Don't Eat the Mystery Meat! (Graveyard School)

Rating:
Summary: I'm really not surprised that it's fallen out of print
Review: I used to order a LOT of books from the Scholastic book club. I think I must have ordered something from every flyer until high school, which was when the edjumucashunal system decided that we were too old for recreational reading. It won't come as a shock that I ended up with a LOT of really bad books. The Graveyard School books happen to be among the bad. These aren't the worst I've read, but they certainly aren't the best.

This book really wasn't that bad a read, at least not back in the day. School lunches aren't fun to eat, so there's always a certain glee for a kid to find in a book by an ADULT who realizes that the stuff is terrible. After a giggle, and one read through, you'll never touch it again, even if you're in the age group it's aimed at. Also, it's not exactly aimed at a highbrow audience. No big words, no real purpose, just entertainment reading.

I feel that it's sort of necessary to point out that in the mid-`90s there were a glut of cheap books published to rake in the interest in pre-teen horror-thrillers generated by R. L. Stine's Goosebumps series. These were published by Scholastic, making them a tad bit better than the ones that hit the dollar stores, but not by much. Also, the jigsaw puzzle it comes with is about three by four inches and made out of thin stuff that barely qualifies as cardboard. Don't get your hopes up for getting a really cool prize.

This is a book best left for school libraries, and not something you want to pay to have on your home bookshelf.

Rating:
Summary: I'm really not surprised that it's fallen out of print
Review: I used to order a LOT of books from the Scholastic book club. I think I must have ordered something from every flyer until high school, which was when the edjumucashunal system decided that we were too old for recreational reading. It won't come as a shock that I ended up with a LOT of really bad books. The Graveyard School books happen to be among the bad. These aren't the worst I've read, but they certainly aren't the best.

This book really wasn't that bad a read, at least not back in the day. School lunches aren't fun to eat, so there's always a certain glee for a kid to find in a book by an ADULT who realizes that the stuff is terrible. After a giggle, and one read through, you'll never touch it again, even if you're in the age group it's aimed at. Also, it's not exactly aimed at a highbrow audience. No big words, no real purpose, just entertainment reading.

I feel that it's sort of necessary to point out that in the mid-`90s there were a glut of cheap books published to rake in the interest in pre-teen horror-thrillers generated by R. L. Stine's Goosebumps series. These were published by Scholastic, making them a tad bit better than the ones that hit the dollar stores, but not by much. Also, the jigsaw puzzle it comes with is about three by four inches and made out of thin stuff that barely qualifies as cardboard. Don't get your hopes up for getting a really cool prize.

This is a book best left for school libraries, and not something you want to pay to have on your home bookshelf.