Who Let the Ghosts Out? (Mostly Ghostly) [Hardcover]

R.L. Stine (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 24, 2004 | Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up | Series: Mostly Ghostly (Book 1)

Max’s life wasn’t going so well even before two ghosts moved into his closet. But when Nicky and Tara show up, claiming that they used to live in his room, everything changes for Max! Soon they’re following him to school, using their invisibility to embarrass him in front of the girl of his dreams. And to make matters worse, there’s some other totally evil spirit named Phears following him around turning animals inside out!

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About the Author

R.L. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children’s author in history. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold.

R.L. Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids’ Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA’s Read Across America program. He lives in New York, NY.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers (August 24, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385746636
• ISBN-13: 978-0385746632
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.6 x 7.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #794,359 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mostly Ghostly [book 1]: Who Let the Ghosts Out?, February 24, 2006

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speed_on_wheelz - See all my reviews

This review is from: Who Let the Ghosts Out? (Mostly Ghostly) (Library Binding)

Max is an 11-year-old boy who is haunted by two ghosts named Nicky and Tara. Nicky and Tara need to find their parents and they want Max to help them. Like Max has enough problems already. His father wants him to go to a boarding school so he'll be more like his older brother Colin, and Max's school crush Traci thinks he's weird. And if that isn't enough, there is an evil ghoul named Phears who wants Nicky and Tara. When Max decides to help, he must go through challenges that, in my opinion, make him a braver person. It also makes him look cool around the kids at school.

I really liked this story. Although I read the second book of this series first ("Have You Met My Ghoulfriend?"), I was able to understand what was going on. I laughed out loud and shivered with fright throughout reading this. I can't wait to start reading the third book.

3.0 out of 5 stars Wow, I didn't expect this, April 28, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Who Let the Ghosts Out? (Mostly Ghostly) (Hardcover)

R.L. Stine writes REALLY GOOD, CREEPY, SPINE-TINGLING stories, but this story was just kinda, well, not even scary a bit. The main thing about this book was a comedy book with certain points to laugh at.

It's about a boy named Max Doyle, who is haunted by 2 ghost kids who died. Now Max has to find out a way to save them from an evil ghost named PHEARS. Now Max has also has to save his self.

Good Things:

1. Good Beginning, makes you intrested

2. Good characters, there's the geeky kid, Max Doyle, the two rich kids, Nicky and Tara, and the popular girl, Traci.

3. The perspectives of each characters

Bad Things:

1. The ghost, there's not even scary. There's goofy

2. Max Doyles magic stinks

This book is good to read. Read it, and you might enjoy.

5.0 out of 5 stars What a shame that the first girl to hug me had to be dead!, September 18, 2004

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NobodyElse24 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Who Let the Ghosts Out? (Mostly Ghostly) (Hardcover)

Max Doyle hated his life. He didn't have any normal friends, he's teased by the other kids, his big brother is a jerk, and his father wants to send him away to a boarding school where the students are tortured. Just when Max thought things couldn't get any worse, they do. Max is visited by two ghosts--about his age--named Nicky and Tara. They claim to have previously lived in his house, and they'll do anything to find out how they died and where their parents are.

Max tries to ignore the two ghosts--he doesn't want to get involved. But it's impossible to ignore them when they try to help the cute girl at school notice Max. Unfortunately, they end up embarrasing him. But no matter how hard Max wants to get rid of them, he knows that he must help them destroy the evil ghost Phears. Phears knows all the secrets. Now, it's up to Max to destroy Phears and find out the truth!

WHO LET THE GHOSTS OUT? seemed like a pretty weird book. But I picked it up since I'm a fan of R.L. Stine. As I started reading, I excepted everything to be all silly and childish. Boy, was I wrong. This novel is fantastic! It has horror, humor, and even a little romance. I will be looking forward to reading more books in the Mostly Ghostly series, and I recommend that fans of dark comedies do so, too.