Vampires Ruin Everything (Scared Silly #3)

by Elizabeth Eulberg

Overview

Goosebumps meets The Baily School Kids in this young middle-grade series about four unlikely friends who must band together to save their town from an evil curse!

WARNING: This book contains a very scary and silly story about a long dormant witch’s curse that's been unleashed on the unsuspecting town of Cauldron's Cove. It's revenge, over three-hundred years in the making. (Hey, better late than never!)

Regan, Sofia, Bennett, and Darius know better by now than to think the witch's curse is done with them. A mysterious family checks into Regan's family Boo and Breakfast...and they seem to take a particular interest in Regan! They're never seen during the day, they're allergic to garlic, and they speak like they're from another time.

They couldn't be...could they? But why would a family of vampires want to recruit Regan?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781338815375
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	01/02/2024
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	653,334
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 7.63(h) x (d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Elizabeth Eulberg was born and raised in Wisconsin before heading off to college in Syracuse and making a career in the New York City book biz. She is the author of The Lonely Hearts Club, Prom and Prejudice, Take a Bow, Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality, Better Off Friends, and We Can Work It Out.

Editorial Reviews

2023-10-21
Having saved Cauldron’s Cove from clones and zombies in previous books, Darius, Regan, and stepsiblings Sofia and Bennett reunite to protect their town once more.

Darius and his mom, the mayor of Cauldron’s Cove, are preparing for Halloween, a holiday that brings hordes of tourists to the town each year. When four carnival workers turn up drained of blood, levelheaded Darius, brainy and dyslexic Regan, prickly Sofia, and popular and resourceful Bennett investigate. A strange new family dressed in black has checked in to Regan’s family’s bed-and-breakfast, and Regan is crushing on their son…but could the newcomers be vampires? The four friends support each other through ups and downs—as when Regan is taunted by fatphobic bullies—all while stockpiling Super Soakers filled with holy water to wage war on the vampires. Intrepid readers who disregard the unseen narrator’s introductory warning of “super terrifying and grody scenes” to come will be rewarded. The narrator’s sophisticated vocabulary is balanced by the occasional mention of farts and “spoiler alerts.” The funny asides are most effective when they give readers a break from more intense moments. If scenes involving black vomit and bubbling skin seem a bit over the top for tweens, readers can’t say they weren’t warned. Darius is Black, while Sofia is Latine, and Regan and Bennett are white.

Hand to middle graders seeking horror laced with humor and tinged with budding romance. (Fiction. 9-12)

Kirkus Reviews