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MOSTLY GHOSTLY #1: WHO LET THE GHOSTS OUT? (Mostly Ghostly)

Series: Mostly Ghostly
Volume: 1
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 0385746636
Pages: 144 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Reader Rating: Not rated

MOSTLY GHOSTLY #1: WHO LET THE GHOSTS OUT? by R. L. Stine

Description: Brother and sister Tara and Nicky can't figure out why no one sees or hears them, or why they can't quite remember where they've been. When they go to their house, another family lives there! They finally realize that they're ghosts.

Max, aka "Brainimon," lives in Tara and Nicky's house. He has big problems. His dad wants to send him to boarding school to toughen him up so he'll be buff like his "perfect" older brother, Colin. Max has a crush on popular Traci, but he has zero hope of ever attracting her attention. Not to mention, no one believes him when he says that he hears ghostly noises in the house. Max tries to make up for his problems by losing himself in video games and practicing his magic act. Tara and Nicky decide to help out Max in exchange for his help in discovering how they died, and what happened to their parents.

Colin bullies Max into walking the family dog, Buster, even though Max is terrified of Buster. On the first walk, Buster literally turns inside out! The shape of a man emerges and demands, "Where are they? Tell me where they are, and I might let you live!" The scary ghost is named Phears, but who is he really? What in the world does he want from Max?

Max's troubles increase when Tara and Nicky start appearing to him. His family thinks he's seriously crazy when he tries to tell them. No one can see or hear the ghosts, so when Max talks to them, he gets in trouble or people believe HE is troubled. Poor Max's life becomes very complicated with Tara and Nicky in it. The ghosts' efforts to help sometimes backfire like crazy -- with "help" like this, who needs friends?