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Avid Multi-Genre Reader. Lover of Books with Unique Settings. Audiobook Fanatic. Sweet Tea Addict. Mom of Two Boys & Mistress of Two Very Energetic Black Kittens.  -Empress Reece

Currently reading

Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
Steven Callahan
Subhuman (A Unit 51 Novel)
Michael McBride
Despite Lupus: How to Live Well with a Chronic Illness (1)
Sara Gorman
A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie
Kathryn Harkup
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The Worst Halloween Book Ever...

The Best Halloween Ever (Digital Audio) - Barbara Robinson, Elaine Stritch

So my son needs to get 24 AR (Accelerated Reading) points this month and I needed a Halloween book to read for my Halloween Book Bingo: "Set on Halloween" square so I thought we could kill two birds with one stone so to speak, by listening to this audio book in the car on the way too & from school. The book has a grade reading level of 5.5 and an interest level for grades 3-5 so since Reece is in 5th grade I thought it might just work.

Well it didn't! And I read somewhere that this sequel came 30 years after the last book so you would think if it was that long in the making it would be a 5 star read but it read like it took 30 minutes to write not 30 years. It was a complete dud! He didn't like it and neither did I. Some of the subject matter seemed more appropriate for older kids in 3rd -5th but the delivery was terrible and geared more toward Kindergarten through 1st grade students. The author repeated the same thing over and over again and the plot was so thin it was practically non-existent. Since neither one of us liked it, I definitely would not recommend to any older kids or adults. 

 

 

*I read this for my 2016 Halloween Book Bingo: ~Set on Halloween~ square