

Lexile Measure: 440 (What's this?)
Series: Eerie Elementary (Book 2)
Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Scholastic Inc. (August 26, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0545623952
ISBN-13: 978-0545623957
Product Dimensions: 0.2 x 5.2 x 7.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (92 customer reviews)
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Age Range: 6 - 8 years
Grade Level: 1 - 3

(VERY MILD SPOILER.) The story here is that Sam Graves has been appointed to be the new hall monitor at Eerie Elementary School. In Volume 1 Sam learned that this position comes with the responsibility for protecting the students from the evil force that occupies and animates the school. Sam, with his pals Lucy and Antonio, must labor to protect the school. Volume 2 starts with a bang as Sam and Antonio are called upon to save Lucy from a man eating locker, and then the entire gang has to battle the eeeevil behind the demented "living" school.Now this is a pretty clever hook and allows for some creepy action, some menace and suspense, cooperative effort by Sam and his friends, and all kinds of action/adventure complications. In Volume 1 the author had to set up the whole premise. In this volume it's very much all action, (with some surprise developments), and it's actually pretty intense for a chapter book. (SPOILER: We have kidnapping, a creepy basement, being trapped in a flooding room, being attacked by a monster hand, being squeezed by stuff - as I say, this is pretty intense, so be warned if your little reader is sensitive to that.)The book is irony, sarcasm, and snark free. The author isn't trying to have it both ways by spoofing the very book he has written. There are laughs, but not at the book's or the reader's expense. Mercifully, there also aren't mean kids and bullies, which lately always seem to be tossed in to these efforts, even if they make no sense and add nothing to the story.This is another entry in the series Scholastic calls "Branches", which so far consists of about nine different sets of books.
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