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Night of the Werecat (R.L. Stine's Ghosts of Fear Street, No 12)

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I read this book when I was younger and loved it! It's about a young girl who loves cats, but her mother and father won't let her get one. One day when she gose to a cat show she finds a cool looking charm with a cat on it that is being sold by the towns crazy cat lady(there's one in every town). Even after the crazy cat tells her No, you can't have it, she takes it. After that every night she turns into a Werecat at Midnight, doomed to run the streets untill light of morning.
The book was a lot of fun, and I found it to have a shocking end (normal for R.L. Stine).

Synopsis: Wendy Chapman loves cats, even though she doesn't have any of her own. Nancy, one of the girls in Shadyside Middle School, constantly pokes jokes at Wendy for being obsessed with cats. One day, Wendy and her friend, Tina Barnes go to the "Shadyside Cat Circle Breeders Show" to look at the variety of cats displayed. In one of the rooms, they see a stall where a woman named Mrs. Bast encourages them to buy some cat souvenirs. Wendy sees a silver chain, with a metal charm of a cat with a white star on its forehead. Wendy loves it and takes it, even though Mrs. Bast tells her about Werecats and warns her from buying it.

As soon as Wendy wears the chain, she starts turning into a Werecat at midnight. Even though she initially loves the experience of being a cat, the vicious nature of the Werecat starts to control Wendy. Can Wendy remove the curse of the Werecat from her body before it is too late?

Review: I thought this book was interesting at times, but on the whole I thought it dragged on for quite sometime. First of all, I don't understand why Nancy, the mean girl, pokes jokes at Wendy for liking cats, when she hasn't even seen Wendy with even 1 cat. Okay, so Nancy is allergic to cat hair, but it doesn't explain why she pokes fun at Wendy for it.

Secondly, the story repeats itself in the middle, when the author repeatedly mentions that Wendy the Werecat jumps out at night and clearly sees the insects, the moths etc. again and again. If the author had put in a different angle to what he wrote, instead of writing the same thing, then it would have been more fun to read it.

However, there were also some entertaining parts to the book. For instance, I enjoyed how Wendy got her revenge on Nancy, by going to her room and spreading her scent everywhere, knowing that Nancy was allergic to it. I also liked the ending because there was a twist to it which I did not expect.

Overall, the book had some good cliffhangers to it, but otherwise it was dull.

I loved this book. If you own a cat it is better. Really scarey and you can't put it down... you just must know what's going to happen next.

The transformations in this book were neat, I counted 7. The charm necklace caused the cat to act sincerley crazy, which was funny cause I have a cat! :-) I read this book 3 times in one sitting! I strongly reccomend this book!

I thought it was sad when Wendy couldn't have a pet cat of her own. I have a cat myself, and I know I couldn't live a day without her tripping me everywhere I went! And the way she had her room, too! And I thought I loved cats! I thought it was funny when she went into that girl's room and rolled around in her clothes, making her have an allergic reaction the next day! That was cool. And when she was running away from those other cats, and they caught up to her, I thought she was dead meat! Then they transformed, and they turned out to be her parents and brother. That was pretty neat. :)

This book was given to me in the 5th grade and I still read it. I loved every minute of this book. It was a real page turner. If you love adventure and revenge, you'll love this book.

A girl goes to a catshow and buys a cat carm even thou she was warned by the seller.One night she wakes up and starts to change . Defenetly fearstreet

this book was one of the best books that i have evar read myfriend let me borrow it and i have read it about three times i thoughtthat the author did a great job on the way she wrote this book and the way her family was the wearecats now that was sheer geniues not many people could come up with somthing that interesting it was soo good that i read it again!

When the book arrived it was in exellent condition. The delivery was fast (I dont know who is in charge of that, but thanks!) and the book was very inexpensive. I was definatley impressed.

I would recommend this book to any one who likes cats. It's about a girl named Wendy who buys a werecat charm, that she isn't supposed to buy. The women tells her it's not a cat charm it's a werecat charm. Later that night Wendy wakes up and notices that the moon is full. She never used to wake up at nighttime. When Wendy looks at moon she starts to fell funny. She notices that the charm she had gotten was glowing. She noticed she is growing fur all over her body. Her teeth are sharper than usual. Her ears have moved to the top of her head and they are now pointy. When Wendy wakes up she thinks that turning into a werecat was just a dream. She goes downstairs to get a drink. She drinks a half-a gallon of milk. The next night she turns back into a werecat. She goes back to the lady that sold her the werecat charm. She gets it taken off. Wendy still can't understand why she is still turning into a werecat. When Wendy turns into a werecat, and jumps out of her window and on a tree she sees another cat. Wendy approaches the cat and realizes that the cat has a white star on top of its forehead, just like her. She looks behind the black werecat and realizes that there are two others just like her. When the sun comes up Wendy realizes that the three werecats are her parents and her brother. Her parents explain why she has been turning into a werecat. It was because her ancestors werecats too.
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