Grandparent's scarecrows are suspicious.

I really was scared to death when I finished reading this book.
I couldn't get to sleep for a whole week, I kept thinking that a scarecrow was going to pop out of my closest!
But other than that, I really did like this story. ( )

Jodie and Mark find a lot of things strange at their grandparents' farm this summer, and they blame the son of the hired hand, Sticks, for some of them. They think that the scarecrows walking around are an elaborate hoax, but they soon discover otherwise. The scarecrows all attack at once- but the siblings stop them and make the caretaker who created them promise to never try it again. ( )

#2, 2006

This was actually the first book I finished this year (having not read EVERY word in the Egyptology book when I read it that first time with C). But I couldn't bear for this one to be listed as my first book of the year, so I fiddled just a bit with the chronology. ;) This is one of the Goosebumps series, which I read aloud to C at bedtime over several nights. Very similar in style to the last Goosebumps book we read, these are not anything special, from a literary standpoint. But, C enjoys reading about monsters and ghosts and things, so that makes these worthwhile. Will eventually register and release this book, once C has outgrown it. ( )