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Welcome to Camp Nightmare (Goosebumps Series)

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Have you ever been stuck at a camp where everybody keeps disappearing? Well Billy, the protagonist of the book Welcome To Camp Nightmare, has. Billy and his friends can handle the food, the counselors, and Uncle Al. then Jay, Roger, Mike and Colin, his bunkmates, start disappearing one by one. Now what's going on?
First, a snake bit Mike. He got taken away because it hurt so badly. Colin got hit in the head with a baseball. He was seeing double like a bug. Larry threw it so hard that Colin had to go to the hospital. Next Jay and Roger went to the forbidden bunk. Roger screamed like a little baby when it's hungry. Everyone said there was something out there and Roger had just found it. A monster called Sabre had eaten Roger. Jay luckily survived but then disappeared on a walk he took the next day.
Billy had been witnessing all of this. He was scared to death as if he had just been kidnapped. New bunkmates came in Billy's bunk. They were very strange. Billy didn't want to go with them anywhere or do any of the activities. He was so scared.
I feel that it was a great book. I really anticipated turning the pages. I was on the verge of finishing the whole book in one night. I was very frightened when Billy was all alone. I didn't know if he was going to get home. I had to finish the book!
What will happen? What's going on? Why won't his parents answer his letters? What kind of monster is Sabre? All of these questions can be answered when you read the Goosebumps book, Welcome To Camp Nightmare, R.L. Stine. Will Billy get home or even survive? Read the book and find out.

ISBN 0590466194 - All the horror stories of camp are real, from the food to the counselors. Even the ones that are never real, like disappearing campers, come true in Welcome to Camp Nightmare.

Billy is 12 and going to his first sleepaway camp at Camp Nightmoon. Even before they reach the camp, things take a bad turn as the campers are attacked by wolf-like creatures. Things get worse. Campers do disappear - and Uncle Al and the counselors don't care! Even Billy's parents can't be counted on. They haven't written once while Billy's been at camp and, when Visitors Day is cancelled, Billy's one window of opportunity for escape has slammed shut. What could possibly happen next?

My greatest complaint about the book is that the ending was quite abrupt, at what should be the climax of the story. Something like a rollercoaster, zipping along, and suddenly coming to a stop. I'm pretty sure that was intentional, but it has the feeling of Stine having painted himself into a corner and getting out of it the only way available. Good reading, though, for the target audience.

- AnnaLovesBooks

In this particuler book the begging is great but the end kind of drags, but im not saying you shouldn't read it its still a great book!
The protagonist in this book is Billy. He and some other kids get sent to camp nightmoon but when the bus driver unloads everything in the middle of nowhere they think that their in the wrong place, but the driver ignored them and drove off leaving all the kids with the question still in their head where were they.After being atacked by some sort of beast uncle Al the camp consular comes to the rescue.Uncle Al shows each kid to their cabins which they had to share. Suddenly wierd things started to happen and people started missing but when Bily would ask a question the other camp consulars were mean about it and wouldnt give them the proper answer they deserve!
Hey i know what your thinking what happens next well thats all th info your getting out of me so if your curios to see what the beast is and why everyone is missing red the book and you will unlock worlds of answers!

What i liked best about this book is that was that so many things were happing in a short amount of time which builds the suspence and excitement with each coming page!

The book, Welcome To Camp Nightmare, by R.L. Stine, is a story about a boy who is going to a boy's camp during the summer. He had a couple close encounters but he made it through. His friends started missing and the stakes was getting higher. The counselors are not paying any attain to him.
Billy was a good detective and a leader. He came up with great ideals and also he was brave. All of the others weren't being themselves. I think the message of this book is you can always depend on your friends. I hated when his friends and counselors was acting everything out but Billy didn't know. Now the best thing was the mystery about what was happening to all the kids. The overall ending of the book was shocking and weird.
I think that the author's style says just what we need to keep us interested very during the entire book. For an example a person could be gone with so type of monster somewhere around the camp. I think this book will be good for ages 7-16 because of a little violence and the thrilling suspense story. This story is recommend for all readers. It tells about an ordinary kid in a weird but cool place. On a scale from 1-5 stars I give it all five stars.
By: C.H.

I was a Goosebumps fanatic ever since "Welcome to Dead House" came out in 1992, when I was only 6 years old. A few yrs. ago, I've grown out of R.L. Stine's books, but I do remember this being the best of them all. It's the best because of the twisted ending. WHOA!

As Welcome to Camp Nightmare begins we join a lively group of youngsters headed to the sleep-away camp, Camp Nightmoon, called Camp Nightmare by the campers...and with good reason. In this volume we meet 12 year old Billy who is headed out for his first time at sleep-away camp, we join him on the bus ride with his fellow campers, including two girls who are headed to the girls camp of the same name, just across the river. Billy hits it off with one of the girls and hopes to see her as the summer goes on. They are let off abruptly and left alone at a station where they are nearly set upon by large wild dogs. They are whisked away to Camp Nightmoon where he is assigned to Bunk 4, just down the hill from the ominous "Forbidden Bunk" which they are told to stay away from at all costs or a wolf like monster called Sabre will kill them. They are also warned against bear attacks...all of this seems highly causal to both the reader and to Billy who wonders why his parents would send him off to a camp that is so dangerous.

Almost immediately things head down hill for Billy and his bunk mates; Larry (their camp counselor who isn't around much and is indifferent when he is), Roger, Jay, Collin and Mike. Snakes attack Mike whose hand swells up, Billy comes through with a plan to get the snakes out of the bunk, but it's too late for poor Mike's hand...even worse, there's not nurse at the camp and Neither Uncle Al (runs the camp) nor Larry seem to care in the slightest. From there, it's a downward spiral for Billy and his bunkmates as one after another mysteriously disappears and as fear mounts for Billy wondering why Larry and Uncle Al seem so oblivious and unconcerned about something that is very wrong at Camp Night Moon...will Billy escape the fate of his bunkmates? You'll have to read to find out.

Overall, Camp Nightmare is an over-the-top, no holds barred near-parody of the classic sleep-away camp horror/thriller story. We are given a camp where EVERYTHING is wrong and where our hopelessly frightened protagonist is faced with a monster, the "forbidden bunk," disappearing bunkmates, a cruel counselor, a possibly psychotic Uncle Al, and a steadily mounting feeling that Billy's days are numbered! Camp Nightmare manages to be both suspenseful and horrific in a tame sort of way...one that makes the reader want to stop all the action and shake the character while screaming NO WAY...stop and think about it...but he never does and in the end we are given a totally unique twist (that is equally as unrealistic as the rest of the book) when the book comes to a screeching halt, concluding very abruptly! All the loose ends are tied up and the story IS entertaining, though your brain will scream NO WAY for most of the book, I give it four stars (instead of three) because I totally didn't see the ending that Stine gave it, so despite the over exaggerated plot details, he "got" me in the end. This is the type of book you read for the sheer entertainment of it...you know it's not right, you know it's unrealistic...yet you are compelled to read it to the very last page and you walk away with a little giggle and rolling your eyes...but you have been entertained and that makes it worth reading.

this is another great r.l. stine book from the goosebump series. billy is sent to summer camp, camp nightmoon. at first it's just like any other camp, bad food, strange counselors, and a demented director. but soon, strange things start to happen. campers disappear, his parents aren't replying to his letters, scarey noises outside. this camp is turning into a real nightmare. with no one to turn to, what's going to happen to billy?

Your Nightmares about camp are coming true in the book Welcome To Camp Nightmare by RL Stine. In this book a boy named Billy gets to camp and many strange things start to happen. Billy is shocked when the camp has no nurse. Uncle Al does not care if he loses campers. Billy's friends start to disappear and he is worried about them.
I was not impressed with the ending to this book but I still think it is a great book. If you like aliens then you will like the end to Welcome to Camp Nightmare.
I recommend this book Welcome to Camp Nightmare to readers 9-13 years old. It is a wonderful book. If you read this book I am sure you will enjoy it.

I was addicted to these books when i was younger and it wasn't until i was majoring with education in college that i figured out why. They were intersting with bizarre plot twists that most 9-12 year olds don't tyhink about and they were short[ ussualy between with 110-130 pages]. I could read the whole thing in a day.

My parents didn't have a lot of heartache with buying me a new book because these are relatively inexpensive[ in the neighborhood of 3-5 bucks each]

R.L. Stine's Goosebumps books aren't scary, just kind of creepy. There aren't graphic desciptions of murder and mayhem. Just some ghosts, werewolves or potions. The main character is alive in the end, and the final chapter resolves everything.

**Keep in mind, R.L. Stine has other books that aren't in the Goosebumps series that tend to be a little harsher when it comes to hauntings and plots. They are written more for the 12-14 age group and are longer [around 150-200 pages]

Ahh the memories althuogh Im older now I still remember this as one of my favorite books. This is the one book in this series with the best cover art genuinly creepy. The story is great and Billy the main character is very good and very strong. The story is great and the twist ending is awesome good for a kids book. This sort of reminds me of the film Friday the 13th which is also scary