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Dracula (Step-Up Adventures)

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This is another Bullseye, this time a chiller and not a classic like Les Miserable. However these series of books make classics and other heavy duty books palatable to the beginner in every budding reader in our homes. My 9 year old likes any Bullseye, so she finished this one in a couple of sittings and asked me to order RL Stevenson's 'Kidnapped' in the same series. I never thought Dracula is much of a story in written form, however it seems to have sustained her interest till the end. When will Bullseye come out with all the Harry Potters so I too can read them as small books and claim to have read them all !!

I'm a 4th grade teacher and I use this Dracula with book groups who need a lower reading level (3.4 grade level). Even struggling readers will rise to the level because they want to know more about Dracula. It is very well rewritten, keeping the atmosphere of certain scenes (which is vital to a book like Dracula) and with fairly well described characters. The storyline, barebones as it is, is perfectly adequate without showing any missing parts or loose threads. Spinner, the adapter, still gives my kids a lot to chew on when it comes to good sentences and great descriptions.

Do not look for Renfield, Dracula's wives, or subplots. This book was meant for no higher than 3rd to 4th grade level, and, as such, it's a great book.

This is an illustrated spinoff of Bram Stoker's Dracula. It's a lot shorter than Stoker's actual novel. By now I'm familiar with the Harker goes to Dracula's castle with Van Helsing intervening. The same basic story, almost follow's Bram Stoker's Dracula film scenne for scene.