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Invasion of the Road Weenies and Other Warped and Creepy Tales (2005)

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0765314479 (ISBN13: 9780765314475)
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starscape

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I only read two stories out of this book. I agree that they were creative. However, I was reading this to my eight-year old third grader and was not happy about the content. Her teacher had read some of them to her in school, so I had assumed they wouldn't be that creepy but they were.I summarized the two stories that I read to a friend to make sure I wasn't overreacting. Then I told my daughter we weren't going to read anymore of those stories at home. She actually seemed thankful and admitted that she had gotten freaked out reading another story about a black cat, and was sad that she was kind of afraid of our black cat now!So again, very creative but not topics I wish to spend time on. GIGO

My sixth grade students and I were introduced to David Lubar in the Guys Read: Funny Business anthology, and I picked this collection up this summer hoping to be able to use it in my teaching with the same group of kids--struggling but not necessarily reluctant readers. The stories in this book are perfect--a great readaloud or independent reading length, and almost every one begins with a great "What if?" concept...perfect fodder for writing prompts, high-level questioning, and overall just fun, engaging discussions. Terrific!

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This is a good source of creepy short stories for the upper elementary crowd. A handful of them are really skin-crawling, like the kid being chased through the cemetary by a bad guy who says, "Run, run, run! It makes it more fun!" *shudder* But there are many I can read aloud to a class, like the big sister complaining about how her three-year old brother found the genie bottle before she could, and now he's wishing for weird things like peas when she would've been smart and wished for a gazillion dollars. Lubar gets the kid-sensibility, and each story is short enough to be read aloud to a big group without losing anyone.
—Kris

If you think about it, writing a horror book about one story might be difficult but writing a horror book with like 30 different story books is even more diffucult, because you need to think of more problems, endings, and monsters. "The Dead Won't Hurt You," about a kid who walks around a grave to see if anything hurts you, was one of my favorite stories. "Buzz off," about a boy who had bees all over him, was another one of my favorite tales. David Lubar's mind is filled with a lot of horror stories and ideas.
—jiawei Ong

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