Night of the Living Dummy
Readers rate it 3.3 (86 on Hardcover)
160 pages · Released Sep 1, 2003 · Scholastic
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Night of the Living Dummy is the first book in Stine's iconic Goosebumps series, designed for middle-grade readers who enjoy mild horror and suspense. The story centers on sibling rivalry and mysterious supernatural events involving a ventriloquist's dummy, with age-appropriate scares but no graphic content. The dummy itself is unsettling rather than violent, and the resolution emphasizes that the girls must work together to solve their problem.
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Lindy finds a ventriloquist's dummy and has fun learning to make him move and talk. Kris is jealous, and decides to get a dummy of her own. Then nasty evil things begin to happen. No way can a dummy be causing all the trouble. Or is there? Lindy finds a ventriloquist's dummy and has fun learning to make him move and talk. Kris is jealous, and decides to get a dummy of her own. Then nasty evil things begin to happen. No way can a dummy be causing all the trouble. Or is there?
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- Fiction
- Puppets
- Juvenile fiction
- Mannequins (Figures)
- Sibling rivalry in fiction
- Twins
- Horror stories
- Sibling rivalry
- Twins in fiction
- Horror tales
- Children's fiction
- Hand puppets
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ISBN 9780439568401 · Scholastic