Tales from Lovecraft Middle School #2: The Slither Sisters

Author: Gilman, Charles

Color: Grey

Edition: Illustrated

Number Of Pages: 160

Details:

“Two-headed monsters, giant tentacles, angry demons – Lovecraft Middle School is great creepy fun!” –Ransom Riggs, author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children   This second novel in the Tales from Lovecraft Middle School series begins right where Professor Gargoyle ended.  Seventh-grader Robert Arthur has discovered that two of his classmates are actually sinister snake-women in disguise. Even worse, his new middle school is full of “gates” to a terrifying alternate dimension – a haunted mansion full of strange spirits and monstrous beasts.  For Robert to protect his teachers and classmates, he'll need to return to this haunted dimension with his best friends Glenn and Karina.   Can they uncover the secrets of Lovecraft Middle School before it's too late?   The Slither Sisters features more bizarre beasts, more strange mysteries, and more adventure.  It's perfect for readers ages 10 and up. Best of all, the cover features a state-of-the-art “morphing” photo portrait – so you can personally witness the sisters transforming into their slithering alter egos.  You won't believe your eyes! From School Library Journal Gr 6-8-This book picks up where Professor Gargoyle (Quirk, 2012) left off. The Price twins are back, but something is decidedly not right about them and seventh-grader Robert Arthur and his new friends Glenn and Karina are determined to get to the bottom of it all. But first, he needs to run for student-council president, because Sarah Price is running against the dorky Howard Mergler, who doesn't stand a chance against her. She and her sister, Sylvia, are both slithering snake monsters in disguise. It seems that the school was built with materials recycled from remnants of a haunted mansion, and monsters are conspiring to take over the school. Only Robert, Glenn, and Karina, who is a ghost, know about it. This fast-paced, humorous tale will appeal to fans of horror along the lines of R. L. Stine. The pace as well as the spot art will keep readers hooked, and a cliff-hanger of sorts will keep them asking for more. It is best to start with book one, but not totally necessary.-Brenda Kahn, Tenakill Middle School, Closter, NJα(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. From Booklist Following Professor Gargoyle (2012), this second outing in the promising Tales from Lovecraft Middle School series introduces Sarah and Sylvia Price, popular 13-year-old twins who turn into revolting snake girls with eight-inch tongues once you cross through the portal between middle school and haunted Tillinghast Mansion. It’s up to Robert, Glenn, and ghost girl Karina to stop the “snakesisters” from leading the whole school to doom at the tentacles of the Old Ones. Lovecraftian gibberish (“Y’golonac chaugnar faugn”) and beasties (ably sketched by Smith) keep this fast, fun, and adequately disgusting. Great teaser for volume three, too. Grades 4-6. --Daniel Kraus

Reviews:

“This fast-paced, humorous tale will appeal to fans of horror along the lines of R. L. Stine.”—Brenda Kahn,  School Library Journal  

“Fast, fun, and adequately disgusting.”—Daniel Kraus,  Booklist  

“[ Slither Sisters is] another slightly creepy, often funny read... [that is] worth a look for fans of  Spiderwickand the ever-living  Goosebumps.”

— Kirkus Reviews  

“If you like  Monster High or  Harry Potter, you will really like this book.”

— Sacramento Book Review   

“These books are hilarious and gross and charming and bizarre and, basically, totally entertaining.”—Ben H. Winters, author  The Mystery of the Everything and  The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman, a Bank Street Best Book of 2011 and an Edgar Award nominee   Praise for Tales from Lovecraft Middle School #1: Professor Gargoyle

“Two-headed monsters, giant tentacles, angry demons –  Lovecraft Middle School is great creepy fun!”—Ransom Riggs, author of  Miss Peregrine's Home ...

EAN: 9781594745935

Release Date: 15-01-2013

Languages: English

Item Condition: New

Binding: Hardcover