S 5: Check It Out-& Die

by M.T. Coffin

Book Overview

Amazed when the strange new librarian, Ms. Gunkel, allows students to read horror books, Charlie and Dustin become alarmed when she introduces her private collection to the library and its readers... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380781166
• ISBN13: 9780380781164
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 10 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 11 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 6 and higher

Customer Reviews

Real Scary

I loved this book. It is really scary... but you can't put it down. Get it.

Cool!

When charlie is like being sucked into the book that Mrs. Gunley is letting them read. Mrs. Gunley starts a horror reading club!

"You'll Get More Than Goosebumps, When You Read This Book!"

With a title like "Check It Out--and Die!," young horror fans can't help but be drawn to this book, just like Charlie Stanton and his classmates, who are literally getting sucked into the books they're reading and living out certain situations in them. It all starts when a substitute librarian, Ms. Gunkel, comes to Edison Elementary School and starts a horror reading club. And Charlie and his friends, being the horror fans that they are, are more than eager to join and start reading. However, when the above happens to them, they must try and figure out a way of escaping--as well as rescue the other five missing readers--before they all turn into characters in the books. The ending to "Check It Out--and Die!" kind of leaves you hanging, but if you like R. L. Stine's Goosebumps series, then you'll probably like this Spinetinglers series as well. And going along with the writer's pseudonym, there are plenty of coffins. Recommended to readers age 8 - 12.