keep me up nights. One really scary one was "The 11:59". I remember lying in my bed, dreading for that time to roll around on my alarm clock. I'm planning to buy this book. It's reasonably priced on this site. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Voodoo Gumbo--Zacherle would love this!
Review: This book consists of ten eerie tales of the supernatural--begging to be read Alone on "a dark and stormy night," or retold around a friendly campfire. These tales present Black protagonists from the slave era, throughout American history, right up to the present. The title refers to the half hour of semi-darkness which precedes true nightful--when all tales seem spookier because of the shadows and rustling of nocturnal creatures. The stories vary greatly in subject and style: slaves atempt to escape rather than be sold off, or they invoke ancient voodoo rituals to punish a cruel master. A callous bus driver gets a ghostly brand of justice; an old pullman porter tries to cheat death aboard the 11:59; a man uses ESP to try to
save his family. A distraught mother encounters a sasquatch; a little girl has an unreasonable terror of a monster in the chicken coop, and more. My personal favorite presentsa Nigerian legend about the Dark Women who tried to cheat a goddess; they exist solely to trick unwary moderns into inviting them into their homes, where they wreak havoc upon the unsuspecting tenants who naively think they are safe in the 90's. Only the Gingi can protect these hapless souls from such vindictive spirits. Like Dracula lore, which insists that the victim must cross the threshhold of his own free will, the evil visitor must receive an invitation before entering. An entertaining and chilling anthology--for those with a premonition of disaster. There are no references to Halloween, yet this book makes for perfect October reading. Are you brave enough to finish it? BOO!
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Summary: Voodoo Gumbo--Zacherle would love this!
Review: This book consists of ten eerie tales of the supernatural--begging to be read Alone on "a dark and stormy night," or retold around a friendly campfire. These tales present Black protagonists from the slave era, throughout American history, right up to the present. The title refers to the half hour of semi-darkness which precedes true nightful--when all tales seem spookier because of the shadows and rustling of nocturnal creatures. The stories vary greatly in subject and style: slaves atempt to escape rather than be sold off, or they invoke ancient voodoo rituals to punish a cruel master. A callous bus driver gets a ghostly brand of justice; an old pullman porter tries to cheat death aboard the 11:59; a man uses ESP to try to
save his family. A distraught mother encounters a sasquatch; a little girl has an unreasonable terror of a monster in the chicken coop, and more. My personal favorite presentsa Nigerian legend about the Dark Women who tried to cheat a goddess; they exist solely to trick unwary moderns into inviting them into their homes, where they wreak havoc upon the unsuspecting tenants who naively think they are safe in the 90's. Only the Gingi can protect these hapless souls from such vindictive spirits. Like Dracula lore, which insists that the victim must cross the threshhold of his own free will, the evil visitor must receive an invitation before entering. An entertaining and chilling anthology--for those with a premonition of disaster. There are no references to Halloween, yet this book makes for perfect October reading. Are you brave enough to finish it? BOO!
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Summary: Still Excellent
Review: This was one of my favorite books as a child, and continues to be to this day. The lessons it teaches are wrapped in tales so entertaining I latched on to it for my entire life, despite my usual distaste for the genres associated with "Ghost Stories" or "Folk Tales." Finding it again here just reminded me of how much I loved it, and it will be added to the list of books to read to my children, in time.
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