Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #938985 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

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• ISBN13: 9781416918172
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Monster House
Monster House

The name of the book is Monster House and the author is Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab. The genre is that its fiction. The main characters are Jenny, DJ Walters, and Chowder.

The general summary is that twelve-year-old DJ Walters always knew there was something strange about the house across the street: toys mysteriously disappeared when they wound up on its lawn, and Mr. Nebbercracker himself acted like he had a secret to hid, but this Halloween the house has become a living, breathing monster, and the people have started to disappear! The trouble is that no one believes DJ and his friends. So they vow to find out what is inside the house and how to defeat it. But can they do it before it destroys the entire neighborhood and gobbles up every trick-or-treater in sight. The house is eating everything on its lawn.

Out of all the characters in Monster House I liked DJ Walters because he was the one who always tried to tell people that there is something wrong with the house. The house eats everyone that is on the lawn.

I like the book because it was interesting, and a fun, gasping book. Also because it was cool. I also liked it a lot because it was funny. I also like it because of the characters. They were funny.

My strongest reason for recommending this book is because it is a book that once you start reading it you do not want to stop (even if you have to go to the bathroom)! If you like exciting books, read this book! I really recommend it!

Great Quick-Read for the Movie...
The Monster House looks like a fun movie based on this movie novelization. Being only about 130 pages, this is totally a quick read from start-to-finish, me finishing it in about two hours. This movie/movie novelization is about a group of friends who try to save the neighborhood from a house that is a monster when nobody beleives them about it.
Seeming like a childish annimation, this movie seems pretty exciting based on the movie novelization. I love when movie novelizations come out before the movie it is based on to give you a much more clearer idea of how the movie is like, and by this movie novelization, this movie is going to be pretty good. This movie novelization just skips to the point instead of loading you up with details about it, but still gives you the "clear image" without the deatails. Like the "Just My Luck" movie novelization, this is pretty short and could take you only about an hour or two hours to read, but it's worth the read, totally worth the read if you wonder what the movie is going to be like. Having also cool movie stills to look at, this movie novelization has about everything that should come from a movie novelization.

This is highly recommended! Hope you enjoy!

Jordan
Overall grade* A-

A review on Monster House By Tom Hughes

DJ's and Chowder's life was simple. They woke up, had breakfast, went to school, came home, ate dinner and did homework. But DJ had better things to do than homework. Across the street from him was a shattered, non-painted old house. And in it was an old man know as Mr. Nebbercraker. One day DJ and Chowder where spying on Mr. Nebbercraker when a girl named Jenny came into the scene. She was about their age and was pulling a red wagon full of cookie boxes. She was probably selling them as a fundraiser for her school. She walked up to Mr. Nebbercraker's door and was about to ring the doorbell when DJ and Chowder came running down after her screaming not to. As she rang the doorbell a low echoing sound that seemed to go miles into the center of the earth boomed and the two large parallel windows above her turn bright red and turned into a pair of evil red glowing eyes. The door swung open and razor sharp shards of wood came out of the top and bottom of it, and then the rug leading to the back of the house turned into a tongue and soon it looked much like a face. All of the sudden the walkway to Mr.Nebbercraker's front door turned into an inclined plane and then Jenny started to almost roll down right to the razor sharp teeth. Just as she was about to be devoured by this "monster house" DJ and Chowder caught her and ran back across the street and back to their room. Of course Jenny was stunned and knew they had to stop this evil house. Ever since that day DJ watches Mr. Nebbercraker's house to get some proof that this house is... ALIVE! But Halloween was coming up and all of the people that trick-or-treated Mr.Nebbercraker's house will be eaten. So begins a battle of three kids and a living house nightmare!





Opinion
Monster House was a fun and entertaining book about three kids and a living nightmare. I recommend Monster House for people who like suspenseful, action scenes. It was a very good book, and every night I was tempted to read more and more of it. It was just like I was watching the movie right in my bed!