Stay Out of the Basement
Readers rate it 3.4 (74 on Hardcover)
144 pages · Released Sep 1, 2003 · Scholastic
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A note for parents
This is a classic entry in the Goosebumps series designed for middle-grade readers, featuring a suspenseful but not graphic supernatural scenario involving a scientist's dangerous experiments. The horror relies on creepy atmosphere and surprise rather than gore or intense scares, making it age-appropriate for the intended audience. The story explores themes of family concern and the danger of unchecked ambition, though character development is minimal.
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When Margaret and Casey see their father become weedy while working on his botany experiments, they worry that his plant-testing may not be entirely harmless. When Margaret and Casey see their father become weedy while working on his botany experiments, they worry that his plant-testing may not be entirely harmless.
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- Horror stories
- Fiction
- Botany
- Botany in fiction
- Fathers
- Experiments
- Fathers in fiction
- Horror tales
- Plants
- Botanists
- Juvenile fiction
- Children's fiction
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ISBN 9780439568456 · Scholastic