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Point Thriller: The Babysitter IV (R.L. Stine)

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Jenny is out of the hospital yet again with no mention of the time that she went crazy and pretended that she was Mr. Hagen. She's now in therapy with Dr. Morton and telling him about the dreams that she still has. She also moved to a new house with her mom who has a new boyfriend named Winston. After her latest session, she heads to the mall with her best friend Claire and her friend's new boyfriend Rick. She runs into Cal and reveals that they're still seeing each other. He apparently stood by her side and wrote her letters when she was in a mental hospital. A few days later, she plans to sit outside, read a book, and relax, but she meets her new neighbor. Mrs. Warsaw is a single mother with three kids: Meredith and twins Seth and Sean. The two twins conveniently look like just like a little white-haired boy she saw outside in the middle of the night. She asks Jenny to watch her kids for a few minutes while she runs to the store, and she reluctantly agrees...

Goosebumps #34: Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes

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Joe lives with his sister Mindy, dog Buster, and mom and dad in Minnesota. His dad has a sometimes friendly-sometimes not so friendly gardening competition with his next door neighbor Mr. McCall. Buster likes to attack his garden on a regular basis, and McCall constantly threatens to call the police and have the dog locked up. He also has a son, Moose, who is friends with Joe. Joe's dad decides to visit the lawn ornament store to get something new for his yard. He already has a deer, some squirrels, and other miscellaneous ornaments that he decorates for the holidays. This time, he settles on two extremely ugly gnomes. Joe starts screaming for his sister almost as soon as they get home because the gnome has his arm. No worries though; it's just a mean joke, one of the many that he plays on his sister. It doesn't take long before Joe starts noticing something odd about the gnomes. McCall wakes up one day to find some of his melons busted and blames Buster, bu...