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Goosebumps #12: Be Careful What You Wish For…

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Samantha Byrd gets picked on by her classmates, especially this annoying girl Judith. Judith always tells her to fly away because her last name is Byrd, get it? Judith treats her badly when practicing basketball and at school, even spilling tapioca pudding over her brand new shoes in home ec class. After a particularly bad practice, she starts riding her bike home and comes across a mysterious woman. The woman, Clarissa, asks her for help because she got lost. Sam tells her how to get to where she needs to go and offers to show her the way. The woman is so grateful that she offers her three free wishes. Even though she doesn’t believe her, she asks to be the best player on the team and the woman grants her wish. Later that night, she plays a pickup game with her brother and sucks worse than usual. When he starts picking on her, she wishes that he was one foot tall. Suddenly she doesn’t see her brother and something small comes walking across the lawn. No worries thoug

Goosebumps #49: Vampire Breath

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Freddy and his best friend Cara babysit for a little boy named Tyler and terrorize him with stories about werewolves. Right in the middle of one, the door flies open and they all get freaked until they realize it's just his parents. They walk home, and Freddy walks Cara to her house before heading back to his. Cara comes over the next day and they hang out in his basement playing air hockey. Things get a little rough, she starts chasing him around, and he crashes into a china cabinet. After it falls and breaks, they find a doorway that they never noticed before. Freddy and Cara both find flashlights and venture into the long tunnel behind the door. It leads them underground and into a room that is empty except for a coffin. Cara gets a little scared, especially when Freddy decides to open it. The only thing inside is a bottle with a label on the front that says Vampire Breath. They fight over it, and Freddy gets scared when Cara opens it. A weird mist fills the roo

The Baby-Sitters Club #26: Claudia and the Sad Good-Bye

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Mimi hasn’t been herself lately. She keeps mixing up her words and getting confused a lot more often than she did right after her stroke. One day Claudia goes upstairs while Mimi starts dinner and an hour later, she still hasn’t started because she forgot. On another day, she almost makes Mallory cry after yelling at her about the time they went dress shopping, which never actually happened. Claudia tries to make her feel better by suggesting they fix a candlelight dinner for the family. While serving the soup, Mimi makes a comment about not feeling good and passes out at the table. They call an ambulance and she spends a few days in the hospital. The doctors cannot figure out what’s wrong with her, but they give her a blood transfusion and she gets to come home. Mimi seems a little down when she comes back and doesn’t act like herself. Claudia starts getting sick of constantly taking care of her, and when Mimi asks her for something to read right before a BSC meeting