What do You think about The Haunted Mask (2003)?
This book is about a girl called Carly Beth who wants a really scary mask for Halloween.She then finds a really scary mask at the party shop that the store owner doesn't want to sell her. However she soon discovers that as she wears the mask her personality starts to change and suddenly she finds it very difficult to take off the mask.I actually enjoy these stories, as a child I found them really scary but now I've discovered that they are rather tame. But then they are stories written for children and the haunted mask is one of Stine's best work. Scary but there is nothing that would damage children. Further more children tend to be drawn to reading these books, which is a plus as it encourages children to read.These books are more suited for children of lower key stage 2 and they can be used in the classroom as books on the bookshelf for reading for pleasure. As they are not really appropriate for whole class activities.
—Joseph Skidmore
The haunted mask is about a girl who needs a mask for halloween,so she buys one from a haunted mask store and when she goes trick or treating and she puts on the mask she goes around the neighborhood and starts scaring people and she and when she starts to lose control of herself she tries to take off the mask and she can't and the mask starts ton control her and because it's a haunted mask and it makes her do stuff like scare people and so she comes up with a plan to take off the mask and when she figured out the plan she did it and got the mask off and when she took off the mask she threw it away and went home and she was glad that it came off and when she thinks she got rid of it it ends up at her house and her brother puts it on and it starts to control him.
—Elisha Crenshaw
this book was mainly about how Carly Beth Caldwell is a naive, timid and overly-trusting 11-year-old girl who is afraid of pretty much everything. Thus, she is a constant target for pranks, jokes and tricks, most of them being inflicted on her by Steve Boswell and Chuck Greene at Walnut Avenue Middle School. In the opening chapter, Carly Beth and Sabrina discuss what costumes they are going to wear for Halloween, and Carly Beth is tricked by Steve into eating a sandwich containing a live worm. Horrified, Carly Beth flees and vows revenge. After school, she goes home and finds her mother has made her a silly duck costume for Halloween, and also a very realistic plaster of Paris model of Carly Beth's head. When she goes to her room, the duck costume seemingly comes alive and attacks Carly Beth. It turns out it is her younger brother, Noah, playing another trick on her. Sabrina calls, and they discuss the school science fair. Warning this book may be scary for young readers so i would highly recommend this book for ages 12 and up.
—Simon Torres
