Samantha Byrd is just a clumsy girl in middle school trying to fit it. If it weren't for the constant torment from her nemesis Judith Bellwood, life would surely be easier. If only Judith were nicer. Then one day Samantha is awarded 3 wishes for helping a stranger. Wishing seems easy at first, but as Samantha learns there's always unseen consequenses. Be Careful What You Wish For...by R.L.Stine is a fun, quick read for kids who enjoy horror. ( )

Goosebump... This book read when i have nothing to do, but I like these kind of books beacause it is very good and a good book to past time.

This book is seriously weird! ( )

The books in the Goosebumps series regularly seem to take the vein of a morality tale (of a twisted sort) where one virtue, evil, personality flaw, or issue is taken up as the focus of the story, and Be Careful What You Wish for is no exception. The order of the day here is being careful about what you wish for...in this volume we meet Samantha Byrd a tall young lady who is given heck by Judith Bell and her friend Anna who seem to have no reason for their treatment of Samantha outside of the fact that she's something of an easy target. She's tall, but clumsy...on the basketball team (where Judith is queen) but not a good player. Samantha is constantly miserable about her lot in life...complaining about how mean Judith is and taking one insult after another from her without much protesting at the time.

One day on the way home from school Sam helps a woman named Clarissa find her way...she's become turned around and Sam is kind enough to walk her practically across town to get to the right street. As a reward, Clarissa offers her three wishes. Sam is incredulous, but hastily makes a wish anyway...to be the strongest basketball player on the team. As with all wishes, this one goes awry...instead of making her a better player, she becomes the strongest player when ALL her other teammates become ill and bedridden. In a panic, she tries to right her wish but only manages to make it progressively worse...until in misery she makes a final wish...and...well, you'll have to read to find out how it works out. I will say that what you get is always different than what you expect with these stories, and Be Careful What You Wish For is no exception, it does have a signature Twilight Zone--esque twist at the end.

Overall, Be Careful What You Wish For is well written and the characters are simple but adequately written, but this one just doesn't work as well as some of the previous stories in the series. Samantha doesn't come across as sympathetic and at the end I was left with a kind of eh...whatever, feeling. I just didn't really care about her enough and it came to rather swift ending. I give it three stars, it's entertaining, but no great shakes. ( )

Sam is being teased constantly by this bratty kid, but when she gets three wishes, she thinks she can make everything better. Instead of that, she makes everything worse and worse. Finally she thinks she can get back at the nasty person messing up her life by giving her the wishes, but it doesn't work. I didn't like any of the characters, and there was no sense of justice here (a little like The Haunted Mask in those respects). ( )