4 stars Ages 8 tp 12 -- Middle Grade CONGRATULATIONS on your acceptance to Scary School! The drawbridge lowers at 7:30 a.m. and classes begin at 8:00. Your homeroom teacher, Ms. Fang, will provide you with textbooks, garlic, and goblin repellent. If you are late, you will have to report to deten... more

4 stars Ages 8 tp 12 -- Middle Grade CONGRATULATIONS on your acceptance to Scary School! The drawbridge lowers at 7:30 a.m. and classes begin at 8:00. Your homeroom teacher, Ms. Fang, will provide you with textbooks, garlic, and goblin repellent. If you are late, you will have to report to detention with a hungry T.rex, so please be on time and mind our fingers and toes at all times. Some of your classmates may bite. Derek the Ghost, an eleven-year-old former student, who now haunts the school hallways, narrates Scary School. He writes down everything that happens and uses the book to report this to you. The most exciting news is always a new student. When that new student is human, going to a school for monsters and other creepy creatures, and carries the moniker Nukid, it is indeed something to report. Poor Charles Nukid, he has no idea where his parents have sent him for school. Charles is the type of kid who follows rules and regulations, teachers and administrators, to a tee. Because of this, Charles ends up in detention before he even makes it to class. His offense is wearing the school uniform, which no one wears, making Charles Nukid look rather beastly. With teachers like Ms Fang, named such because she is a vampire with only one fang